Steven Fox-trot for Ben Rickett
BEN RICKETT swapped Surrey for Tennessee on a golf scholarship eight years ago, dreaming one day of playing in the Masters.
However the dream died and he became a coach, but he has made it to Augusta after all and will share the stage for the first two rounds with Ian Poulter – as caddie to Steven Fox, the US Amateur champion.
Ben Rickett will caddie for Steven Fox at Augusta
Rickett, an assistant coach to Fox at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, stepped in as an emergency replacement for Fox’s father Alan, with his man two down to Michael Weaver at the halfway point of the 36-hole US Amateur final last August.
Fox went on to win in a play-off and Rickett’s reward this week is to don one of Augusta’s famous white boiler suits.