Matt Kuchar exposed on Twitter for paying Mexican caddie only 3k of 1.3 million winnings

[Fireballer 2,377]

https://twitter.com/tcgillis/status/1083895929223168003?s=19

 

Pretty sh!tty if true. Apparently hes got a reputation for sh!tting tipping too. Or, as speculated, he doesnt want to expose some poor hombre as being rich and attacked by cartels. Social media is unforgiving. You cant sneeze nowadays without it be exposed.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,621]

Oy vey!

[kilroy69 994]

The original question was legit. Soon a trans woman will qualify for Augusta national...as a woman. I think John Daley should do it.

[avoiding injuries 1,220]

Seems like theres more to the story. It wasnt his caddie, it was a substitute bag carrier.

 

From Brandel Chamblee:

 

 

The reason tour caddies are paid as much as they are is to offset travel expenses and the sacrifice of a lifetime on the road away from family and friends. If Kuch in fact paid his substitute caddy $3,000 (from what I read, roughly twice his normal salary) seems a fair exchange.

 

Do companies pay lifelong employees the same as temporary employees? Do they have the same bonus structure? Would a company pay a temporary employee 10% of profits for a good week? No. Tour caddies %s are as much about a lifelong commitment to the the journey and the job.

 

10% is in part for the lifetime commitment of traveling as a caddy, for all the weeks a caddy watched his player miss a cut and then met him on the range the next morning to watch him hit balls. Its to offset the blows of a job where one can be dismissed at the drop of a hat.

[Fireballer 2,377]

Seems like theres more to the story. It wasnt his caddie, it was a substitute bag carrier.

 

From Brandel Chamblee:

 

 

The reason tour caddies are paid as much as they are is to offset travel expenses and the sacrifice of a lifetime on the road away from family and friends. If Kuch in fact paid his substitute caddy $3,000 (from what I read, roughly twice his normal salary) seems a fair exchange.

 

Do companies pay lifelong employees the same as temporary employees? Do they have the same bonus structure? Would a company pay a temporary employee 10% of profits for a good week? No. Tour caddies %s are as much about a lifelong commitment to the the journey and the job.

 

10% is in part for the lifetime commitment of traveling as a caddy, for all the weeks a caddy watched his player miss a cut and then met him on the range the next morning to watch him hit balls. Its to offset the blows of a job where one can be dismissed at the drop of a hat.

Yes Brandel is defending why 10% isnt suitable, even though theres lots of guys who have paid 10% even to a temp caddie. This guy made less than the Augusta caddies made back in the 80s. .02% is laughable considering the local info he was probably giving Kuch on course management.

[avoiding injuries 1,220]

Yes Brandel is defending why 10% isnt suitable, even though theres lots of guys who have paid 10% even to a temp caddie. This guy made less than the Augusta caddies made back in the 80s. .02% is laughable considering the local info he was probably giving Kuch on course management.

Sorry, I wasnt taking a side, just providing the counter point I was seeing when I went down the rabbit hole on Twitter.

[5-Points 2,726]

What's that, like $300,000 Mexican?

[Filthy Fernadez 2,696]

Inexcusable. You take care of the people who take care of you.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

4 days carrying a bag for 3k. What's the problem?

[Gladiators 1,904]

Is there an agreement up front? I didnt read anything other than this thread.

[edjr 5,556]

if I was already rich beyond belief and won 1.3 million playing golf, I'd not only give my caddie a significant wad of cash, I'd probably give some strangers a few hundies too

[TimmySmith 2,782]

I'd probably give some strangers a few handies too

You could start at the homeless shelter.

[edjr 5,556]

You could start at the homeless shelter.

 

They'd spend it on drugs and I don't want to be responsible for that

[Filthy Fernadez 2,696]

 

They'd spend it on drugs and I don't want to be responsible for that

 

Go reread what he quoted you...........make sure you bring some lotion but put it back in the basket when they're through.

[edjr 5,556]

 

Go reread what he quoted you...........make sure you bring some lotion but put it back in the basket when they're through.

 

 

[ROCKFORD 134]

i would do it for 2000$

 

and, i wonder what his caddie made this weekend.

[Fireballer 2,377]

I guess now that Kuch has been exposed as a doosh, he be like "fuk it, its full steam ahead".  I bet Jack is like...I cant believe this whiny doosh is pulling this on my course.