Who's Your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf
by Rick Reilly
Why You'll Love This
Rick Reilly got Jack Nicklaus to let a sportswriter carry his bag at a real tournament — and somehow talked a dozen other pros into the same bad idea.
- Great if you want: golf insider access wrapped in self-deprecating sports comedy
- The experience: breezy and fast — chapter-length adventures you can read between rounds
- The writing: Reilly's jokes land hard; his rhythm is tight, punchy, built for grins
- Skip if: you want deep golf analysis — this is laughs, not instruction
About This Book
What if the best seat in golf isn't in the gallery or the broadcast booth, but on the bag? That's the premise Rick Reilly tests by actually strapping on a caddy bib and looping for some of the sport's biggest names—Jack Nicklaus, John Daly, Casey Martin, and others—at real Tour events. The access is extraordinary, the results are often chaotic, and what emerges is a portrait of golfers as you've never quite seen them: sweating, muttering, occasionally cheating, and utterly unguarded. Reilly earns his way into their world one awkward yardage book at a time, and the intimacy that comes from walking eighteen holes beside someone turns out to be revelatory.
What makes the book work is Reilly's comic timing and his gift for the telling detail—he's never just reporting, he's performing, and the prose moves with the snap of a good column stretched into something richer. Each chapter functions as its own self-contained adventure, so the book reads with satisfying momentum whether you tackle it straight through or dip in and out. It's funny in ways that also illuminate something true about competition, ego, and the strange grip golf has on its devotees.