Slab's Caddy Comp

[3offTheTee]

Great update Slab, really enjoyed it and well done.

The major observation was I was pleased you were not marking his card when you said 2 pics. There were 4!

Looking forward to next year.
All the best

 

[rulie]

Just gonna do this as a bullet point list (apologies if I’ve already mentioned any of these) Most of these I already knew or are common sense

• Many spectators and facilities staff seem blissfully unaware that they’re at a live professional sporting event with a proximity access to play that wouldn’t be possible in stadiums etc. they seem to think nothing they do might have any impact on a player
• I mentioned the player course guide, below is an example of the data on each hole. He let me keep his guide once finished (they have to buy them at each tournament)
• Keeping him and then yourself hydrated is one of the biggest tasks, you can’t afford to skip a water station
• Sort out how you know which bottles each of you are drinking from and stick to that all week (I took the label off all the ones I was using)
• Local caddies fared pretty well with a handful of ‘our players’ in top 20 (I wouldn’t read too much into that but it didn’t hurt them)
• When you have the ‘ball in play’ in your hand, clean it, check it for damage and never put it in your pocket no matter how much other stuff you’re holding at the time
• When you put the bag down round the green pay special attention on wind direction/slopes so it can’t be blown over if you walk away from it & straddle/hold it on fairways
• Pros always find the shortest route to walk from tee to green and green to tee even if it’s not supposed to be a path
• Most of the caddy tasks are mundane, carry/clean/hand/receive/keep up/restock/drop off/collect/fetch etc but there’s plenty of them and the less he has to think about these things the better
• At no point did I think there was any danger I would do something that he might get a penalty for but the risk is real
• Saw a good club chuck yesterday (not my guy) his caddy was like a statue & kept mouth shut
• Count the clubs every day before play… twice! And tell him
• Taking my own 3-1 pocket cleaning tool was very useful
• I’m told that prancing round the house in my caddy bib isn’t quite the same as Mr Gere in his white navy uniform!
• Couple of low-res pics from yesterday


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Great job and wonderful experience. Well done!
I had the opportunity to caddy for my niece (once only) on the LPGA tour. It was great, although I had to ask her to stop introducing me as “uncle”.