All right, your host for this evening, Lewis Greer, is going to come.
Here he is right here, and would you welcome him as he comes to share with us about the
evening tonight?
Thank you all for being here.
I was out on the first question, I think, something like that, but, you know, I'm in
the golf ministry, so why would I know anything about golf?
Well, I want to say a big, big thank you to Scottsdale Bible Church.
This is an amazing opportunity for us together, together in a warm place, and I know the weather
is great tonight, and we would have been okay at the birds nest, but last week, would you
have wanted to be out there?
I don't know, not even a little bit.
So thank you very much for everyone at Scottsdale Bible Church, it is really a blessing to us
at Tales from the Tour to be able to be here and to have this lovely, comfortable, warm
auditorium with handy parking and all kinds of technical support.
It's really, really incredible, and I want to thank all of you for making the trip for
coming here.
Now, some of you happen to sit where there is a laundry basket.
If you sat where there's a laundry basket, it has a particular color golf ball in it,
unless you've already stolen that and put it in your pocket, but it's supposed to be
in there, and I'm going to get to that in just a minute.
I want to tell you that tonight, for the first time since I've been involved with Tales
from the Tour, we actually have a theme, and the theme tonight is no one does this alone.
When you see the golfers on TV playing and getting the trophy and getting the check,
really their name is on it, but they don't do that alone, and it's not just a caddy,
although the caddy is a really integral, important part of that, but they have a team
of people behind them, and you're going to hear about that tonight.
Also want you to think about this.
Don't do life alone either.
Don't do golf alone.
Don't do life alone.
When you came in, you were handed a connection card, I hope, and if you have that, you can
fill it out and drop it off on the way out.
If you did not get one, there's a way you can fill that out online and we'll tell you
about that later.
Right now, I want to bring out our panelists for the night along with the MC, and I'm just
going to introduce them.
Let me say one more thing about no one does this alone before the players come out.
No one did this alone either.
I get to be on stage and be up here and talk about it, but I had a lot of help from a lot
of people.
Can you roll the credits?
There were actually a lot more people than that, but we just didn't have time to acknowledge
them all.
Anyway, there were actually 40 names on there not counting God, and every one of those contributed
and there were people that I missed, so thank you to all of those people for everything
that they did to help make tonight happen.
Now, let me introduce the panelists for tonight.
The first player I want to introduce who is nicknamed Bads, but I can't possibly think
of a better man is Aaron Badley.
Coming out next, he was a champion in Chandler.
He was a standout at Stanford, and pretty soon he's going to be a winner on the Web.com
tour.
Let's welcome Andrew Yoon.
I'm not sure where those trophies came from that Andrew is holding, but I think he earned
them.
Our next panelist is best known for being a panelist at Pales from the Tour a few years
ago, and after it was over, people said if he wasn't Bubba Watson's caddy, he could go
on the road as a standout comedian.
Please welcome Teddy Scott.
And finally, this is the guy for whom the phrase Tom terrific was invented.
Please welcome Tom layman.
Our emcee for tonight was with us again, was with us last year, is with us again this year.
He is the president of links players, but he's also the pastor of church at the Red
Door, a new church plant over in Lakita, California, and drove all the way over here to be with
us tonight for this event.
He is a player, he's a pastor, and he is a personal friend.
Please welcome Jeffrey Cranford.
Now before Jeffrey gets to do his thing, we're going to have this little pitching contest.
And to tell you how important this is, we have gone out, Hugh Isley, who is the chairman
of tales from the door, went out and purchased this magnificent trophy that says tales cup
2017 on it.
We envision that someday this will be equal to the Ryder Cup.
And the players up here are going to compete for it, except that Tom layman gets a pass
because he has recently had elbow surgery, he says.
Is a putty in the audience here somewhere, Andrew Putnam?
You are the replacement for Tom layman.
So come on up.
Please welcome Andrew Putnam.
Here is the way this is going to work, I got some clubs over here.
Yeah, Baz is into it, Baz is into it.
So if you have a basket, would you stand up, please?
No, I like it, I like it, it works.
Okay, you're going to use the driver?
Well, if the caddy gave you the driver, the caddies are never wrong.
Once in a while the player will blame the caddy for something, but the caddy will tell
you the caddies are never wrong.
Alright, you get to go first, Bads, you get to pick any color ball you want here.
There is orange, green, yellow, and white.
So what color do you want?
Okay, so you take three.
Who has the orange ball in the basket?
Right here, okay, this is your target.
Now, the way, here is the deal, if you are out there, if you are out there you can move
a little bit.
You guys don't run over anybody next to you, right, but you should know that whichever
basket ends up with the most golf balls of that color in it gets two tickets to the Phoenix
Open for Sunday.
This is good.
That's him, that's him, that's him, that counts.
You guys thought this was going to be hard.
Oh, three for three.
Alright, Andrew, Andrew and Andrew, Andrew, you are up, there is a 58, 54, 7 iron, whatever
you need, 58, okay, what color do you want?
Green.
Alright, who has got the green, green, green, alright, oh, a much tougher shot, a much tougher
shot.
Should we give him a handicap of some kind?
Oh, man.
That was nice.
They go for it, they go for it with an actual golf ball.
Oh, throw that in the basket, alright, it counts, there's two, come on Andrew, oh, it
looks good, oh, hey, brother, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,Hey,
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
now he's moving the target that's not fair wait look at these guys in the
front row ducking oh this is good no that's it that's it yeah that's good
that's it that's good with a little help for my friend
a playoff that's good all right that was good white white it is oh we need a
closer target yeah these are the only real balls that we have
oh that was pretty good that was good okay mulligan mulligan we're giving the
caddy a mulligan that was in the vicinity that was in the vicinity that
looks good that's in that was good that was good that's him that's him oh that's
him that's him all right what do we got what do we got we got orange wins I I
officially in the program I was the judge I think it's playoff okay one shot
playoff but we need to go deep I want to go all the way to almost to the exit
sign now a little shorter the exit sign it's a who is it bad some putting bad
some putty yeah okay come on up so bad target you can move back go in the aisle
and move back one ball no we got we got to make it equal so just come right up
right up this right up this aisle sir okay come on come come on over right
across and straight up the aisle right at the top of the aisle up there and you
can move and groove to catch it so you don't have to stand still okay
good
it's gone it's gone ok
Keep it out of the wind.
What do you think, judge?
One more, one more, one more, one more bads.
Oh, looks good.
Wrong basket.
All right, this is going to be good here, it's going to be close.
Oh, on one bounce. He got it.
I know that these guys have access to 10,000 tickets. I say both guys get two tickets. What do you say?
Yeah, that's fine. Who gets the cup?
The cup is going to go to whoever won a tour event this in 2016.
Putty, next year, buddy, next year. Good job, brother.
Aaron Badley, winner of the first, fails cup.
All right, we're going to turn it over to Jeffrey Cranford and the panelists. Thank you guys very much.
And there are your tickets. You can split them.
And enjoy the, those were donated by one of our benefactors. They are Greenskeepers tickets for Sunday.
Beautiful, beautiful.
There is only, however, one parking pass. You guys will have to arm wrestle over there.
You guys just became good friends.
