Fan steps in to caddie for pro golfer at Canadian Open in Hamilton

Paul Emerson only planned on watching the RBC Canadian Open from the gallery this weekend in Hamilton, but ended up caddying for one of the pros.

Paul Emerson only planned on watching the RBC Canadian Open from the gallery this weekend in Hamilton, but ended up caddying for one of the pros.

“My heart started pumping pretty good,” the Aurora, Ont. resident told CTV News Toronto in an interview.

On Sunday, C.T. Pan was in the middle of the third hole at the Hamilton Golf and Country Club when his caddie, Mike (Fluff) Cowan, slipped and injured himself.

Emerson, who was watching the tournament as a fan outside the ropes, offered to help.

“I simply said to C.T. Pan, ‘Do you need help?’ And he said, ‘Yes,’” Emerson recalled, adding that he had only ever caddied once before at the amateur level.

“Next thing you know, they said, ‘Get the bib off of Fluff.’ So I helped Fluff get the bib off…put the bib on and started walking up the hole.”

Emerson, who works as a lawyer but describes himself as a “golf nut,” was featured in the broadcast of the fourth round and caddied two holes for Pan. He birdied on the third hole and bogeyed on the fourth.