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How much do caddies make at the Masters?
Caddies typically earn 10% of a winner’s payout, and this year’s Masters champion could send home about $420,000 to the bagman.
- With the 2026 Masters purse totaling $22.5 million, the winner will take home $4.5 million, positioning the champion's caddie to earn an estimated $450,000.
- ESPN analyst and former caddie Michael Collins estimates caddies typically earn 10% of winnings for a victory, 7% for a top 10 finish, and 5% for making the cut.
- During the 1979 Masters, caddie Jariah 'Bubba' Beard received more than 10% of Fuzzy Zoeller's $50,000 paycheck, according to Golf Digest.
- Caddies Network CEO John von Stade told CBS that if a player misses the cut, "there is no other source of money other than the weekly fee," which ranges between $2,000 and $4,000.
- Until 1983, golfers were required to use Augusta's all-Black caddie corps, which per Garden & Gun, "turned a racist policy, rooted in subjugation, into a livelihood and a source of esteem.
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