NY Times · Mar 11, 2018
In Tiger Woods’s Surging Play, a Steady Caddie
Tiger Woods played his second shot from the rough on the 13th hole during the third round of the Valspar Championship at the Innisbrook Resort Copperhead course.PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Joe LaCava stood by Tiger Woods even when that meant sitting at home. For the better part of the past two years, caddie and player were separated by roughly 1,300 miles — LaCava in Connecticut, Woods in Florida — and a seemingly impassable expanse of uncharted territory as Woods entered his 40s and attempted to come back from several surgeries, including a back fusion last April.
As Woods rested, per doctors’ orders, so did a hale LaCava, who could have found lucrative work caddying for any number of other stars.