{"id":679543,"date":"2026-05-19T11:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679543\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:49:08","slug":"garrick-higgo-splits-with-caddie-after-late-arrival-and-missing-us-pga-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679543\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrick Higgo splits with caddie after late arrival and missing US PGA cut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garrick Higgo has split with caddie Austin Gaugert after a penalty for being late for his tee time contributed to him missing the cut at the US PGA Championship.<\/p>\n

Higgo, 27, received a two-stroke penalty<\/a> for tardiness during the first round at Aronimink last week.<\/p>\n

Tournament officials said Higgo was “not within the area defined as the starting point at his starting time”.<\/p>\n

After the penalty cost him the chance to tie the lead at 67 in the first round, the South African missed the cut by a single shot.<\/p>\n

England’s Aaron Rai went on to win the US PGA, becoming the first Englishman to do so in 107 years.<\/p>\n

Higgo’s agent told Golfweek that the two-time PGA Tour winner has re-hired his former caddie Nick Cavendish-Pell, with whom he won his first title on the tour in 2021 at the Palmetto Championship.<\/p>\n

Cavendish-Pell will join Higgo for the CJ Cup Byron Nelson in Texas this week.<\/p>\n

After the first round at Aronimink last week, Higgo said that his penalty “wasn’t a surprise. I was late. I mean, my caddie was yelling at me to get to the tee”.<\/p>\n

Broadcast footage captured Gaugert calling for Higgo to hurry up from the practice green to the first tee.<\/p>\n

At the end of his round Higgo was seen discussing his case in the clubhouse with the PGA of America, but the penalty was not overturned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garrick Higgo has split with caddie Austin Gaugert after a penalty for being late for his tee time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-679543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}