ATLANTA – Caddie Ted Scott will be back on the bag for Scottie Scheffler this week at the Tour Championship, the finale of the FedEx Cup playoffs.
Scott, who has caddied for 17 of Scheffler’s 18 PGA Tour titles since joining forces in November 2021, including all four majors, missed the final round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship two weeks ago due to a personal matter. He drove home to Louisiana to be with his family and Brad Payne, a chaplain and friend of Scheffler’s, drove in from Dallas to fill in at TPC Southwind. Scheffler shot 67 and finished T-3.
Last week, Scott skipped the BMW Championship to be at home.
“I think Ted’s where he needs to be right now, and I think caddying is probably the last thing on his mind, as it should be,” Scheffler said ahead of last week’s tournament. “I’ve been able to talk to him a few times. The family is in good spirits. Everybody seems to be doing well. I’m not going to comment any further on anything going on with his family.”
Michael Cromie filled in for Ted Scott at BMW
Scheffler opted to use Michael Cromie, who regularly caddies for Chris Kirk, at the recommendation of Scott, and Scheffler notched his fifth win of the season, a two-shot come-from-behind victory over Robert MacIntyre. Scheffler had begun the round four strokes back but erased the deficit after five holes and grabbed the lead by the seventh. His dramatic chip-in birdie at 17 is one of the signature shots of the season and gave him a cushion in closing in 67. Scheffler didn’t miss a beat without his trusty caddie as Cromie filled in admirably and made off with a Rolex watch given to the winning caddie and a sizable check. [Scheffler banked $3.5 million for the win.]
“Cromie is a guy that works hard. He does his prep work, and he was an easy guy for me to trust out there,” Scheffler said on Sunday. “I felt like we did a good job of talking through our shots and staying patient and keep doing the right things even when things were looking a little bit squirrelly there on the back nine. We did a good job of staying focused and continuing to hit shots at the right targets. Closed the tournament out nicely.”
That they did, and this week Scheffler and Scott will be reunited as they seek to repeat as FedEx Cup champions, an achievement that has never been done before since the season-long competition debuted in 2007.
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