AP Bill Belichick spoke only a few words during his first round at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament on Thursday, but fortunately an enterprising ESPN columnist followed him into the parking lot afterwards and did a little, um, spying.
ESPN’s Gene Wojciechowski reports:
“I’m just out here having fun,” said Belichick, four days removed from the Super Bowl loss to Mario Manningham, Victor Cruz, Hakeem Nicks and the rest of the New York Giants.
Really? I followed Belichick from his last shot on the driving range at 8:10 a.m. to his trunk slamming in the Spyglass parking lot a little before 2 p.m. On a Fun Scale of 1 to 10, Belichick’s body language screamed minus-4.
His score — somewhere around 90.
Does no one else see the irony of Belichick playing on a course named Spyglass? Ok, then.
Belichick played Thursday in a foursome with Ricky Barnes, Bud Cauley and Alabama coach Nick Saban. More from Wojciechowski:
He wore gray pleated pants; a black, short-sleeve shirt; white golf shoes; a white visor; and, on rare occasion, the tiniest hint of a smile. Belichick, who has played in this tournament several times, didn’t arrive at Pebble Beach until Wednesday. He didn’t bother with a practice round. Instead, he spent part of that night in the world-famous Tap Room of The Lodge hotel watching Duke’s miracle comeback against North Carolina with Saban, former U.S. Open champion Jerry Pate and former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa.
