Bensonhurst boy plays golf with the pros
13-year-old is ‘lifeline’ for putting challenge participants
Nortee Panpinyo doesn’t have dream of playing golf with the pros. He has already done it!
Nortee, 13, a junior golfer from Bensonhurst, and PGA pro Gregg Gaulocher came to the rescue of several golfers at the finals of the Aberdeen Asset Management Putting Challenge at the World Financial Center in Manhattan on June 16. Nortee and Gaulocher served as “lifelines,” using their superior skills to help players advance in the tournament, operated by the City Parks Foundation.
If a participant missed in the first or second rounds, Norteeand his golfing buddy Gaulocherwould go in and make the same putt the player missed to help advance that person to the next round. Nortee putted to help two finalists advance to the third round.