According to pro-am etiquette, if one is out of a hole, one should pocket one's ball.
"I've become good friends with some of my pro-am partners over the years, " he says.
For polo, like pro-am golf and yacht racing, money and commitment can guarantee top-level participation.
John Daly once hit a tee shot off the top of a beer can during a pro-am.
"I'm not pro-American or pro-Russian - I am pro-Georgian, " the new president said in his inaugural speech.
My long-suffering partner, Brian Davis, has been hit by a ball during a pro-am on four separate occasions.
Both Mickelson and Woods have reputations for being gregarious pro-am partners (the pros actually keep the group's score).
He won two years ago with actor Bill Murray as his partner in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
Jim Furyk was ingloriously disqualified from the first playoff event for oversleeping and missing his pro-am tee time.
Same goes for film, as the pro-am moving picture landscape is re-drawn by Roku, Vimeo and many other disruptors.
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The pro-am dancing show is the most popular thing on TV, drawing more than 19 million viewers per week.
However, he can still boast one PGA Tour victory this season -- at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am back in February.
McArthur also received two slots to play in Nationwide's Pro-Am golf tournament and 10 tickets to the Nationwide sponsored professional golf tournament.
Since almost every pro-am is held in areas known for quality golf, the tournament can be the centerpiece of a larger golf vacation.
Every January Scruggs joins this collection of high-powered businessmen, helmsmen, camp followers, merrymakers and sailing junkies for a raucous series of pro- am ocean races.
But the 30-year-old decided to withdraw after struggling in Wednesday's pro-am.
Just this past Wednesday, I played in the pro-am of the Viking Classic in Jackson, Mississippi, which is still going on as you read this.
At the pro-am afterparty, flush with goody bags, cigars, beers and smiling amateur golfers, we learn that we finished just a few strokes away from winning.
The Hills in Arrowtown, which recently hosted the Pro-Am Championship, is a spectacular spot surrounded by the barrenness of the Remarkables Mountains and the Crown Range peaks.
At 10:00 a.m. on a cool Monday morning I walk up to the tee of my first hole at the PGA Tour's Waste Management Phoenix Open pro-am.
Having missed the last three majors, Karlsson played the pro-am before the SAS Masters in Sweden a month ago, but was still suffering problems with his depth perception.
Jim Furyk overslept and missed his pro-am tee time at last year's Barclays and was disqualified from the actual tournament (the PGA Tour has since modified the rule).
At 10:00 a.m. on a cool Monday morning I walk up to the tee of my first hole at the PGA Tour's Waste Management Phoenix Open pro-am in Arizona.
Woods' only practice round at the course came during Wednesday's pro-am but he refused to use that as an excuse, saying the course was set up to be attacked.
"Robert and I, going back and forth, we really enjoyed that, " Wilson told the PGA Tour's official website after winning the pro-am event formerly known as the Bob Hope Classic.
Nine of Europe's Ryder Cup players are in the field in the pro-am event in Scotland, plus captain Colin Montgomerie and vice captains Thomas Bjorn, Darren Clarke and Paul McGinley.
But there are some moments of magic, such as when -- as a 26 handicapper -- he sank a monster 150-foot putt at the Dunhill Links pro-am in Scotland last October.
To strengthen the field, the PGA tour rules stipulate that the group at the top of the money list at each event must play in the pro-am, while the least successful players do not.
Meanwhile, Brandt Snedeker is looking to shake off his tag of the PGA Tour's "2013 nearly man" after retaining a share of the lead after three rounds at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am .
In an interesting twist last year, Jim Furyk was disqualified from the Barclays (the first event) after missing the pro-am event, but went on to win the TOUR Championship event and the FedEx Cup anyway.
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