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On October 22, 1983, President Ronald Reagan was standing on the 16th green at Augusta National when the Secret Service swarmed him and carried him off the golf course. A laid-off local man named Charles Harris had driven a pickup truck through a gate, walked into the pro shop with a pistol, and taken hostages. He wanted to talk to the president about American jobs. Reagan, from inside an armored limousine, called the pro shop five times trying to reach him. The gunman kept hanging up — he didn't believe it was really the president. Andrew Lava spent years tracking down the people who were there. He is also a caddie: Dyker Beach in Brooklyn, then Maidstone in East Hampton, then Bayonne. His book is Rawhide Fury, and the title comes from Reagan's Secret Service call sign and the name of the Grenada invasion his cabinet was planning during that same round of golf. The first half of this one is the caddie life — a public course in Brooklyn that stays open all 365 days, where people play on snow with orange balls and carry leaf blowers onto the fairways; a caddieshack with factions from Ireland, the islands and South America; and an eighteen-hole loop with Will Ferrell. The second half is the hostage crisis, told by the man who interviewed the hostages. Including Nicholas Brady — Augusta member, former U.S. senator, low handicap in the group — who had stuffed it to two feet for birdie on 16 and never got to hit the putt. Rawhide Fury is available now on Amazon. https://a.co/d/0jlPaKYW Tip Your Caddie. CHAPTERS 00:00 A caddie who wrote a book about Augusta National 01:13 Dyker Beach, Brooklyn — "Disgust the National" 02:17 Open 365 days, played on snow with orange balls 05:12 A subway conversation with Scottie Scheffler's dad 06:03 Maidstone, and pacing off yardage with a yardstick 07:45 Riding the bench, and waiting all day for a loop 11:06 The caddyshack: cards, dice, and factions 14:45 Eighteen holes with Will Ferrell, until Frank the Tank came out 17:18 Why he left the Hamptons for Bayonne 19:17 A golf course built on river dredge 22:29 Where they both land on the golf ball rollback 25:07 Fanatics Fan Fest, and athletes who are actually sticks 27:55 What keeps him coming back 29:30 Rawhide Fury: where the title comes from 31:53 Who the gunman was, and what set him off 33:16 Two feet for birdie, and he never got to putt 34:45 Lanny Wiles, the advance man taken at gunpoint 36:27 Four caddies, and the tell about the golf 38:56 From birdsong to helicopters in seconds 41:21 The nuclear football, in a golf cart 42:47 He left the course because he couldn't watch anymore 46:00 "Standby for Rawhide" — and the gunman hangs up 51:10 Why he wrote it, and what he had to leave out 55:29 The next morning, Beirut 56:37 The president, and the white socks

Scott Carmack spent 34 years in corporate finance. His company was sold four times and he survived every one of them. Then, at 55, he told his boss he was done — and three weeks later COVID shut the world down. He went caddying anyway. Six seasons at Victoria National in Newburgh, Indiana — a Tom Fazio course built on a reclaimed strip mine, top-100 in the country, a 75.2 rating and a 150 slope — plus eight years working the RBC Heritage pro-am at Harbour Town. Along the way he carried for Michael Vick with $3,000 riding on a ten-footer, watched Jim Furyk walk the first tee shaking every amateur caddie's hand and asking their names, and stood next to Chris Kirk's caddie while he flew a bunker shot over a cameraman's head from eight paces and nearly holed it. Before any of that, he caddied for his own son — who fired him regularly