Shane Lowry and other PGA Tour pros swap caddies ahead of Travelers
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CROMWELL, Conn. — Shane Lowry is the latest prominent PGA Tour player to change caddies. Lowry said he parted ways with Darren Reynolds after he missed the cut at the U.S. Open last week at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.
Lowry made a call to the bullpen to Dermot Byrne, his former caddie who was on the bag for the first 10 years of his career. Lowry said this was just for the Travelers Championship because he needed a caddie on short notice and he’s still in the process of figuring things out on a future bagman.
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“We’ll see what the plan is going forward. No idea really,” he said.
Lowry won the 2019 Open Championship with Bo Martin by his side. Martin has been working for Min Woo Lee since late 2024.
In other caddie news, John Ellis is filling in this week for Chris Gotterup. Ellis, who was on the bag for Wyndham Clark when he won the U.S. Open in 2023, had the week off from Max Homa, who isn’t exempt for the signature events. Gotterup’s regular caddie, Brady Stockton, took the week off because his wife is expecting a baby.
Julien Trudeau, formerly with Mackenzie Hughes, has a new bag. He rode Ryder Cowen to co-medalist honors among the amateurs last week but he starts a new gig with Sudarshan Yellamaraju, the Canadian rookie who has been one of the biggest surprises of the season.
Welcome back, Travis McAlister, who formerly worked for Maverick McNealy and most recently was on the bag for PGA Tour U grad Gordon Sargent earlier this year. McAlister is hopping on to the bag of veteran pro Tom Hoge.
Steve “Pepsi” Hale, who had been on Ryan Gerard’s bag for more than a year until the PGA Championship, has dipped down to the Korn Ferry Tour to land recent University of Arizona golfer Filip Jakubcik and Micah Fugitt, who had been on Billy Horschel’s bag until The Memorial, is working for Chez Reavie at the KFT event in Springfield, Illinois, too.
Adam Schupak is a senior writer for Golfweek, covering the PGA Tour.
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