Caddie
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Date: 2021-12-11

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A caddie plies his trade, 2007 Imaginative drawing by journalist Marguerite Martyn of a couple at the Forest Park Golf Course, Forest Road, Missouri, in 1914, while a caddie leans against a fence A golf caddie,
1790, by Lemuel Francis Abbott In golf, a caddie （or caddy） is the person who carries a player's bag and clubs, and gives the player advice and moral support.
A good caddie is aware of the challenges and obstacles of the golf course being played, along with the best strategy in playing it.
This includes knowing overall yardage, pin placements and club selection.
A caddie is not usually an employee of a private club or resort.
They are classified as an "independent contractor", meaning that they are basically self-employed and do not receive any benefits or perks from their association with the club.
Some clubs and resorts do have caddie programs, although benefits are rarely offered.
Particularly in Europe, the vast majority of clubs do not offer caddies, and amateur players will commonly carry or pull their own bags.
The Scots word caddie or cawdy was derived in the 17th century from the French word cadet and originally meant a student military officer.
It later came to refer to someone who did odd jobs.
By the 19th century, it had come to mean someone who carried clubs for a golfer, or in its shortened form, cad, a man of disreputable behaviour.
The first caddies appeared in 1817 in Edinburgh.
It is believed that the first use of a caddie was by The Duke of Albany of Scotland in 1681 while playing the first international golf contest at Leith Links, which resulted in the construction of Golfers Land in Edinburgh.
For over the next century and a half, caddying was exclusively considered to be an occupation centered on a particular golf club although as golf courses proliferated and the sport was increasingly taken up by the middle class and working classes,
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