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How much money did Scottie Scheffler’s caddie Ted Scott make in 2024?

Scott has made a pretty penny working for Scheffler.

Scottie Scheffler hiring Ted Scott as his caddie has been plenty beneficial for both sides.

On Sunday, Scheffler won for the ninth time in 2024, defending his title at the Hero World Challenge. Scott has been on the bag from Scheffler’s first PGA Tour win in 2022 to his latest in The Bahamas.

All those wins later, Scott has made a pretty penny working for Scheffler.

After Sunday’s victory, Scheffler’s earnings for the year moved to $55,228,358 after claiming the $1 million first-place prize at Albany Golf Club.

Scott has also benefitted plenty financially from Scheffler’s dominance. Although all caddies may be paid slightly different depending on their relationship with a player, the normal scale is as follows: 10 percent of winnings if a caddie’s player wins, 7 percent for a top 10 and 5 percent for making the cut.

Following that formula, Scott could be up to $5,338,504 this season, if not more, after the Hero World Challenge. Almost half of that amount — $2.5 million to be exact — came at the Tour Championship. There’s also a question mark for the PGA Championship, where Scott missed the third round to attend his daughter’s graduation.

Nevertheless, that number of projected earnings would rank top 20 on the PGA Tour this season, ahead of golfers like two-time winner Austin Eckroat, 2023 FedEx Cup winner Viktor Hovland and Hero runner-up Tom Kim, among others.

Here’s a breakdown of possible money Scott has earned caddying for Scheffler during 2024.

Tournament Finish Scheffler money Scott money
Sentry T-5 $690,500 $48,335
American Express T-17 $132,300 $6,615
AT&T Pebble Beach T-6 $642,500 $44,975
WM Phoenix Open T-3 $519,200 $36,344
Genesis Invitational T-10 $455,000 $31,850
Arnold Palmer Invitational 1 $4,000,000 $400,000
Players 1 $4,500,000 $450,000
Texas Children’s Houston Open T-2 $553,735 $38,762
Masters 1 $3,600,000 $360,000
RBC Heritage 1 $3,600,000 $360,000
PGA Championship T-8 $521,418 $36,500
Charles Schwab Challenge T-2 $809,900 $56,693
Memorial Tournament 1 $4,000,000 $400,000
U.S. Open T-41 $72,305 $3,616
Travelers Championship 1 $3,600,000 $360,000
The Open T-7 $451,833 $31,629
FedEx St. Jude Championship 4 $960,000 $67,200
BMW Championship T-33 $119,667 $5,984
Tour Championship 1 $25,000,000 $2,500,000
Hero World Challenge 1 $1,000,000 $100,000
Total $55,228,358 $5,338,504

 

Scottie Scheffler’s caddie, Ted Scott, is circling the wagons with the Buffalo Bills

Since Scott seemed so instrumental in getting Scheffler his first win, it only seemed natural his influence could help the Buffalo Bills.

Soon after Ted Scott started in his role as caddie for Scottie Scheffler, the Texan ended his run as the most acclaimed young PGA Tour player yet to win a title.

When Scott and Scheffler went through a trial run at the RSM Classic in November of 2021, Scheffler shot 63 in the first round.

“Literally, I had nothing to do with it,” Scott said at the time. “The next day was like the hardest day caddying in my life. I don’t know his game and 25-mile-per-hour winds. It was wild. He handled it with such maturity. I learned a lot about him.”

Scheffler then finished second at the Hero World Challenge in December, and in just their fifth tournament together, at the WM Phoenix Open, as Scheffler rallied on the back nine and outlasted Patrick Cantlay to claim his first PGA Tour title.

His run has been nothing short of incredible ever since, with 13 PGA Tour wins, including a pair of Masters green jackets.

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Since Scott seemed so instrumental in getting Scheffler across the victory finish line, it only seemed natural his influence could help the Buffalo Bills, who have enjoyed another impressive winning stretch under quarterback Josh Allen and coach Sean McDermott. The Bills have won the AFC East in each of the last four seasons, winning a first-round playoff game each year, but have failed to reach the Super Bowl since 1993.

