{"id":788890,"date":"2026-07-28T07:48:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788890\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:48:37","slug":"who-is-jackson-koivuns-caddie-meet-david-flynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788890\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Jackson Koivun’s Caddie? Meet David Flynn"},"content":{"rendered":"

In just his third event as a professional, Jackson Koivun won the 3M Open, beating none other than World No.1 Scottie Scheffler<\/a> by three.<\/p>\n

Helping him surge to the top of the leaderboard at TPC Twin Cities<\/a> was his caddie, David Flynn, but who is he?<\/p>\n

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Like former Auburn star Koivun, Illinois-born Flynn played college golf, attending the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in history, he took up caddying in 2014, with spells working alongside players including Trey Mullinax, Troy Merritt and Kevin Tway.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s working with Koivun where he has really begun making his name.<\/p>\n

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David Flynn has caddied for several other players, including Kevin Tway<\/p>\n

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While Flynn was firmly in the spotlight at the 3M Open, he had been with Koivun for significantly longer.<\/p>\n

Flynn was alongside Koivun during the latter stages of his amateur career, culminating in his low amateur finish at the 2026 US Open<\/a> the day before he turned professional<\/p>\n

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With Flynn continuing the good work they started in the amateur game, that familiarity has surely helped him settle into the task.<\/p>\n

In a twist of fate, Kurt Kitayama was the defending champion<\/a> when Koivun was racing to the top of the leaderboard at the 3M Open.<\/p>\n

The two-time PGA Tour winner was a teammate of Flynn\u2019s at university and spoke beforehand about getting the chance to catch up with him.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWe went to school together. Should be fun. It\u2019s fun, he’ll be walking around the course when we’re playing a practice round, hang out, so looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flynn isn\u2019t just a caddie, either. He has also used the experience he has gained working alongside some of the world\u2019s best to become teaching golf, specifically as an instructor with PARennial Golf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In just his third event as a professional, Jackson Koivun won the 3M Open, beating none other than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-788890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}