NHRA Top Fuel driver Clay Millican competed in a charity golf tournament last week, and unless a sponsor comes along in the next few days that might be the only competition he sees in Las Vegas this season.

Millican, driver of the Mark Pickens Enterprises/Hope-4-Sudan dragster, participated in the Justin Timberlake/Shriner’s Hospital PGA Celebrity Pro/Am Golf Tournament in Las Vegas.

NHRA Top Fuel driver Clay Millican competed in a charity golf tournament last week, and unless a sponsor comes along in the next few days that might be the only competition he sees in Las Vegas this season.

Millican, driver of the Mark Pickens Enterprises/Hope-4-Sudan dragster, participated in the Justin Timberlake/Shriner’s Hospital PGA Celebrity Pro/Am Golf Tournament in Las Vegas.

“That was awesome,” said Millican, who will finish tenth in the NHRA’s Countdown to 1 championship point standings. “I’m not a golfer. I had one golf lesson at Justin Timberlake’s golf course near home [Drummonds, Tenn.] … Mirimichi … near Memphis Motorsports Park. I got invited to come out and play and after one lesson, it was cool.”

Millican needed more than a lesson before joining the tournament.

“I had to borrow golf clubs,” Millican admitted. “I was more nervous about playing golf than I ever was in staging for a final round. I was more afraid of hitting someone with a golf ball.”

The golf outing provided a nice diversion for Millican, who in all likelihood is done racing this year unless he finds sponsorship for the final two events of the season.

“We’re working feverishly on something for next year,” Millican said. “There are a lot of good opportunities out there for us; we just have to get it done. It is hard not being out there, I can tell you that. It’s really hard not to go when all of the equipment is sitting there ready to race.

“At the same time, you can’t expect [team owners] Mark and Lauren Pickens to fund this complete operation out of their pockets. It’s just part of the drag racing world we live in.”

In the event a last minute sponsorship materializes, the team will likely be scrambling to find a replacement crew chief since tuner Lance Larsen was released on October 8.

“That would be a good problem to have,” Millican concluded.

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