Book Review – Who’s Your Caddy? by Rick Reilly

Reilly offers to caddy for free with pro golfers, businessmen, celebrities and even a blind golfer. He knows nothing about caddying but thinks he can learn something about the players. Who’s Your Caddy? is his funny account you will learn some inside information about the personalities and the pitfalls of hiring a Sports Illustrated writer as your caddy. He also hears good banter from fellow caddies with many characters like Snake, Angelo and Mitch.

He caddies for Tommy Aaron at the Masters and is told to “Keep his mouth off the ball” when he tells Aaron’s ball to “Get ‘up”. The golfer says it adds to the pressure.
-Reilly learns about John Daly’s life with the copious amounts of diet coke drunk, the many wives, the gambling, drinking and his fines from the PGA. And his amazing golf.

When playing with Donald Trump he mentions the hair, that everything is “the best, the most incredible, top of the line Baby”. Everyone is called Baby. He loves his golf and is very good at it with some mulliigans thrown in to help improve his score.

He explains Tom Lehman’s decency as a human, his dedication to his family, the great iron striking and how he had some tough days in his climb to the PGA Tour. He can also do a mean Bernhard Langer accent and describes why he crinks his neck before his shots.

When caddying for David Duval he finds out that is essential to have his Copenhagen dip ready and never to lose it, loves his gin game and intellectual reading. He is a snowboarder and fisherman and shot that famous 59 on the last round to win by one.

Learns from Dewey Tomko, the world’s biggest golfing gambler and the culture of other golf gamblers who play in Vegas.

Caddies for Jack Nicklaus. Ranks him as the most thoughtful and gracious interviews of all the thousands of athletes. Nicklaus shares thoughts on his golf, golf technology’s impact on golf, his golf course design business and Tiger. He is a fanatical fisherman.

You learn Deepak Chopra is not a very good golfer but loves the game. This spiritual man had Phil Mickelson’s sister edit his book.The game takes him back to his childhood with memories of cricket. He doesn’t like to keep score or have an income, however, he there are signs he does. Golf can be a meditation and you can be aware of the surroundings

He discusses Casey Martin’s plight of his battles with the PGA to ride a cart because of his disability. The leg is so brittle it can snap. He played on Tiger’s team at Stanford with an excellent golf game and graduated in economics. He won the Supreme Court case. Unfortunately he did not qualify at La Quinta saying it was tough getting in and out of the Pete Dye bunkers

Loves the time spent at Bel-Air caddying for funnyman Bob Newhart who cracks him up with stories from his tv shows and the celebrities that play on this L.A. course. Did you know he was once an unemployed accountant?

Caddies for the beautiful Jill McGill, LPGA player and learns that female professional golfers really more heavily on the guidance of caddies. The Korean work ethic, lesbianism and other sleeping arrangements are discussed

Learns to caddy for a blind golfer who lost his sight after grenades went off beside him in Vietnam. There is a new appreciation of how they view life, what they sense and how important a good caddy makes their round more enjoyable.