Matt Kuchar won $1.2 million and paid his caddy $5,000. Are you on board with this?

What's come out a bit is that Kooch may not be as well liked within the tour player's fraternity as he is by the fans....and he has a pretty good following with very much a nice guy image. Some players behind the curtain have apparently expressed some pretty strong thoughts about how Kuchar handled this. Overall the above post is pretty accurate.

Slightly confused by the timeline of events. The article I read saidthat the golfer only offered then 15K after the caddie's request for 50K. Some of you say that Kuchar offered 15K extra without prompting which seems inaccurate.

i have no idea what the customary amount a replacement caddy would get in a win, but I bet it's a very rare event. Nothing I read provided an example of this happening. Only what regular caddies get.

Nice that his story had a happy ending though

Does everyone understand that 5000 for a week is 260k a year? Pretty good for a guy whose job is to carry a bag and hand guys clubs. Should a person be required to pay higher amounts just because they are rich? Should a millionaire have to pay $100 for a beer that costs everyone else $3? Caddies are a dime a dozen.

Bio Dome wrote:

Slightly confused by the timeline of events. The article I read saidthat the golfer only offered then 15K after the caddie's request for 50K. Some of you say that Kuchar offered 15K extra without prompting which seems inaccurate.

i have no idea what the customary amount a replacement caddy would get in a win, but I bet it's a very rare event. Nothing I read provided an example of this happening. Only what regular caddies get.

Nice that his story had a happy ending though

Regular caddies typically get 8% for a tournament and 10% for a tournament win. Kuchar handled this poorly and/or was poorly advised by his agent. I don't think anyone thinks the caddie should have been paid at the rate the regular caddies are paid but this is a non story if Kuchar would have thought this through. It appears that non of the tour regulars have come to Kuchar's defense and some behind the scenes have been pretty vociferous on how he handled the situation.

joedirt wrote:

Does everyone understand that 5000 for a week is 260k a year? Pretty good for a guy whose job is to carry a bag and hand guys clubs. Should a person be required to pay higher amounts just because they are rich? Should a millionaire have to pay $100 for a beer that costs everyone else $3? Caddies are a dime a dozen.

The ignorance of the above statement and others posted (likely under different handles by the same poster) of similar naivete should have them step away from the keyboard for a variety of reasons.

It would also be a non-story if the caddy had just put his expectations in the contract to begin with.

TTH wrote:

Regular caddies typically get 8% for a tournament and 10% for a tournament win. Kuchar handled this poorly and/or was poorly advised by his agent. .

You obviously didn't read my post from page 2. The contract that was agreed upon was NOT 8%. Had the caddy even simply agreed to 10% and Kuchar didn't make the cut, he would have received NOTHING.

"The agreement was made before the tourney started.

132 golfers

60 golfers missed the cut and earned $0.

Another 42 golfers earned between 42k and 14k.

A caddy would have to have his player finish in the top 26 of the tournament to earn over $5,000 at a 10% rate.

When the caddy made the arrangement for approximately 4k, he had a roughly 20% chance of equalling that if he agreed to a customary 10%.

If you earned $200 a week average, would you work for 10% or a guaranteed 3 or 4k?"