This one won’t go away.
It’s taken on a life of its own — basically because no one has put it to bed — not Matt Kuchar and not the local caddie who was on his bag at the Mayakoba Classic.
The sage of Kuch The Cheapskate began late Friday when Champions Tour player Tom Gillis fired into the Twitter-Sphere that Good Old Kuch compensated his Mayakoba caddie after his victory with the paltry sum of $3,000.
What’s left of the golf writing world descended upon Kuchar after he finished his third round at the Sony Open.
Kuch tried to address the Tweet but really didn’t with this:
“It wasn’t $3,000 and it wasn’t 10 percent.”
Well, all Kuch had to do was put an exact number on it. If it was a decent number, say $50,000, then say so. If it was a crappy number, say $15,000, then it’s understandable why Kuch didn’t want to elaborate.
The fact that Kuch declared “It’s not a story,” doesn’t make the story go away.
He didn’t do anything to make it go away.
Golf Digest and a bunch of other heavy-duty golf publications have been trying to get something straight from the horse’s mouth and that would be David Giral Ortiz, the local caddie who worked for Kuch and helped him earn that $1.3 million first place money.
Alas, nothing from Ortiz, whose nickname is “El Tucan.”
There’s also nothing from Gillis as far as who his source might have been.
In the meantime, there’s been a storm on Twitter.
And Kuch is front and center in the middle of it.
2 Comments
Jackg34
Frankly, it’s no one’s business what Kuch paid h it s caddie, a local. For all anyone knows, there was an agreement between them. That’s the end of it. Let it go.
Tom Edrington
Unfortunately Jack, this is the day and age of social media….the regular press didn’t start this, another player started it, Kuch could end it but frankly, as you put it, high profile guys are subject to scrutiny in social media….it is the age we live in, your statement is something they’d throw out about 30 years ago.