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25 years today. The day everyone remembers where they were. I was visiting friends in Liverpool and like most of us I watched it unfold on the television. I was 18 years old and I could not really comprehend what I was seeing. A terrible day in the history of the world, and a full frontal attack on not just America but the west. Over the years as a caddie, about once a decade something happens that wipes us out for a season. 2002 was my first experience of that. The industry here relies heavily on American golfers and that was a bad year. The consequences and the fallout from the attack. It was tough on the whole industry and particularly on the caddies, who are self employed. No visitors, no work. It has happened several times since. The 2008 financial crisis. The Icelandic volcano. More recently Covid. All of them devastating to all of us. But 9/11 was by far the worst. Not because of the lost work. Because of everything it caused. The death, the destruction, the war, the loss of life that happened that day. As a number of you know, I spent a few winters caddying at Secession in South Carolina. The two chairs in the picture are for two members who lost their lives in the towers that morning. Jeff LeVeen and Steve Roach. Both of them were at Cantor Fitzgerald, in the North Tower. The club set up the LeVeen-Roach Scholarship Fund in their names, and it has been putting Beaufort students through their education ever since. And every year before the tournament, the players line up along the 18th fairway. A piper plays, they stand in silence, and then every one of them hits a shot out into the marsh. As a Scotsman the pipes already get me emotional. They give me chills, and in this type of situation it is tough not to let it get the better of me. It is a tremendous sight to watch, and a proper way to honour fallen friends.

CarnoustieCad's tweet photo. 25 years today.

The day everyone remembers where they were. I was visiting friends in Liverpool and like most of us I watched it unfold on the television. I was 18 years old and I could not really comprehend what I was seeing. A terrible day in the history of the world, and a full frontal attack on not just America but the west.

Over the years as a caddie, about once a decade something happens that wipes us out for a season. 2002 was my first experience of that. The industry here relies heavily on American golfers and that was a bad year. The consequences and the fallout from the attack. It was tough on the whole industry and particularly on the caddies, who are self employed. No visitors, no work.

It has happened several times since. The 2008 financial crisis. The Icelandic volcano. More recently Covid. All of them devastating to all of us.

But 9/11 was by far the worst. Not because of the lost work. Because of everything it caused. The death, the destruction, the war, the loss of life that happened that day.

As a number of you know, I spent a few winters caddying at Secession in South Carolina. The two chairs in the picture are for two members who lost their lives in the towers that morning. Jeff LeVeen and Steve Roach. Both of them were at Cantor Fitzgerald, in the North Tower.

The club set up the LeVeen-Roach Scholarship Fund in their names, and it has been putting Beaufort students through their education ever since.

And every year before the tournament, the players line up along the 18th fairway. A piper plays, they stand in silence, and then every one of them hits a shot out into the marsh.

As a Scotsman the pipes already get me emotional. They give me chills, and in this type of situation it is tough not to let it get the better of me.

It is a tremendous sight to watch, and a proper way to honour fallen friends.

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@NUCLRGOLF @makethatVJsingh No. 4 all day long. The Honors Course, Augusta National, Sea Island, Kiawah, Seminole, Sawgrass, and on and on . . .

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@wgtgolf The one hole stroke play game is running pure alternate shot instead of who is away. My opponent had to attempt a ten-foot putt while I was still of the green. That minimizes the strategy and makes it less like golf.

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