Former Bryson Dechambeau’s caddie has a fascinating new employer

Tiger Woods united them first: Bryson Dechambeau and Tony Finau, a dynamic duet with big bombs sent to Thursday’s four balls at Royal Melbourne to start the 2019 presidents’ Cup. Their tricks were bright red and their Bagmen Bibs were also. There was Caddy Greg Bodine of Finau, who would have been Finau since his novice year in PGA Tour. And it was Dechambeau’s Caddy Tim Term, his crime partner for the eight PGA Tour’s past and future wins, including next year’s US Open.

Everything in the golf world has changed since then. But this sport works in mysterious ways, and since this summer Dechambeau and Finau still hire Tucker and Bodine – they have simply beat employers. And their story is part of an attractive fabric of mixing and matching that occurs with players and cadets in a long time throughout this sport.

Argue and bodine divided In the summer of 2020 while Dechambeau and Tucker crash In the summer of 2021. Every rest was exciting in its own way; Partnerships with this great story tend to be. So how will they change their employers? In 2023, in the midst of the most troubled extension of his pro career, Dechambeau employed Bodine and last week, looking for a lost part, Finau employed Tucker, finishing Caddy’s exchange, six years later.

No, this was not a one-to-one trade, as in other sports. But it it Was The latest attractive return to a Caddy carousel that seems to be rotating especially quickly this year, with high profile players and loopers alike making real -time changes throughout the season.

If you are to be reburied for March, you will reach the first startling division of the year, which came from Matt Fitzpatrick and Billy Foster, who would join to win 2022 US Open, Ryder Cup 2023 and much more. They shared ways after the player championship.

Then was Joe Greiner and Max Homa, who went their separate ways Ahead of the masters. Homa tried Bill arc in the weeks that followed, held his bag For some rounds and then settled with Lance Bennett, whose former employees had included Tiger Woods.

Next was Collin Morikawa and Jj Jakovac, who would be together for two degrees and the entirety of his PGA Tour’s mandate. successor their dividedMorikawa hired Greiner, a logical action-if potentially felt given the close relationship of Morikawa and Homa. Jakovac found a new employer in Michael Thorbjornsen, who would work with Bennett before He will Left to work for Homa, completing a confusing trade with three teams (Greiner in Morikawa, Jakovac in Thorbjornsen, Bennett to Homa) while Greiner and Morikawa broke out a few weeks later.

The greatest pain of golf collective heart came from division of Netflix fan and boyfriends Joel Dahmen and Geno Bonnalie. The two best friends had been inseparable since the arrival of Dahmen on the tournament; They called him rest in July after a proven extension of seven abbreviations lost in eight weeks.

And a particularly indicative division came after the open championship when Joaquin Niemann crash with his cadet (and coach) after his second consecutive lost cut. Niemann has been great in Liv, winning five times this season (four times pre-stunned, once again with his new cadet) but clearly wants more.

There are hundreds of other changes of the Caddie players that have happened in the meantime, of course-permanent, some temporary, some difficult to determine. man subjugated For Justin Thomas for a few weeks in April, a good time that contributed to a signature event win at Hilton Head. Morikawa proven Foster for his Swing Golf links, though they lost the cut in both the open and open Scottish championship. For part of last week and this future BMW championship, no. 1 Scottie Scheffler will be without Ted Scott, who is tending home for a family issue.

But again in our original protagonists: in July Tucker he shared with the long employer Kurt Kitayama. Just a few weeks later Finau split with long urban caddy Mark. Kitayama found immediate success with his brother serving as full replacement, while Tucker even completed Bodine in the Decheambeau bag at the Liv event in Finau in the UK, meanwhile, continued to hire Tucker in front of the championship FedEx St. Jude. It is unclear the terms of their agreement, not even when Finau will remove it, given that he lost the last two rounds of the FedEx Cup Play -offit.

Morikawa, meanwhile, has hired urban; He has now moved to former Loopers of Homa, Fitzpatrick and Finau as part of a five-kad season.

His and theirs are the latest saga in one of the most intriguing professions in sports, where good times are excellent and uncertain times are often and difficult. Caddies are important – this amount we know. But it’s hard to know exactly what makes a good one, it’s hard to know when you have the right one and it’s hard to know when it’s time to keep going. But it happens all the time-sometimes with your former employer of the former Caddie.

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