Scottie Scheffler’s caddie, and 1 of his largest errors (which led to 2 outbursts!)

Ted Scott, when requested to dish on his largest caddie blunders, begins with a joke. There’s a saying within the looping enterprise, he says.

“And that’s, we made 5 birdies after which he bogeyed the final. 

“In order that’s how I wish to caddie.”

Speaking on a latest episode of The Candy Spot podcast — which you’ll be able to and will hearken to in full right here — Scott then laughed. Yeah, Scottie Scheffler’s looper stated, he’s errored. One mistake, particularly, he remembers effectively. It’s “hilarious” to him — even after it led to a pair of outbursts from his professional.

To set issues up, Scott stated it got here in June of 2023, across the time when Scheffler’s ball-striking was thought of other-worldly, and his placing a bit pedestrian. On the Memorial, Scott stated, participant and caddie labored on the shortcoming. 

“And actually on Wednesday, he’s doing the placing drill and he’s making every little thing,” Scott stated on the podcast. “He’s simply killing it. And he’s beating it by so much. We’re doing putts over 10 ft, and he’s making 50 % of them. I’m going, ‘What’s occurring? You’re rolling every little thing in.’ And I stated to him, I stated, ‘Hey, you discover one thing?’ 

“And he stopped for a minute, and Scottie could be very vibrant. I don’t know for those who all know that, however he’s acquired a super-high IQ. He’s so good. And he goes, ‘You’re proper — you’re fired.’ He already knew what I used to be speaking about. I didn’t learn a putt and he’s making every little thing. I used to be like, ‘OK, you bought it.’”

Thursday’s first spherical got here. Scott stayed away. 

The woes endured, although.  

“Properly, Friday morning — we’re going to play within the afternoon on Friday — so Friday morning I’m watching the protection attempting to get some perception, perhaps see the way in which a ball bounces or a putt rolls or one thing,” Scott stated on the podcast. “And certain sufficient, on gap 12, the toughest par-3, you already know it’s brutal. That they had the pin on the entrance proper, that everyone’s going to drag it as a right-hander and go within the again bunker, and the again bunker, you may’t get it shut, so that you dump it out and it goes to 10 ft and it’s like a funnel — all people’s going to have their par putt from the identical place. 

“And certain sufficient, as I’m watching the protection, and I watch 4 folks hit it in that bunker and knock it out to 10 ft and there’s a sprinkler head proper behind them on the perimeter and so they’re all hitting their putt from there and so they’re all taking part in about 4 to five inches of break and it’s not breaking an inch. All people’s lacking it a cup proper.”

However keep in mind, Scott wasn’t studying putts. 

“So I’m like, OK, I acquired this data right here in case we find yourself in that again bunker,” he stated on the podcast. “Positive sufficient, we begin on 10, we play the primary two holes, we get to 12, pull it a bit bit, goes within the again bunker, knocks it out to 10 ft. I’m not studying putts and I’m like, I simply noticed 4 PGA Tour execs learn it the identical manner, they’re all seeing it the identical manner, this isn’t breaking.

“So now I’ve the 2 little folks — the man on the appropriate saying, ‘You higher say one thing,’ and the man on the left going, ‘Don’t say one thing, you’re not concerned right here.’ However yeah, you bought to say one thing — you’re going to really feel unhealthy if he hits this putt a cup proper and it doesn’t break. ‘Come on, don’t be a idiot, don’t say something.’ Sort of similar to backwards and forwards. And at last I’m like, ahhhh, I acquired to say one thing, you already know. 

“So actually he’s about to stroll in and I am going, ‘Scottie.’ He goes, ‘Yeah’ — like I startled him. He goes, ‘Yeah.’ And I am going, ‘What do you bought this putt doing?’ He goes like, ‘What, what are you speaking about?’ And I stated, ‘Yeah, I watched this putt on TV this morning, I watched 4 folks hit it and it didn’t break, all people’s lacking it a cup to the appropriate.’ And he goes, ‘OK, what do you see right here?’ And I noticed on TV, it was lined up with the sprinkler head. I didn’t even learn it. I used to be like, ‘Proper edge.’ How smug was I? I didn’t even learn it. I used to be like, ‘Proper edge.’ He was like, ‘OK.’”

Scheffler missed. Badly. 

“He goes up and hits this putt and I’m not even kidding, he strokes it and by the point his head seems up — it’s a 10-footer — it’s three ft off the putter and it’s breaking like a foot to the left; I imply it’s simply, vroooom,” Scott stated on the podcast. “It doesn’t actually have a likelihood — it’s already left the opening and breaking left. And he simply loses it. He goes, ‘What are we doing out right here?’ You understand, as a result of I’m not concerned within the placing course of, proper.”

They ultimately laughed it off, Scott stated on the podcast. Leap forward two weeks now, to the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Nation Membership. 

“They allowed us to have the greens books for follow. We hadn’t had them shortly,” Scott stated on the podcast. “So I used to be memorizing gap 6, the little driveable gap, on Thursday night time in case we hit in there shut. I’m like, I’m nonetheless not studying putts, but when he asks me, I’m going to have this one in there as a result of we’re most likely going to have an in depth birdie putt. Positive sufficient, he hits it in there shut and as we’re strolling up, I say, ‘Hey, I do know I’m not studying putts, however I memorized this one within the e-book — this putt’s not going to interrupt left, OK. You may learn it, however simply don’t play it to interrupt left. It’s form of funky trying, however it’s simply not going to interrupt left.’ OK. 

Scheffler missed once more. Badly. 

“So he will get over the putt,” Scott stated on the podcast, “and hits it and it’s like a foot away going within the heart of the opening — I imply, it’s going within the gap — and it breaks out of the opening to the left. Vrooooom. And he goes, ‘If I hear the phrase ‘e-book’ or ‘TV’ yet one more time, I’m going to lose my thoughts.’ He goes, ‘Why don’t you simply belief your self, you’re a great inexperienced reader?’ And we each had a giant snort over that.

“So yeah, as a caddie, you may actually mess your man up. And that was two enjoyable occasions, back-to-back weeks just about that I jacked him. That makes me snort each time.”   

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