Grammarist<\/a>, one is a golfer’s attendant whilst the other is a (primarily British) vehicle for holding tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBut it isn’t quite that simple. Even the purists acknowledge that it is legitimate to use the word “caddy”<\/strong> to describe a golfer’s helper, and indeed both spellings are frequently employed, sometimes interchangeably. <\/p>\n\n\n\nIn its golfing context the word, however spelled, derives from the French “cadet”<\/strong>, meaning a trainee.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhichever the correct way to spell the word, the importance of the caddy (or caddie) to professional golfers cannot easily be overstated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To those unfamiliar with the sport of golf, the caddy (or caddie) is sometimes regarded as a lowly creature, dutifully carrying his master’s bags and doing the donkey work while the golfer himself or herself basks in the glory of the success which comes with victory out on the golf course. And is true, of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Golf-Caddy.jpg",600,450,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Golf-Caddy-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Golf-Caddy-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Golf-Caddy.jpg",600,450,false],"large":["https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Golf-Caddy.jpg",600,450,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Golf-Caddy.jpg",600,450,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Golf-Caddy.jpg",600,450,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"
To those unfamiliar with the sport of golf, the caddy (or caddie) is sometimes regarded as a lowly creature, dutifully carrying his master’s bags and doing the donkey work while the golfer himself or herself basks in the glory of the success which comes with victory out on the golf course. And is true, of course, that as in any sport golf is about those who play, and win tournaments. A golf caddy is indeed there to help the player by whom he or she is employed. That is what a caddy in golf does. But there is much more…<\/p>\n","category_list":"Rules<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Phil Andrews","url":"https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/author\/phil-andrews\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hailridgegolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}