Scottie Scheffler reveals financial arrangement with caddie Ted Scott

They say there’s never been a better time to be an elite golfer, but Scottie Scheffler has taken things to a whole new level in 2024.

The world No.1’s $25million FedEx Cup bonus payout for winning the season-ending Tour Championship lifted his season earnings alone to over $62m on the course.

With seven victories, his official PGA Tour tournament earnings – just under half the total sum – smashed his own record of $21m he set just last year.

And if we’re including the additional bonuses, it all translates to an absurd $12,000 for every competitive shot the Texan has hit during his record-shattering year.

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“It’s been a fun year, I don’t really think about the money that much,” he said in a guest appearance on the Pardon My Take podcast. “I think that kind of becomes a big deal with the FedEx and everything, but at the end of the day I’m just playing golf and the money is just a gift on top of that.”

But what does all that mean for his indispensable caddie Ted Scott? In short, a lot of cash.

In professional golf, the winner of a tournament typically gives their caddie 10% of the prize money. If they finish in the top-ten its 7% and 5% for anything beneath that. It goes without saying Scheffler wasn’t exactly short of top-tens on the PGA Tour.

It is estimated that Scott earned $5,2m this season – not that Scheffler is keeping tabs, however.

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“We have a girl that helps us pay bills basically because I’m a child and I can’t keep track of all that stuff,” the two-time Masters champ revealed. “She quickly took over that job and texts me at the end of every week, and is like, ‘Hey, this is how much we’re paying Ted.’ I’m like, ‘That’s great. Perfect.'”

Scheffler also went into further detail about his remarkable rise to the money-spinning elite.

“I remember playing my first PGA Tour event as a pro and I didn’t play grea,” he recalled. “I finished maybe 40th place. It was, like, two weeks after graduating college, and I made 30 or 40 grand or something like that.

“I remember looking at Meredith when I got home, and I got the text – you get a text from the Tour after each tournament telling you how much money you made, and I looked at her and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I just got paid for that? That’s insane!’”

Those conversations must look slightly different now.

Ben Parsons joined bunkered as a Content Producer in 2023 and is the man to come to for all of the latest news, across both the professional and amateur games. Formerly of The Mirror and Press Association, he is a member at Halifax Golf Club and is a long-suffering fan of both Manchester United and the Wales rugby team.