Ted Scott, caddie who earns more than stars

First of all, just in case any of you read this and are thinking of getting into it or encouraging your offspring to do so, the job of caddy is not always as lucrative and rewarding as in the case at hand. The normal thing is to travel a lot and see little of the places you visit, earn good money but not enough to guarantee the existence of the next family generations, assume your share of responsibility for your boss’s mistakes and be an uninvited guest, with certain exceptions, in his successes.

All this assuming that you do not work for Matt Kuchar. In that case, things will go worse for you. On the other hand, if you find a good bag, which can happen by instinct, by luck or by previous merits, hold on. All of the above will still be true, but you will be a multimillionaire.

And everything looks different with six zeros in your bank account, right? Also, once a year, barring a catastrophe, you will visit Augusta and some of the best links on the planet, something that most lovers of this sport, if not all, would gladly do for free.

Ted Scott, numbers

This has been Ted Scott’s drift since he started carrying Scottie Scheffler’s clubs in 2021. Strictly speaking, he began to ride the crest of the wave almost ten years earlier, when Bubba Watson won his first Masters in 2012 with him as consigliere, but next to the Texan his wealth has taken an exponential leap.

The historic season of good old Scottie, in Tigerian parameters with seven victories, his second green jacket included, and 16 top-10s in 20 tournaments played, has resulted in earnings of 62.3 million dollars (about 56.5 euros) once the bonus of 25 ‘kilos’ for winning the FedEx Cup, the annual classification of the PGA Tour, is included.

Estimating, because they are not made public, that the agreement between him and Scott is the standard for an elite caddie, that is, 10% of the player’s earnings in the event of a victory, around 7% in the event of a top-10 finish and more or less 5% in the event of any…