{"id":63630,"date":"2020-09-10T02:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/caddyshack-star-michael-okeefe-will-caddie-at-2020-us-open\/"},"modified":"2020-09-10T02:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T23:54:00","slug":"caddyshack-star-michael-okeefe-will-caddie-at-2020-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/caddyshack-star-michael-okeefe-will-caddie-at-2020-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Caddyshack\u2019 star Michael O\u2019Keefe will caddie at 2020 US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#\u2018Caddyshack\u2019 star Michael O\u2019Keefe will caddie at 2020 US Open<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Danny Noonan is going to caddie at the U.S. Open next week.<\/p>\n

Well, kind of.<\/p>\n

Michael O\u2019Keefe \u2014 the actor who played Danny Noonan, the young, impressionable caddie in \u201cCaddyshack\u2019\u2019 \u2014 will carry a bag on Monday and Tuesday in practice rounds at the U.S. Open, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

He won\u2019t be on the bag for Ty Webb \u2014 aka Chevy Chase. Danny Balin will have to do.<\/p>\n

And it won\u2019t be at Bushwood Country Club. Winged Foot will have to do.<\/p>\n

Danny will be caddying for Danny \u2014 Danny Balin, a 17-year Westchester resident who\u2019s the head pro at Fresh Meadow Country Club on Long Island.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever I would meet someone and say, \u2018I\u2019m Danny,\u2019 they\u2019d go, \u2018Danny, do you do drugs?\u2019 \u2019\u2019 Balin told The Post on Wednesday, mimicking one of the most iconic lines in the movie.<\/p>\n

So, Danny Noonan, on the 40th anniversary of \u201cCaddyshack,\u2019\u2019 has a loop at the U.S. Open. Wouldn\u2019t Judge Smails be proud?<\/p>\n

The whole thing began when O\u2019Keefe, now 65 and living in Ulster County, penned a tongue-in-cheek piece for golf.com soliciting any player playing in the U.S. Open to hire him to caddie.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Keefe, who grew up in Larchmont, caddied at Winged Foot in 1971 and 1972, right before he went west to pursue his acting career. His brother Bill has been a longtime Winged Foot member and is a past president of the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought, \u2018What if there\u2019 a golfer out there who\u2019s willing to give me a shot to carry their bag?\u2019 \u2019\u2019 O\u2019Keefe told The Post. \u201cIt\u2019s not like I\u2019m going to mess anybody up. I do know the course. It could be fun.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

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Michael O\u2019Keefe as Danny Noonan and in 2019<\/span>Screengrab via Caddyshack; Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

O\u2019Keefe\u2019s initial motivation in trying to land a loop was to be able to initiate a donation fund for caddie relief to aid the caddies who were out of work during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

When asked how realistic he thought his chances were of getting a bag for the Open, O\u2019Keefe said, \u201cI think it\u2019s absolutely as big a long shot as Carl Spackler winning the Masters,\u2019\u2019 referring to the Bill Murray character who was the mentally unstable groundskeeper in the movie.<\/p>\n

Well, next week, O\u2019Keefe will be on the grounds with a golf bag over his shoulder, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my opinion, Michael O\u2019Keefe is not going to be able to carry a staff bag around Winged Foot,\u2019\u2019 Balin said with a laugh.<\/p>\n

Asked if he plans to bring a lighter carry bag for O\u2019Keefe next week, Balin said, \u201cNo, he\u2019ll be carrying the full tour bag. I\u2019m going to put him to work.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Balin said he DVRed \u201cCaddyshack\u2019\u2019 on Tuesday night even though he estimated he\u2019s watched the movie \u201c15 or 20 times.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to have to watch it to get the one-liners down so I can give it to him,\u2019\u2019 Balin said. \u201cBecause I\u2019m going to be all over him during this whole \u2026 stunt.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Michael Breed, the former Golf Channel instructional personality who now teaches at Trump Ferry Point, was the middle man to this transaction, reaching out to Balin, his fellow Met Area pro, and pitching the idea of O\u2019Keefe caddying for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI try to take this somewhat serious, so I would never do this during a tournament round,\u2019\u2019 Balin said. \u201cBut I was like, \u2018Yeah this will be cool. Danny Noonan. Monday and Tuesday.\u2019 It\u2019ll be a fun couple of days. It\u2019ll lighten the mood up.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The USGA plans to have some fun with this, making it a social media<\/a> event on its platforms.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Keefe revealed that he didn\u2019t even play golf as a kid, that he \u201clied at the Caddyshack audition when they asked if I could play and I said, \u2018Yeah.\u2019 \u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

As soon as he got the gig, O\u2019Keefe said he went back to Winged Woot and, with help of then head pro, Tom Nieporte, got lessons \u201cso when I got there [to film the movie] I at least had something that resembled a golf swing.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Now he comes full circle, minus the powerhouse movie cast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was lucky to be in the same movie with Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and Ted Knight, because those guys are comic legends,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cThey were just geniuses and they were at the height of their power \u2014 all four of them. Anybody can see that all I did was just grab onto their coattails and hang on.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

O\u2019Keefe, though, has gone on to have an accomplished acting career, which continues today \u2014 despite the fact that he\u2019ll forever be known as Danny Noonan.<\/p>\n

\u201cActors are always pigeon-holed, and I didn\u2019t ever have a grudge about it,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cBut there was a part of me that was like, \u2018Man, I wish somebody would know me for the other work that I\u2019ve done, too.\u2019 \u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The world, after all needs ditchdiggers, too.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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