Curtis Strange

“I worked for Kinney Shoes selling shoes in the mall. I did it pretty much my last couple years of high school. I remember going to basketball practice and then going to work at the store in the mall.

Jay Haas

“It was probably just cutting the grass for some of the people in my neighborhood. It wasn’t an official “punch-the-clock” type job and I probably made about $5 or so every time I did it. I remember it wasn’t a lot. I did some caddying as well.”

John Cook

“Job?…we had jobs? Well, it was doing some caddying at our club (Rolling Hills CC in California) where we had to caddy before we had playing privileges. Besides that, the first actual real job I had was washing cars at a car dealership a friend of my father owned in California. After school I’d go down and wash all the cars on the lot and I think I made something like $3.65 an hour. This was in 1975-76.”
  
Keith Fergus

“I do, I worked at the golf course with my dad. He had a fleet of golf carts and I was responsible for cleaning them and cleaning the batteries and filling them up with water. I had a tough boss, too! The course was in Fort Hood (TX). What was I paid? ‘Not much; maybe room and board!”

D.A. Weibring

“Besides doing some things for my dad around his dry cleaners like sweeping up, I had a job at the local public golf course (Westview Golf Course) for the head pro. I shagged balls for lessons and then did some things around outside like mowing the grass, trimming and eventually I got to work in the shop a bit. I did a variety of different things there.”

Hale Irwin

“My first paid job as a kid was as a caddy at a local muni in Colorado. I’d get paid $2.50 for a single and then I’d take the money and play at the course which cost $2.25. I would use the extra quarter to get something to drink.”

Jeff Sluman

“It was at a bowling alley in Greece, NY – Dewey Garden Lanes. I did a little bit of everything from setting pins in the back to managing the front desk and oiling the lanes. I remember working from 6-9 in the morning on the weekends and I think I made $2 an hour. I did it for two or three years.”

Loren Roberts

“It was delivering the Los Angeles Times on the weekends and I also delivered our local paper the Telegram-Tribune in San Luis Obispo.”

Andy Bean

“I worked for my dad in the cart barn at his course in Jekyll Island, GA. I was ‘Cart Boy’. It was really 'fun' servicing those carts especially when you got up before school about 4 a.m. and went in there and did it and finished it up in the afternoon. When you’re working for your dad it’s pretty tough sometimes. My pay? It was not up to scale!”

Eduardo Romero

“I remember being a caddy when I was seven-years-old in Argentina and carrying the bag for nine holes. My father was the pro at the time in my home course in Cordoba. I remember being tired when I finished and the same guy called me the next week and I did it again and then did it for three or four years.

Ben Crenshaw

“I came this close to getting a job cutting greens at the municipal golf course in Austin, but I had a baseball tournament I played okay in and the job was waved off so I’ve been happily unemployed forever.”

Tom Watson

“My first job was when I was nine-years-old and I was a caddy and got a buck, twenty five and a $.25 cent tip in Kansas City.”
 
Tom Kite

“My first job was mowing yards when I was seven or eight-years-old. How much did I make? Not much! Dad made me get a job and I got a job.”

Allen Doyle

“My first job…I was a caddy at Spring Valley Country Club in Sharon, MA. Four years after I started caddying, I got a job in the bag room. I think when I was caddying back in 1971 or so I was getting $8.50 for an 18-hole double. When I got to the bag room I got $150 a week which was great, great money in those days but some long hours.”