McDermott spent time with Scott over the summer, talking about the nuances of sports psychology. Scott explained that when Scheffler started to keep things simple, eliminating major mistakes, he started to see greater success.

Soon after, McDermott passed the message along to Allen.

This week, the Bills face a home test against division rival Miami, and Scott took the opportunity to come up to practice, meet with the team, and he plans to stick around for Sunday’s contest.

Scott even spoke to the team on Friday.

Scheffler’s incredible success has proved a financial windfall for Scott. Although all caddies may be paid slightly differently depending on their relationship with a player, the normal scale is as follows: 10 percent of winnings if a caddie’s player wins, seven percent for a top 10 and five percent for making the cut.

Scott is assumed to have brought in around $5 million this season, a stat that would put him in the top 25 of all PGA Tour players.

Of course, Allen has a few dollars in his bank account, as well. The quarterback signed a six-year, $258 million contract extension in 2021, which now seems like a bargain. The University of Wyoming product has a 69-32 record as the Bills starter.

Scottie Scheffler PGA Tour wins and earnings

Event Date Earnings
WM Phoenix Open February 13, 2022 $1,476,000
Arnold Palmer Invitational March 6, 2022 $2,160,000
WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play March 27, 2022 $2,100,000
Masters Tournament April 10, 2022 $2,700,000
WM Phoenix Open February 12, 2023 $3,600,000
The Players Championship March 12, 2023 $4,500,000
RBC Heritage April 16, 2023 $3,600,000
Memorial Tournament June 4, 2023 $4,000,000
Travelers Championship June 25, 2023 $3,600,000
The Players Championship March 17, 2024 $4,500,000
Masters Tournament April 14, 2024 $3,600,000
Tour Championship August 25, 2024 $25,000,000

 

Caddie Ted Scott confronts unruly fan outside the ropes for inappropriate comment

“Who’s the (jerk) who said that?”  

MONTREAL – Don’t mess with Texas or Ted Scott.

The veteran caddie has been laughing all the way to the bank this season as his boss, Scottie Scheffler, banked more than $62 million. But he also has Scheffler’s back and on Saturday he took offense to a fan making crude comments about the Texan’s spouse, Meredith.

We won’t stoop to repeating this bonehead’s words but it wasn’t cool, totally uncalled for, not to mention inappropriate. It also sent Scott into a rage. He went outside the ropes on the 16th hole at Royal Montreal during Saturday’s afternoon foursomes match to confront the fan.

Gabby Herzig of The Athletic first reported the story on her social media. She also noted that Scheffler’s father confirmed that the fan was kicked out of the tournament. But not before Scott went to get to the bottom of it. A member of the International Team’s inner circle witnessed the scene and said that Scott yelled, “Who’s the (jerk) who said that?”

Asked after the match if he was distracted by what transpired on 16, Henley said, “No, not really. Once it happened, we just kind of refocused and got back in it.”

Ted Scott, Scottie Scheffler’s caddie, has likely made more money than 80 percent of PGA Tour players in 2024

Ted Scott is living large.

There’s no shortage of money in professional golf right now.

Scottie Scheffler is likely going to set a record this year for most money made in a single PGA Tour season, and after Sunday’s win at the 2024 Travelers Championship, he moved to fifth on the all-time PGA Tour career money list after another $3.6 million hit the bank account.

Yeah, the guy who just turned 28 on Friday has earned more money than all but four PGA Tour players all-time.

Another person who is doing well thanks to Scheffler’s incredible season is his caddie, Ted Scott.

Although all caddies may be paid slightly differently depending on their relationship with a player, the normal scale is as follows: 10 percent of winnings if a caddie’s player wins, 7 percent for a top 10 and 5 percent for making the cut.

