2 caddies reveal which looper has the best chance of making a PGA Tour cut

Forward of this 12 months’s U.S. OpenTour caddies Austin Kaiser (Xander Schauffele) and John Ellis (Wyndham Clark) sat down with Subpar hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz to speak some store.

On the docket: the historical past they’ve with their gamers, late-night shenanigansEllis’ standing as a mini-tour legend, and an evaluation of the enjoying potential of a few of their friends.

However first, Ellis shared a number of phrases about Clark that turned out to be fairly prophetic.

“He’s been knocking on the door,” Ellis stated, in response to Knost’s query about whether or not or not Ellis was shocked by Clark’s first PGA Tour win on the Wells Fargo Championship. “I really felt like he was prepared this 12 months. I do know he’d been shut the previous couple of years, or had probabilities to win.

“Expertise-wise, ability-wise, who he’s as a golfer, positive he shoulda gained,” Ellis continued. “I believed his maturity stage wanted to be the place it’s now to win golf tournaments. And he’s there. And I count on him to win a number of golf tournaments. I actually imagine he’s among the best gamers on the planet based mostly on what he’s doing now. I don’t assume he was prepared to try this a number of years in the past, even with having the expertise and expertise that he had.”

Certain sufficient, Clark won his maiden major championship at Los Angeles Nation Membership final Sunday, simply days after this interview befell.

All through the interview, Knost and Stoltz peppered Kaiser and Ellis with questions on Tour caddie life. And whereas each loopers demurred when Knost requested them to call the professional most definitely to separate a dinner invoice together with his caddie, Kaiser and Ellis had been in settlement on a solution to the subsequent matter: the caddie most definitely to make the lower in a PGA Tour occasion.

“Is determined by the course,” Kaiser stated. “When you go to love a short-hitters course —”

“Puerto Rico, I feel [Max Homa’s caddie Joe] Greiner may make the lower,” Ellis stated.

“However you get him on like, Torrey South, he has zero probability,” Kaiser stated.

“Most individuals don’t have an opportunity on the market,” Stoltz quipped.

For extra from Kaiser, Ellis, Stoltz and Knost, take a look at the total interview beneath.

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