For teens who love the links, working as a golf caddy at a local country club can be one of the highest-paying jobs. Especially since junior caddies can start as young as 14, carrying one bag and learning the skill.

How to Be a Teen Golf Caddy

1. Select the golf course that is the best fit. Some things to consider are how close to home it is, since some teens do not have vehicles; how much the pay is; and how often caddy opportunities are available.
2. Attend a training session.
3. Learn as much about the course as you can.
4. Learn the rules of golf.

A teenager can start working as a golf caddie right from 14 years of age. Teenage caddies make between $100 to $120. They will be required to carry 2 bags and help the golfer play 18 holes. Playing a ‘loop’ consumes approximately 4 hours, which means a teenage caddie can make $20 to $30 an hour.

Most PGA Tour caddies make between $1000 and $1500 per week, but they also make a percentage of what the player wins in the tournaments. This usually equates to 5 percent of any finish outside the top 10. Players breaking into the top 10, but not winning, will share 6-8 percent of their prize with their caddies.

Jimmy Johnson

Who Is Victor Perez’s Caddie? Victor Perez currently has JP Fitzgerald on the bag and we believe the partnership started in 2019, around the time of the Scandinavian Invitation which is where the image below is from. In what appears to be their first start together Perez would finish in the top-10.

McIlroy said he paid his caddie 10 percent from the $9 million he took home that day from his FedEx Cup bonus, and 10 percent from the Tour Championship earnings. ”So the total was $1.05 million,” McIlroy said.

Phil Mickelson’s caddy was Jim “Bones” Mackay for twenty-five years until 2017 when the two announced that Bones would be leaving the pro-golfers side. Phil Mickelson and Bones Mackay are still friends.

Former PGA Tour caddie Alfred “Rabbit” Dyer says that caddies may earn salaries of $2,000 per week, while “Forbes” magazine reports that PGA Tour caddies typically receive about $1,000 each week. The magazine said in a 2007 article that Steve Williams, then caddying for Tiger Woods, earned $1.27 million in 2006.

A PGA Tour player who’s exempt from qualifying doesn’t have to pay entry fees for tour events. He does pay a $100 initiation fee, then $100 in annual dues. The only expense he must pay to play in a tournament is a mandatory $50 locker room fee.

Jordan Spieth’s caddie has made an estimated $5 million since leaving his job as a middle school math teacher in 2012. Michael Greller was a middle school math teacher making $55,000 a year before becoming Jordan Spieth’s caddie.

Tiger Woods Fired Caddie Steve Williams Due to 1 Simple Misunderstanding. As Tiger Woods took the golf world by storm in the early 2000s, caddie Steve Williams served as his right-hand man. They worked together to dominate the competition for years.

How does the business arrangement typically work? Professionals’ caddies, just like the golfers for whom they work, are self-employed, independent contractors responsible for paying their own expenses.

Unfortunately for his fellow PGA Tour golfers and fans, Woods will not be able to participate in this year’s Masters — or any other events for the foreseeable future — as he continues to recover from injuries he sustained in a February car crash. His absence will certainly be felt at Augusta National.

Tiger Woods has not played a single event since the 2020 Masters. He finished T38 at Augusta National last year but can still play the 2021 PGA Championship if he chooses to. Unfortunately, Woods will not participate in the tournament due to his ongoing recovery process.

Jack Nicklaus

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The Nicklaus family loves him and takes extra special care of him. Bunker is the offspring of Lone Star Labradoodles’ Romo and Abbie. From the start, dog and family have bonded. Bunker is very affectionate and will wave his paw “goodbye” to departing visitors.

Musk Monsieur

He won his first of five West Penn Amateur Championships when he was 17, competed successfully in national junior events and enrolled at Wake Forest College in 1948. At Wake Forest, Palmer became the No. 1 man on the golf team and one of the leading collegiate players of that time.

Buddy Worsham

Wake Forest University Palmer won 62 times on the PGA Tour; Jay Haas 9; Curtis Strange 17 (including back-to-back U.S. Opens); Lanny Wadkins 21 (one major); and Jim Simons (3). Fast forward a bit and the tradition remains strong. Simpson has a U.S. Open title among his four PGA Tour wins.

James Frederick Webb Simpson (born August 8, 1985) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour who won the 2012 U.S. Open and the 2018 Players Championship….

Official World Golf Rankings

Webb Simpson

29 years (March 17, 1992)