2008 Celebrity Pro-Am

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick puts his all into his drive off the first tee of the Travelers Championship Celebrity Pro-Am in Cromwell. (STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANT)

ESPN TV personality Chris Berman hams it up for the crowd after hitting his drive off the first tee of the Travelers Championship Celebrity Pro-Am. (STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANT)

ESPN TV personality Chris Berman performed for the crowd after hitting his drive off the first tee of the Travelers Championship Celebrity Pro-Am. (STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANT)

Andre Tippett, 2008 Professional Football Hall of Fame inductee, tips his hat to the crowd after hitting his drive off the first tee of the Travelers Championship Celebrity Pro-Am. (STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANT)

Popular movie star Joe Pesci was a crowd favorite as he teed off from the first tee during the Travelers Championship Celebrity Pro-Am Wednesday. Pesci had a cigarette clamped between his teeth during his introductions and first drive. (STEPHEN DUNN / Hartford Courant)

Actor Luke Wilson teed off from the first tee with Vijay Singh in the Travelers Championship Celebrity Pro-Am. (STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANT)

Popular movie star Joe Pesci was a crowd favorite as he teed off from the first tee during the Travelers Championship Celebrity Pro-Am Wednesday. Pesci had a cigarette clamped between his teeth during his introductions and first drive. (STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANT)

Doug Flutie, one of college and professional football’s most famous quarterbacks, liked his drive on the first tee and let the fans know it during the Travelers Championship Celebrity Pro-Am on Wednesday (STEPHEN DUNN / Hartford Courant)

Defending champion Hunter Mahan is all smiles as he approaches the first tee of the Travelers Championship Celebrity Pro-Am Wednesday. (STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANT)

Actor Joe Pesci, with cigarette, follows through on his drive from the first tee at the Travelers Championship Celebrity Pro-Am in Cromwell Wednesday. (BOB CHILD / AP)

Vijay Singh hits a drive from the first tee at the Travelers Championship Celebrity Pro-Am in Cromwell Wednesday. (BOB CHILD / AP)

Ed Crowley of Branford, left, was the lucky winner of an online auction for Caddies For A Cure, allowing him to carry the bag of Stewart Cink Wednesday at the 2008 Travelers Championship Celebrity Pro-Am. (JOHN WOIKE / HARTFORD COURANT)

Stewart Cink, right, gives Joe Caracappa a fist bump after Caracappa made a birdie putt on the 11th hole during the Celebrity Pro-Am Wednesday afternoon. Also part of the group is Larry Baldauf. (JOHN WOIKE / HARTFORD COURANT)

Hunter Mahan, the 2007 Travelers champion, hits a drive from the first tee in the Celebrity Pro-Am Wednesday. (BOB CHILD / AP)

Former Boston Red Sox great Dwight Evans, left, and actor Aidan Quinn wait on the first tee at the TPC at River Highlands golf course in Cromwell. Evans and Quinn were playing in the pro-am event of the Travelers Championship golf tournament with the 2007 winner, Hunter Mahan. (BOB CHILD / AP)