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WINTER GARDEN, Fla. -- The unwritten caddie code -- show up, keep up and shut up -- exists for a reason. In golf those who can, do. Those who can't, carry the clubs and rake the bunkers.PGA Tour bagmen are a lot like stage props in that they are important and necessary but viewed mostly as background decoration.
Then there is Brett Waldman, pictured (left) with Camilo Villegas.
Waldman caddied this year for Villegas. He has also looped for cousin Tom Pernice Jr., and Ben Crane. That's almost like having your own trust fund.
Villegas won over $3 million last year, including the Honda Classic. Pernice and Crane are winners.
Waldman's percentage of those earnings would be more than enough money to provide Ian Poulter hair product for a lifetime -- which is a way to say he is in no danger of going hungry.
So what is Waldman, 38, doing at this week's PGA Tour Qualifying School's final stage trying so hard to mess up a good gig?
Well, he's playing his caddie bib off.
"Trying to realize a dream," he said.
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Source: http://golf.fanhouse.com/2010/12/02/brett-waldman-sheds-caddie-bib-plays-for-pga-tour-card-at-q-sch/
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