PGA Tour caddie: "I doubt your bosses talk to you like some players talk to us!"

The PGA Tour caddie has also opened up on one 'under 30s superstar'.

10 May 2023

PGA Tour caddie: "I doubt your bosses talk to you like some players talk to us!"

A PGA Tour caddie has lifted the lid on the alleged abuse he received from his player that resorted to the looper turning to a therapist.

The anonymous caddie made the revelation in an article for GolfDigest.

"I'm sure some of you get chewed out by your bosses, but I doubt they talk to you the way some players talk to us," the looper wrote.

The caddie revealed that there's one famous player who is 'a notorious hothead' that everyone 'considers a good dude'.

Yet apparently he rides his caddie hard and 'nothing is ever his fault'.

It was alleged this player:

Rips on his caddie's appearance
Talks 'massive crap' behind his caddie's back
Criticises his prep, strategy and decisions

An extract read:

"This might sound a little funny, but I ended up seeing a therapist to talk about how to come to terms with it and how to stop it. I worried about how to bring this up with my player because if he didn't react well, word would get out. Then I would be seen as weak, and my reputation on tour would have been done. I never had to make that call; right around the time I started talking to the therapist, my player got hurt. I jumped on a new bag with a guy who is a bit boring but polite and have stayed there since.

"There's a reason the guys you see on TV every week aren't the ones who are guilty of berating their loops. If a player is routinely going at a caddie—at least being caught on camera going at a caddie—the tour will take the player aside and say, "Hey, tone it down." It's not because the tour cares about us; it has an image to uphold, and a superstar chewing out his bagman after a bad shot doesn't help the brand. For some of the habitual line-crossers, the networks know enough to cut away before showcasing anything too nasty. Let's just say there's a reason you never see the reaction from one under-30 superstar. The networks know if they stay on him for too long, there's a F-bomb being shot at his loop."