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 Post subject: Caddying careers
PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 2:30 pm 
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I think if I would have grown up living in one spot as a kid I would have caddied more, but that never worked out for me.
Also played a lot of golf in high school in college so I really didn't get to caddy too much until after I came home for the
summer in college. I would caddy on weekends and even did it a few years after I graduated college. Did most of my
loops at Merit Club in Libertyville. Nice course and saw a few celebrities out there including Michael Jordan, BJ Armstrong,
Gayle Sayers, Bill Murray, Betsy King, and Sandra Day O'Connor. Also was a starter at Midlane in Wadsworth one summer
but didn't really care for that much. Hard to get to work before the sun came up when out late the night before.

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 Post subject: Re: Caddying careers
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here's the #1 reason to make your kid be a caddie

www.wgaesf.org


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 Post subject: Re: Caddying careers
PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 6:13 pm 
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When I was 14 I caddied about 3 weeks at Westmoreland in Skokie. My season ended when I was hit by a car and broke my collar bone. I never returned.

I wonder if my life would have turned out completely different had that not happened.

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billypootons wrote:
here's the #1 reason to make your kid be a caddie

http://www.wgaesf.org

Brother in law went to Marquette on that.

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 Post subject: Re: Caddying careers
PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 6:40 pm 
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newper wrote:
billypootons wrote:
here's the #1 reason to make your kid be a caddie

http://www.wgaesf.org

Brother in law went to Marquette on that.

Around when did he graduate?


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 Post subject: Re: Caddying careers
PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 9:35 am 
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Smoking

Everybody remembers the old school photographs of the greats like Jack and Arnie puffing down on a cig. While you may not see it happen on TV anymore, it totally still exists on tour. I would say that at least 20% of the tour still smokes on the course. Not many of the big names do it anymore, they get too much pressure from their sponsors to quit. While 20% of the players may smoke, 75% of the caddies do. One thing that it actually does help with is getting the wind direction. Unlike grass that is difficult to tell which way a light breeze is blowing when you throw it up, cigarette smoke always goes with the wind and is actually a pretty helpful tool. (I wouldn’t know though).

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