Longtime PGA Tour caddie Mike “Fluff” Cowan took a spill on Sunday morning at RBC Canadian Open — and and it forced him to leave the course.
Cowan, 76, spent 25 years on Jim Furyk’s bag before splitting up last month. He recently started working with C.T. Pan, for whom Cowan was looping at Hamilton Golf and Country Club on Sunday when he fell on the third hole coming down a hill.
Fluff seemed to be OK after getting up, but he done for the day. With Pan needing another caddie, he recruited a fan who was up to the task … or so Pan thought.
The first stand-in caddie didn’t last as long as Pan had hoped. After about 30 minutes, a new caddie sub took over the duties.
Canadian journalist Adam Stanley reported Pan’s wife was ready to take over the bag for the back nine, but Al Ridell, the regular caddie for Paul Barjon, stepped in instead. Ridell lives in Hamilton and knows Pan from their days on the former PGA Tour Canada.
Will Ridell is Pan’s final caddie for the day? Stay tuned! It would be fun to have his wife on the bag for a hole or two just so he can say he had five caddies in one round.
This has got to be some sort of PGA Tour record. Those staff bags are no joke!
Hopefully, Fluff will be back in action soon. In the meantime, check out this video of Fluff explaining what keeps him going.