Bryson DeChambeau’s former Caddie has an engaging

Tiger Woods put them together first: Bryson Dechambeau and Tony Finau, a giant bomb dynamic duo that stood out in a four-ball match in Real Melbourne on Thursday to kick off the 2019 Presidents Cup. Their sweaters are bright red, so are the bagged bibs. There is Finau’s caddie Greg Bodine, who has been around Finau since his rookie season in the PGA Tour. There is also DeChambeau’s caddy, Caddy Tim Tucker, who won eight past and future PGA Tours, including the second year U.S. Open.
Everything in the golf world has changed since then. But the sport operates in a mysterious way, and as of this summer, DeChambeau and Finau still hire Tucker and Bodine — they just flipped the employer. Their story is part of mixing and matching structures with large players and caddies throughout the sport.
Finau and Bodine split in the summer of 2020, while DeChambeau and Tucker broke up in the summer of 2021. Each rest is excited in its own way. Partnerships with so much history are often. So how do they switch employers? In 2023, DeChambeau hired Bodine in the most turbulent career of his career. Last week, while searching for missing pieces, Finau hired Tucker to complete the caddie exchange after six years.
No, this is not a deal that happens in other sports. But it Once was The latest engaging carousel seems to spin particularly quickly this year, with high-profile players and Rolls making real-time changes throughout the season.
If you go back to March, you get your first amazing split of the year, from Matt Fitzpatrick and Billy Foster, who teamed up to win the 2022 U.S. Open, 2023 2023 Ryder Cup and more. They separated the road after the player championship.
Then there are Joe Greiner and Max Homa, who lead the Masters. Homa tried Bill Harke in the following weeks, took his bag away for a few rounds, and settled with Lance Bennett, whose former employers included Tiger Woods.
Next comes Collin Morikawa and JJ Jakovac, who have been together for two professional and throughout the PGA tour term. The following Their Split, Morikawa hired Greiner, a close relationship between Morikawa and Homa, which was a logical move. Jakovac finds a new employer at Michael Thorbjornsen He will Leave it to Homa, completing the confusing three-team trade (Greiner to Morikawa, Jakovac, Thorbjornsen, Bennett to Homa) until Greiner and Morikawa broke a few weeks later.
Golf’s biggest collective heartache comes from fan favorites and the breakup between Netflix Darlings Joel Dahmen and Geno Bonnalie. The two best friends have been inseparable since Daman arrived on the tour. They said it quit in July after trying seven missed layoffs in eight weeks.
After the open championship, it was a particularly persuasive split when Joaquin Niemann broke up with his caddie (and coach) after the second straight few cuts. Niemann has been a great show at Liv, winning five times this season (four scheduled, again with his new caddie), but obviously hope for more.
Of course, hundreds of other players occurred during this period – videotapes, some permanent, some temporary, some difficult to define. Greiner joined Justin Thomas for a few weeks in April, an appropriate move that led to an iconic Hilton Head win. Morikawa tried to get a link to Foster’s golf swing, although they missed the Scottish Open and the Open Championship layoffs. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will have no Ted Scott, whose home tends to be family-leading in part last week and part of the upcoming BMW Championship.
But back to our original protagonist: July, Tucker splits with long-time employer Kurt Kitayama. Finau broke up with long-time caddie Mark Urbanek a few weeks later. Kitayama gained direct replacement success among his brothers, and Tucker even filled out Bodine at Liv’s Liv event in Finau, UK, while continuing the search and then hiring Fedex St. Jude Championship. It’s unclear the terms of their agreement, and when Finau will be next, as he missed the final two rounds of the FedEx Cup playoffs.
Meanwhile, Morikawa hired Urbanek; now, he has gone through the front loop of Homa, Fitzpatrick and Finau, part of a five-season season.
He and their people are the latest legends in one of the most interesting careers in sports where good times are great, and uncertain times are often tough. Caddy is important – we know so much. However, it is difficult to know exactly what makes a good person, it is difficult to know when the right person is, and it is difficult to know when to move on. But it happens all the time – sometimes with your ex-employer.
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Dylan Dethier
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Dylan Dethier is a senior writer at Golf Magazine/Golf.com. Williamstown, Massachusetts native joined the 2017 golf ball after two years of mini travel. Dethier graduated from Williams College, majoring in English, he is 18 in the United Stateswhich details the year he spent in his 18-year-old life and played golf in every state.