and handed the bag to his sister, and who at 14 had never broken par for 18 holes before firing a 66 and winning a four-man playoff. Also in here: why there's a right way to rake a bunker and why two different Tour caddies stopped to teach it, what the RBC Heritage pairing lottery looks like at dawn, what Scottie Scheffler talks about walking down a fairway, the biggest tip Scott ever missed by one text message, and exactly what he tells people in their fifties who are thinking about doing the same thing. CHAPTERS 00:00 34 years in corporate, then the bag 02:12 Caddying for your own kid, and getting fired by him 02:55 At 14, never broken par — then he fires 66 04:51 His daughter's internship, and the call that started it 05:50 First group ever: Kevin Kisner 07:51 Two caddies, two clubs, the same bunker lesson 09:53 Telling his boss he'd retire, three weeks before COVID 11:03 Six Voodoo Rangers, 98 degrees, two bags 13:55 Terry Friedman, Tom Fazio, and a closed coal mine 15:30 A player fires his caddie after nine on Friday 18:35 Dormie Network buys it, and everything changes 19:47 NFL alumni week: Andre Roberts and Michael Vick 21:00 "Scott, your tip depends on this read" 25:53 "Hit it as hard as you can" — a 120-foot lesson 28:28 What the other caddies asked him about Vick 29:52 Eight years of the RBC Heritage pro-am 32:28 Wyndham Clark gives an amateur a bunker lesson 35:03 Jim Furyk shook every caddie's hand 38:50 Over the cameraman's head, from eight paces 40:50 Forecaddying is a seven-and-a-half mile run 44:40 The biggest misconception about caddies 46:19 The $1,000 tip he lost to one text message 49:46 Advice for anyone in their fifties thinking about it 52:42 The joke he opens with on the first tee

Lorcan Morris was 12 years old, emptying trash cans as a Boy Scout at the Ladies Irish Open outside Dublin, when the best woman golfer on earth walked up to the 11th tee and asked what he was doing. Laura Davies told her caddie to get off the bag. Lorcan carried it eight holes, got paid 500 pounds, and got her phone number. Thirty-two years later he's on the bag for Tim O'Neal on PGA Tour Champions, with four wins — two of them under an American flag on the 18th green. In between: three years grinding mini tours until the checkbook hit zero every month. Fifteen years with Sydnee Michaels, including back-to-back wins in 2011 — the second in Albany on September 11th, where he talked her out of an eight iron on a par 3 and she made a 2. Two years away from the game after his son was born, which he spent becoming a firefighter and EMT in Gaffney, South Carolina, and quitting in his head on the first night, at three in the morning, catching a hydrant in the snow. He also owns the right-hand glove that knocked out Mike Tyson. Buster Douglas signed it and handed it to him at 3 a.m. He owns one of Mark Wahlberg's gloves from The Fighter, a glove of Katie Taylor's, a ukulele Wynonna Judd played at the Ryman, John Sadri's shoes from the NCAA final against John McEnroe, and Robert Karlsson's 2018 Ryder Cup jacket. He caddies, as he puts it, so he can afford to travel the world and go to fights. And on the first tee at Torrey Pines in February 2020, with the state troopers and the gallery and the reigning Masters champion sticking out a hand and saying "have a good day, Irish," Lorcan pulled Tiger Woods in close and said: I can't believe this many people showed up to watch me caddy today, can you? Recorded from Palm Coast, Florida, after round two of Furyk & Friends. Thanks to Kurt Slattery for the introduction. Lorcan's people: Marburger Automotive, Peak Vitality, Carolina Chiropractic Plus, Greg Norman Collection, and Cleveland