You won and you're still that cheap, it's borderline fraud and what a Kooooch!

[theking]

 ..if true...:

PGA Tour's Matt Kuchar is the new face of cheapness

Cheapness has a new face. It also has a new sound: Kooooch!

PGA Tour golfer Matt Kuchar doubled down on his cheapskateynes s this week when he tried to justify paying David “El Tucan” Ortiz, a fill-in local club caddie, $5,000 for helping him win $1.3 million in November at the Mayakoba Golf Classic in Mexico.

Let’s do the math, shall we? If you divide $5,000 by $1.3 million, it works out to … Matt Kuchar is a jerk who paid his caddie less than four-tenths of 1 percent.

The math doesn't look much better after Kuchar caved Friday and agreed to pay Ortiz the full $50,000 he had recently requested. 

Regular PGA Tour caddies earn between 5 and 10 percent of their player’s winnings each week, with the rate rising according to the order of finish. That means under normal circumstances, Kuchar’s caddie could have earned $130,000.

Imagine that. Kuchar's initial payment was like going to a restaurant and having great service and a wonderful meal for $100, then tipping the waiter 38 cents. Oh, and the waiter carried around your dirty dishes for a whole week.

Kuchar said he and Ortiz initially agreed on a graduated paycheck before the tournament. At the Genesis Open near Los Angeles on Wednesday night, Kuchar told Golf.com he was disappointed Ortiz felt he was underpaid after the fact.

“I kind of think someone got in his ear,” Kuchar said. “I was very clear and very upfront on Tuesday (of the tournament week). And he said, ‘OK.’ He had the ability, with bonuses, to make up to $4,000. …

“The extra $1,000 was, ‘Thank you — it was a great week.’ Those were the terms. He was in agreement with those terms. That’s where I struggle. I don’t know what happened. Someone must have said, ‘You need much more.’ ”

Someone did, Kuch. Pretty much the entire golf world. Lake Orion’s own Tom Gillis, a former PGA Tour pro now on the Champions Tour, was among the first to chime in last month with a tweet criticizing Kuchar.

On Thursday, Gillis tweeted about Kuchar’s comments: “What would Jack or Arnie done in this situation??? Seized the opportunity to change a mans life.”

“Making $5,000 is a great week.” Facing criticism over payment, Matt Kuchar defends the agreement he had with his fill-in caddie at Mayakoba.

There was a GoFundMe page trying to raise $45,000 for Ortiz. Gillis had kicked in $100.

Kuchar’s behavior and explanations are ridiculous and embarrassing. But they’re borderline profane when you consider he’s 10th on the PGA Tour’s career earnings list with $46,627,590. And he just earned $1.152 million last month for winning the Sony Open.

Kuchar also has lucrative sponsor deals with Bridgestone, Workday and Skechers. Hmm, I wonder what some unhappy emails to those companies might do to Kuchar’s deal.

Kuchar did well to make this right by agreeing Friday to pay the full amount, but he'd do even better if he presented the check to Ortiz at next week’s World Golf Championship in Mexico City.

Even if he does, he might get plenty of heat from angry fans who will be chanting something that sounds a lot like Kooooch but isn’t. Kind of the way $5,000 might seem fair to some people but isn’t.

[starchaser1989]

Can’t even make a honest respond (neutral or not) to theking without getting stealth deleted by a favor mod, so I’ll go with……


gotta start watching the PGA

[theking]

Can’t even make a honest respond (neutral or not) to theking without getting stealth deleted by a favor mod, so I’ll go with……


gotta start watching the PGA

Same to you as my posts have been "stealth deleted" too...

With that said, one thing's for sure: FACTS BEAT IGNORANCE!

[Gucci K]

some people are just fortunate enough to meet, let alone caddie for a pro golfer and on top of that, gets paid thousands doing so!   There is a reason why one is a pro golfer and another, a caddie...pro golfer makes the money, a caddie is a pro at carrying golf clubs and luggages. 

There was no "fraud"...sounds like they had a prior agreement, win or lose, the caddie was going to make $4000, the $1000 was actually the tip.  kuchar held his end of the bargain and that was the "FACT", there shouldn't have been any shaming.  Those who did shame him, were probably upset about losing the tournament.   the caddie himself shouldn't have made a big deal neither, it might have ruined his future opportunities to caddie, most likely not with kuchar but other pro golfers, too.

this is no different than me winning the lottery and promising you guys lunch, don't be expecting my money too!

[YAX]

To those who are complaining: In the end, it's his money, he decides how he wants to spend it, not anyone else, definitely not the fans, nor you.  Or.. are you advocating socialism?

[theking]

To those who are complaining: In the end, it's his money, he decides how he wants to spend it, not anyone else, definitely not the fans, nor you.  Or.. are you advocating socialism?

Look who comes crawling back to prove me right again after crying "ignore"... ...No different than his fellow member of their narrow minded ignorant clique when she cried, "I will stop reading what you write"..

And yep, my posts will get "stealth deleted" again...which is good because it'll really prove their ignorance wrong as my posts get "stealth deleted" too...WATCH!!!

Even though most people can comprehend the simple reason why the golfer ended up paying what he owes to the caddy, these members of the narrow minded ignorant clique just can't ...