Ted Scott said Scottie Scheffler would not leave the PGA Tour for any amount of money, even if LIV Golf put a billion dollars in front of him. The caddie said Scheffler’s answer was simple: he wanted to compete where the best players are and beat them there.
That disclosure is getting attention now because Scott was not describing a distant memory. He said the conversation came when he had been on Scheffler’s bag for less than six months, after telling him LIV Golf was probably preparing an offer of about $250 million. Scheffler, already the No. 1 player in the world by March 2022, did not blink, Scott said.
The exchange helps explain why Scheffler has remained one of the clearest holdouts from LIV Golf’s recruiting push. By the time Scott raised the possibility, Scheffler had already climbed to the top of the game, and the money on the PGA Tour was adding up fast. He had more than $130 million in career earnings when he took over the top spot on the tour’s career money list, and he later pushed his PGA Tour total to just shy of $31 million in 2026.
Scott’s account also carries weight because he has seen this from the inside. He began caddying for Scheffler in November 2021, after previously looping for Bubba Watson’s two Masters victories, and he has been on the bag for all 22 of Scheffler’s PGA Tour wins. That makes him more than a witness to the conversation; he is part of the routine that has stayed intact while golf’s money split widened.
The part that does not fit neatly into the usual LIV Golf pitch is the one Scott relayed from Scheffler. Even while being told he could be offered far more than most athletes will ever see, Scheffler’s answer was not about leverage or branding or market value. It was about competition. Scott said Scheffler told him, in effect, that he just wanted to play where the best players are and keep trying to beat them.
That is the unresolved question hanging over the story: whether the $250 million figure was a real proposal or Scott’s estimate of what might come. What is not in dispute is the response. Scheffler, now a four-time major champion, has made clear through his caddie that no number by itself would have been enough to pull him away from the PGA Tour.
