SUNRIVER — There’s little chance that Bruce Summerhays will ever run out of family caddies.

With eight children and 32 grandchildren, the 63-year-old Champions Tour golfer will likely always have a relative on the bag.

This week during The Jeld-Wen Tradition at Sunriver’s Crosswater Golf Club, Summerhays’ son William is caddying for his father.

Summerhays has a five-caddy rotation consisting of his sons and daughters. And there’s always the 32 grandchildren to turn to, just in case.

“When we have Thanksgiving — Whew! That’s a fun thing,” Summerhays said Thursday after shooting a 4-under-par 68 for the first round to move into fourth place with Ben Crenshaw and Tom Watson.

Summerhays had a consistent round with four birdies and no bogeys. He said he was putting the ball well.

“I was stroking the ball nicely,” Summerhays said. “It was a fun round. It was just kind of relaxed.”

Seven Summerhays grandchildren are in Sunriver this week to watch their grandfather play. Golfing tends to run in the family. Summerhays’ daughter Carrie played on the LPGA Tour for two years, and two of Summerhays’ nephews are playing on the Nationwide Tour.

“It’s a family activity,” Summerhays said. “We bring the kids out here to see us. It stems from my dad. He was a coach at the University of Utah. When he played, we played, and it became a passion.”

Summerhays joined the Champions Tour in 1994 and has three victories on the over-50 circuit. He’s now in decent position for another win if he can stay near the top of the leaderboard.

“To win at 63, that would be fantastic,” he said. “To win this week, that would shock the world. But maybe I can be like Muhammad Ali, and shock the world.”