Capricious Canadian PGA Tour caddie Steve Duplantis, was killed on Wednesday when he was struck by a taxi while crossing a street in Del Mar.
Duplantis, 35, could bring out the A-game in the best of players as was chronicled in Alan Shipnuck’s "Bud, Sweat and Tees," a story primarily about PGA player Rich Beem. What was also chronicled by Shipnuck was Duplantis’s love of the nightlife.
Without a doubt there will be those who will come creeping out of the woodwork like mephitic cock-a-roach's and blame the death of Duplantis on his debaucherous ways. We'll no doubt hear “I told you so” or, “I tried to help him” from the PGA Tour cabal but their duplicity will be evident in the fact he was one of the most popular caddies on tour regardless of how shit-faced or how late he was when he showed up for work on Sunday morning.
He was working at this week’s Buick Invitational for Tennessee native Eric Axley. Axley declined to make any comment about the sad demise of his caddy. Duplantis was one of the truly colorful character's to grace the PGA orbit. He is gone too early, but the tales of of Duplantis will be retold, rehashed, and embellished for as long as there are loopers.
Duplantis, 35, could bring out the A-game in the best of players as was chronicled in Alan Shipnuck’s "Bud, Sweat and Tees," a story primarily about PGA player Rich Beem. What was also chronicled by Shipnuck was Duplantis’s love of the nightlife.
Without a doubt there will be those who will come creeping out of the woodwork like mephitic cock-a-roach's and blame the death of Duplantis on his debaucherous ways. We'll no doubt hear “I told you so” or, “I tried to help him” from the PGA Tour cabal but their duplicity will be evident in the fact he was one of the most popular caddies on tour regardless of how shit-faced or how late he was when he showed up for work on Sunday morning.
He was working at this week’s Buick Invitational for Tennessee native Eric Axley. Axley declined to make any comment about the sad demise of his caddy. Duplantis was one of the truly colorful character's to grace the PGA orbit. He is gone too early, but the tales of of Duplantis will be retold, rehashed, and embellished for as long as there are loopers.
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