After Adam Scott parted ways with Steve Williams, who had been on Tiger Woods’ bag for 13 years before hitching his fortunes to those of the 2013 Masters champ, he was naturally the object of many a would-be looper’s desires.
Lazy royalty need not apply to be Adam Scott’s caddie
Adam Scott laughs about the ‘real beauties’ who offered to sling his golf bag over their lazy, blue-blooded shoulders.
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“I got some real beauties,” Scott told reporters on Wednesday about the letters he received from a number of caddie applicants.
One such wannabe was a Japanese man who contended he was related to that country’s royal family. It’s unlikely that such a lofty claim would have earned him the position, but he then committed the job-seeker’s version of a hosel rocket when he admitted to being a layabout.
“Even in his letter, he said he’s extremely lazy,” Scott said with a laugh ahead of his 2015 PGA Tour debut at this week’s WGC-Cadillac Championship.
Then there was the guy from Florida, who, like the lackadaisical nobleman, enclosed a selfie.
“A big, strong guy, looks like he works out, muscleman kind of thing,” Scott recounted with another chuckle before delivering the punchline. “And lives with his 85-year-old mother. He made a point of telling me that as well.”
As for future employment-seekers, you may wish to pitch yourselves elsewhere. Scott, a first-time dad who this week will likely play his first competitive event since 2011 with an unanchored putter, is quite happy with new bagman, Mike Kerr.
Kerr, who is, as far as we know, neither a blue blood nor a slugabed, previously handled the luggage for a number of professional golfers, including Ernie Els, Lee Westwood, and Miguel Angel Jimenez. He’ll stroll the fairways from the first tee at Doral with his boss, Scott’s countryman Jason Day, and Jim Furyk, starting at 12:39 p.m. Thursday.
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