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Originally Posted by revots33
I'm not arguing it's not a tough job physically or mentally... but so are a lot of jobs that get paid far less.
I just think caddies make almost zero difference to the outcome. How much less successful would Phil have been over his career with a random different caddy?
It's really hard to quantify. Maybe a good way to describe it is the more comfortable a caddy makes you feel in all aspects of the game, the freer the golfer is and the higher the ceiling. When totally freed up a golfer can shoot zero, when not comfortable at all he can't break par.
With Phil, perhaps without Bones he doesn't make that putt at Augusta in 2004 and loses the playoff. Then he never breaks through at a major and finishes with zero instead of five. Butterfly Effect in a way, we just don't know.