American Century Golf Celebrity Championship - July 2009

This was our 4th year as volunteers for the Celebrity golf tournament. Hank's job as walking scorer and my job as standard bearer are the best jobs you can have. We get to walk the course side by side with the celeb's. Most of them are very nice people and we have a great time. Hank records the scores of each player and I carry the sign with their scores.

Here we are at the tee box on hole 14 working as Marshall's on Thursday. Not such a fun gig, but it's not too bad Marshaling on the tee box because you get to see everyone come through.

We ran into Emmit Smith (we had him last year) at the scoring tent, so I snapped a picture.
These are our good friends Norm & Pat Zimmerman, aka "VIP's", they practically run the whole darn tournament!!! They've been working the event for the past 20 years and are very experienced. Norm is my boss; he's the manager of the walking scorers. Pat is the manager of the hole reporters. They are the ones that originally asked if we wanted to be volunteers and got us our great jobs. Thanks Norm & Pat!!!

OK, here's Jim McMahon, AKA one of the biggest jerks on earth who thinks his you know what doesn't stink. He always dresses like this and plays with NO shoes... what's that all about?!?!? He looks like a pimp for God's sake!!!

You never see the guy without a drink in his hand... no wonder he plays like crap!

This was Friday, our 2nd day of work. Here's Hank in side the scoring tent with Dan Quinn (former NHL), Billy Joe Tolliver (former NFL quarter back), and Joe Theismann (former NFL all pro quarter back). These guys were all really nice and very serious golfers. Dan and Billy Joe were always on the leader board.

Here I am with Joe Theismann

Billy Joe Tolliver

This was Saturday and the only picture I got of all the guys together. Marcus Allen (hall of fame NFL running back), Jason Kidd (NBA all star), and you can barely see John Lynch (former NFL all pro-safety). Jason & John were really nice but I can't say that about Marcus.

Hank in the scoring tent with the group.

This is Jason Kidd on the 18th green.

John Lynch & Marcus Allen leaving the scoring tent.

18th green... one of the party holes

John Lynch & Hank

Teeing off on the 1st tee

On Saturday night they give the volunteers a party. They have a buffet dinner, sodas/beer/wine, and lots of prizes. We won two shirts, 2 bottles of wine, a hat, and some chotchkie's. We wanted the golf bag, golf clubs, or the 2 tee times at Edgewood... but we were not lucky enough this year.

Some of the 320 volunteers

These are pictures from Sunday and we had the BEST group... these guys were really nice.

Paul O'Neill (former MLB all star), Mike Shanahan (former NFL head coach; we had him 2 years ago), and Todd Heap (NFL all pro tight end).

Scoring tent

Hank & Todd going to the scoring tent

Hank, Todd & Kathy (Todd is REALLY tall... or maybe we're just really short)

Paul O'Neill

Todd & Mike

So here's Ray Ramano up close and personal... but not with us!!! We've been wanting to get Ray for the past 4 years, but we always miss his group by 1-3 tee times. As volunteers we earn free tickets to the event. This year we gave our tickets to our friends Hal & Debbie Martin. They befreinded Ray and hung out with him!! Here's just a couple pictures of Hal's family and Ray.

And last but not least... here is Charles Barkley with his crazy golf swing. Watch the video and he uses his "new" swing in the practice, but once he gets up to the ball it's back to his regular awkward swing. I guess all those golf lessons didn't help... LOL.