At 63, the caddy of them all is still calling the shots

YOU would think a 63-year-old man with lots of money and 59 tournaments to his credit would have had enough of lugging four-stone golf bags around the golfing fairways of the world.

Not Pete Coleman, a genial character from south-west London who is in Shinnecock Hills this week working for Darren Clarke. He captured those 59 tournaments with nine different players and worked for about 20 in all. Patience is the word that trips off his tongue whenever the subject of Shinnecock Hills is mentioned. Inevitably you wonder if he has told his boss not renowned in that area about this all-important ingredient.

"I was hoping you wouldn't ask me that," he said with a laugh before using his experience of more than 30 years on the bags of the game's finest to quickly change the subject!