{"id":21662,"date":"2016-10-27T08:17:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T08:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/million-dollar-bonanza-for-mcilroys-caddie\/"},"modified":"2016-10-27T08:17:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T08:17:42","slug":"million-dollar-bonanza-for-mcilroys-caddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/million-dollar-bonanza-for-mcilroys-caddie\/","title":{"rendered":"Million Dollar Bonanza for McIlroy’s Caddie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Most of us waiting for $9 million to be deposited in our bank account would be checking the online balance every five minutes. Rory McIlroy, on the other hand, is a little more relaxed about these things. <\/p>\n

He first learned that his bonus for winning the Tour Championship season finale on the US PGA Tour in September (or, more accurately, 90 per cent of it up front – $9 million) had been paid was when he received a message from his long-time caddie J.P. Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n

“I think his words were, ‘A tsunami just hit my bank account, so thank you very much,'” McIlroy said on the eve of the HSBC Champions. “J.P. got a nice percentage of that, so I knew at that point it was already there.” <\/p>\n

McIlroy actually paid Fitzgerald 10 per cent of the $9 million, then another 10 per cent of the $1.53 million he earned for winning the Tour Championship. “So the total was $1.05 million,” McIlroy said. “I think he was quite happy.” <\/p>\n

This single payday (which is what the 100th ranked player won for the whole 2015-16 season) is exceptional but the top caddies can make quite a lucrative living – if their players are in hot form, of course.<\/p>\n

A Forbes study found that, in 2014, at least 10 caddies on tour earned as much as $600,000. Most established players pay around eight per cent of prizemoney and 10 per cent for a win to their caddie, according to James Edmondson, president of the Association of Professional Tour Caddies, although younger players and those without a consistent caddie might revert to the traditional five\/seven\/10 per cent formula for these results: making a cut\/top 10\/winning. Caddies also earn $1,500 to $2,500 per event in base pay. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of us waiting for $9 million to be deposited in our bank account would be checking the online balance every five minutes. Rory McIlroy, on the other hand, is a little more relaxed about these things. He first learned that his bonus for winning the Tour Championship season finale on the US PGA Tour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}