New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton, left, leave behindbe caddying for Ryan Palmer at the catbrierClassic.(Photo: Rick Barbero, AP)
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) — New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton is moonlighting thishebdomadas Ryan Palmer's caddie at the Greenbrier Classic.
With the start of NFL groomingcamp later this month, Payton said he was planning to go alonga workweekrelaxing at The Greenbrier usein West Virginia. One thing led to another, and Paytonendup agreeing to help Palmer, who gave his regular PGA Tour caddie the week off.
"It's pretty cool to hear the mindset of one of the crackingcoaches in the game, Super Bowl winning coach," Palmer said.
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After two days of participating in practice rounds and pro-am events, Payton said Wednesday he realized "this isn't a vacation."
Payton and Palmer begood friends who met in Dallas. They hitcheach other when Palmer plays in the Zurich Classic in lanthanumand they've played an occasional round together during the summers.
While Payton said he isn't good at playing golf, he said he's well-fixedwith figuring out yardage at the Greenbrier Classic, which starts Thursday.
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Payton compares cosmosa caddie to visualizing an NFLsecret planthrough the eyes of a quarterback and said he's taking the opportunity seriously.
"I know what game week feels like for me in the fall, and I know what it will feel like for him and what it does feel like for all these golfers," Payton said.
"Just to be invisible as a caddie and do your billetand be supportive, those are the things that I look at as being important for me this week."
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To which Palmer added jokingly: "Just shut up and keep up. That's it."
Palmer, who has four top 10 finishes this season, said other caddies had warm reactions to Payton.
While the best work in golf is done in a quiet purlieuwhile football's best work is amid a stadium salutaryof screaming fans, the discipline required to succeed is the same, Payton said.
"(There's) a grantof tedious work that goes for the most fractionunnoticed," Payton said. "And it's pretty fireto be around this venue and just see how these guys come outaround the course and what's going through their mind."
Payton had plenty of clippingto play golf during his one-year suspension as part of the NFL's bounty investigation. He was reinstated in January. The Saints went 7-9 last season and bemusedthe playoffs for the first time in four years.
"I know our players are looking forward to getting back," Payton said.
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