A lawyer by day, Kent Frandsen is a scratch golfer who’s had a hand in all the PGA tournaments at Crooked Stick since 1981.

It’s an unlucky number for a lucky sports trick – 13 holes in one.

Kent Frandsen only gives luck partial credit.

“The better you are, the more likely you are to make one. It’s that simple,” said Frandsen, 65, who holed his first ace at age 18 and his 13th two years ago. “It takes luck to make the shot. But if you hit balls on the green all the time, you have a much better chance at having one go in.”

In other words (Frandsen doesn’t want to brag on himself), there is some major skill involved in draining holes with one swing of an iron or wedge. Frandsen is a scratch golfer. He’s also a three-time Indiana state amateur champion. He’s also in the Indiana State Golf Hall of Fame.

But, perhaps, the most wonderful golf fact about him is this: Frandsen is a partner at the law firm Parr Richey Obremskey Frandsen & Paterson.

Parr. No joke.

As Frandsen sat overlooking the 18th green at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel last week, it was clear why he was the man picked to help head up one of professional golf’s biggest events of the year, the BMW Championship.

Frandsen, a member at Crooked Stick – and at Ulen Country Club in Lebanon and at Pine Valley Golf Club in Clementon, N.J. – is in charge of the operations of this huge production that’s been three years in the making.

He’s in charge of tents, parking, player hospitality, scoring, caddies, entertainment, food, statistics, volunteers, gallery control, even activities for the golfers’ spouses.

More than 2,500 volunteers will help put on the tournament Sept. 8-11, which is expected to bring more than 150,000 people to the course and have a $30 million economic impact.

“The PGA is a traveling circus,” said Frandsen, who is co-chairing the championship with John Crisp. “It’s a circus, just going from city to city — players and caddies and officials and media.”

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