This is the 4th edition of Bruce from the CaddyShack. We arrived at Whistling Straits yesterday and signed in to get our credentials. We are doing something new this year. Instead of staying in a hotel, Ryan and Stacy rented a home for the week. It is actually cheaper, because there will be 7 of us staying here. Hotels were very expensive. Whistling Straits is in a very rural area so there aren't many hotels. In 2004, Tiger Woods stayed in this same house. They have 3 pictures on the wall of Tiger that he signed. PGA Tour member, Ben Crane and his family are living in the house next door. The house arrangement is working really good with 15 month old Carsen here, and we can really relax in the evening.

With this being Ryan's fourth time at the PGA Championship, the excitement and hype is not as overwhelming. Also, playing another Pete Dye designed course, we are seeing a lot of the same looks that we did at French Lick, where he qualified for the PGA. Pete Dye courses can give a very intimidating look off the tee. Ryan had a good practice round today. He played with 2 other club professionals and Rich Beem. Rich has been healing from back surgery and won't be playing competitively for another two weeks. Thursday and Friday he will be commentating on TV. He played today just to practice and get a good look at the course. We had a caddie that works at Whistling Staits walk with us today to give Ryan shot lines on the course. He really helped, so I think he will go again tomorrow.

The weather was warm and humid today. The course isn't particularly hard to walk, but being a links style you walk through rough to get to the fairway. The course was built to walk. There are no golf carts at anytime, so there aren't any paved cartpaths. The paths we walk on remind me of walking on a cow path in a pasture, so they are uneven and narrow. Everybody walks single file until we reach the fairway. Lake Michigan can be seen from most of the holes, so it is very scenic. There are no homes at all near the course.

Ryan is with Taylormade this year, so they provide each of their players with a staff bag designed for the PGA Championship. It was at his locker after todays round, so we will be using it the rest of the tournament. I even scored some new rain gear, since mine is designed for cold weather rain. If I had to wear it down here, it would be like putting on a sauna suit. The only catch is that if it is nicer than Ryan's, he will take it and I will use his old ones. I just hope we won't need rain gear.

Time to kick back and relax. We will be leaving at 6:15 in the morning so we can eat breakfast at the course, and then Ryan has a photo shoot around 7:00 on the range.

Bruce from the caddyshack