Jeff,
Joe McBride is playing a match.
Standing at his drive, he asks Timmonds what club to hit.
Timmonds says, "Hit the 5 Mr Mac"
Joe says, "That looks like alot of club"
Timmonds says, "hit the 5 Mr Mac."
So, Joe hits the 5, airmails the green and looks over at Timmonds, who says:
"Just a game Mr Mac, just a game"
Another time, in a match, on the first green, a golfer asks Timmonds.
"Timmonds, where is this putt going to go ?"
Timmonds says, "It's going to go where ever you hit it."
A variation has a golfer, standing on the green, asking Timmonds where he should hit his putt.
Timmonds says, "Hit it in the hole"
When I arranged for Tiger Woods to play with Terry McBride at NGLA, we had Timmonds would caddy for him.
On the 1st hole, as Tiger is bending down to read the putt, Timmonds shoves him out of the way, looks at the putt and says, hit it to the right.
Timmonds would talk non-stop and was worth two or three holes in a match play competition as he was sure to drive the opponent, dizzy.
At dinner at Joe McBride's house that night, I asked Tiger, how he liked his caddy.
Tiger says, he usually doesn't like a caddy to volunteer information, and to speak only when asked for information.
And, that he doesn't like a caddy to read putts for him.
Timmonds was the antithesis of those qualities.
He was such a nice man, a unique caddy to say the least.
Once, when sitting in a cart, and he did become a cart caddy later in life, a golfer hit his recovery out of the greenside bunker and asked Timmonds to rake the bunker, to which Timmonds responded, "Timmonds doesn't rake bunkers anymore".
He used to sit in the cart and read the putts from 30 yards, not precisely mind you, but his years of familiarity with those greens allowed him to be in the general vicinity of the correct read.
There's a nice picture of Timmonds and Tiger in the Founders Locker Room at NGLA.
It was a great day, for all, and especially for Timmonds.