Before golf carts for golf bags, there were caddies. They are a dying breed now, but they are still the fodder of golf whale tales, the butt of jokes, and the subject of Hollywood movies.
There’s the famous old caddie William Gunn, a.k.a. Caddie Willie, who apparently labored most of his adult life at the illustrious St. Andrews course in Scotland. Then there is the lore of the caddie shack, where all sorts of unmentionables perhaps occurred out of sight of a club’s members. And who can forget the hilarious movie of the same name that forever changed the way we thought about groundskeepers, gophers, and country club members.