What a day! I was invited to play in Jack Wagner’s Celebrity Golf Charity Event to benefit The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
After checking in at work, my friend Alan and I made our way up the 405 through LA’s notorious morning traffic. I’m always excited to play golf and today was no exception. When we arrived at Valencia Country Club, I was practically jumping out of the the brand new golf shoes that I had purchased the day before. So you can only imagine how excited I got when “Holly” a beautiful twenty-something, came over with a Mimosa and asked what size shoes I wear so she could go fetch my brand new Adidas golf shoes! Sweet.
As I was lead over to the “reception area” to try on my shoes, I met Bruce Jenner and sat down next to Marcus Allen. Sweet. Bruce was really nice but his plastic surgery was kinda freakin me out. Marcus wasn’t very nice and later in the day, blatantly cut in front of me in the lunch buffet line. Whatever…I out drove him on the longest drive hole by twenty yards. Sucka.
So, anyway, Holly is back fetching me drinks and making sure my clubs are ready to go. She hands me my bag-o-shwag from Adidas and points my in direction of the driving range. I walk over and see many Hollywood-types. Actors, directors, etc that I recognized but didn’t know most of their names. I find some space down on the range and start getting into my groove.
I was hitting well and in my own world when a guy asks me if he can hit next to me. I say “Sure,” and look up to see the Great One. Wayne Gretzky. Read that again. Wayne Gretzky, the greatest hockey player to ever lace em up. And he’s asking if he can use some of my balls and hit next to me. Sweet. For the next 20 minutes we chatted about hockey and the playoffs. I asked him what happened to my Bruins last night as they had got blown out by Montreal in game 7. I never got another good shot off. At one point, I looked down and there was barely any grass left where I was hitting. I never considered myself to be star struck but Gretzky’s no ordinary star. It was pretty great to meet him. What a nice guy.
me & wayne:
I ended up getting paired with Joe Pesci. Sweet. He missed the first tee because he was on the phone and I figured it to be a long day with him, but he finally arrived. In the interim, I asked Al Michaels to join us for our picture on the first tee.
me & al:
Pesci’s a nice guy. Just the same way you picture him, only smaller. He told me I hit the ball great. And if I ever got my sh*t together, that I’d be dangerous. 
He loves race horses too.
me & joe (I’m on the left):
Overall it was quite a day.