Caddie

Caddies are responsible for carrying the player’s bag, managing clubs, and assisting with basic course maintenance like repairing divots and raking bunkers.

Caddies are trusted for their course knowledge, adaptability, and close understanding of a player’s game, and their role is integral at every level of play.

In professional and amateur golf alike, caddies often build lasting partnerships with players, developing a rapport that contributes to overall performance.

[6] In 2024, Golf Digest reported that Scottie Scheffler’s caddie Ted Scott earned $2.6 million over the season with the world number 1.

[7] Caddying fees range throughout courses across the world, however is a popular role for low handicap golfers which can provide opportunities to work with a variety of people.

A caddie plies his trade.
Imaginative drawing by journalist Marguerite Martyn of a couple at the Forest Park Golf Course, Forest Road, Missouri, in 1914, while a caddie leans against a tree.
A golf caddie, 1790, by Lemuel Francis Abbott