laugh. “I apologized later, but I just lost
my head. I think we made a 9 on the
hole.”
not a strong player, played the event at
Milwaukee CC. They finished dead last.
The Cahills have a unique story of their
own from last season’s Pater-Filius. According to Kevin Cahill, he and Patrick,
then 20 years old, had an argument the
day before the tournament – typical family stuff – and they thought about not
playing. The morning
of the event they
again considered
pulling out, but instead drove down to
Lake Geneva in complete silence.
They ended up
making five birdies
and two bogeys and shot a terrific 3-
under-par 68, tied for the lowest gross
score in Pater-Filius Championship history.
Most important, their success broke the
ice which had formed over the previous
24 hours.
“My dad would hit it down the middle,”
Cahill said, “and Terry would hit it in the
crap. My dad would knock it out, Terry
would hit in the crap. This goes on for 17
holes, and they get to the 18th where
there’s a crowd because that’s where the
scoreboard is, and dad gets up and pipes
one down the middle.
“They get out in the
fairway and Terry is
over the ball and he
senses my dad com-ing up to him, and he
thinks dad is going to
give him some advice.
And dad comes up
“WE CAN DEBATE, BUT
THAT DOESN’T MEAN WE
CAN CHANGE EACH
OTHER’S MIND.”
– TIM MURPHY
and says, ‘Terry, just whiff it.’”
Being a good son, Terry intentionally
whiffed.
“So the old man had his moment of
glory,” Kevin Cahill said, “hitting into the
green with a crowd watching.”
“We get down there, and we birdie our
first hole,” Kevin Cahill said. “Patrick
made a nice putt for birdie, and then he
was all smiley. It was funny because
Patrick played really well, I played well
and we shot a good score, but it almost
didn’t happen because of some family
strife.”
To facilitate net and gross competition,
the Pater-Filius has been held for many
years at golf facilities with more than one
championship course. It has rotated
among just three golf facilities since 2000
– Lake Arrowhead GC in Nekoosa, the
Golf Courses of Lawsonia in Green Lake
and Grand Geneva.
Kevin Cahill recalled another Pater-Filius
family story from the early 1960s, when
his father Warren and oldest brother
Terry, who was about 12 at the time and
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