Country Club in Shelby, NC. Tip your caddie. CHAPTERS 00:00 32 years on the bag, and a first loop of 8 holes 00:42 Emptying the bins when Laura Davies walked up 01:58 Front page of the Irish Independent at 12 03:15 The guys from that week still in his life 04:35 Five guys in a Howard Johnson with no money 05:26 He never thought he was a good player 05:55 Paul Goydos and the A-plus-plus game 07:17 Turning pro in 2006, which was terrible timing 08:01 31 pars, 5 birdies, and missing the cut by two 08:52 His buddy shot 60 on two hours of sleep 10:07 The 8-man caddie tournament idea 10:24 "Give that guy 350 in the middle. It doesn't matter." 11:35 The take: caddies who think they're players 12:20 Why those guys don't have jobs anymore 12:47 Keith Nolan was better than Harrington and Clarke 13:06 Why Irish juniors are ahead of American juniors 15:00 Back on Laura's bag, and a wrong number on the 1st 16:18 A call about a kid from UCLA 17:11 How a caddie fires his own player 18:16 Too young at 29 to appreciate it 19:19 Slowing a player down when the pressure builds 21:30 Dustin Johnson never got in his own way 22:46 September 11, 2011 — Albany 23:40 She wanted an eight iron. He wanted a three-quarter seven. 24:55 Why that one meant more than the blowout 26:05 Four wins, two American flags 26:29 The right glove that knocked out Mike Tyson 27:07 Three in the morning at Buster's house 28:28 Flying to Dublin for Katie Taylor's last fight 28:42 Mark Wahlberg's glove from The Fighter 30:02 What Wahlberg is actually like with caddies 31:47 A full day in a cart with DJ Khaled 32:59 Wynonna's ukulele, for the price of a driver 33:32 John Sadri's shoes from the McEnroe final 34:18 Caddying for John McEnroe in the Hamptons 35:31 A Ryder Cup jacket his neighbor was throwing out 36:23 Torrey Pines, 2020: what he said to Tiger 37:54 The side of Tiger people don't get to see 39:24 "You can't do that and be normal" 40:58 Walking away in 2016 when Fergus was born 41:49 Fire academy: "hold my beer and watch this" 42:49 The firehouse reminded him of the caddyshack 43:34 Is pranking a thing on tour? 44:37 Three a.m., a house fire, and knowing immediately 46:18 Second stage of Q-school, and missing by one shot 47:21 Tim O'Neal: "the greatest job I've ever had" 48:43 A Sunday 65 that changed both their lives 49:52 The package addressed to his son 50:48 Where the Schwab Cup race stands right now 51:55 There's a guy at PGA Tour HQ whose job is Profanity Delay 52:58 Lorcan's people 53:48 The 350-in-the-middle callback

Nick Cordova started caddying because a kid in his high school study hall said the money was good. Seventeen years later he's still at Twin Orchard in Long Grove, Illinois — the club that raised him — and he just picked up loops at Old Elm, the men's-only club in Highland Park where something like thirty members also belong to Augusta. In between: four winters in Austin, one failed attempt at an office job, and a member who found out he had nothing lined up for the winter and told him he was coming to work for him instead. He's a property manager now. He still loops when the work is slow. Also in here: a par-3 birthday party with a bar on the tee, why nobody plays cards in the shack anymore, and the cart attachment that lets you carry four bags at once. ⛳ CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:38 The kid in study hall 01:34 Twin Orchard, and sixty-odd caddies 02:52 Captain Mike and Bear 04:14 The money game, and six months in an office 05:49 How he started smoking 06:41 His first loop — reading a putt way too early 09:07 Dan, forty years in the yard 14:07 Sixty guys on a 135-yard island green 16:17 Chicago golf 