Trevino: "Somehow we've got to get the caddie ranks back"

Golfweek's Adam Schupak attended the Western Golf Association's 4th annual Green Coat Gala and reports that former caddies turned stewards of the game look back at their looping days with increasing fondness.

This year Mike Keiser, Lee Trevino and Peter Jacobsen represented the past-caddie ranks, while Michigan State junior Jacob Mosley talked on behalf of the 870 students currently on Evans Scholarships.

For years, the caddie yard was the academy from which the likes of Trevino, Lee Elder, and 1985 Western Open champ Jim Thorpe graduated as professional golfers. Changing social patterns, and the golf cart, eliminated many of the caddie shacks making Trevino one of the last celebrated alumni of that hard school.

"Somehow we've got to get the caddie ranks back," Trevino said.