An American Caddie in St. Andrews with author Oliver Horovitz

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Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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GSfMO #385 May 21, 2013 “An American Caddie in St. Andrews - Growing Up, Girls, and Looping on the Old Course” is a highly entertaining memoir of a young American's adventures as a caddie at St. Andrews while attending St. Andrews University. Our guest is the author Oliver Horovitz, who after being forced to take a gap year before starting at Harvard, Oliver went to study and work in Scotland. He also created a short documentary that you can still find on his website at oliverhorovitz.com This was originally published as a Members Only episode, so even if you've been listening to our podcast for a long time, you may have never heard this before. Please check out our new and updated website at golfsmarter.com! While there, you'll receive three free gifts when you post an honest review about Golf Smarter the podcast. You can also get free gifts for recording a show opening by clicking on "Record Your Show Open Here!" tab on the right side of the page. Please take a few minutes to fill out our survey, which will also provide you with a link to Tony Manzoni's video!Follow @golfsmarter on Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube. See our daily highlights and helpful insights from our interviews on the podcast. Thanks so much for checking it out and providing your feedback. This episode is sponsored by Indeed. Please visit indeed.com/GOLFSMARTER and get a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT. Terms and conditions apply. This episode is sponsored by HIMS. Start your free online visit today HIMS.com/golfsmarter and received personalized ED treatment options.This episode is also sponsored by SelectQuote. Make sure you get the right life insurance for YOU, for LESS, at selectquote.com/golfsmarter today and get started.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	For members only, Golf Smarter Number 385, published on May 21, 2013.
0:08.0	Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans.
0:11.0	Your second chance to gain insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the Golf Smarter podcast.
0:19.0	Great golf instruction never gets old.
0:22.6	Our interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations like this
0:28.6	that are no longer available in any podcast app.
0:31.6	The subtitle of the book is Growing Up, Girls, and Looping on the Old Course.
0:36.6	Why Girls? And what do you get?
0:39.0	Okay. Second season I get back. There's a rival business that has started up in St. Andrews
0:44.3	that is in its infancy when I get there in the second year. It's called model caddying.
0:49.0	What it is is two university girls have started a caddy business in which they're about 25 university girls,
0:58.0	all of them with modeling experience, who are going to be caddying in Scotland. None of them are golfers.
1:03.6	They are all from St. Andrews, but they, I guess none of them even had been on a golf course before.
1:08.3	They were like the 25 exceptions. If they knew golf,
1:11.1	none of them had ever, ever caddy before. So at this point, they needed someone to train them,
1:16.7	and I got introduced to them my first night back in St. Andrews. I'm talking to these three
1:23.1	girls who are about 25,000 leagues above me. Like, I would never be able to talk to these girls otherwise.
1:29.3	And it comes up that I'm a caddy.
1:31.3	And this girl, Juliet, who's setting the whole thing up,
1:34.3	goes, oh my God, that's so cool that you're a caddy.
1:37.3	And never in my life have I been told that caddying is cool.
1:49.0	An American caddy in St. Andrews with author Oliver Horowitz. This is Golf Smarter.
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