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Article: From sleeping rough to the lap of luxury; Bagmen have won their long fight to be recognised as key team members.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2002
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Byline: ALAN FRASER
FROM sleeping under hedges to flying in Concorde and having their own rooms in the DeVere Belfry, caddies have journeyed far.
When the Ryder Cup was held here in 1985, a bus drove the bagmen on the one-hour journey to their hotel in Walsall at 8pm and was there to collect them at 5am the next day. This time they are onsite, all expenses - except, out of necessity, drinks - paid.
Walton Heath in 1981 proved the straw which broke the caddie's back.
Never again, said Dave Musgrove, who, with spokesman Jimmy Cousins and John 'the Prof' Davidson, now both deceased, initiated a revolution.
Musgrove, Sandy Lyle's ...