Pro Jocks Unite! Association Of Tour Caddies Is On

Michael Collins reveals that the Association of Professional Tour Caddies, with over 100 loopers signed on, has formed and while early reports suggested this was merely a feel good exercise in improving the lives of PGA Tour pro jocks, it's pretty much a union.

And when you say the union word to Commissioner Walton, well just ask the rules officials who had to haggle for over a year just to get the same perks as a first year-agronomist.

Best of all, one of the motivating factors, reports Collins, was Commissioner Scrooge's move to ban the delightful caddie races in Scottsdale.

"The straw that broke the camel's back for us came at the Barclays during a rain delay," said APTC President James Edmondson, who caddies for PGA Tour player Ryan Palmer. "This security guy came in, started berating us, asking to see everyone's ID, and then began kicking out our families into the rain. We all thought, 'Would they ever do this to the players in their area?' That's when we decided to have a meeting."

The group grew from a series of issues that irked some of the caddies, including the PGA Tour's decision to cancel "caddie races" at the Waste Management Phoenix Open and the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial for 2014, as well as an incident at the Barclays event in New York where caddies felt they were unjustly treated.