“I can make a little bit more cash doing this, and I’m having a good time,” he said.
In 2024, Bennett and Lee split after three LIV Golf events together. When back in his home course in Dallas playing, as he put it, “way too much golf,” his phone rang. It was Kim. Ryan Todey, who was Kim’s caddie for the first phase of his comeback and one of his best friends, had vouched for Bennett.
Kim’s call was straight to the point: “Hey, I’m looking for a caddie. Let’s do a three-week trial and see how it goes.”
Bennett’s first week with Kim came at LIV Golf Hong Kong in 2025. Despite Kim not playing well, the duo was already in sync. Same golf brain. Kim texted him right after their first round together: “The job’s yours if you want it.” Bennett couldn’t reply fast enough.
“We were thinking about golf the same way,” the former Wichita State University golfer said. “We get along so well off the golf course, too. That just makes things super easy.”
“I just felt like we were thinking about golf the same way,” Kim recalled. “I was still not very good, but I could tell that he was going to work hard regardless of if I played good or not. Not everyone has a good attitude every day they come to the course, and that’s all I needed to see … It was a pretty easy decision.”
On the course, their dynamic is simple. “He kind of likes when we’re reading greens. We both read the putt and then he says, ‘You see this?’ We see things very similarly, so more times than not we pretty much see the same thing,” Bennett explained.