I don't really follow golf much, but found this story somewhat interesting. Matt Kuchar, a pro golfer won a tournament last year. His regular caddie was unavailable, so he hored a local. Before the tournament, they came to an agreement that Kuchar would pay the caddie $1000 if he missed the cut, $2000 if he made the cut, $3000 if he finished in the top 20, and $4000 if he finished in the top 10. He won the tournament, and gave the guy $5000. Kuchar won $1.3 million for the tournament. Apparently is it fairly standard to give the caddie a 10% fee if you win. Kuchar says he does not feel at all bad about the amount he gave the caddie and the $5000 for a weeks work is pretty good money. A lot of his fellow golf pros seem to feel he should have given the guy more. Technically, he followed the agreement he made with caddie plus gave him an extra $1000. The caddie says Kuchar didn't do anything wrong, but it would have been nice get some sort of bonus. I kind of agree with the caddie. What do you think?

He should give the caddie the standard rate.

$150,000

5 % to his regular caddie and 5 % to the lucky caddie.

I can see not giving a substitute caddie to same 10% he would give his regular caddie, but half of that (5% or $65,000) seems much more in-line with what's "deserved" than $5,000.

Just give the caddie the normal rate.

Posted by dino27 on 2/15/2019 6:19:00 PM (view original):
5 % to his regular caddie and 5 % to the lucky caddie.

why should his regular caddie get anything? He couldn't make the tournament.

The replacement caddie got a 25% bonus worth about six months salary in his country.

what does that have to do with anything

what baggie said. I almost can go along with "that's the agreement they made' but the its a lot of money ib his country is bullshit

Kuchar paid up. 50k to the replacement guy.

still not 10% but better than $5000. And he only did it because of bad publicity, not because he felt he owed it to the guy

Posted by wylie715 on 2/16/2019 10:39:00 PM (view original):
what baggie said. I almost can go along with "that's the agreement they made' but the its a lot of money ib his country is bullshit

Yeah, that's what is pulling at me with this. They did agree to the amount, but if it was me personally I for sure would be giving the guy more than $5k. I guess Kuchar wasn't necessarily wrong in paying the agreed to amount, but I don't feel it was the right choice.

Thought I heard somewhere that Kuchar (in addition to the 5K) offered the caddie an extra 15K but the caddie declined to take it. Anyone else hear about this?

I heard that too