It’s rare for an entertainer to admit to performance anxiety, but Sean Mackin isn’t like most entertainers. I mean, how many rock band violinists can you name?
Mackin doesn’t get anxious when he’s on the stage performing for thousands of fans with his longtime band, Yellowcard. After decades on tour that’s the easy part. But after more than 40 years on the golf course, it’s the par 3s that make him a little nervous at times. After all, Mackin’s played some of the country’s best courses and has teed it up with some of the best musicians of the 2000s, but he still hasn’t made that elusive hole-in-one.
He has, however, made a pair of double eagles. Like I said, he’s not like most entertainers.
Mackin doesn’t remember the name of the course where he made his first albatross, after all it was in the early 2000s and he was just tagging along with some members of NoFX and Bad Religion while on the Warped Tour in Chicago. He does remember hitting a pretty good push-draw 2 iron about 220 yards uphill to the green on a par 5, though. But after five minutes, the group couldn’t find his ball.
“I go, ‘Oh I’ll just drop’ and Jay Bentley from Bad Religion, like one of my heroes, he’s like, ‘Hey, just check the hole man.’ And it was in the hole,” said Mackin. “They’re hooting and hollering, I didn’t even see it go in. The rest of the day was a blur. To this day, like 20 years later, that whole crew still calls me double eagle or deuce. So that’s pretty awesome.”
The second came at Cimarron Hills, a Jack Nicklaus course north of his home near Austin, Texas. Mackin cut the corner with a 3-wood and hit a sawed-off 9-iron from 140 yards that slam dunked in the hole.
“I hear it from the fairway and I tried to be cool about it too, but I heard it and the club went in the air and I did the run around thing and I’m just like, ‘Man, I got two double eagles, no aces, that’s just perfect for my story,’” he recalled with a laugh. “So I think they only come once every 20 years, so hopefully I’m ready for the next one and I’ll play it cool then.”
Growing up in Florida, Mackin’s family had a membership at Marsh Landing in Ponte Vedra Beach, just down the street from TPC Sawgrass. He plateaued as a teenager in both tennis and soccer, but really found his groove with golf. A back-to-back junior club champion, he then played for the golf team at Fletcher High School while he attended nearby Douglas Anderson School…
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