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part butler, part therapist, part GPS — the only employee who can read both greens and minds
means A caddy is either the person who carries a golfer's clubs and offers advice on the course, or a small container or holder used for storing and organizing things — like a tea caddy.
from Two threads twist here. The container 'caddy' comes from 'catty,' a Malay unit of weight (kati) borrowed into English for the small boxes that held that amount of tea — hence 'tea caddy.' The golf 'caddy,' though, traces a different path: it descends from the French 'cadet,' a younger son or junior, which Scots clipped to 'cawdy' or 'caddie' for an errand-boy or odd-job man who'd lug your clubs for a coin. Same spelling, two homelands.
- word origin
- from French cadet, meaning younger son or apprentice
- bag weight
- tour caddies haul 40-plus pounds for 18 holes
- pro cut
- top caddies earn 5-10% of winnings
- green reading
- good ones judge break invisible to most players
- Caddie origin
- Mary Queen of Scots' carriers inspired the term
tiger woods' steve williams — carried woods' bag for 13 major championships from 1999-2008
jack nicklaus' angelo argea — caddied for nicklaus' 18 major wins including masters victories
ben crenshaw's carl jackson — won 2 masters titles with crenshaw in 1984 and 1995