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A caddie at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am received CPR after collapsing on the 11th fairway on Friday afternoon. The tournament, which is being broadcast live on CBS and involves big names like Aaron Rodgers, Josh Allen and Gareth Bale, was temporarily stopped while an ambulance came onto the course to attend to the stricken man. Paolo Uggetti, a golf writer for ESPN, reported that the man - who was caddying for an amateur in the tournament - was still receiving CPR as he was stretchered to an ambulance on the 11th hole. The statement read: 'During the second round...

(CNN)Earlier this week, pro golfer Matt Kuchar defended the $5,000 he paid his fill-in caddie after winning $1,296,000 at the Mayakoba Classic in Mexico, his first PGA tournament victory in four years. But on Friday, Kuchar issued a statement saying he'll pay the rest of the $50,000 that caddie David Ortiz requested.

If Phil Mickelson completes the career Grand Slam, it's going to happen with another caddie. On Tuesday afternoon, Mickelson and longtime bag man Jim "Bones" Mackay announced they are parting ways through a joint statement sent to various members of the media. At least to golf fans, the phrase "nothing lasts forever" has never seemed rung more true.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods has decided to get rid of Steve Williams as his caddie. Woods announced on his website Wednesday that he and Williams, who have been together since March 1999, will no longer be working together. Woods said only that it was time for a change. Woods did not say who would replace Williams, or when he would return. Williams has worked the last two majors for Adam Scott of Australia.

I was just reading up on Tom Watson's amazing run at the Open when I just caught something that made me go hmmmm... This is the paragraph on Fox Sports Robert Lusetich Blog which is probably the source of the AP sports story... "He couldn't do it Saturday. On the 18th fairway, after hitting onto the green, he turned to his caddie, the Democratic political consultant Neil Oxman, and brought up their friend — Watson's late caddie, Bruce Edwards, who passed away from complications associated with Lou Gehrig's Disease." http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/9824080/Watson's-game-plan-has-him-on-verge-of-history Neil Oxman, Watson's caddie is a DEM CONSULTANT?? ****Now here's...

Vegas!Yeah, I'm cool. A white-haired, old around the edges kind of guy with a fantasy of slipping into The Strip some fabulous night in a '71 Caddie, top down, black silk shirt open to the navel, lot of gold chains, fat cigar, the valet kid impressed and thinking I'm some kind of high-roller from L.A. instead of a big bland dude from Portland (Oregon) heading off for the 10-cent video poker machines. Instead, conned into by my companion, Lola (a name quite appropriate), I'm standing on line two hours with a coterie of French tourists, all of us waiting to...