{"id":42827,"date":"2026-05-26T04:56:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/garrick-higgo-splits-with-caddie-after-late-arrival-and-missing-us-pga-cut\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T04:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:56:59","slug":"garrick-higgo-splits-with-caddie-after-late-arrival-and-missing-us-pga-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/garrick-higgo-splits-with-caddie-after-late-arrival-and-missing-us-pga-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrick Higgo splits with caddie after late arrival and missing US PGA cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Garrick Higgo has split with caddie Austin Gaugert after a penalty for being late for his tee time contributed to him missing the cut at the US PGA Championship.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Higgo, 27, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/c62dnm1nm73o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">received a two-stroke penalty<\/a> for tardiness during the first round at Aronimink last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tournament officials said Higgo was &#8220;not within the area defined as the starting point at his starting time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the penalty cost him the chance to tie the lead at 67 in the first round, the South African missed the cut by a single shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Aaron Rai went on to win the US PGA, becoming the first Englishman to do so in 107 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Higgo&#8217;s agent told Golfweek that the two-time PGA Tour winner has re-hired his former caddie Nick Cavendish-Pell, with whom he won his first title on the tour in 2021 at the Palmetto Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cavendish-Pell will join Higgo for the CJ Cup Byron Nelson in Texas this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the first round at Aronimink last week, Higgo said that his penalty &#8220;wasn&#8217;t a surprise. I was late. I mean, my caddie was yelling at me to get to the tee&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Broadcast footage captured Gaugert calling for Higgo to hurry up from the practice green to the first tee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the end of his round Higgo was seen discussing his case in the clubhouse with the PGA of America, but the penalty was not overturned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cy824vdwejvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garrick Higgo has split with caddie Austin Gaugert after a penalty for being late for his tee time contributed to him missing the cut at the US PGA Championship. Higgo, 27, received a two-stroke penalty for tardiness during the first round at Aronimink last week. Tournament officials said Higgo was &#8220;not within the area defined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42829,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42827\/revisions\/42829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}