18:15 "Tuck it in or take it off" 19:53 Twin to Austin 21:02 Spanish Oaks 21:43 Midwest or South — who actually tips 23:11 The white jumpsuits 23:53 Best loop, worst loop 25:32 "Hey kid, I used to be a tour pro" 26:37 Why he's a club caddie and not a tour caddie 28:04 Old Elm 29:46 Play every day of the week 31:11 The Augusta number 31:58 "I'd pack in my job for a year" 34:09 Twin money and Old Elm money 34:52 Caddying for Johnny O 36:51 The member who handed him a job 40:03 What caddying taught him about difficult people 41:20 Golf now, with a daughter 42:47 Vegas, the slots, and week one of the NFL 44:43 Poker in the shack 45:31 Why nobody plays cards anymore 47:24 When the caddie master hosted the game 49:08 Jeff Knox 51:07 The four bagger 53:28 THE LAST CALL 57:34 Where the caddies drink 59:10 Who should come on next ⛳ TIP YOUR CADDIE Instagram: ‪@TipYourCaddie‬ 🥤 POWERED BY SPIKEDADE ‪@drinkspikedade‬ Did a member ever change your life? Tell me about it. New episodes every week. #TipYourCaddie #Caddie #Golf #OldElm #TwinOrchard #ChicagoGolf #SpanishOaks #JohnnieO #CaddieLife #GolfPodcast

Kurt Slattery tried to Monday qualify for the John Deere Classic seven years in a row and missed every time. By the eighth he was 27, down to his last thousand dollars, and had told everyone that if it didn't happen that year he was finished. He eagled the last hole to get into a seven-man playoff for one spot, then holed out from 44 yards on the first extra hole for a second straight eagle. He woke up the next morning on SportsCenter. He stopped chasing it a year later — fourth on the money list and still broke. He caddied on the Korn Ferry Tour for one of the guys he beat in that playoff, and now loops at Friars Head and Scottsdale National. He's also won the Berkeley Cup, the Hamptons caddie championship, three years running. We got into what a week on the mini tours actually costs, why he walked away, and what it's like on a tee box next to a guy who's twenty yards past you. ⛳ CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 01:09 Six years old, laughing at the grown-ups 01:58 Learning the game from the green back 03:07 Western Illinois, and turning pro 04:11 What a week on the road actually costs 05:59 The trust fund kids 07:57 Down to his last thousand dollars 08:51 The pre-qualifier 09:48 A 290-yard driver off the deck 10:17 Seven guys, one spot 11:15 Forty-four yards 12:47 Waking up on SportsCenter 14:07 Teeing it up Thursday 15:00 Paired with a top-20 player 16:42 "I'm the Brian Scalabrine of golf" 18:34 What Dougie told his friends at 22 18:58 "A bad case of loser denial" 20:01 537 text messages 21:58 What his dad sent him at 4:30am 23:35 What going all in actually looks like 25:06 Changing a swing in two weeks 27:00 His favourite moment of the week 28:37 Back-to-back doubles, then the comeback 30:12 Fourth on the money list and broke 32:45 "I'm not any closer than I was 12 months ago" 33:07 Ballyneal, then Scottsdale National 33:53 Caddying for the guy he beat in the playoff 34:17 Knowing when to leave the house 36:22 Life on the Korn Ferry Tour 39:00 Why he'd never read a putt uninvited 40:44 Where to land a chip 43:00 Dougie's seven-foot rule 44:00 Scottsdale National 46:06 Three straight Berkeley Cups 47:04 A nine on the ninth, then an eagle to win 50:39 Friars Head 54:30 THE LAST CALL 55:00 Ben Crenshaw 56:16 Where the boys go 56:55 Who should come on next 🎙 KURT SLATTERY Instagram: @kurtyslats90 ⛳ TIP YOUR CADDIE Instagram: @tipyourcaddie ⛳ TYC LOOPERS AND FANS JOIN THE MOVEMENT tipyourcaddie.com/join 🥤 POWERED BY SPIKEDADE @drinkspikedade Ever Monday qualified? Tell me how it went. New episodes every week.

