Why Make Your Children Caddy For You? A Llama Will Do It and Not Complain

by Ryan Ballengee on Jul 29, 2009 3:44 PM EDT

Fanhouse's Shane Bacon made my day when he sent me the link to his story about a North Carolina golf course that is allowing people to rent llamas to serve as a player's caddy for a round. The fee is a nominal $40. And since there is grass everywhere, there's almost zero chance that the llama will mistake your hand for food. Everyone wins!

I have ridden a horse and an elephant before, but never a llama. Maybe I should start with that before I entrust my clubs to a llama.

How about alpacas as caddies? I see commercials at least once a week trying to entice me to start my own llama farm. I could create a farm of alpaca caddies that would drive the modern forecaddie into extinction! The alpacas do all of the work and I get all of the money! What a great "get rich quick" scheme!

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North Carolina ? You mean Justin Timberlake (designer of all things golf and green) didn’t come up with this idea first ? Just think how much he could have saved on fertilizer and solar panels !! Can the llamas be trained to fill in divots ? (again, with something other than sand) :-)

I hear they’re not real good at reading greens or lining up the players.

Ok – one more – do you think they have a Dhali…llama ? How about one named Karl Spakler ? (at least they’d have that going for them)

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Jul 29, 2009 4:06 PM EDT reply actions

Talamore in Pinehurst Had Llama for YEARS

This is hardly new to North Carolinians.

Talamore, about 5 miles from Pinehurst, has had them for years.

Their number is (800) LLAMA 92 and nearly every course guide in the country that lists Talamore talks about it.

Innovation schminovation.

by Charles Boyer on Jul 29, 2009 4:43 PM EDT reply actions

Oh, And Llamas Love to Spit

I forgot to add — my ex-girlfriend and I played Talamore with a llama (they carry two bags) in 1998 and the thing didn’t like her for one reason or another. It kept spitting on her, which made her almost as mad as me laughing hysterically about it. She shot something like 25 strokes over her handicap that day.

by Charles Boyer on Jul 29, 2009 4:48 PM EDT reply actions