Let’s move on, if any of you are reading this and thinking about getting into it or pushing your kids to do it, the job of caddying is not always as lucrative and comforting as the case at hand. The normal thing is to travel and know little about the places you visit, earn a lot of money but not enough to guarantee the existence of the next generations of the family, assume your share of responsibility for those mistake your boss and become a stone guest. with some exceptions, their successes. This is all assuming you are not working Matt Kuchar. In that case you will get worse.
On the other hand, if you find a good bag, which may happen by smell, luck or past merits, hold on. Everything mentioned above will continue to be true, but you will become a multimillionaire. And everything looks different with six zeros in your bank account, right? In addition, once a year, except for a disaster, you will visit Augusta and some of the best links on the planet, something that most lovers of this game, if not all, will be happy to have do it for free.
The latter is Ted Scott’s drift since 2021 when he started carrying Scottie Scheffler’s clubs. In fact, he started surfing at the top of the wave almost ten years ago, when Bubba Watson won his first Masters in 2012 with him as COUNSELORbut after the Texan his assets took an exponential leap. The historic period of good old Scottie, in parameters tigers With seven victories, including his second green jacket, and 16 top-10s in 20 tournaments played, it resulted in an income of 62.3 million dollars (about 56.5 euros) once the 25 kilo bonus included win the FedEx Cupthe PGA Tour’s annual rankings.
Scheffler’s earnings per tournament, in the third column, and Scott’s estimate, in the fourth. NBC
It is estimated, because they were not made public, that the agreement between him and Scott is the standard for an elite caddy, that is, 10% of the player’s income in the case of victory, around 7% in the case of top- 10 and plus or minus 5% in the case of any other results in addition to the one assigned per week of work, THE NBC He estimates that his assistant’s salary in 2024 will reach 5.2 million dollars (4.7 euros). Needless to say, that’s the ceiling at the time of calculating earnings for caddies on the PGA Tour, more than triple what Austin Kaiser pocketed (over two million dollars) with Xander Schauffele, And the The Californian won two majors, the PGA and the British, this year.
But the best is yet to come, and that’s Scott’s hypothetical placement on the annual earnings table for US tour players. There are things that can be funny, because if Ted is included in that calculation he will be top-20, with a better salary than some of the most important names in the structure of this century, such as the Australians Adam Scott and Jason Day, the Americans Jordan Spieth or Justin Thomas or the Englishman Justin Rose. Does Scott earn a lot? Is your income low? Questions for another debate. It is clear that he is one of the best in the world at what he does, as evidenced by a track record that is better than most of his colleagues, the honor that Scheffler always gives him for his victories and the fact which is one of his worst. Laps recently signed it at the PGA Championship on the day Ted was away to attend his daughter’s graduation.
In times of prosperity, with prizes breaking records every year amid the financial war between PGA and LIFE which is about to end (another thing is that both organizations collect cable in the upward cycle of checks), those who best take advantage of the market situation are Scottie Scheffler and Ted Scott. They eventually became the most successful duo of the era, amassing unprecedented statistics over the years and in the process becoming ‘filthy’ rich.
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