Scott Epstein caddied through college in New Jersey, went to work on Wall Street, and kept looping on weekends. In 2009 he got barred from the securities industry. In 2014 his business went under and he got sober. In 2017 he won the member-guest on a Sunday and got fired on the Monday. In February 2018 he drove to South Carolina alone, rented a room, and started driving Uber while he waited to get his foot in the door at Secession. He's twelve years sober now, caddies 200-plus days a year across Secession and Metedeconk National, and he's never been happier. Also in here: what happened when a guest told me I was "just a—" and couldn't finish the sentence. ⛳ CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 01:06 Two offices 02:00 Caddying while working on Wall Street 04:14 Golf wasn't cool yet 04:45 What he wants guys to say at the end of a trip 06:45 Why a lot of caddies don't play golf 08:52 Goldman, and getting barred in 2009 11:07 Fired the Monday after the member-guest 11:50 Driving to South Carolina alone 13:12 Getting sober in the caddie yard 15:37 Five groups in a row offer you a drink 16:37 "You'd have to call my wife" 18:01 No judgment in the yard 20:07 The last hole-in-one at Secession 22:45 His son's, at twenty 25:31 Metedeconk National 26:11 The Jersey Mike's guys 28:50 Nobody sees what happened underneath 30:02 The guys in their twenties doing it right 32:06 Matt Fitzpatrick wrote the check 33:36 Chris Gotterup caddied at Rumson 35:27 "There was no earlier" 36:51 On regret 38:34 Where the caddies eat 39:02 Caddying for Robert Saleh 41:12 Regulars who became friends 43:20 Reading the room 44:38 The guys who get the hard loops 45:49 "I'm just a what?" 48:04 He handed the money to the member 49:07 Happiness is a choice 51:00 Links and Lifestyle 52:00 The job he didn't get 57:45 It's just the player and the caddie 58:47 Two fights 1:00:10 Foursomes of guys thirty years sober 1:02:03 George Strait 1:04:28 THE LAST CALL 1:06:59 Where the boys go 1:07:57 Who should come on next 🎙 SCOTT EPSTEIN Instagram: @scottythecaddie Links and Lifestyle: https://linksandlifestyle.com Podcast: Links and Lifestyle — golf, faith, and sobriety ⛳ TIP YOUR CADDIE TIPYOURCADDIE.COM @tipyourcaddie 🥤 POWERED BY SPIKEDADE @drinkspikedade If you're a caddie who got sober in the yard, I'd like to hear about it. New episodes every week. #TipYourCaddie #Caddie #Golf #Sobriety #SecessionGolfClub #MetedeconkNational #ScottyTheCaddie #MattFitzpatrick #ChrisGotterup #GolfPodcast

Brian Scanlon started caddying at fourteen at a nine-hole club in Westport, Connecticut, for twenty-five dollars a bag. He couldn't legally work yet — caddying was the only way to make money. Ten years later he'd looped at Maidstone, Atlantic and McArthur, carried Burton bags before anyone made a light one, and caddied for a major champion. Then he quit, became a charter boat captain, and eventually built a wealth management practice by taking people fishing for free. He's now a member at a club of his own, with three kids who have everything he didn't. Also in here: an eighty-year-old member who never stopped walking, the hole-in-one that nearly bankrupted him, and the worst putt read of his career. ⛳ CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 01:09 Twenty-five dollars a bag at fourteen 03:05 Show up, keep up, shut up 03:56 Why you work the bag room 04:26 Michael Breed's first head pro job 07:00 Leaving for New Canaan 08:30 Seventy-five a loop in 1996 11:21 Burton bags, and the strap that gave out 13:47 Why two heavy bags beat one 15:33 How he got to Maidstone 18:17 Walking it for the first time 19:26 Fifty a bag plus tip 20:11 The Hamptons nobody sees 22:04 They called her the Steamroller 25:44 The fish in the bucket 29:18 The Berkeley Cup 31:44 He aced 11 — and immediately panicked 33:59 The Irish caddies 34:20 A six-pack was not enough 35:34 McArthur, the year it opened 38:48 The two-loop rule 39:25 Golfing his way up the west coast of Ireland 45:03 Hoyt, and the Maidstone program 