You would be silly not to, says caddie about LIV Golf
You would be silly not to, says caddie about LIV Golf
By Neville Idour
An experienced and long serving caddie who is working on the DP World Tour reckons virtually every caddie on the tour would go to LIV Golf “in a heartbeat” if they had the opportunity, according to a story in Golf Monthly.
He said any caddie that doesn’t want to has “something wrong with them.”
Wanting to remain anonymous, he revealed what he had heard from caddies working in the LIV series. Wherever in the world a LIV caddie is, they get their air fares paid for in business class to wherever the LIV event is.
Then if they are chosen to be microphoned for any on course conversation they are paid $US1500 a day. Their hotels are paid for plus food. At the event they have food plus an open bar and players and caddies sit together. There is no segregation of them and us.
On the DP World Tour caddies do have their own lounge and free food but that is where it ends. No extras. The difference is like chalk and cheese.
As the anonymous caddie said: “Who doesn’t want to work for LIV? Who doesn’t want to work less and get paid a big load of money?”
The bagman for Branden Grace, who won at Portland in the United States, took home his 10 percent plus team winnings, a cool $US450,000.
“One week out there and you take home that much. Mind blowing,” the anonymous caddie said.
The caddie also thinks the decision by the DP World Tour to work with the PGA Tour is a bad idea. It will be depleted by it’s best players heading to the USA because the top 10 on the Race To Dubai will earn PGA Tour cards for the first time.
“The hypocrisy is mind blowing. The PGA Tour saying you are going to LIV for the money is rubbish as they have been depleting our tour for years.”
Now they have almost doubled their prizemoney the gap is now much wider.
“I don’t get how the PGA Tour are being such idiots. They’ve been the big dog for decades. Suddenly someone else comes along with a truck load of money and they don’t like it. Too bad. That’s business.”
The caddie concluded with references to DP World Tour chief executive Keith Pelley and his PGA Tour counterpart Jay Monahan.
“Keith Pelley and Jay Monahan must be wetting their pants at the moment.”