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re: Have we talked about Matt Kuchar paying his caddy $5k after his win at Mayakoba?
Posted on 2/14/19 at 10:14 am to donRANDOMnumbers
Posted on 2/14/19 at 10:14 am to donRANDOMnumbers
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here is the shakedown now that Kuch has spoken.
PRIOR to the tournament they had an agreed on price of 4k for his services. Win, Lose, or Draw.
After Kuch won he gave him 5k, which is more than they agreed.
After he reached out to Kuch's agent he agreed to give him 20k. which the caddy denied.
There are two arguments:
1. Kuch should give him the standard 5%. regardless of their agreement.
2. Say kuch misses the cut, he would have still given El Toucan the 4k they agreed upon.
Kuch's explanation is that they had a deal, plain and simple. Then after his requests he offered him 20k which he believes was fair.
I'm torn on this as a deal is a deal. 5k for a CLUB CADDY is pretty damn good. My opinion is that he should have taken the 20k when it was offered.
however social media and some bad advise now has us to the point that Kuch looks like an arse and El Toucan will be black balled for carrying any pro, ever.
I am Team Kuch on this. A deal is a deal. He then turned down $20k and went to the media. Screw that guy.
Plus, I will guarantee you that if this guy was pivotal to the win Kuch would have given him way more. He could have just carried his bag and cleaned his clubs for all we know.
ETA: There were probably a line of guys willing to do it for free just for the experience. This guy took the deal and denied many others from the experience. If he wouldn't have taken the deal then who knows Kuch could have offered it to a more thankful and grateful no name caddy.
This post was edited on 2/14/19 at 10:17 am
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Posted on 2/14/19 at 10:25 am to lsu13lsu
quote:I can't support the caddy at all considering he tried to blackmail Kuch. Should Kuch have originally offered more than 4k after the win? Yes. I think he should have. But once he offers the 20k (which many people thought would be perfectly fine when this first made news) and the caddy doesn't take it thinking he can squeeze more out of it, then he's lost any respect.
I am Team Kuch on this. A deal is a deal. He then turned down $20k and went to the media. Screw that guy.
You also make a good point about the caddy being black balled. Kuch will still make his money playing golf. This guy isn't going to make 5k caddying for anyone ever again. And he could have had 25k.
Posted on 2/14/19 at 10:44 am to lsu13lsu
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Plus, I will guarantee you that if this guy was pivotal to the win Kuch would have given him way more
The entire crux of the situation is Kuch is a cheap arse so I disagree. He's allegedly notorious on tour for doing this kind of thing.
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There were probably a line of guys willing to do it for free just for the experience
That are professional, even club, caddies, no there aren't.
Again, this doesn't have to be "fair" or "right. " When one guy is extremely wealthy and the other is lives in what a lot of Americans park their lawnmowers in in their backyard it isn't as simple as I lost $200 to my buddy on a bet I shouldn't have made.
Both parties are somewhat to blame here with the caddy turning down the money, but it's painfully obvious who's going to catch hell here and Kucher and his team should have realized that and just paid the guy.
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