Bill Murray Falls Into a Sand Trap, Raises Money Anyway

Comic actor hams it up on the links for a good cause

By Josh Grossberg Feb 07, 2013 10:30 PMTags
Bill Murray AP Photo/Ben Margot

Maybe Bill Murray needed a little help from that ol' gopher.

The beloved Caddyshack star grabbed some clubs and revisited his Carl Spackler days (for the uninitiated, Carl's the greenskeeper he played in the 1980 screen classic) for a celebrity golf challenge Wednesday in Pebble Beach, Calif.  in advance of the annual AT&T Pebble Beach Nation Pro-Am golf tournament.

Alas, the mustachioed Murray probably could have used a mulligan on the second hole as one of his shots landed right in a sand trap, prompting the funnyman and avid golfer to lie down in the bunker in despair.

We feel his pain.

While Murray can kiss his dream of being a Masters champion goodbye, in spite of his disappointing performance at the Pebble Beach Golf Links, he still managed to raise $10,000 for the Hemophilia Foundation of Northern California.