Sure, he had an arrangement to give the caddie a bonus. When he won the tournament that goes out the window. He said the caddie turned down an additional $15k. It should have been an additional $100k+.

Dick move by Kuchar.

Why didn't the caddie take the $15,000? Seems strange. Was he trying to shame Kuchar? If so, it obviously didn't work.

I said, "Hey Kuchar! How bout a little something, you know, for the effort?"

Caddy is the DB. He agreed to deal. Kuchar paid more than original deal and even offered the 15k on top. Not a bad weekend for a club caddy

Caddy is the DB. He agreed to deal. Kuchar paid more than original deal and even offered the 15k on top. Not a bad weekend for a club caddy

Is this guy a professional PGA caddy or just some local at the club? It sounds like he just grabs a caddy each week. If he is up front with the payment what did he do wrong.

10% makes sense for a personal caddie that is traveling week to week with the player and has attached his life to the golfer.

When I caddied at Midlothian, typically a tournament win would multiply the usual rate significantly. Instead of $100 for 2 days, you'd get like $1000, sometimes more if it was a guy really enjoying his moment.

He should have given the guy 10% or something close to it.


With that said, 15k is nothing to sneeze at and I cant believe he turned it down.

When I was at Evanston, it really depended on the player. Everybody knew who the cheap fuckers were and nobody wanted that loop. But if you were in Caddiemaster Jack Turner's doghouse, that was all you would get. It was things like the club championship where you got to make a little money but having a guy who was a good tipper and a good player who liked you. Usually it was guys who showed up and went out twice everyday who ended up with those players. I never worked that hard.

This particular guy is a club caddy who filled in as Kuchar's regular caddy (I think) was having some health issues and couldn't travel to Mexico.

The 10% thing are handshake deals. Sometimes they get more, sometimes less. If the player misses the cut, the caddy gets nothing (and likes it!).

Kuchar probably should have given a better %, but still $15K for club caddy who was on the bag for 5-6 days and didn't have to travel at all is nothing to turn your nose at. And with the caddy going public like this, you can bet that no PGA player is ever going to use him again for Mayakoba Classic.

My brother taught me to subvert the system for tournaments. Any time Id get a good tipper who liked me, Id ask them if they had a caddie lined up for the 3man/2-day and offer to be their guy.

He should have kicked him over at least $10K for the efforts.

All of the sudden he stopped asking for me by the end of the season. Apparently the caddy master had told him that I was a better player than he was and he didn't like that.

Apparently the caddy master had told him that I was a better player than he was and he didn't like that.

In his own interview with Bamberger, Kuchar said the deal before the week was $1,000 for a missed cut, $2,000 for a made cut, $3,000 for a top-20, and $4,000 for a top 10. The $1,000 was “extra” for a good week and brought the total to $5k.

Not sure what I’d be expecting from someone who seems pretty cheap from the beginning. But I’m guessing Kuchar would have happily moved to the next caddie on the list if this wasn’t worth the effort.

Ortiz is a club caddie in Mexico, and was picked by Kuchar to serve as a replacement when his regular caddie was unable to make the trip. After stewing over his paltry payment for a couple of months, Ortiz sent an email to Kuchar’s agent in January asking to be paid $50,000. He was instead offered an additional payment of $15,000, which prompted Ortiz to tell Golf.com that Kuchar and his agency could “keep their money.”

Kuchar said he did not really understand why the pay dispute has turned into such an emotional issue. Told that a $5,000 caddie payment on a $1.3 million payday seemed frugal, he nodded, but indicated he had a different view.

“For a guy who makes $200 a day, a $5,000 week is a really big week,” he said.