Well, this season, Scheffler has won six times, has another seven finishes inside the top 10 and only two finishes outside that. That means Scott has made a lot of money this year. So much so, he has made more than a million more than the Tour average ($1.555,579).

Event Finish Scheffler money Rate Scott money
The Sentry 5 $690,500 7% $48,335
American Express T-17 $132,300 5% $6,615
AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am T-6 $642,500 7% $44,975
WM Phoenix Open T-3 $519,200 7% $36,344
Genesis Invitational T-10 $455,000 7% $31,850
Arnold Palmer Invitational 1 $4,000,000 10% $400,000
The Players 1 $4,500,000 10% $450,000
Texas Children’s Houston Open T-2 $553,735 7% $38,761
Masters 1 $3,600,000 10% $360,000
RBC Heritage 1 $3,600,000 10% $360,000
PGA Championship T-8 $521,418 7% $36,500
Charles Schwab Challenge T-2 $809,900 7% $56,693
Memorial Tournament 1 $4,000,000 10% $400,000
U.S. Open T-41 $72,305 5% $3,766
Travelers Championship 1 $3,600,000 10% $360,000
TOTAL $27,696,858 $2,633,839

As the chart shows, Scott has likely brought in $2,633,839 million, which seems minuscule to Scheffler’s nearly $28 million. It’s an insane amount for a caddie, however.

If Scott were on the PGA Tour’s official money list for 2024, he would be in 46th. This season, 232 players have won prize money from events, meaning Scott has earned more money caddying for Scheffler than 80.1 percent of players who have teed it up this year.

On the money list, he’s in front of players like Jordan Spieth ($2.5 million), Davis Riley ($2.04 million), who beat Scheffler at the Charles Schwab Challenge to win, Adam Scott ($1.67 million), Rickie Fowler (1.09 million) and numerous others.

Scott is just behind 2023 FedEx Cup champion Viktor Hovland and 2024 winners Nick Taylor, Jake Knapp and Austin Eckroat.

Even if you just counted Scott’s winning from the Travelers Championship, he would be 151st on the money list and in front of 81 players. Add in three more signature events, The Players and Masters, it adds up to a whole lot of dough.

As much as the players, and especially Scheffler, are benefiting from increased purse sizes and signature events, it’s helping others, too.

Scott is one of those, and his crazy season alongside the World No. 1 continues.

Who is Scottie Scheffler’s caddie Saturday at the 2024 PGA Championship? It’s not Ted Scott

“I trust him to rake a bunker more than my buddies.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Scottie Scheffler has a new caddie carrying his bag for the third round of the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club, and good reason for it.

Scheffler, who was arrested outside of the golf course after allegedly attempting to drive around traffic that resulted from a pedestrian fatality investigation early Friday morning, typically has veteran caddie Ted Scott on the bag. They’ve made an incredible partnership since joining forces in late 2021, including two wins at Augusta National. Scott isn’t sick, and his absence has nothing to do with Friday’s incident; Scott’s daughter is celebrating her high school graduation and he flew home to be with her.

“That’s something we talked about from the beginning of our relationship,” Scheffler said on Tuesday. “Family always comes first, and it’s the same thing for me as it is for my caddie. It was a pretty easy decision. He told me at the beginning of this year that was the date, so I got a backup caddie lined up. One of my buddies is going to carry the bag on Saturday, and then Ted will be back for Sunday’s round.”

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That longtime friend is Brad Payne, who is a PGA Tour chaplain and played golf at Pepperdine University, and he will assume the caddie duties for Scheffler.

Scheffler was asked if Payne was one of his buddies who stayed with him during the Masters while Scheffler’s wife, Meredith, was back home in Dallas awaiting the birth of their first child. Scheffler smiled and said of Payne, “I trust him to rake a bunker more than my buddies.”

The Scheffler’s welcomed the arrival of their son, Bennett, on May 8.

Scheffler somehow managed to shoot 66 on Friday after being arrested on four charges, including reckless driving. But without his trusted caddie on Saturday, he’s struggled in the early going. He’s 4 over through his first four holes.

