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 prefer to caddie.”

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

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

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

“And he stopped for a minute, and Scottie could be very vibrant. I don’t know if you happen to all know that, however he’s obtained a super-high IQ. He’s so sensible. 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 part. I used to be like, ‘OK, you bought it.’”

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

The woes continued, although.  

“Nicely, Friday morning — we’re going to play within the afternoon on Friday — so Friday morning I’m watching the protection making an attempt to get some perception, perhaps see the way in which a ball bounces or a putt rolls or one thing,” Scott mentioned on the podcast. “And certain sufficient, on gap 12, the toughest par-3, you realize 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’ll be able to’t get it shut, so that you dump it out and it goes to 10 toes 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 individuals hit it in that bunker and knock it out to 10 toes and there’s a sprinkler head proper behind them on the perimeter they usually’re all hitting their putt from there they usually’re all taking part in about 4 to five inches of break and it’s not breaking an inch. Everyone’s lacking it a cup proper.”

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

“So I’m like, OK, I obtained this info right here in case we find yourself in that again bunker,” he mentioned on the podcast. “Certain sufficient, we begin on 10, we play the primary two holes, we get to 12, pull it somewhat bit, goes within the again bunker, knocks it out to 10 toes. I’m not studying putts and I’m like, I simply noticed 4 PGA Tour professionals learn it the identical method, they’re all seeing it the identical method, this isn’t breaking.

“So now I’ve the 2 little individuals — the man on the correct 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.’ Form of similar to forwards and backwards. And at last I’m like, ahhhh, I obtained to say one thing, you realize. 

“So actually he’s about to stroll in and I’m going, ‘Scottie.’ He goes, ‘Yeah’ — like I startled him. He goes, ‘Yeah.’ And I’m going, ‘What do you bought this putt doing?’ He goes like, ‘What, what are you speaking about?’ And I mentioned, ‘Yeah, I watched this putt on TV this morning, I watched 4 individuals hit it and it didn’t break, all people’s lacking it a cup to the correct.’ 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 conceited 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 toes off the putter and it’s breaking like a foot to the left; I imply it’s simply, vroooom,” Scott mentioned on the podcast. “It doesn’t actually have a probability — it’s already left the opening and breaking left. And he simply loses it. He goes, ‘What are we doing out right here?’ You recognize, as a result of I’m not concerned within the placing course of, proper.”

They finally laughed it off, Scott mentioned on the podcast. Bounce forward two weeks now, to the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Nation Membership. 

“They allowed us to have the greens books for observe. We hadn’t had them shortly,” Scott mentioned on the podcast. “So I used to be memorizing gap 6, the little driveable gap, on Thursday evening 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 in all probability going to have an in depth birdie putt. Certain 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’ll be able to learn it, however simply don’t play it to interrupt left. It’s sort of funky wanting, nevertheless it’s simply not going to interrupt left.’ OK. 

Scheffler missed once more. Badly. 

“So he will get over the putt,” Scott mentioned 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’ another time, I’m going to lose my thoughts.’ He goes, ‘Why don’t you simply belief your self, you’re an excellent inexperienced reader?’ And we each had an enormous snicker over that.

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

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