Scottie Scheffler will play this week’s BMW Championship without regular caddie Ted Scott, Scheffler’s agent confirmed to the PGA Tour Communications team on Tuesday.
At last week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship, Scott carried the bag for Scheffler for the first three rounds before returning to his Louisiana home on Saturday night for a family emergency. Scheffler trailed third-round leader Tommy Fleetwood by two shots heading into the final round.
PGA Tour chaplain and close Scheffler family friend Brad Payne drove to Memphis from his home in Dallas to caddie for Scheffler’s final round. It was the second time Payne had filled in for Scott in recent months, after he carried Scheffler’s bag in the third round of the 2024 PGA Championship while Scott attended his daughter’s high school graduation. Scheffler ultimately finished T3 after firing a final-round of three-under 67 in Memphis — one shot shy of making the playoff between Justin Rose and J.J. Spaun. Rose ultimately prevailed.
This week, Scott will remain at home with his family, and Scheffler is bringing in a new face: Michael Cromie, who regularly caddies for Chris Kirk, will take up Scheffler’s bag at Caves Valley.
Kirk finished T9 at last week’s FedEx St. Jude, but it wasn’t enough to push him into the top 50 in this week’s field. Instead, he ended up one shot shy at 51st. That means Kirk will have the next few weeks off until the start of the FedEx Cup Fall, a seven-tournament series which begins in September with the Procore Championship in Napa, Calif.
At this week’s BMW Championship, FedEx Cup points are worth quadruple their regular-season value. Once the tournament is complete, the top 30 players on the FedEx Cup points list will receive a FedEx Cup bonus payout from a $20 million purse, and they’ll move on to next week’s Tour Championship at East Lake, where every player will compete on a level playing field for a $40 million purse at the ultimate prize: the FedEx Cup trophy.
A win this week would mark Scheffler’s first PGA Tour victory without Scott on the bag.