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Scottie Scheffler well on his way to winning hole-out bet with caddie Ted Scott

“He’s a competitor so I like to figure out ways to make him competitive. It’s just a way to keep him engaged.”

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. –  As if Scottie Scheffler hasn’t won enough money in the last two weeks, he’s more than halfway to winning his annual chip-in bet with caddie Ted Scott.

As Scheffler took aim with his 56-degree sand wedge at the par-4 fourth hole from 92 yards, NBC lead analyst Kevin Kisner predicted, “This one oughta be dancing around the hole.”

Was it ever. It spun into the hole for an eagle to kickstart Scheffler’s remarkable rally from five shots back to repeat as champion of the Players Championship. Scott smiled and flashed six fingers, noting that it marked the sixth hole out this season for Scheffler, who needs to make 10 of them this year to win their annual bet.

“I got off to a slow start this year. I didn’t hole out any until Riv,” said Scheffler, referring to Riviera Country Club, host of the Genesis Invitational last month. “But I’ve hit the ground running pretty quick after that.”

Scheffler added: “So it was actually I think it was last year this time (at the Players) where I got to 10. So now we’re at six and hopefully we can keep the momentum rolling and get some of Teddy’s money back in my pocket.”

Scott said that they re-set the bet after Scheffler won last year, but that he failed to get to 20 hole-outs. It may have been due to Scott losing count of his boss’s hole-outs.

Scott called the bet an old caddie trick – Jordan Spieth and Michael Greller have had a similar practice for years – and while the caddies are often on the losing end, they wind up profiting if their pro is holing out, so there’s really no downside.

“It’s like fishing where the fish thinks it’s getting something,” Scott explained. “He’s a competitor so I like to figure out ways to make him competitive. It’s just a way to keep him engaged.”

Scott noted that during their first year together in 2022 that he and Scheffler had an argument over the contest when Scheffler contended his hole out should count and Scott held firm that it didn’t count because it wasn’t a chip.

“It’s 150 yards,” Scheffler complained.

“I guess he trumped me on that,” Scott said, noting that hole-outs have counted ever since.

The hole-out on No. 4 at TPC Sawgrass will go down as one for the ages. Scott better start saving up to pay off their bet.

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Forget slow play and hitting the ball too far, golf needs to figure out the we-don’t-know-how-to-high-five-properly dilemma

Scottie Scheffler and Ted Scott couldn’t figure out how to celebrate after an eagle.

There has been lots of talk lately about slow play. Golf Twitter was all over Patrick Cantlay during the Masters for taking too long and it continued Friday when he made an ace during the second round of the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

When his hole-in-one was posted by the official PGA Tour account, nearly every comment and quote tweet continued to poke fun at his deliberate play style.

On top of that, golf is facing a distance crisis.

But the real problem in this sport is handshakes. Players and caddies just can’t seem to figure out how to high-five. It’s a real dilemma.

It happened again Friday when Scottie Scheffler chipped in for eagle and he and his looper, Ted Scott, were not on the same page when it came to their celebration.

I mean, this is tough to watch.

Golf Twitter was once again right on top of it, no one cared about the great shot.

Scottie Scheffler wins a bet with his caddie, Tom Hoge’s record round and Aaron Rai comes up aces among takeaways from third round at 2023 Players Championship

Scottie Scheffler would move back to No. 1 in the world with a win.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Scottie Scheffler won a year-long bet with his caddie on Saturday. On Sunday, he’s hoping to win the Players Championship, return to World No. 1 and earn the largest check on the PGA Tour.

Scheffler fired a 7-under 65 at TPC Sawgrass on Saturday to grab the 54-hole lead with a total of 14-under 202, two strokes clear of Australian Min Woo Lee.

Scheffler, who had to finish off his second-round 69 in the morning, vaulted into the lead with a birdie-eagle start in the afternoon. After pulling his second shot at the par-5 second hole, he lofted a pitch from the rough and jarred the 62-foot shot and then jawed at caddie Ted Scott having recorded his 10th hole-out…and it’s only March.

