Scottie Scheffler’s caddy, with 1 of his biggest mistakes (resulting in 2 blowouts!)

Ted Scott, when asked to share his biggest mistakes, begins with a joke. There is a saying in business looping, he says.

“I mean, we made five birdies and then later he he growled for the last time.

“So I like the caddy.”

Speaking in the latest episode of Sweet Place podcast – which you can and should listen to in full here – then Scott laughed. Well, Scottie Scheffler’s looper said, you’re wrong. One mistake, in particular, you remember well. It’s “funny” to him — even after it led to two outbursts from his experts.

To make things right, Scott said it came last June, when Scheffler’s batting was considered national, and his putting was a bit pedestrian. At the Memorial, Scott said, the player and the caddy worked on this shortcoming.

“And honestly on Wednesday, he did the drill and he did everything,” Scott said on the podcast. “He just kills it. And you hit it hard. We made putts over 10 feet, and he made 50 percent of them. I go, ‘What’s going on? You include everything.’ And I said to him, I said, ‘Hey, do you see anything?’

“He was standing for a minute, Scottie is very bright. I don’t know if you all know this, but you have a very high IQ. You are very smart. And you go, ‘You’re right – you’re fired.’ He already knew what I was talking about. I didn’t learn to putt and he made everything. I was like, ‘Okay, you got it.'”

Thursday’s first round came. Scott stayed away.

However, the tragedy continued.

“Well, Friday morning – we’re going to play Friday afternoon – so on Friday morning I watch the broadcast and try to get an understanding, maybe see how the ball bounces or putt rolls or something,” Scott said. on the podcast. “And of course, on the 12th hole, which is a very difficult par-3, you know it’s brutal. They had a pin in the front right, that everybody would pull like a right hand and go into the back house, and the back house, you can’t get it closer, so you drop it and it goes to 10. feet and it’s like a funnel – everyone will get their par putt in the same spot.

“And sure enough, as I’m looking at the fairway, and I’m watching four people hit it from that bunker and they hit it to 10 feet and there’s a sprinkler head behind them on the rink and they all hit their putts. there and they all play about 4 to 5 inches of break and it doesn’t break an inch. Everyone missed the cup the right way.”

But remember, Scott wasn’t learning putts.

“So I would say, OK, I’ve got this information here in case we end up in that back house,” he said on the podcast. “Of course, we start on 10, we play the first two holes, we get to 12, we pull it a little bit, we go into the back area, we get it to 10. I don’t read putts and I’m like, I just saw four PGA Tour pros read it the same way, they all see it the same way, this ain’t breaking.

“Now I have these two little people—the guy on the right says, ‘You better say something,’ and the guy on the left says, ‘Don’t say something, you don’t belong here.’ But yeah, you have to say something – you’re going to be upset if he hits this cup well and it doesn’t break. ‘Come on, don’t be silly, don’t say anything.’ Like going back and forth. And finally I’m like, ahhhh, I have to say something, you know.

“So he’s about to come in and I go, ‘Scottie.’ He says, ‘Yes’ – like I startled him. He said, ‘Yes.’ And I go, ‘What did you do with this putt?’ He just said, ‘What, what are you talking about?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I watched this putt on TV this morning, I watched four people hit it and it didn’t break, everybody missed the cup to the right.’ And he said, ‘Okay, what do you see here?’ And I saw on TV, it was lined up with a sprinkler head. I didn’t even learn to read it. I was like, ‘On the right side.’ How proud was I? I didn’t even learn to read it. I was like, ‘On the right side.’ He was like, ‘Okay.'”

Scheffler missed. It’s bad.

“He goes up and hits this putt, I’m not even kidding, he strokes it and when his head looks up — it’s a 10-footer — it’s three feet from the putter and it breaks like a left foot; I mean, just, vrooom,” Scott said on the podcast. “It doesn’t even have a chance — it has already left the hole and crashed to the left. And he just loses her. You go, ‘What are we doing out here?’ You know, because I’m not involved in the placement process, right.”

They ended up laughing it off, Scott said on the podcast. Fast forward two weeks now, to the US Open at Los Angeles Country Club.

“They allowed us to have green books to practice. “We haven’t had them in a long time,” Scott said on the podcast. “So I was memorizing the 6th hole, a small driveable hole, on Thursday night in case we hit it close. I’m like, I haven’t studied putts, but if he asks me, I’ll have this one in there because we’re probably going to have a close birdie putt. Sure, you hit it there close and as we’re coming up, I say, ‘Hey, I know I don’t read putts, but I memorized this one from the book – this putt won’t go left, OK. . You can read it, but don’t play it to break the left. It looks funny, but it won’t break on the left.’ OK.

Scheffler missed again. It’s bad.

“So you pass the putt,” Scott said on the podcast, “and it’s like a foot to the middle of the hole — I mean, it goes into the hole — and it goes out of the hole to the left. Vroooom. And he says, ‘When I hear the word ‘book’ or ‘TV’ again, I’ll lose my mind.’ He goes, ‘Why don’t you be confident, you’re a good student?’ And we both laughed a lot about that.

“So, as a caddy, you can foul your man. And those were two fun times, the most consecutive weeks for me to hit him. That always makes me laugh.”

Editor’s note: To listen to the entire Sweet Spot podcast with Scott, please click here.