James had already made nine PGA Tour starts as an amateur by that stage, with a best finish of T33 at the 2025 Valero Texas Open suggesting he was more than capable of living up to his billing as a future star.<\/p>\n
Still, clearly James wasn\u2019t leaving anything to chance for his first foray into life as a fully fledged PGA Tour pro, recruiting veteran caddie Tim Tucker for the task at the 2026 RBC Canadian Open<\/a> just days after leaving the amateur game behind.<\/p>\n However, given Tucker\u2019s record, perhaps it wasn\u2019t all that surprising either.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n Famously, Tucker was Bryson DeChambeau<\/a>\u2019s caddie when he won the 2020 US Open. The pair parted ways the following year (although they have linked up again since<\/a>), but it wasn\u2019t too long until Tucker was working his magic again.<\/p>\n \n Tim Tucker helped Bryson DeChambeau win the US Open<\/p>\n (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n By 2023, he was caddying for Kurt Kitayama, and with his help, he won one of the PGA Tour\u2019s biggest tournaments, the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.<\/p>\n Among the other players Tucker has worked with are Adam Svensson, Gary Woodland<\/a>, Tony Finau<\/a> and LPGA Tour legend Lexi Thompson, adding to his credentials.<\/p>\n The benefit of that vast know-how is now assisting a player without the experience of those stars, but with bags of potential.<\/p>\n Considering how well the pair began in James\u2019 maiden PGA Tour start since joining the professional ranks, it appears Tucker could be the man to help him bring it to fruition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben James left a glittering college career at the University of Virginia behind after finishing top of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-734789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734789","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=734789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tim](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DLofuxEmJztSFuYHziBi9E.jpg\")
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