Scottie Scheffler’s caddie has benefitted from the golfer’s remarkable year with earnings that would place him in the sport’s top 25 earners in 2024. Scheffler’s triumph at the Tour Championship on Sunday capped a stunning nine months for the American.
The 28-year-old enjoyed a record-breaking year which concluded with his first season-long championship. He closed with a 4-under-67 for a four-shot victory over Collin Morikawa to win the FedEx Cup and its £19million ($25m) prize, the richest in golf.
It comes after Scheffler secured eight wins and equalled Tiger Woods’ stunning 2006. His victories include those at the the Masters, The Players Championship, an Olympic gold medal and the Tour Championship.
Scheffler’s seven PGA titles are the most in a calendar year since Woods achieved the same total in 2007. And another man making the most of his £47m earnings across the year is his caddie Ted Scott.
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If Scheffler follows the usual 10-7-5 structure for a caddies’ pay, where a caddie gets 10 per cent of the winner’s check for victories, 7 per cent for top-10s and 5 per cent for everything else, Scott is in line to bank nearly £4m.
Incredibly, his likely £3.9m paycheque would rank him 19th in golf’s earnings rankings for the year. It is more than golf legend Woods has earned on the tour this year.
Scott has also earned more than the likes of Viktor Hovland, Tommy Fleetwood, Will Zalatoris, and Justin Thomas have from their golf careers this year. Around 220 professional golfers would sit below Scott if his earnings were included in the PGA’s money leaderboard.
To place Scheffler’s remarkable earnings into context, he won around £9,000 for every shot he played this year. He was delighted to finally win the Tour Championship after missing out for several years.
“It’s a pretty special feeling to be finally holding the trophy,” Scheffler said.
“I’ve been the Player of the Year for the tour the last two years and I haven’t left with this trophy. It definitely leaves a bad taste in my mouth at the end of the year, especially when I start with the lead.
“I feel like I’ve lived almost a full lifetime in this one year. It’s been nuts.”
