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Jim ”Bones” Mackay talks his first hole ever caddying for Justin Thomas, how he originally ended up on Phil Mickelson’s bag

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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On this week's episode of GOLF's Subpar, legendary caddie Jim "Bones" Mackay joins former PGA Tour pro Colt Knost and jicky jack legend Drew Stoltz for an exclusive, in-studio interview. He talks how he originally ended up on Phil Mickelson's bag, the first hole he ever caddied for Justin Thomas and how he ended up with the "Bones" nickname.   Subpar Podcast: https://linktr.ee/Golf1271 Birdie Juice Merch: https://proshop.golf.com/collections/birdie-juice-collection -- Thanks to our official sponsor Dewar's. Make sure to check out their Reserve Bar listings today: https://www.reservebar.com/collections/house-of-dewars

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0:00.0

Hello world, welcome back to golf subpar with Colt Nost and Drew Stoltz coming off the

0:17.1

Sanders and Farms championship where Mackenzie Hughes is your winner in a playoff over

0:21.4

Sep Strocco.

0:23.4

Congratulations Mackenzie, first win in almost six years, his second in his career on the

0:28.0

PGA tour, but Sep Strocco, this guy is knocking on the door.

0:31.3

He's turned into a hell of a player, little sneaky monstrous year ever since I guess the

0:36.3

Honda last year, where he won, you know, Shane Lowry was in a good spot there, the weather

0:40.5

came in, set ends up winning that thing and then he's just gone on to like, he's a guy

0:44.7

that I think rewind a year ago, people saw his name on top of the board like, who's that?

0:48.7

All the dudes from Georgia know him, you know, could have we talked to him like, this kid's

0:51.6

really good.

0:52.6

And now I feel like the world's starting to get to know him, but he's been up there a bunch

0:54.6

of time.

0:55.6

He's close to rattling off a handful of wins in the last year and being right there,

0:59.8

but props to Mackenzie Hughes, like you said, been six years, been working on a little

1:03.8

distance training, little speed training, like a lot of the other guys out there out of

1:07.4

a little pop to his driver.

1:08.8

He rolls the shit out of it, always has rolled it.

1:11.3

And I got to think, honestly, last week, two weeks ago, president's cup, he was a name

1:15.7

that was right there meant for a long, long time, top Tim on those points list, then you

1:19.9

get all the guys that go to live, the team opens up a little bit more, he was a guy that, I

1:24.0

don't know, snub is the right word, but was fully expecting you had a good chance to

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