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Rickie Fowler’s ex-caddie Joe Skovron has an electric new golfer

By: Dylan Dethier
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September 28, 2022
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It was a week of firsts for Joe Skovron, who wore the International colors in caddying for Tom Kim at the Presidents Cup.

Joe Skovron was on the bag for Tom Kim at last week's Presidents Cup.

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On Tuesday of Presidents Cup week, Max Homa was asked if there’s anybody on the International team he’d relish the chance to play against.

“Joe Skovron is one of my best friends and he’s caddying for Tom [Kim] this week,” he said. “I’d love to be the in that group, because Joe bleeds the red, white and blue, and he’s on the International team now.”

“We can give him grief about that,” Homa continued. “He’s been on all these teams so many times; it’s funny giving him a little bit because he’s wearing different clothes.”

It was a week of firsts for Skovron. The first time he’d donned the black-and-yellow of the International team, for one thing. The first time he’d caddied since splitting with Rickie Fowler after more than a dozen years on his bag. And the first time looping for 20-year-old Tom Kim, the Energizer Bunny who became the Internationals’ emotional leader by week’s end.

You may have done a double take when you saw Skovron on the weekend broadcast; he’s among the most recognizable caddies in the business thanks to his tenure on Fowler’s bag. Their partnership lasted from 2009 through this year’s Wyndham Championship and included five PGA Tour wins. “It wasn’t what either of us wanted,” Fowler said of the split, which the pair have described as mutual and amicable. It was fitting that Kim was the winner at the same event that was the Fowler-Skovron swan song, earning his way onto the PGA Tour — and the Presidents Cup team — in the process.

Kim and Skovron played every match. And while Kim was disappointed in their 2-3 record, he delivered arguably the moment of the tournament when he holed the winning putt on the 18th green Saturday evening to take down Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele.

Si Woo Kim running after Tom Kim to celebrate will be my enduring memory of today pic.twitter.com/BVtAJjwWzG

— Dylan Dethier (@dylan_dethier) September 25, 2022

Skovron was more effusive about Kim’s play than Kim himself.

“I was so impressed,” Skovron said post-round. “He loved it. He loved the big moments and I loved how he responded. That putt on 18, that whole thing, the energy and feeling like we’re back in it, him doing that and finishing off that match against those guys, they’re such good players, that’s the one I’ll remember.”

As for the strangeness of joining the Internationals and playing against his buddies on Team USA?

“It was definitely different, but y’know what, great group of guys,” Skovron said. “I think once you get on a team, it’s not really about what country you’re from, it’s more about what team you’re with and representing that team and being all in, trying to win.”

Asked about his future with Kim, Skovron stuck to caddie code and played it cool.

“You’d have to ask Tom about that,” he said.

But it was clear from watching that the two were a comfortable pair. Kim wasn’t afraid to rely on his guidance; Skovron joined him before every tee shot, they talked through every decision and congregated afterward to celebrate or commiserate. More than once, Kim would end up with his arm or head on Skovron’s shoulder. In other words, all signs suggest this won’t be a one-and-done.

Joe Skovron and Tom Kim at the Presidents Cup. Getty Images

Kim spoke briefly about his new looper’s success post-round.

“It was the first week and we had some success,” he said. “But even in a week, he’s become a really good friend of mine. So I think we’ll be working together for a while.”

Kim’s win came with Jacob Fleck on the bag; the two were a team for most of 2022. But two starts later he had veteran caddie James Edmondson on the bag at the BMW Championship before Skovron took over at the Presidents Cup. (For his part, Fowler’s next start came with veteran looper Ricky Romano.)

On the PGA Tour, no player-caddie pairing is ever set in stone. But it sounds like these two will be running it back.

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Dylan Dethier

Dylan Dethier

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Dylan Dethier is a senior writer for GOLF Magazine/GOLF.com. The Williamstown, Mass. native joined GOLF in 2017 after two years scuffling on the mini-tours. Dethier is a graduate of Williams College, where he majored in English, and he’s the author of 18 in America, which details the year he spent as an 18-year-old living from his car and playing a round of golf in every state.

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