Caddying, anyone done it.

[Foxholer]

I thought the same. It's also put me off ever using a caddy.

Members of this forum are decidedly not typical of 'normal' golfers - if there actually such an animal!

I believe that the bulk of members here are sufficiently 'into' the intricacies of the game that using a Caddy, then bunging him (very rarely female, Sandy Jones and Fanny showing it can happen in the 'top' Pro world) some more as a tip, would go against the grain. Much more likely to have/use GPS of some sort.

Well I can't believe how tight some if you guys are out there talking about A £5 tip, if i was a caddy and some tight git handed me a fiver I would give him it back and ask if he had kids and if he did I would give a further £1.50 for each kid and tell the tight git to buy them an ice cream.

That's pretty much the attitude many caddies would take too!

 

[Sports_Fanatic]

Well I can't believe how tight some if you guys are out there talking about A £5 tip, if i was a caddy and some tight git handed me a fiver I would give him it back and ask if he had kids and if he did I would give a further £1.50 for each kid and tell the tight git to buy them an ice cream.

But you're not being tight, you've paid £50 for a service and as a thank you offered 10% more. I can see where you are all coming from and seems personal to many who have clearly tried it, but £80-£100 for carrying a set of clubs and look at lines (as some have mentioned to a club golfer or part-timer), so potentially £20 an hour seems an extremely reasonable reward given many jobs out there, although that is probably a more significant issue in itself.

I agree with others, put up the price to remove these issues and help ensure the caddies are taxed appropriately on it, rather than leaving it to tips only. For me though, I probably wouldn't use a caddy, particularly after this thread, unless I had one between four so I carried my own clubs but valued their input on the occasional line and bit of history about the place. Which is absolutely fine, it's just a choice to be made and I'm happy that they'd get a better return from a US Client where it may be more of an event for them.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Members of this forum are decidedly not typical of 'normal' golfers - if there actually such an animal!

I believe that the bulk of members here are sufficiently 'into' the intricacies of the game that using a Caddy, then bunging him (very rarely female, Sandy Jones and Fanny showing it can happen in the 'top' Pro world) some more as a tip, would go against the grain. Much more likely to have/use GPS of some sort.



That's pretty much the attitude many caddies would take too!

If the caddy was £100-£150 booking fee, how much gratuity do you think is correct?

 

[Deleted member 15344]

They should do what Sunningdale do and have the tip as part of the fee so it’s £80 now if someone wants to give them a bit more then that’s up to them.

I suspect that the tips aren’t part of the fee as some sort of tax thing - some caddies have the potential to caddy twice a day and if it’s £50 plus tips then the tips don’t go through the books etc.

 

[Foxholer]

If the caddy was £100-£150 booking fee, how much gratuity do you think is correct?

That's not a viable 'booking fee' imo, so unanswerable!

 

[Deleted member 16999]

That's not a viable 'booking fee' imo, so unanswerable!

Without googling and finding out what other courses charge, is your opinion on what is “decent” based on the “booking fee” or the service you receive from the caddy?

 

[Foxholer]

Without googling and finding out what other courses charge, is your opinion on what is “decent” based on the “booking fee” or the service you receive from the caddy?

My info is somewhat out of date, but those clubs in the area that regularly provided the optional service, used to charge £40 (or maybe £45) to £60 for the 'service only' (not including tip) or occasionally £70 that 'included' one. One (exclusive) club, where caddy was compulsory, charged £80 (sans tip).

That seemed to get sufficient numbers, so the 'law of supply and demand' would deem that 'decent'!

 

[Parsaregood]

Back when I was a student I used to deliver Chinese, basically you get a nominal delivery charge and make a good or bad night off the tips. Probably 80% would tip but the ones that didn't if I had a few delivery to go out they would be the last to receive theirs. There are some miserable people about I tell you

 

[Orikoru]

Back when I was a student I used to deliver Chinese, basically you get a nominal delivery charge and make a good or bad night off the tips. Probably 80% would tip but the ones that didn't if I had a few delivery to go out they would be the last to receive theirs. There are some miserable people about I tell you

JustEat must be the bane of delivery drivers' lives. Given that you can pay on card through the app, the amount of tips for the delivery folk must have dropped through the floor.

 

[Parsaregood]

Yeah that was just coming in when I stopped most people would still tip you a pound or so if paid by card but still alot of people are tight if someone's traipsing up and down stairs in the cold and rain and they don't even give you 50p or a pound

 

[Slab]

Coincidentally there was an article earlier this week on another golf website on 'tipping' etiquette and the bloke kinda outlined a perfect storm where everyone did a good job and it was $5 here $10 there etc depending on what job they did from the fella taking your clubs out the car and everyone else from half way hut through to the caddy (for which the US convention seemed to be up to 50% of the caddy fee)

So it actually totaled about $100 just in tips for the day!

