“I believed I used to be going to get fired”

Austin Kaiser has been carrying Xander Schauffele’s bag for a number of years now. The duo has a relationship stretching again greater than a decade, beginning off from their school golf group at San Diego State. Owing to their wholesome relationship, Schauffele’s dependable looper additionally has some enjoyable tales collectively.

Kaiser appeared as a visitor within the current episode of GOLF’s Subpar Podcast, the place he revealed a drunk story from Schauffele’s rookie 12 months. The caddie, seated alongside US Open winner Wyndham Clark’s caddie John Ellis, stated that he bought drunk simply hours earlier than the PGA Tour star golfer’s tee off on the 2016 AT&T Byron Nelson. The caddie revealed that he thought he “was going to get fired” for it. He joked it was “the bottom level of my life, at that second proper there.”

Talking on the podcast, forward of the US Open 2023, Austin Kaiser stated, as quoted by GOLF:

“That was a tough evening… That was in all probability the time I believed I used to be going to get fired.”

Austin Kaiser’s loopy evening with out Schauffele

Austin Kaiser went on to elucidate that the incident befell throughout Xander Schauffele’s rookie 12 months. The duo was on the 2016 AT&T Byron Nelson. The comparatively new participant/caddie duo on the time missed the reduce, and Kaiser and one other caddie determined to exit that evening in Dallas. They ultimately discovered a bar, the place bottle service was being supplied for $300.

He added:

“Subsequent factor you realize I drink a fifth of Gray Goose and find yourself in the midst of a thunderstorm, dumping rain, in a cemetery, doing snow angels.”

Kaiser revealed that he discovered he was in a cemetery after his spouse used a monitoring app to seek out his telephone.

He stated:

“That is at 2:30 within the morning. Xander needed to get up and apply at 7 am … I’m actually hugging a tree blacked out, after which Xander, being the nice buddy that he’s, says ‘OK, I’ll discover him, ship me the screenshot of the place he’s at.’”

Schauffele ultimately discovered Kaiser, lined in mud. In response to the caddie, the star golfer took his shirt off and carried him to security, all earlier than taking a couple of humorous photos.

It’s noteworthy that the duo went on to turn out to be one of many most interesting within the sport within the coming years. They recorded a number of wins collectively, together with an Olympic gold three years in the past in Japan.