-: I mean, I aways love being outside and I love sports
and I love the competition and I tell people the same thing,
I realize I've never hit a putt,
never made a putt, never hit a chip.
But it's the second greatest thing.
You know, I said, what's better than actually playing?
Well, being a manager or coach.
But I got news for you.
As a caddy you're actually on the playing field.
Whereas a coach or manager can't do that.
So I feel like number one,
we have the best seat in the house.
And we're actually a part of it.
I'm not sitting here saying I'm the reason
Tiger won eight times those two years,
nothing to do with that.
It's just a great competition, juices get flowing,
and like I said I always played sports my whole life,
so if I couldn't play professionally,
this is the next best thing for me.
And I absolutely love it.
You know, it can get pretty busy.
People think, oh my god, you're on the road all the time.
Well, that's really not the case.
Even when I worked for Ken Green
and Fred in his younger days,
they'd maybe play 22 to 26 events.
So doing the easy math maybe half a year on the road.
I mean, that's tough 'cause,
my kids are a little bit older now,
but I had wife and kids back then.
I still have them but they were younger.
So it wasn't that easy
because one week away is a lot
when you miss your kids obviously.
But my typical year now with Tiger going forward
is probably gonna be 20 weeks worldwide.
So, it's a grind, sometimes the airports
and the cars can get a little bit old.
But I love the job so nothing about it is tough.
Some of the guys, it's everyone's fault but their own.
And I've been fortunate for 30 years
that I've worked for my players
really never gotten on me,
never blamed me for anything.
And I've made plenty of mistakes.
Tiger's almost the opposite.
Like, he can't wait to tell me "great read"
or "great club" and stuff like that.
I'm like, take it easy.
You're the one making the putts
and hitting the shots, I said.
But that's just how he is.
There are some guys that just can't wait
to blame the caddy good, bad, or indifferent.
Which is unfortunate.
But that's just how they are.
Some of it's just nervous energy,
and they just blow it off on the caddy.
That's their guy.
And you gotta stand there and take it,
'cause that's what he's doing.
Just blowing it off.