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Yeah that was just coming in when I stopped most people would still tip you a pound or so if paid by card but still alot of people are tight if someone's traipsing up and down stairs in the cold and rain and they don't even give you 50p or a pound

I think it’s hard at the moment for a lot of people - not everyone can afford to dip there hands it to give extra to people - it doesn’t make them tight , lots of people no longer bonuses, zero hour contracts not much desposable income so people get a bit tight pockets

 

[Tashyboy]

When i was a kid I used to caddy for a bloke at sherwood who had a false leg. Every so often he would get air trapped in his knees joint. Push on it and it would fart. He never thought it was funny when when i laughed. It made me a fiver on a saturday morning. One day during the summer holidays it was quiet and the club pro said “no one is here for an hour , so if i smack a 100 balls down the first fairway pick um up and al see you right.”. They went everywhere. An hour later i found the last ball and gave them him Back. He pointed to the chocolate on the counter and said “ help yourself to any two chocolate club Biscuits”. I could of cried the tight ****
Get a proper job. 👍

 

[Parsaregood]

I think it’s hard at the moment for a lot of people - not everyone can afford to dip there hands it to give extra to people - it doesn’t make them tight , lots of people no longer bonuses, zero hour contracts not much desposable income so people get a bit tight pockets

In all honesty 50p or a pound is nothing if you can afford to have a takeaway and want it delivered at least show a bit of appreciation, if not pick it up yourself I would if I wasn't going to tip because it's just ignorance in my eyes

 

[Parsaregood]

When i was a kid I used to caddy for a bloke at sherwood who had a false leg. Every so often he would get air trapped in his knees joint. Push on it and it would fart. He never thought it was funny when when i laughed. It made me a fiver on a saturday morning. One day during the summer holidays it was quiet and the club pro said “no one is here for an hour , so if i smack a 100 balls down the first fairway pick um up and al see you right.”. They went everywhere. An hour later i found the last ball and gave them him Back. He pointed to the chocolate on the counter and said “ help yourself to any two chocolate club Biscuits”. I could of cried the tight ****
Get a proper job. 👍

I'd have thrown the balls back down the fairway

 

[Orikoru]

In all honesty 50p or a pound is nothing if you can afford to have a takeaway and want it delivered at least show a bit of appreciation, if not pick it up yourself I would if I wasn't going to tip because it's just ignorance in my eyes

The main reason JustEat is so convenient is because I never carry cash anymore. So to not use it because I'm unable to tip the driver would be to render the whole app purposeless.

 

[Jacko_G]

I'd have thrown the balls back down the fairway

Reminds me of a story.

A friend of mine was caddying for a rather irksome and bad tempered player who was throwing clubs etc and blaming everything other than himself. The player was warned by the caddy that he didn't appreciate his behavior.

A few hopes later the player said to the caddy give me my 7 iron only for the caddy to reply

"You don't have a 7 iron!"

Player replied

"Of course I've got a BLEEP 7 iron"

No replies the caddy you threw it away two holes ago as he dropped the bag and walked in.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

The main reason JustEat is so convenient is because I never carry cash anymore. So to not use it because I'm unable to tip the driver would be to render the whole app purposeless.

This is similar to me. I never carry coins, any I get go into a slot in my car to use for car parking. I have an emergency £10 in my wallet, that is it. Everything else I pay for using contactless, either card or phone. My golf club has a bar card sytem, this can be topped up by card payment so again, no need for cash.

The area that needs to address this is charities. Where I would previously pass a collection and put money in, if I agreed with the cause of course, I no longer have the coins to drop in. I pay in other ways but the collection in the street must really suffer.

 

[Orikoru]

This is similar to me. I never carry coins, any I get go into a slot in my car to use for car parking. I have an emergency £10 in my wallet, that is it. Everything else I pay for using contactless, either card or phone. My golf club has a bar card sytem, this can be topped up by card payment so again, no need for cash.

The area that needs to address this is charities. Where I would previously pass a collection and put money in, if I agreed with the cause of course, I no longer have the coins to drop in. I pay in other ways but the collection in the street must really suffer.

Yeah, this day and age you don't get anywhere without a contactless card reader!

 

[Deleted member 15344]

In all honesty 50p or a pound is nothing if you can afford to have a takeaway and want it delivered at least show a bit of appreciation, if not pick it up yourself I would if I wasn't going to tip because it's just ignorance in my eyes

Don’t most places already charge a delivery charge on top of the price for the food ? So if someone is getting something delivered then they have paid the extra already. And most these days use Apps to order the food and pay by card. I certainly don’t get some cash out to give it to someone who is already paid to deliver it