48:07 Why it's hard to leave caddying 48:59 Quitting, and going fishing 51:28 "They can't teach you how to build relationships" 52:17 Three years of free charters 54:44 Reading his own member in Liar's Poker 57:57 Reading the room 1:00:03 Calcavecchia asks for a read 1:03:29 "My all-time worst read was for a major champion" 1:04:15 The caddie program he wants to see 1:07:03 Member now 1:08:10 THE LAST CALL 1:09:56 The Tipperary ⛳ TIP YOUR CADDIE Instagram: ‪@drinkspikedade‬ JOIN THE MOVEMENT tipyourcaddie.com/join 🥤 POWERED BY SPIKEDADE Get Some - ‪@drinkspikedade‬ Did you caddie in the Hamptons? Tell me which yard and which years. New episodes every week. #TipYourCaddie #Caddie #Golf #Maidstone #AtlanticGolfClub #Hamptons #EastHampton #McArthurGolfClub #CaddieLife #GolfPodcast

Bernard Robichaud has played Cyrus on Trailer Park Boys since 2001. He's also been a caddie at Pebble Beach for about nine years. Most of Cyrus' best lines were improvised on the spot — including the most quoted one, which came straight out of his own childhood. He'd never told that story in an interview before this one. He also brought his own leather jacket to the audition and has worn it in every season since. We got into how he went from bar fights to theatre school, the audition with no script, what happens when a guy recognizes his voice mid-backswing, and where he wants his last loop to be. ⛳ CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:44 "You're going to end up in prison" 02:10 The agent who told him to quit modelling 02:50 "You've got raw talent, but you'll never be an actor" 04:30 The voice coach who told him to drop out 07:31 Meeting Clattenberg and Barrie Dunn in 1993 10:04 The audition with no script 12:30 "You got the role" / "What role?" 13:30 The leather jacket is his own 14:05 Auctioning the original bullet belt 14:40 How much of it was improv 15:30 Where the line about his dad came from 17:32 Lines that got away from him 19:15 Recognized mid-backswing 21:24 A ball cap and a bib 21:58 Called into the Pebble Beach pro shop 23:43 Plus-3, and a 380-yard drive 25:13 Six-and-a-half degree driver heads 27:29 Nine years at Pebble 28:00 What Gil Hanse is doing to Spanish Bay 29:34 Cabot Cliffs and going back to Nova Scotia 31:56 Three days on Don Cheadle's bag 33:01 Why hockey players are the best loops 35:20 One ball, the whole round 36:57 "Are you a good caddie?" 38:03 Pebble vs. Spyglass 39:15 Golf on the Trailer Park Boys set 40:49 Why he stayed a loner on that show 42:41 Three cameos tomorrow 45:09 Caddying for the Barstool guys 46:47 "I'm not Cyrus" 49:42 What acting gave him as a caddie 51:38 The loops where nobody talks 52:56 Jeff Saturday, and getting asked for your number 57:03 THE LAST CALL 58:36 Where the caddies drink ⛳ TIP YOUR CADDIE Instagram: ‪@TipYourCaddie‬ JOINTHE MOVEMENT tipyourcaddie.com/join 🥤 POWERED BY SPIKEDADE ‪@drinkspikedade‬ Ever had a caddie you recognized? Tell me in the comments. New episodes every week. #TipYourCaddie #TrailerParkBoys #Cyrus #BernardRobichaud #PebbleBeach #Golf #Caddie #SpyglassHill #SpanishBay #GolfPodcast

Chris Mazziotti caddied on tour for 35 years. He'd never carried a bag in his life when he showed up in Louisiana in 1992 to work for Brian Henninger — and in their first thirteen tournaments they made four cuts and won three of them. Three years later he was on Henninger's bag in the final group at the 1995 Masters, paired with Ben Crenshaw, the week Crenshaw won days after burying Harvey Penick. He also lost his yardage book on the first hole of that tournament. He was on the bag for Paul Goydos' 59 at the John Deere. He watched Michael Jordan and David Duval play pool in a bar in Scottsdale. He got shoved by a president. And once he did the math and worked out he'd walked roughly the circumference of the earth. ⛳ CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:40 Which goes first — the body or the mind? 01:01 145 million steps 04:13 He'd never caddied before in his life 07:07 Four cuts, three wins 08:50 Betting his career on a kid named Tiger 09:49 $200 a week and two percent 10:14 Fifteen years with Paul Goydos 10:27 The reverse psychology that worked every time 13:33 Brandt Jobe's yardage math 15:48 The only time he ever got starstruck 18:29 Shoved by a president 20:44 The 1995 Masters — first hole, first tournament 22:26 The yardage book is gone 24:36 Where it was the whole time 24:40 Then he birdies seven of the last thirteen 25:24 Sunday with Crenshaw 26:57 His favorite major to work 30:23 Tour caddies vs. club caddies 33:08 "How do you think we got experience?" 