After several years of starting and stopping alongside perhaps the greatest golfer in the history of the game, Joe LaCava is suddenly a very busy looper. On the heels of Tiger Woods’ caddie confirming last week that he’s going full-time with world No. 4 on the men’s side, Patrick Cantlay, we’ve now learned that he’s accepted a one-week gig with world No. 1 on the women’s side, Nelly Korda.
The LPGA is at Upper Montclair Country Club for the Cognizant Founders Cup, and Korda is the favorite to win after beginning 2023 with six top 10s in seven starts, including a third-place finish at the first major of the year, the Chevron Championship. LaCava will be back on Cantlay’s bag for the PGA Championship at Oak Hill in Rochester, New York, next week.
I have no data to back this up, but this has to be one of the first times (maybe the first time) a caddie has gone from a top-five golfer on the men’s side to a top-five golfer on the women’s side and then back to a…
