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5. You don’t know Matt!
That was, probably not surprisingly, the basic contention from Kuchar’s looper, John Wood.
The NY Post’s Mark W. Sanchez spotted Wood’s tweets Friday night.
- “I don’t understand the need to tear down a guy who has spent his career trying to uphold the game and himself to some pretty high standards,” Wood wrote…”Nobody’s perfect. All we can do when a mistake is made is reconsider, apologize and make amends.”
- …”Matt,his entire family and team have never been anything but generous,inclusive,respectful, and complimentary of me and the job I do for him…I wouldn’t work for someone I didn’t respect, or who didn’t value my opinion. To crucify for one mistake feels wrong.”
6. Baffled by altitude
Steve DiMeglio of USA Today and Golfweek, filing a report for the latter on the eternal mysteries of golfing at altitude as the Tour prepares to visit Club de Golf Chapultepec, some 7,800 feet above sea level, for the WGC Mexico.
- “…”It took me until Sunday to get used to it,” reigning Players champion Webb Simpson said of his showing in last year’s event. After rounds of 72-70-73, Simpson came home in 68 to tie for 37th. “I feel like I have a good understanding now of what I need to do this year.”
- “Other players agree, as experience is the 15th club in the bag. The tight, tree-lined Club de Golf Chapultepec is an 18-hole riddle that demands constant evaluation as players figure out how far the golf ball will carry at altitude.”
7. Not to be overlooked, a W for MAJ!
AP Report…”Miguel Angel Jimenez won the Chubb Classic on Sunday for his seventh PGA TOUR Champions title, beating Bernhard Langer and Olin Browne with a 5-foot par putt on the first hole of a playoff.”
- The Spaniard delivered this gem…”I’m working hard and I practice and go to the gym, apart from smoking and drinking,” Jimenez said. “This is what I love to do. I love to play golf. To me, competing is my life. I go to any competition, I want to win. I working for that.”
8. The worth of a caddie’s work
Golfweek’s Eamon Lynch considers the subject–with help from Fluff!– in the wake of the Kuchar-El Tucan fiasco.
- “The debacle surrounding Matt Kuchar’s pay dispute with David “El Tucan” Ortiz has ignited plenty of commentary on the values of Kuchar, but not so much on the value of caddies. Part-Sherpa, part-psychologist, their contributions are often intangible. Caddies occupy a decidedly gray area not easily measured in dollars.”
- “For starters, you’re carrying the bag. They ain’t gotta carry their clubs,” said Mike “Fluff” Cowan, one of the few celebrity members of the caddie corps on the PGA Tour. “It’s a second set of eyes, it’s a second opinion. You’re not always right. If we were right every single time, we’d want a lot of money. I don’t think it can be dismissed. As long as you’re not costing your man any shots, you’re doing your job.”
9. J.B. Holmes does not play golf quickly
Golf.com’s Josh Berhow rounded up some lowlights and remarks concerning the…exceedingly deliberate…work of one J.B. Holmes, Sunday.
- “At the par-3 4th, Holmes stalked a birdie putt for more than 80 seconds.”
- “Here is J.B. Holmes, going through all the maps and scales and typography data that he can find,” said Jim Nantz, setting the stage.
- “The issue I have with that is not that he’s doing that, it’s that he had plenty of time to do that while Justin was getting ready for his shot or Adam was getting ready for his shot,” said on-course reporter Peter Kostis. “And he waited until it was his turn to play to go through his whole routine.”
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dan
Feb 18, 2019 at 1:11 pm
Reading some of the shameful comments regarding ’El Tucan” received good money compared to Mexican Wages is sad to say at the least. We do not have any say as to what country were born. No more than who are our birth parents. The issue is the golfer whom he carried his bag has won 47 million on the PGA tour. That does not take into account millions in endorsement deals. I should also note you receive additional monies from some sponsors when winning a tournament. Having been in the shipping business my whole career I have traveled to countless countries. Haiti makes Mexico look like a financial paradise. The problem with Kuchar is flat-out disgraceful from a moral compass standpoint. He had not won using a regular caddie in over four years. Had he won with his regular caddie Kuchar would have forked over $130,000 along with additional travel expense monies. He then wins with a local caddie. The win scenario changed all bets prior deals. IMO KUCHAR or management team should have immediately paid 25% ($32,500) of his winnings. El Tucan would have been pleased. Instead KUCHAR paid this human being, a man born in a poor country a salary he deemed justified! SHAMEFUL. Stating a deal is a deal is an embarrassment! Then not having the brains to realize his incentive comments were made at the Genesis Open in LA which has one of the highest populations of Mexicans in the country. Simple shows he lives in a bubble. Bottom line KUCHAR for 2 decades has seemed like a STANDUP GUY. I think we all have made our own opinion if KUCHAR made a sincere genuine gesture. Regardless he made a horrific mistake & deserves the benefit of the doubt moving forward without any backlash. KUCHAR apologized and agreed to give 50k to EL Tucan. Which is life changing money in his world. Not only that from a positive angle I am sure more Americans who play the resort were he caddies will ask for El Tucan by name. Being a proud American I am confident if we get El Tucan for a loop we will give him way beyond a customary tip.
Posted by Dan Joseph on Feb 18, 2019 | 10:46 AM reply