Scottie Scheffler’s caddie, and 1 of his biggest errors (which led to 2 outbursts!)

Ted Scott, when asked to dish on his biggest caddie blunders, starts with a joke. There’s a saying in the looping business, he says.

“And that is, we made five birdies and then he bogeyed the last.

“So that’s how I like to caddie.”

Talking on a recent episode of The Sweet Spot podcast — which you can and should listen to in full here — Scott then laughed. Yeah, Scottie Scheffler’slooper said, he’s errored. One mistake, specifically, he remembers well. It’s “hilarious” to him — even after it led to a pair of outbursts from his pro.

To set things up, Scott said it came in June of 2023, around the time when Scheffler’s ball-striking was considered other-worldly, and his putting a bit pedestrian. At the Memorial, Scott said, player and caddie worked on the shortcoming.

“And literally on Wednesday, he’s doing the putting drill and he’s making everything,” Scott said on the podcast. “He’s just killing it. And he’s beating it by a lot. We’re doing putts over 10 feet, and he’s making 50 percent of them. I’m going, ‘What’s going on? You’re rolling everything in.’ And I said to him, I said, ‘Hey, you notice something?’

“And he stopped for a minute, and Scottie is very bright. I don’t know if you all know that, but he’s got a super-high IQ. He’s so smart. And he goes, ‘You’re right — you’re fired.’ He already knew what I was talking about. I didn’t read a putt and he’s making everything. I was like, ‘OK, you got it.’”

Thursday’s first round came. Scott stayed away.

The woes persisted, though.

“Well, Friday morning — we’re going to play in the afternoon on Friday — so Friday morning I’m watching the coverage trying to get some insight, maybe see the way a ball bounces or a putt rolls or something,” Scott said on the podcast. “And sure enough, on hole 12, the hardest par-3, you know it’s brutal. They had the pin on the front right, that everybody’s going to pull it as a right-hander and go in the back bunker, and the back bunker, you can’t get it close, so you dump it out and it goes to 10 feet and it’s like a funnel — everybody’s going to have their par putt from the same place.

“And sure enough, as I’m watching the coverage, and I watch four people hit it in that bunker and knock it out to 10 feet and there’s a sprinkler head right behind them on the fringe and they’re all hitting their putt from there and they’re all playing about 4 to 5 inches of break and it’s not breaking an inch. Everybody’s missing it a cup right.”