Jay Laprete/Associated Press
DUBLIN, Ohio — Bud Cauley arrived in town Monday for the Memorial Tournament and was asleep in bed as the clock approached midnight. That’s where he wished he had been on the Friday of last year’s event, when he sustained serious injuries as a passenger in a late-night, single-car accident.
The experience was eye-opening, said Cauley, who has tried to be more careful since the crash. The driver pleaded guilty in January to three felony counts of vehicular assault and one misdemeanor charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
Cauley, 29, has not played the Memorial as if haunted by the accident, which occurred less than a mile from Muirfield Village Golf Club.