{"id":279283,"date":"2025-11-12T06:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279283\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T06:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:26:10","slug":"i-would-love-to-become-a-pro-golf-caddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279283\/","title":{"rendered":"I would love to become a pro golf caddie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Sir Andy Murray has revealed he is seriously considering becoming a golf caddie and would love to work with his fellow Scot Robert MacIntyre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">The former tennis star said he would love to stay involved in professional sport by carrying clubs for a professional on the golf circuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">The two-time Wimbledon men\u2019s singles champion has become obsessed with the game after his retirement from tennis and even changed his profile description on X to \u201cI played tennis. I now play golf\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andy Murray and Robert MacIntyre shake hands at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/5391c592-ae94-421f-842b-20796f2ba318.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Murray and Robert MacIntyre at the Old Course in St Andrews<\/p>\n<p>WARREN LITTLE\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Murray has got his handicap down from seven to two in a matter of months and is aiming to become a scratch golfer \u2014 a player who can consistently shoot par or better on a standard golf course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">However, the 38-year-old accepts he is not good enough to turn professional and said being a caddie would be the next best thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">He told how his dream would be to carry clubs for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/sport\/golf\/article\/why-ryder-cup-means-more-to-europe-xnqc60hj0\" class=\"link__RespLink-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryder Cup<\/a> hero MacIntyre as he won a major championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/sport\/tennis\/article\/andy-murray-interview-golf-life-tennis-alcaraz-9c6k7k3vj\" class=\"link__RespLink-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Murray on life after tennis: \u2018My kids think I\u2019m a golfer\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">He said: \u201cI\u2019m considering becoming a golf caddie for hopefully a professional golfer at some stage. I love golf and if you love that sport I think it would be a great job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">\u201cIf you were working with a top golfer and being there when they are having a great moment on the course and feeling like you can help a little bit with decisions, I think it would be a brilliant job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">\u201cThe dream pro to caddie for would be Robert MacIntyre. That\u2019s like the dream to imagine carrying Robert MacIntyre\u2019s bag when he wins The Open or something like that. That would be the dream job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Murray revealed his ambition during an appearance on The Romesh Ranganathan Show podcast.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andy Murray smiling and receiving a golf club from a caddie during practice.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/b4273e77-361b-4f28-94e0-f522f129f45c.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Murray has got his handicap down from seven to two in a matter of months<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Asked by the host if he thought there would be too much attention on him rather than the golfer he was caddying for, Murray replied: \u201cInitially potentially but I don\u2019t think long-term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">\u201cI think with anything new people would probably get quite excited about that but after a while it just becomes the norm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">MacIntyre, 29, from Oban, Argyll, had a breakthrough year on the PGA tour in 2024, winning the Scottish Open and the Canadian Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">He followed it up by finishing in second place in this year\u2019s US Open before starring for Team Europe at the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n<p id=\"last-paragraph\" class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Murray has previously played golf with MacIntyre during pro-am tournaments, including the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and the BMW PGA Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Andy Murray has revealed he is seriously considering becoming a golf caddie and would love to work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-279283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}