Caddie Golf Tours

The St Andrews caddies returned to work on the Old Course and the other links courses after the enforced layoff, due to Covid-19, stopped them working on March 24th. St Andrews caddies with their golfers on Swilken Bridge This has been a tough time for the caddies who would have been working flat out with the majority of the 170 registered during the season looking at doing 2 loops a day. As it is we have close to 45 caddies available for work on the St Andrews Links caddying 2 loops a week. Caddie work is expected to increase as we move into the month of August and visiting golfers return to St Andrews and Scotland.   Caddies with golfers on Old Course 18th green A few expected restrictions are in place: suitable distancing, golf bag is placed on a complimentary push trolley with sanitized handle, no handling of players clubs or golf ball, caddie to provide hole information and shot advice as normal. No one in the group is allowed to touch the flagstick. Outwith that it is busines...

The Caddie Master at St Andrews has created a hardship fund to assist the Caddies who work here on the St Andrews golf courses, and because of the coronavirus Covid-19 will have no income this year, or very little. You can help the St Andrews Caddies by making a contribution, no matter how small, on the following GoFundMe page:  https://www.gofundme.com/f/st-andrews-caddies Thank you for reading and contributing...FORE!!!

The St Andrews caddies got a fantastic day of golf on the Eden Course for our annual Dinger Bell Trophy and Stumpy Memorial Plaque, our thanks goes to the St Andrews Links Trust for their assistance with our tee times, it is truly appreciated. The golfers prepare... The field was a little light this year due to these two great caddie competition being played a month later than is usual but nonetheless they are still being played and we thank the competitors for turning out. Nicky smooths it down the 1st fairway Captain Coyne drives with carefree abandon.. The understated and mistakenly overlooked Eden Course, established 1914, at St Andrews is our venue and as always proves a demanding test for our competitors albeit today it was in the most delightful of November weather conditions, a stunning no wind day with some gorgeous sunshine appearing through the round. 3rd tee Eden Course St Andrews The legendary St Andrews caddie Nicky Findlay is victorious this y...

Oliver wins a 'cap' at St. Andrews Caddies Golf Outing! Click on the following to be taken to the CBS This Morning page and Oliver's interview. Here is my friend and fellow St. Andrews Caddie, Oliver, promoting his book 'An American Caddie in St. Andrews' on the CBS Morning Show. Good job Ollie.

American-Caddie-St-Andrews-GrowingUp Oliver, our good friend from New York, who seems to have been hanging around the Old Course in St. Andrews for as long as my 11 years has been diligently working away on his book in-between golfing, caddying on the legendary links golf courses of St. Andrews and attending classes at Harvard University. Ollie blasting it on the range at Dukes Course St. Andrews Ollie wins a hat (!) at St. Andrews Caddie's Golf Day Every year sometime around mid May, much like a returning migratory bird, Oliver Horovitz swings round in front of the R&A clubhouse, strolls down the gentle slope to the St. Andrews Caddie Pavilion, wearing a big wide smile and one of his trademark baseball caps perched in a manner and tilt that is unique to those of a younger generation from the USA. A warm handshake and 'hey...whats happening'? Oliver has returned for another summer on the Links of St. Andrews...and it is a better place because ...

The 2010 annual Dod Stewart Memorial Trophy will be played between the Caddies and the Links Trust on Monday 28th February 2011. This is the rearranged match from last November which was cancelled due to the severe weather. 1st green on the Eden Course It means that Boyne has, fortunately, got the call to participate as a clash of dates last November meant he had to pull out for the first time since he began caddying at St. Andrews in 2002. I shall be partnering my old golfing companion the impressive Mr. A. Howie and our tee time is 09.12am on the Eden Course. The competition is Fourball Match Play with a total of six matches. Let the games begin!

Your very own St. Andrews Caddie, me, and good friend David Coyne will be starting our 96 mile charity walk along the famous West Highland Way which begins in Milngavie on the north side of Glasgow, winds its' way along the stunningly beautiful Loch Lomond, up and down a few mountains into the magnificent Highlands of Scotland and our final destination of Fort William. The Old Course at St. Andrews will be closing down next Saturday for three weeks as the greenkeepers make their final preparations for the Open Championship and it was felt that this would be a good time to do something worthwhile. The journey is expected to take five days, beginning on Saturday 19th June and finishing on Wednesday 23rd June. An average days walk will be 20 miles...we should manage it! John Boyne  and David Coyne  with 1998 Open Champion Mark O'Meara last Friday who supports the St. Andrews Caddies Charity Walk   Any sponsorship contributions can be made at the Caddie Pavilion adja...