Posted on 09/25/2026 1:13:21 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A week ago Cliff Ellis, the caddie for erratic PGA Tour player Alejandro Tosti, stormed off the course in the middle of the opening round of the Biltmore Championship in Asheville, N.C. Now, the sordid details have emerged — courtesy of The Morning Q golf blog — in a he-said he-said feud that spilled over after several troubled months on the course together.
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Tosti, 30, also had repeated outbursts on the course as the missed cuts built up. Ellis said that Tosti “went crazy” multiple times during the opening round of the Rocket Classic, when he shot a miserable 82 and was warned multiple times by PGA Tour officials. The breaking point came last week when Ellis claims he tried to calm Tosti after a poor pitch shot, only for the Argentinian to snap on him and say if he does that again he would get “really angry.”
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Then on the next hole, after hitting a nice approach shot, Tosti questioned Ellis about why he had an umbrella in the bag. Ellis said there was a slight chance of rain and Tosti responded by repeatedly calling him a “dumbass.”
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Can't be worse than what the Black Hats at Airborne School dished out. It was all part of the game, they loved dropping those of us with brass on our hats for pushups, especially butterbars.
The editor probably decided not to identify him as a democrat.
Tosti made a huge mistake in driving his caddie away.
A pro caddie is basically a pro golfer that knows his limitations. He knows that he is never going to be in the big money.
But he knows the game and he knows the courses that the pros play.
The job of a caddie to the pros is to know the game, the courses and their player.
They know their player's strengths and their weaknesses.
They study their player's game and the courses that they will play.
They work on strategy with the player and come up with a game plan.
If Ellis quit on Tosti, Tosti probably has cost himself the rest of the season. The player and his caddie are a team. If Tosti has to find himself a new caddie, it won't be a first class caddie, it will be a caddie that every other pro on the tour has past by.
Well....the world needs ditch diggers too.
Hmm... No salary. 6% of no winnings. Constant abuse. That does sound like a formula for a labor dispute.
Golf is a great game to test character.
Everyone hits bad shots now and then—and everyone has bad days now and then.
How they deal with it says a lot about them.
(Years ago I had a friend who topped a ball off the tee into a water hazard—and then ran up to the water hazard in a rage and threw his entire bag of clubs into the water. Lol.)
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