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Carrying the “purse”

Dylan Cattanach
ASSITANT GOLF PROFESSIONAL

At 9:15am, I walked on the first tee for Lorie Kane’s first was an amazing experience talking with Lorie about
round of the championship. Carrying the tour bag up old tournaments and see what her opinion was on the
through the ropes - she calls it the “purse”, she told future of women’s golf.
me to walk over the far right side of the tee and stand Now, my top two moments from the two days. The
on the first tee. All I am thinking is “How did I get this first, is getting to the 7th hole on Day 1. Hole 7 as you
amazing gig? And please do not drop the purse!” Here know is very tricky with the wind and overall layout of
is a recap of some of the my favourite moments from the hole & green. From playing the course for seven
the DCM PGA Women’s Championship of Canada, years, I knew that we had to be below the pin.
while caddying for Lorie Kane, Canadian Golf Hall of
Fame Member.

On the Monday before the DCM PGA Women’s
Championship, I arrived to work early trying to get
ready for the Pro-Am the next day. It was one of the
larger tournaments we had this year, so there was a lot
of preparation involved, which I did not mind at all. As I
was about to get started, I got a message from one of
the Golf Shop staff that one of the players was looking
for a caddy for the tournament. Being me, I was very
curious so I asked who it was and they said Lorie
Kane! I immediately thought it would be an awesome
experience to caddy for a Canadian Golf Hall of Fame
Member. I was scrolling through the tee sheet for that
day and saw that she was playing a practice round
later. When she arrived to the club, I introduced myself
to her as one of the Golf Professionals here at Ladies’.
We started talking about the last time she was here
and all the new changes to the course. When she
asked me to caddy for her, I said, “I would love to!” I
was very excited to carry the “purse” around.

Throughout both rounds, there were some very good
conversations. We talked about what I was doing
with my career and how I decided to become a Golf
Professional. She was very fascinated when I told
her that I have an economics degree and did not
play university golf but played Ultimate Frisbee. She
thought that it was a very cool route that I took and
asked what steps I needed to take to get my Class A.
We talked about what she was doing with her career
and spoke about how excited she was to play in the
U.S. Women’s Senior Open the following week. What
stood out to me, was the fact that Lorie was incredibly
friendly to all of her playing competitors. She wanted
to get to know them and see what they were doing
with their golfing career currently and in the future. It

Photo courtesy of Kathy Constantinou, Constant Images

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