{"id":24645,"date":"2025-08-14T00:56:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T04:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/scheffler-without-his-regular-caddie-plays-bmw-championship-with-new-companion\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T00:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T04:56:42","slug":"scheffler-without-his-regular-caddie-plays-bmw-championship-with-new-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/scheffler-without-his-regular-caddie-plays-bmw-championship-with-new-companion\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheffler without his regular caddie: Plays BMW Championship with new companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OWINGS MILLS, Md. \u2013 World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler will have a substitute caddie at this week&#8217;s BMW Championship, the second stage of the FedEx Cup playoffs.Scheffler&#8217;s regular caddie, Ted Scott, had to be absent before the final round of last week&#8217;s FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis to return to his home in Louisiana due to a family emergency.The PGA Tour confirmed on Tuesday that Scott will not be working this week, and Michael Cromie will carry Scheffler&#8217;s bag.Cromie works for Chris Kirk, who finished in 51st place in points after last week&#8217;s tournament. The top 50 golfers in FedEx Cup points advanced to the BMW Championship.After Scott had to go home last week, Scheffler&#8217;s friend, Brad Payne, worked the final round. Scheffler signed a card of 67 strokes under par in the final round and tied for third place with 15 under par, leaving him one stroke away from a tiebreaker.Payne is president of the College Golf Fellowship and previously carried Scheffler&#8217;s bag in the third round of the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla, when Scott attended his daughter&#8217;s graduation.Scott was in the bag for each of Scheffler&#8217;s 17 PGA Tour victories, which include four major championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OWINGS MILLS, Md. \u2013 World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler will have a substitute caddie at this week&#8217;s BMW Championship, the second stage of the FedEx Cup playoffs.Scheffler&#8217;s regular caddie, Ted Scott, had to be absent before the final round of last week&#8217;s FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis to return to his home in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7127,420,626,407],"class_list":{"0":"post-24645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-bmw-championship","9":"tag-caddie","10":"tag-pga-tour","11":"tag-scottie-scheffler"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}