Whereas there are sometimes loads of journey perks for PGA Tour gamers, the identical can’t at all times be stated for his or her loopers.
It’s not unusual for Tour caddies to band collectively to lease homes, resort rooms and vehicles, and generally, the digs are decidedly lower than stellar. Joel Dahmen’s caddie Geno Bonnalie has gone viral prior to now by posting movies of the generally questionable lodging he’s hung out in through the years, documenting the episodes on social media as “Caddie Cribs.”
Simply how dangerous has it gotten prior to now? On this week’s episode of Subpar, Bonnalie shared a very icky resort room state of affairs from earlier this yr with hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz.
“So we get to New Orleans, and I’m not gonna say the property as a result of it was free,” Bonnalie started. “So I bought comped a spot at a resort. It was like 1 o’clock within the morning. We had some flight delays coming from Dominican Republic.
“And I get in, and I’m on the fringe of the mattress and you recognize, you plug your cellphone in right here, and I used to be simply type of laying right here as a result of I, you recognize, it’s a brief little wire, and I’m watching “Fits” or no matter I’m into on the time, and now it’s like 1:45, I’m like, I’ve to fall asleep.
“So I set my cellphone down and I roll into the center of the mattress. It’s drenched. And I’m like, no means. And I’m simply praying that anyone spilled a water bottle in the course of this mattress. However what are the chances of that taking place? It’s not on the highest cowl, it’s simply the mattress. And it’s 1:45 within the morning. And I’m like, if I’m going right down to the entrance desk now, they’re gonna make me change rooms. And I already unpacked my stuff. I had showered, I bought all my stuff within the lavatory. I’m like, you recognize what? F— it, excuse my language.
“I curled up over within the nook and I closed my eyes and fall asleep.”
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Bonnalie stated he had a roommate who, when he heard the story the subsequent morning, advised that they swap rooms. However Bonnalie contended that the workers could be unlikely to consider that it wasn’t Bonnalie himself who moist the mattress. So, the pair determined to remain within the room and make the perfect of it.
“I stripped the covers and I put a don’t disturb on the door as a result of I didn’t need housekeeping to come back in and discover that supposedly I had moist the mattress, and once I bought again from the course on that Tuesday, it didn’t have a foul odor on the time,” Bonnalie stated. “Like I smelled it. It may very well be water. So I went into the toilet and bought a hair dryer and I put it below the sheet and I began simply letting it run and because it warmed up …”
“Oh God, that’s disgusting,” Knost chimed in.
“Now we’re 24 hours into this resort, and there’s no means anybody’s going to consider that I didn’t p— the mattress,” Bonnalie continued. “So I curled up right into a ball within the nook once more and my roommate’s simply laughing at me. I’m like, I don’t have an alternative choice. I’m not gonna sleep on the ground. I simply type of scoot over right here, I suppose. And by day three, I lastly bought it dried out.”
“That’s unbelievable,” Knost stated.
“I’m so gross,” Bonnalie stated. “My spouse judges me for that, however I did it.”
For extra from Bonnalie, together with some much less cringey tales, like why he’s within the Guinness Ebook of World Data and what’s was prefer to be on “Full Swing,” hearken to the episode in its entirety under.
