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March 8th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
In short, keep up and shut up. To expand…depends on the course.
If you’re at a resort course that has a ton of guest play…you need to know the course since most of your players will not know the course; you’re not giving them advice, per se, but telling them that which they can’t see from a scorecard or a 2-dimensional sketch of a hole layout. If the course doesn’t have GPS, you will have to know yardages cold. Telling a golfer "it’s about 150 to the center"…horrible. Think "it’s 125 to clear the hazard, 135 to the front of the green, 141 to the flag, 150 to the back…"
Off the tee, give yardages to the front of bunkers and/or to clear a bunker. If there’s a spot to avoid/aim for that may not seem obvious, tell me. Think "you can’t see it, but anything beyond 250 yards on the left side will drop off into a ravine…", or "the fairway slopes right to left…anything on the right side of the fairway will come down"…"it’s 225 to the front of the bunker, and 238 to clear the bunker."
If you’re at a private club that has mostly member play, it’s about knowing your members and knowing what they want (and remembering).
Also…you have to be able to track the flight of your player’s ball. Know where it came down, because odds are they’ll ask you.
At a first-timer…other caddies with more time at the course will likely get the plum assignments. You’ll get the known bad tippers, the slow, the infirmed, etc. How you deal with these folks will be a good barometer of your future.
Do NOT give clubs…give yardages. You have no idea how far someone hits a specific club.
There are numerous books devoted to golf etiquette.
Above all…do not, under any circumstances, take your mobile phone with you. If your phone goes off during someone’s backswing (even on vibrate), that’s pretty much the end of your career.