34:55 Thirteen steps the wrong way 37:42 Why players shouldn't blame their caddie 38:38 The worst number Dougie ever gave 42:47 How he became a cook 44:04 The Olive Garden feud 47:01 Don't drop the bag and walk off 48:31 Dougie gets fired off his first loop 49:31 The 59 54:53 The Mavericks jet to St Andrews 57:03 Forty-eight columns nobody asked him to write 1:05:30 The caddie story book 1:07:04 The rental car in Raleigh 1:10:28 Sleeping on the floor of the Charlotte airport 1:12:29 THE LAST CALL 1:12:49 The hole-in-one that ended Tom Kite's season 1:16:37 330 years at one table 1:19:20 "If that ball was wrapped in bacon..." 1:22:40 Why nobody knew what caddies did 1:24:37 Who should come on next ⛳ TIP YOUR CADDIE Instagram:‪@TipYourCaddie‬ Join The Movement tipyourcaddie.com/join 🥤 POWERED BY SPIKEDADE ‪@drinkspikedade‬ Did you loop on tour? Tell me when and for who. New episodes every week. #TipYourCaddie #Caddie #Golf #PGATour #Masters #BenCrenshaw #PaulGoydos #JohnDeereClassic #TedScott #GolfPodcast #CaddieLife

Rich Ferrari started caddying at Montclair Golf Club in 1973, when he was fourteen. Two leather bags at fifty pounds each, no yardage markers, no carts, no shorts allowed, seven dollars a loop. That summer Montclair hosted the U.S. Women's Amateur. He got put on Carol Semple's bag — and three days in, the caddie master tried to take it off him. Fifty years later he'd been a real estate broker for 36 years and was running Douglas Elliman for the Northeast. Then he walked St. Andrews for six straight days and quit. He's also a guy whose bag I've carried at the Bridge more times than I can count, and I had no idea about most of this until we sat down. ⛳ CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 01:03 A typical Saturday at Montclair, 1973 02:11 Fifty-pound leather bags, two at a time 02:51 What we call razor blades 03:25 No yardage markers — so how did you know? 05:50 Caddies weren't allowed to wear shorts 08:04 High tech, 1973 — the Toney Penna wood 10:22 Seven dollars a bag 11:20 What he tips his caddie now 11:56 "Bullshit, it's a hard walk" 13:23 Heart Attack Hill 14:20 Nobody rode. Ever. 14:59 The 73rd U.S. Women's Amateur 16:09 Getting put on Carol Semple's bag 17:38 "Richie, you lost the bag" 19:10 The bet on the visor 19:47 What she paid him 20:50 Fifty years later, at the same club 22:24 Why caddie programs build members 24:34 The member who got him to Wall Street 27:09 What caddying taught him about work 29:00 "Do you ever want to go back to it?" 29:49 An American Caddie in St. Andrews 32:20 Ten years ago he couldn't walk eighteen 33:50 Why he walked away at 68 37:54 What he wants to play now 42:19 What caddies do better today 43:45 Why exact yardages are ruining amateurs 47:51 Advice for a kid picking up a bag 48:15 "I was my father's ATM" 51:09 Four out of the eight 51:52 THE LAST CALL 📚 MENTIONED An American Caddie in St. Andrews — Oliver Horovitz Carol Semple Thompson — 1973 U.S. Women's Amateur champion at Montclair, World Golf Hall of Fame, seven USGA titles ⛳ TIP YOUR CADDIE Merch drop coming in October: https://tipyourcaddie.com Instagram:@tipyourcaddie 🥤 POWERED BY SPIKEDADE @drinkspikedade Did you caddie? Tell me where and when — I want to hear how much of this matches your yard. New episodes every week #TipYourCaddie #Caddie #Golf #GolfHistory #MontclairGolfClub #CarolSempleThompson #StAndrews #USWomensAmateur #CaddieLife #GolfPodcast