PLAYA DEL CARMEN, MEXICO | It’s rare but not terribly uncommon for a wife of a professional golfer to caddie for her husband, as evidenced by past partnerships like Nicki Stricker looping for her husband, Steve, or Justine Reed taking the bag for her husband, Patrick.
What you won’t almost certainly won’t see is a player’s wife caddying for someone else, a situation that presented itself on Thursday at the Mayakoba Golf Classic.
The group of Matt Kuchar, Zach Johnson and Billy Horschel went around their first nine as they normally would until the turn, when Johnson’s longtime caddie, Damon Green, could no longer handle the heat. With Johnson caddieless and only a few members of the gallery following the group, the options for a replacement seemed limited.
