If Rob Rennell has one regret, it’s that he didn’t buy a fifth wheel sooner. Rennell estimates that traveling the junior golf circuit by trailer with daughter Riley would’ve cut the family’s expenses in half. Rob and Riley have been practicing in Scottsdale, Arizona, for the past three months while their 42-foot trailer is parked at Eagle View RV Resort at Fort McDowell.
“It’s almost like an apartment,” said Riley of the setup, which includes two bedrooms and two bathrooms. RV life allows Riley to bring her dog Alex and kitten Frankie on tour.
The Rennells also have a 40-acre farm in Columbia, Tennessee, which supplies hay for the cattle ranches that surround. Kendra Rennell, who was back home overseeing roof repairs at the farm, recently made her way out west to watch Riley make her LPGA debut this week at the Drive On Championship at Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club in Gold Canyon, Arizona.
While Jordan Spieth made some headlines earlier this year talking about his new rig, the women who haul trailers around the country aren’t having quite the same experience as the luxury motor homes that Jason Day, John Daly, Jimmy Walker and others have used for years.
“We’re the trailer girls,” said Dorsey Addicks, who lived 280 days in her Airstream the first year she bought it. Addicks’s father, Rich, a retired photojournalist, has an Airstream, too.
Epson Tour player Dorsey Addicks poses in her Airstream travel trailer. (photo courtesy of Rich Addicks)
After the pandemic hit, the family decided to look into seeing if it made sense financially for Dorsey, who now hails from Big Sky, Montana, to get her own home on wheels. She lives in her 20-foot Airstream when she’s wintering in Georgia and on the east coast of the Epson Tour. When on the west coast, they use dad’s trailer.
“I would still be driving anyway,” said Addicks of tour life, “so I might as well tow a trailer.”
Addicks tows her Airstream with a Chevy Silverado 1500 and documents her travels on the Instagram account, @dagolfstream. A couple of season ago, she met a man in an RV park who walked his goats every night.
Addicks’ good friend Lindsey McCurdy also pulls a 19-foot trailer on the Epson Tour. She enjoys the freedom of being able to cook what she wants. McCurdy’s RV has a full-size bed and a twin bunk. That McCurdy managed to navigate life on the road while unknowingly battling ulcerative colitis is all the more impressive to Addicks, who…
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