Last month, former NFL receiver Brandon Stokley caddied for his former quarterback, Peyton Manning, at the BMW Championship Pro-Am in Colorado.
Here’s hoping it went better than last time.
Stokley, the two-time Super Bowl champ, was the guest on the latest episode of GOLF’s Subpar Podcast, which was recorded before the BMW Championship teed off on Aug. 22. In the episode they talked about his upcoming loop for Manning and also about his initial caddie gig with him, which was several years ago, back at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
“I never raked so many bunkers in my life,” Stokley said on the podcast. “The weather was absolutely awful. I felt like I was playing receiver for him. He was yelling at me like every other hole to grab my rain gear, where’s my umbrella, and then all of a sudden the sun would come out, he’s throwing the rain gear down. I’m like 50-70 yards behind trying to get everything together. I think it was [Phil] Mickelson behind us, and I don’t know how to rake bunkers properly. I’m like, Oh my gosh, Mickelson is going to yell at me; I’m not raking this thing right. Peyton is yelling at me about the umbrella. It was a complete disaster.”
On the final day they played Pebble Beach Golf Links, and Stokley had a message for his friend and former quarterback.
“I told him the last day, ‘If you go into another damn bunker, I’m out, I quit, I’m done, I’m done,'” he said. “I was tired of raking bunkers.”
Although is there a chance Stokley was exaggerating about the week? Subpar co-host Colt Knost texted Manning before the podcast to ask him what Stokley might say about him.
“He’s going to throw me under the bus for hitting in all those bunkers,” Manning told him.
As GOLF.com’s managing editor, Berhow handles the day-to-day and long-term planning of one of the sport’s most-read news and service websites. He spends most of his days writing, editing, planning and wondering if he’ll ever break 80. Before joining GOLF.com in 2015, he worked at newspapers in Minnesota and Iowa. A graduate of Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minn., he resides in the Twin Cities with his wife and two kids. You can reach him at joshua_berhow@golf.com.
