Reliving The Best Event Of 2017 Season While We Can: Caddie Wood Talks Birkdale Showdown

One of the more insightful caddies in golf, John Wood was on Matt Kuchar's bag at the 2017 Open Championship, guiding the veteran to an epic performance.

Since we only have a few hours left before the new PGA Tour season ends, Dan Kilbridge's Golfweek piece on Wood may amount to one of the few key season recaps. But it's a good one given Kuchar's play and Jordan Spieth's victory, which, if I had to choose, gets my vote for tournament of the year over Sergio winning the Masters.

This was fun from Wood on the 13th hole delay Kuchar faced as Spieth attempted to take an unplayable lie drop.

Kuchar and Wood waited nearly 20 minutes while Spieth and his caddie, Michael Greller, located Spieth’s errant tee shot and tried to figure out how to drop and play on. A big screen left of the fairway gave Wood a vague idea what was going on as they waited. He doesn’t recall any specific conversations during that time. Kuchar probably talked about his kids. Wood might have discussed a book he was reading. A bit of normalcy amid the chaos.

“At a certain point we just started laughing,” Wood said. “That’s all you could do. You’re going, ‘This is a funny situation. I’ve never been in something like this.’ … (Kuchar) didn’t get frustrated by it. He just kept calm, and we were sitting back there telling stories and laughing. That was the best way we could handle it, really.”