"It would not look too clever to sack your caddie after you have just won a major!"

Thanks to reader Chuck for this Graham Otway story on looper Zack Rasego saving his job in guiding his man to the Open Championship last week.

The pair had arrived in Scotland on the back of Oosthuizen missing three successive cuts, including the US Open at Pebble Beach.

Talks had even opened between Oosthuizen and Mike Kerr, the Durban-based caddie of Nick Dougherty, ahead of this week's Scandinavian Masters in Stockholm.

Take Zach! Rasego pockets a cool £85,000

But after helping Oosthuizen to his stunning success by seven strokes, Rasego, from Soweto, will keep his job having earned a win bonus of £85,000 - 10 per cent of the champion's prize.