Scottie Scheffler’s $5,000,000 earning caddie details leaving a LIV Golf veteran’s side

“I really was attempting to resign for the third time from caddying, and I got another phone call, so it fair keeps coming back to me. I got a preemptive phone call from another companion who said, ‘Hey, you’re almost to get a phone call from a very great player, but more imperatively, he’s a stronger individual, and I truly think you need to consider it,'” Scott said (at (13:
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Scott had an opportunity to play with Scottie Scheffler whereas he was caddying for Watson amid a PGA Visit occasion, and they really played a hone circular together. In any case, the experienced caddie recognized that he didn’t know much almost Scheffler’s amusement some time recently joining him.

“We were Scottie’s accomplice at the Zurich Classic. So, I had as it were been around him for that week, and I think we played one hone circular with him at Harding Stop. So, I knew he was an extremely decent fellow, but I didn’t know how great of a player he was. I didn’t, you know, truly take after his junior career or college career, any of that, but I took the word of my buddy that called me and said, ‘Hey, this dude’s extraordinary, you know, I’m telling you he’s truly good,'” he contiued.

So, when Scheffler called Scott, he asked the golfer a couple of questions and after that talked about the opportunity with his family.

“So, when he called me, I had many questions for him, and I preferred the way that he replied it. At that point I fair told my family, I said, ‘Look, we’re reaching to implore almost it since I do not know in the event that I’m gathered to be caddying.’ But apparently, they had been calling specialists attempting to get me back on the street. So, it was weird—my family was tired of me as of now. They’re like, ‘You’ve been domestic for two weeks; we have to be discover you a work, Pro,'” Scott concluded.

 
Just two weeks after he received the call from Scheffler, Scott accepted the offer and began working together before 2022, and they’ve enjoyed a successful partnership over the last two and a half years. They’ve won two Majors together, Scheffler reached World No. 1, and they also clinched the trophy at the 2024 Tour Championship, The Players Championship along with several other tournaments.
Why did Ted Scott and Bubba Watson split ways?
After working together for more than a decade, Bubba Watson and Ted Scott decided to part ways, which came as a shock to the golf world as the duo had a very successful partnership. Speaking to GOLF in 2022, the two-time Masters winner revealed the reason behind their split.

Watson acknowledged that he was struggling with injuries, which affected his game. So, he called his caddie, discussed his health issues with him, and they finally decided to part ways.Speaking of his split with Scott, Watson said (via Golf.com):
“So I called him and told him. I said, look, man, I’m 43 years old. I don’t know what I’m going to do. My wrist is killing me. He is like he needs ten more years, and I gave him — I felt like a nice retirement package when we split up, but we split up mutually,” Watson recalled.
After the split, Watson started working with Gabe Sauer and later joined LIV Golf. Meanwhile, Scott remained on the PGA Tour, caddying for Scheffler.