“I had a decent lie there in the rough and was able to hit a flop shot pretty much exactly where I wanted to land it,” he said. “I was definitely fortunate to see it go in, and then Teddy and I got a year-long thing going that I just beat him on and he owes me something, but he didn’t have any of it, and so he owes me. It’s an IOU from Teddy.”

Scheffler made his lone bogey at the seventh, but it barely slowed him down as he bounced back with consecutive birdies. He closed with birdies on two of his final three holes as he posted his career low at the Stadium Course and claimed his seventh career 54-hole lead/co-lead on Tour. The reigning Masters champion is seeking to win for the second time this season —he defended his title at the WM Phoenix Open in February — and supplant Jon Rahm as World No. 1. But Scheffler knows that winning will take care of the latter.

“I think the ranking is just an algorithm,” he said. “For me, I would much rather win the tournament than get back to No. 1 in the world. So that will be my focus going into tomorrow is just going out and having a solid round of golf, and the rankings will be the rankings.”

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Photos: Caddies and their flags from the 18th hole after winning a tournament

Every week on virtually every tour, the winning caddie grabs the flag on 18.

It has become a tradition unlike any other.

Every week on virtually every tour, the winning caddie grabs the flag on 18. It has become the caddie’s trophy, as much of a ritual as players removing their hats and shaking hands after the round. But what is the origin of this tradition and who started it? No one seems to know.

“I don’t know how it happened,” says Ted Scott, who earned his third Masters flag working on the bag of Scottie Scheffler in 2022 to go with the previous two he pocketed with Bubba Watson in 2012 and 2014. “But it’s a cool tradition, a huge reward and a special thing. Whoever started it, I’m grateful for it.”

Golfweek did some digging, hoping to get to the bottom of this unsolved mystery, and along the way the stories we heard about caddies and flags were too good not to share.

Why isn’t Ted Scott on Scottie Scheffler’s bag this week in Canada? He’s got a great excuse

Instead of carrying Scottie Scheffler’s bag this week in Canada, Ted Scott is teeing it up on the Korn Ferry Tour.

Scottie Scheffler battled hard to shoot 3-under 67 on Friday in Canada. The world No. 1 and reigning Masters champion is doing so with Jordan Guilford as his caddie this week at the RBC Canadian Open.

Asked in an interview after the round if his regular bagman Ted Scott would be back in action next week at the U.S. Open, Scheffler was quick to say, “Yeah. He’s OK. He’s all right.”

Scott, the veteran looper who was on Scheffler’s bag for his third green jacket winner, is doing better than all right and there’s a good reason why he isn’t north of the border – he’s competing in the Korn Ferry Tour’s BMW Charity Pro-Am in Greenville, South Carolina this week.

Scott, a former mini-tour pro and golf coach, describes his game as “the leader in other fairways hit” in his Twitter profile. He enjoyed some time behind the wheel on a race track ahead of the tournament and is listed as a “celebrity” amateur in the field.

Scott has been a caddie for 21 years, primarily with Bubba Watson, including for his wins at the 2012 and 2014 Masters. They split late last year and Scott joined Scheffler after the Ryder Cup at the RSM Classic. Scheffler, who was winless on the PGA Tour until February, has won four times in his last 10 starts.

Scheffler’s substitute caddie has worked for Andrew Putnam and Beau Hossler in the past, and Scheffler used him at two fall events before hooking up with Scott. Scheffler made it clear it’s a one-week gig.

For Scott, he’s soaking up the experience including having a caddie at his disposal.

“We were picking on him on the last hole,” Scott told PGATour.com, “because I said to him, ‘Hey, this is the one chance I have to get to have somebody get the pin out.’ He’s over there just hanging out with my buddy. ‘Like, dude, come over and get the pin out. I don’t want to touch this thing.’ ”

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