Taking part in the Masters together with your brother alongside you as your caddie makes for a fairly particular Sunday.
It’s a situation that Maverick McNealy and his caddie brother, Scout, may have by no means imagined.
Maverick performed faculty golf at Stanford whereas Scout did the identical at Baylor. When Maverick’s post-collegiate profession started taking off, he introduced Scout together with him for the experience — together with to the 2025 Masters.
“To be honest, this never even crossed my mind, playing the Masters,” Maverick mentioned, in keeping with Golfweek’s Beth Ann Nichols. “We were hockey players growing up.”
Whereas the hockey factor didn’t fairly pan out for the pair previous their youths, it’s protected to say that the looks on this yr’s Masters suffices.
It wasn’t their first outing at Augusta Nationwide, although, as Maverick and Scout performed the course again in 2017 with their father, Scott, and two different brothers, Dakota and Colt.
“That was just a bucket list item,” Maverick mentioned of the household outing.
Maverick and Scout then returned to the famed course earlier this yr to play with AT&T CEO John Stankey.
These two earlier outings culminated into this yr’s Masters the place it mattered most for Maverick. He wound up tied for thirty second, ending one shot over par.
Maverick mentioned he “never really had it in mind that we’d be back and definitely not really in the Masters.”
It was Maverick’s first PGA Tour victory on the RSM Traditional on the finish of 2024 that booked his return to Augusta for his first-ever Masters.
“I just point and the ball somehow ends up there,” Scout joked relating to his impression with Maverick’s precision.
However with Scout’s level-headedness and green-reading, Maverick acknowledged Scout’s impression and sacrifice on a extra critical degree.
“For me, I’m actually grateful that he’s taking the time and placing every part else in his life on maintain for most likely essentially the most priceless couple of years in my profession,“ Maverick mentioned.
