Scottie Scheffler’s Caddy and 1 of His Biggest Mistakes (Leading to 2 Explosions!)

Ted Scott, when asked to feed his biggest velvet mistakes, starts with a joke. There is a saying in the looping business, he says.

“And that’s it, we made five birds and then it last bogeyed.

“So I like to caddy.”

Speaking of a recent episode of The sweet spot podcast – which you can and should listen to in its entirety here – Scott then laughed. yes, Scottie Scheffler’s Looper said, he’s wrong. One mistake, specifically, he remembers well. It’s “laughed” at him – even after it led to some outbursts from his professional self.

To put things in perspective, Scott said it came last June, around the time Scheffler’s batting was considered otherworldly, and his putting a little pedestrian. IN Memorialsaid Scott, the player and caddy worked on the flaws.

“And literally on Wednesday, he’s doing the workout and doing everything,” Scott said on the podcast. “He’s just killing it. And he’s beating it big time. We’re making 10-foot shots, and he’s making 50 percent of them. I’m going, ‘What’s going on? You’re taking everything in.’ And I said, I said, “Hey, did you notice something?”

“And he stopped for a minute and Scottie is very smart. I don’t know if you all know this, but he has a super high IQ. He is so smart. And he says, “You’re right – you’re fired.” He already knew what I was talking about. I didn’t read shot by shot and he’s doing everything. I said, ‘OK, you got it.'”

Thursday’s first round came. Scott stayed away.

However, the disasters continued.

“Well, Friday morning – we’re playing Friday afternoon – so Friday morning I’m watching the coverage trying to get a glimpse, maybe see the way a ball bounces or spins a shot or something ,” Scott said. on the podcast. “And for sure, on the 12th hole, the hardest par-3, you know it’s brutal. They had the pin on the front right that everybody’s going to pull like a right and it’s going to go into the back bunker, and the back bunker, you can’t get it close, so you throw it out and it goes to 10 feet and it’s like one funnel – everyone will have the first shot from the same place.

“And sure enough, as I’m looking at the coverage, and I see four guys hitting it into that bunker and knocking it down to 10 feet and there’s a sprinkler head right behind them on the edge and they’re all hitting their putt from there and they are all playing about 4 to 5 inches off and not an inch is breaking. Everyone misses a cup of justice.”

But remember, Scott wasn’t reading shots.

“So I’m like, OK, I got this information here in case we end up in that back bunker,” he said on the podcast. “Sure, we start on 10, play the first two holes, get to 12, pull it up a little bit, it goes to the back bunker, knocks it to 10 feet. I’m not reading shots and I think, I just saw four PGA Tour pros read it the same way, they’re all seeing it the same way, that’s not broken.

“So now I’ve got the two little people – the guy on the right saying, ‘You better say something’ and the guy on the left saying, ‘Don’t say something, you’re not involved’. But yes, you have to say something – you’ll feel bad if he hits this nail with a mug and it doesn’t break. Come on, don’t say anything. And finally, ahhhh, I have to say something. e you know

So literally he’ll walk in and I go, ‘Scottie.’ He goes, ‘Yeah’ – like I surprised him. He goes, ‘Yeah.’ And I go, ‘What are you doing this putt?’ He says, “What, what are you talking about?” And I said, ‘Yeah, I saw this shot on TV this morning, I saw four people hit it and it didn’t break, they’re all missing a cup on the right.’ And he says, ‘OK, what do you see here?’ And I saw on TV, it was lined up with the sprinkler head. I didn’t even read it. I was like, ‘Right lip.’ How arrogant was I? I didn’t even read it. I was like, ‘Right lip.’ He was like, ‘OK.’

Scheffler lost. Bad.

“He goes up and hits this putt and I’m not even kidding, he strokes it and the moment his head looks up — it’s a 10-footer — it’s three feet away from the putter and it’s breaking like a foot to the left; I mean it’s just, vroooom,” Scott said on the podcast. “It doesn’t even have a chance — it’s already left the hole and it’s broken left. And he just loses it. He goes, “What are we doing here?” You know, because I’m not involved in the placement process, right?

They eventually laughed, Scott said on the podcast. Fast forward two weeks now, to US Open at the Los Angeles Country Club.

“They let us have the books with the practice greens. We haven’t had them for a while,” Scott said on the podcast. “So I was memorizing hole 6, the little driveable hole, on Thursday night in case we got close. I’m like, I’m still not reading the layup, but if he asks me, I’ll have that in there, because we’ll probably have a close layup. Of course, he hits it right there, and as we’re walking up, I say, ‘Hey, I know I’m not reading putts, but I memorized this in the book – this putt won’t break left, OK. You can read it, but just don’t play it to break left .Looks like funky, but it just won’t snap left.’ OK.

Scheffler lost again. Bad.

“So he misses the putt,” Scott said on the podcast, “and he hits it and it’s like a foot away going to the center of the hole — I mean, it’s going to the hole — and it goes out of the hole for him left. Vroooom. And he says, “If I hear the word ‘book’ or ‘TV’ one more time, I’m going to pass out. He says, “Why don’t you believe yourself, you’re a good green reader?” And we both laughed a lot about it.

“So, yes, as a caddy, you can certainly mess with your son. And that was two fun times, consecutive weeks that I threw it. It makes me laugh every time.”

Editor’s Note: To listen to the entire The Sweet Spot podcast with Scott, please click here.

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