What Makes A Good Caddie

[potters]

This is just a final comment on the caddie incident mentioned

in a previous post.

I would also like to point out that caddies do have a very tough and demanding

job on tour.Just look at a course like Black Mountain and lugging a tour bag round there.

It is not just a case of carrying a bag as some people may think.

They certainly earn there money and a good caddie is

worth his/her weight in Gold to a Tour Pro.

What do you guys like and dislike about the caddies here.

Potters

[Forethat]

Great question, potters!

As I have pointed out in my reply in another thread; I absolutely hate when my bag is not where I am. It doesn't matter if it's a club or a bottle of water, I hate when I realise my bag is 100 yards down the fairway or parked on the next tee 50 yards away.

Other than that, the three basic rules:

a ) Show up

b ) Keep up

c ) Shut up

Most caddies break one or more of these rules. Obviously, they can all comply with "a", but keeping up is desperately hard for some of them, and we have all experienced caddies who chat on the phone...

[PingManDan]

Great question, potters!

As I have pointed out in my reply in another thread; I absolutely hate when my bag is not where I am. It doesn't matter if it's a club or a bottle of water, I hate when I realise my bag is 100 yards down the fairway or parked on the next tee 50 yards away.

Other than that, the three basic rules:

a ) Show up

b ) Keep up

c ) Shut up

Most caddies break one or more of these rules. Obviously, they can all comply with "a", but keeping up is desperately hard for some of them, and we have all experienced caddies who chat on the phone...

So with thos hard line A,B. and C musts, what do you tip your caddies, when they are good and when they are not up to your par.?

[potters]

Great question, potters!

As I have pointed out in my reply in another thread; I absolutely hate when my bag is not where I am. It doesn't matter if it's a club or a bottle of water, I hate when I realise my bag is 100 yards down the fairway or parked on the next tee 50 yards away.

Other than that, the three basic rules:

a ) Show up

b ) Keep up

c ) Shut up

Most caddies break one or more of these rules. Obviously, they can all comply with "a", but keeping up is desperately hard for some of them, and we have all experienced caddies who chat on the phone...

More or less what a tour pro may say as those were my instructions

except you can speak when spoken to.

Plus make sure plenty of water in the bag with electrolytes.

Keep up on Black Mountain now that is a challenge,i slept like a baby every night.

Potters

[teko]

I agree the bag thing is the most annoying.

It's seems they are in a rush to get finished so they can go home.

It all starts on the first tee to the carpark.

What's the rush when on the weekends you get to the next tee and have to wait 10 minutes for group of 6 in front to get moving.

[PattayaParent]

A good caddy points out the hazards before you play a shot and learns how you play after a couple of holes and is able to give you the right club before you even ask for it.

Oh, and gives you the correct lies of the green.

The golf bag not being available is even more annoying when your in a cart. And they have the cheek to get annoyed when they have to bring you another club because they were the ones that ran off with the bag!

But you know the old saying 'I've never met a bad caddy, just a bad golfer'!!

[longballlarry]

Had a number of experiences with caddies .

1 . In Phuket, a caddie stole 4000bt from my bag, and before I noticed , she feigned illness on the 9th green, and hot footed it home. Police called but could never prove it

2 had a regular caddie for 2 yrs, but after getting the wrong idea, I told her I was going to be using someone else. The next time I played she was waiting on the first tee, all dolled up, but crying her eyes out, mascara running down her cheeks. I could just see her out the corner of my eye, as I smashed a big snap hook down the first.

3. Had one girl who looked like Marty Feldman with one eye permanently looking up to the left. For the first 6 holes she read every putt uphill left to right.

4. Had a 60yr old toothless Thai guy in Kang Kachaeng, his trousers were about 4inches too short, and his talon toes were poking out of his knackered plimsoles . He literally p1ssed himself laughing every time I knocked one in the water, bunker or jungle. Just ended up laughing with him in the end, double tipped him and told him to get some new shoes.

As a rule now I just hope its female, a nice @rse and nice smile. The last thing I want to look at when smashing balls all over the shop, is a 14stone boiler bird with a head like a anteater

[SussexExpat]

A Caddie that doesn't assume that just because I might use a lob wedge around the 1st green I'm going to use it around the greens for the rest of the round.