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Undercover Caddie: Crossing The Line

When we get too involved, things get messy 

Undercover Caddie: To Err Is Human

We make plenty of mistakes, but some are worse than others

Undercover Caddie: The Chosen Ones

Picking sponsors’ exemptions can be dirty politics

Undercover Caddie: Helping Hands

Ranking the members of a player’s entourage by importance

Undercover Caddie: Ranking members of a player’s entourage by importance

Professional golf is no longer an individual sport. Go to the practice range at a PGA Tour event, and you’ll see players surrounded by their own pit crews. Often, the younger or more successful the player, the bigger the entourage. I’m pretty sure some guys can host their own five-on-five pick-up game. How important are Read more…

Undercover Caddie: Three Off The Tee

How do you deal with a player who is having an affair?

Undercover Caddie: Pick Of The Bunch

The best loopers on the PGA Tour right now.

Undercover Caddie: In The Line Of Fire

Coping with verbal abuse is part of the job of looping on tour.

Undercover caddie: Shattered dreams

Enduring a collapse at the Masters is something you never get over.

Undercover caddie: Message in the bottle

A drinking problem wrecked my player relationship and nearly ended my career

Undercover Caddie: Mixing romance and work on tour can be a complicated affair

Do Caddies on the LPGA Tour hook up with players? I get this question a lot, and if it’s not a close friend, I’ll usually ignore it because if I say “yes”, salacious questions always follow. The truth is that it happens, and there’s nothing salacious about it.  It’s a tight group out here – Read more…

Undercover caddie: Too good to pass up

Looping for LIV Golf has been the best experience of my career.

Undercover caddie: Team events like the Presidents Cup can really upset the dynamic we have with our players

The Presidents Cup is near, which is a good time to discuss team events. It’s an honour to go to the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup. It means you’re with a player who had a good year, you made good money and you probably have job security. It means you matter. But how much these team events matter to us varies.

Undercover caddie: Why do we accept jobs from players with commitment issues?

Now you know why we work with caddie killers – players who hire and fire so many loopers you wonder where they all go.

Undercover caddie: Two decades in, I question whether I made a mistake choosing this line of work

In our living room my wife and I have photos from our wedding. Among them is a picture of her with the bridesmaids. But there is nothing of me and the groomsmen. That’s because one of the groomsmen was my former player, and I can’t stand the sight of him all dressed up next to me on the biggest day of my life. It’s just too painful.

Undercover caddie: Two decades in, I question whether I made a mistake choosing this line of work

I carry for a guy you know, but you haven’t heard his name much in the past few years. Still, given what I do for a living, I’m the subject of envy in social settings, and I’d be lying if I said the attention didn’t feel good.

Undercover caddie: Why the Masters is the most stressful tournament we work all year

my wife says I’m unusually curt and anxious. They’re right, of course, but they don’t have to figure out the wind at Golden Bell.

Undercover caddie: Life as a looper on the LPGA Tour

You won’t have job security, and you’re not going to make much money. That’s what a caddie told me when I started looping on the LPGA Tour a decade ago. I thought he was joking or perhaps trying to weed me out. Within a month I realised he was just telling it like it is. Well, mostly.

Undercover caddie: How to become a looper on the PGA Tour

When people hear what I do, they ask how I got started. I happily reply, but I can tell they are waiting for me to stop talking so they can ask what they really want to know: how do I get your job?