-: Well if they're not a caddie right now,
I would learn to maybe weekend caddie during the summertime
because I think you have to have
a little bit of a background.
Even though I don't think it's that tough a deal
to get out there and become a caddie,
I think growing up with golf certainly helps.
I don't think you can just go out there stone cold
and come up and say, "Here I am, I'm gonna be a caddie."
Not that it's that hard,
but you just gotta have that background.
For sure, if a guy says,
"Wow this sounds pretty interesting",
I would certainly club caddie for sure, to start,
and see where you are from there.
To get started in the industry now,
there's no caddie school, per se.
Like I went to West Conn obviously
and I got a finance degree.
I was never intending to go ahead and caddie for a living,
but it just worked out that way.
But now most of the guys that come out on the tour
and start caddying are with guys on the Web.com tour,
which is basically the equivalent of the Triple A farm team.
They work for guys out there
and if they're good enough to get their card
and get to the PGA Tour,
most of the guys that work for them on Web.com
come out to the big tour and work for them out there.
Most of it's networking.
Some of it's a little bit of the club caddying
and getting lucky.
Maybe finding someone that's gonna go pro later on in life.
Maybe working or playing with a guy in college.
Stuff like that.
So sorta like knowing someone more than anything else.
There's no way you get out there per se.
Your best bet is to go out to the Web.com tour
because I think week to week
those guys don't have steady caddies.
You may not make a killing at first,
but you'll get the experience.
The last thing you wanna do is come out to the big tour,
come out here and maybe make a few mistakes,
then you gotta get a bad rep,
then you're never gonna get a job.
So I say go out there for a year
to learn the trade at that kind of level,
see if you actually like traveling,
because you may not like traveling.
You may love the job, but there's a lot of travel involved.
It's a grind. It's the physical grind.
Make sure you really like it.
Learn and then come out to the big tour
with maybe a guy that comes from the Web.com,
or you just come out to the tour and hope for the best
and maybe something breaks.
You gotta have the passion, number one.
I don't think you have to be a scratch player, per se,
but it helps if you grew up playing the game
because it's so much more natural to you.
I think when you play the game,
you learn how to read the greens.
I think reading greens is pretty natural,
but you could learn a little bit along the way.
I think having the background of playing helps.
The difference, I think the club caddie guys
are not looking to make a career of it,
but obviously it's much more serious
and much more intense on the regular tour.
It doesn't mean they can't do it.
I tell guys the same thing all the time.
I said the key is you gotta be prepared
before you go out there.
You gotta know the golf course.
You gotta do as much work as you can.
I think if you can do all those things,
you'll end up getting a decent job
somewhere along the way.
I think what separates what I see on this tour,
the tour that I work on,
the real good caddies versus,
they're all good caddies,
versus just the good caddies,
is you can't be afraid to make a mistake.
You gotta just stand your ground
and if you do your work and you're confident,
we're all gonna make mistakes,
but you just gotta be able to
step up to the plate sometimes.