{"id":1187868,"date":"2026-09-05T12:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1187868\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T12:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:39:19","slug":"scottie-schefflers-caddie-earned-more-than-a-major-champion-in-2026-as-staggering-payday-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1187868\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler’s caddie earned more than a major champion in 2026 as staggering payday revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scottie Scheffler made so much money in 2026 that his caddie likely took home enough to rank in the top 30 PGA Tour earners.<\/p>\n

The world No. 1 overtook Tiger Woods<\/a>‘ all-time record with $121 million banked over his career to date.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Scott will be the envy of other caddiesCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Almost $54 million of that came in 2026 thanks to inflated prize purses.<\/p>\n

Scheffler will take the lion’s share, but Tedd Scott has been paid handsomely for holding his bag.<\/p>\n

Caddies usually earn 10 percent of prize money for a win as a bonus, as well as payouts in the region of 7-8 percent for top-20 finishes and 5 percent for made cuts.<\/p>\n

All partnerships are different, and Scheffler admits he isn’t sure how much he pays his bagman.<\/p>\n

MORE ON SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s been a fun year. I don\u2019t really think about the money that much. At the end of the day, I\u2019m just playing golf and the money is just a gift on top of that,” he told Pardon My Take in 2024.<\/p>\n

“We have a girl that helps us pay bills because I\u2019m basically a child and can\u2019t keep track of that stuff.<\/p>\n

“She quickly took over that job and texts me at the end of each week saying. ‘Hey, this is how much we\u2019re paying Ted.’ I\u2019m like, ‘That\u2019s great.'”<\/p>\n

Golf Monthly<\/a> has taken a stab at working out how much Scott could have earned and came up with a figure of $5.88 million.<\/p>\n

That is more than Aaron Rai ($5.7 million) despite the Englishman’s incredible PGA Championship<\/a> triumph.<\/p>\n

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Scheffler has made his bagman a fortuneCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

It is not far off Ryan Fox either, as The Open Championship winner took home around $6.3 million.<\/p>\n

LPGA Tour leader\u00a0Nelly Korda<\/a> who already has two majors this term also comes out just in front of Scott.<\/p>\n

Scottie Scheffler had no interest in chasing LIV fortune<\/p>\n

For a very rich man, money is not the be all and end all for Scheffler.<\/p>\n

Scott shared some insight into his fiend’s mindset when LIV Golf<\/a> was targeting the world’s best players and revealed that no amount of zeros would have been enough.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, the guy, literally, when I first started working for him, was 19th in the world and he had a white golf bag,\u201c Scott said on The Gravy & The Sleeze Podcast after\u00a0Scheffler won the $10 million Tour Championship.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know him that well, and I asked him. I was like, \u2018why don\u2019t you have sponsors\u2019? And he\u2019s like, \u2018well, because I just want to play with the equipment that I want to play\u2019. And I was like, \u2018okay\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Scott has worked with Scheffler for yearsCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then I remember whenever all the LIV stuff was going on, you know, he was number one in the world at the time, I didn\u2019t know, but I said, \u2018They\u2019re probably going to offer you like $250 million to go over there\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd he said, \u2018I don\u2019t care what they offer me. They can offer me a billion dollars. I\u2019m going to play where the best players are because I just want to beat people\u2019.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was like, \u2018wow, this guy\u2019s just different\u2019, you know. So, the $10 million [Tour Championship prize] doesn\u2019t matter to that guy, and you know, if we were in the\u00a0pool\u00a0playing volleyball, he would want to beat you just as bad as he wants to beat you at the FedEx Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, that\u2019s the essence of who Scottie is and that\u2019s what he loves. So I think partially part of his superpower is that the money doesn\u2019t distract him.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler made so much money in 2026 that his caddie likely took home enough to rank in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1187869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,4366,321931,321927,321926,10524,4298,84296,321930,16530,4288,122642,321929,55143,79,51506,321923,321922,321928,321925,321924,16,15],"class_list":["post-1187868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-golf-news","tag-highest-paid-caddies","tag-how-much-has-scheffler-caddie-earned","tag-how-much-is-scheffler-caddie-paid","tag-pga","tag-pga-tour","tag-presidents-cup","tag-richest-caddies","tag-scheffler","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-scottie-scheffler-caddie","tag-scottie-scheffler-caddie-earnings","tag-scottie-scheffler-net-worth","tag-sports","tag-ted-scott","tag-ted-scott-earnings","tag-ted-scott-net-worth","tag-ted-scott-salary","tag-tedd-scott-2026-earnings","tag-tedd-scott-salary","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1187869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}