The Snedeker brothers won’t be hard to find at the Children’s Miracle Network Classic at Disney World next week.
Just look for the large group of spectators wearing the “Sned Heads” t-shirts, a play off the Grateful Dead’s following.
PGA Tour pro Brandt Snedeker, 29, and his older brother, Haymes, 33, are eager to tee it up for the first time together in a PGA Tour event. Haymes, an attorney in Fairhope, Ala., who also works as a part-time municipal judge there, is playing on a sponsor’s exemption that he claimed as winner of Golf Channel’s ‘Big Break X: Michigan.’ A lifelong amateur, he turned pro after the Big Break.
Haymes’ wife, Amy, made up dozens of “Sned Heads” t-shirts with as many as 100 family and friends making the trips from Fairhope and Nashville, Tenn., where the Snedeker boys grew up. Haymes and his wife and their 3-year-old daughter, Ella Gray, have already arrived at Disney to enjoy the parks.
Haymes dreamed of a PGA Tour career as a first-team All Southeastern Conference player at Ole Miss, but he returned home after graduating to help his parents through serious health woes. His mother, Candy, was suffering through congestive heart failure that required surgery. His father, Larry, was laid up with back surgery shortly after. Haymes went to work running his mother’s pawn shop in Nashville to keep the household running with Brandt at Vanderbilt at the time.
All these years later, Haymes still dreams of a PGA Tour career. He made his first attempt at Q-School this year, making it through prequalifying before failing to advance from the first stage.
“Magic and miracles happen at Disney World,” Haymes said. “Maybe there’s one left over for me. If not, if my professional golf career ends at Disney with Brandt at my side, I will be totally satisfied.”
