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How Golf Caddies Went From Lackeys To Among The Highest-paid Men In Sports

 At the British Open golf title last month, Collin Morikawa loped to triumph and turned into the principal major part in the occasion's 161-year history to bring home more than $2 million in prize cash. 온라인카지노

While that was a beneficial week's work for the youthful Californian, it additionally implied a guard pay day for his caddie, Jonathan 'JJ' Jakovac, who himself made more than $200,000 — only for conveying his golf sack. 

For a caddie like JJ Jakovac, Morikawa is a fantasy customer. Matured only 24, he has effectively won five PGA Tour titles, including two significant titles, and this week, the pair were teeing it up in the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Unquestionably, he appears to be set for a long and worthwhile vocation, which stands to likewise make Jakovac exceptionally rich, thus. 

Ordinarily, caddies will arrange a fundamental week after week wage with their player (normally around $1,500 each week) and afterward get a cut of any rewards, generally 5%. However, in the event that a player completes in the best 10, the slice ascends to 7 percent, and if the player wins the whole competition, the caddie can make 10% of the golf player's prize cash. 

While that might seem like a decent arrangement, caddies are additionally answerable for their own costs, including all food, convenience, vehicle rental and travel (albeit the best players may likewise take their caddies with them on their personal luxury planes in case need be). 

Be that as it may, the plan is an uncommon one. Commonly there's no composed agreement among player and caddie, with the terms being settled on by means of verbal understanding. What's more, it's not generally a simple life. Lawrence Donegan went through a year assisting for proficient golf player Ross Drummond for his book "Four-Iron In The Soul" — an encounter that not just made him fully aware of the unforgiving real factors of life for caddies yet in addition how simple it for the connection among business and bagman to separate. 

"Proficient golf players spend so a lot or then again if not additional time with their caddie than they do with their significant other. That is the truth of the work," Drummond said. "Toss in the everyday routine of competition pressure and the unavoidable insignificant contacts that are essential for the relationship — 'What do you mean you just stuffed one banana for a mid-round nibble? I disclosed to you I needed three!' — and you have all the structure blocks for separate." 

The achievement of Tiger Woods (with caddie Steve Williams) is the thing that assisted bagmen with beginning procuring the huge bucks.The accomplishment of Tiger Woods (with caddie Steve Williams) is the thing that assisted bagmen with beginning acquiring the large bucks.Getty Images 

ESPN moderator Michael Collins, who betrayed a profession in stand-up parody to turn into an ace caddie for players like Rich Beem and Daniel Chopra, concurs. 

"At the point when that relationship turns sour, it's the most exceedingly awful thing on the planet. It resembles having a sweetheart who you thought was 'The One' however at that point you gradually understand that it simply won't work," Collins said. "At the point when you initially get together there are on the whole those seemingly insignificant details that you discover truly adorable however at that point a couple of months down the line they make you god forsaken' crazy to where you can't stand the manner in which they relax." 

Also, for those caddies not working for the best players, it tends to be a monetary battle, said Billy Foster, who has assisted for Lee Westwood, Sergio Garcia and the late Seve Ballesteros. 

"I likely assisted for six or seven years where I didn't have a bean in my possession," said Foster, who presently caddies for the Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick. "I used to rest on trains, transports, anyplace. I even dozed in a hedge one evening. What's more, I remained in some shocking inns — even rodents came into the room and ran out once more."