Scottie Scheffler’s caddie, Ted Scott, arrived in Memphis sporting a thick mustache. When asked about joining him at a pre-tournament presser, the World No. 1 said that he definitely won’t. He even quipped, “he looks stupid,” and roasted him. Now, Scott has replied with an Instagram video featuring some Scottie-Scheffler memes.
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“With the recent win, there’s been a lot of controversy over my mustache. Mostly people just want to know, how is my mustache so dark and how is my hair so gray?” said Scott in the video, which then cut off to Scottie Scheffler screaming, “How! How! How is that possible?”
Now, some of you might immediately remember this, but for the uninitiated, that was a moment from the 2024 BMW Championship. Scheffler’s ball stopped instead of rolling down to the green from what he thought was a slope. Scott didn’t answer his questions then and moved on, and this time he utilized it at the right moment. But that was just the start.
Continued Scott in the video: “But you know what? I’m getting a lot of compliments. Seems like everybody loves it.” And he punctuated this with Scottie’s joke from the presser: “Yeah, he looks stupid.”
Lastly, Scott said, “People wanna know am I gonna keep it?” and then cut to Scheffler’s comments after they won the FedEx St. Jude Championship together. And Scottie Scheffler had already answered for his caddie.
After his second win of the season, an on-field reporter asked him if his stance about Ted Scott’s mustache had changed: “Yeah, yeah. Ted always does something. I guess if he shaves it tomorrow, I’m going to be like, ‘Hey man, what are we doing?'”
Ted Scott ended the video with a meme from The Office, featuring the fictional character Michael Scott saying, “I’m not superstitious, but I am a little ‘stitious” to take a playful jab at his employer.
The 21-time PGA Tour winner himself has oscillated between clean‑shaven and bearded looks across seasons. However, he said it was because he was lazy, not because of any superstition. But Scott’s story may be different.
As Scheffler pointed out, Scott is fond of growing a mustache at this time of the year. It is like his own version of hockey’s playoff beard. Many golfers lean into that idea, as facial hair experiments increase in number as the playoffs get underway. It’s not just a mustache, though.
Many athletes are associated with their own superstitions and rituals, from Tiger Woods’ Sunday reds to Jack Nicklaus’ use of coins as ball markers.
Scott has had this tradition from way back when he used to caddie for Bubba Watson. Like Scheffler, Watson also used to joke about it. He once called the caddie’s grown-out mustache a “reduced version” of the real thing.
Watson and Scott built their 15-year-long relationship on humor, and that seems to have continued with Scheffler, too. However, it is the caddie who is usually on the receiving end.
Scott’s mustache had already gone viral after Scheffler’s comment. However, it became more of a sensation when the World No. 1 broke his streak of close finishes with a dominant eight-stroke margin win. Scheffler won the $3,600,000 winner’s paycheck, and Scott got the standard 10% cut, $360,000.
Regardless of whether Scheffler still feels that Scott looks stupid in that mustache or not, it is unlikely to come off until the playoffs end.