Taylor Moore is a relatively new name on the PGA Tour, but looking at his stats this season one wouldn’t say so. His exceptional performance at the Pebble Beach Pro-AM, RBC Heritage, and Rocket Mortgage Classic are not only eye-catching but very impressive for a newcomer. He chose golf in his college days, earned a scholarship at the University of Arkansas, and later turned pro.

After that, he progressed through the PGA Tour’s development tours and graduated to the top-level PGA Tour in 2021. Earlier he played on the Korn Ferry Tour where he grabbed his first pro win. And his time on the PGA tour has also been fantastic. With his first victory on the tour and second of his career in March, Moore has been having a great season.

And assisting him in both these victories and other tournaments is his two-year-old caddie, Chris Tichenor.

Moore’s caddie who has made his name from the scratch

Chris Tichenor hails from Owensboro, Kentucky, and has been playing golf since he was a child. He has been doing the job of a bagman for many years now. He started his journey straight out of college only. In his early days, Tichenor was unsure about how to make a start but when he was presented with the opportunity to go to Merion Golf Club in Philadelphia and begin his career in golf, he quickly took it. Initially, Tichenor was new at the club and didn’t know anybody, but he didn’t lose faith and started working on his job and earning people’s confidence as a caddie and out of 20 people he was selected for the Walker Cup.

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In 2009, he started on the club level but worked up his way to a professional level by 2016. Speaking about his dream job as a caddie, Tichenor has said, “I played golf as a kid growing up and still play a little bit with my buddies when I’m home on off weeks. The freedom that comes along with caddying is hard to beat, so that’s kind of what drew me in. Working 25-30 weeks a year and being paid to travel the world is pretty exciting.”

Becoming the caddie of Taylor Moore and winning in two tours

He became Moore’s caddie in 2020 and has been working with him since. Their first victory came in 2021 at the Memorial Health Championship. The event was played at Panther Creek Country Club and was Moore’s first win on the Korn Ferry Tour. He took home a paycheck of $108,000. With a 7-under 257, Moore set a new tournament record at the event and also secured his first PGA Tour card. After that the golfer-caddie duo moved to the PGA Tour in 2022 and in the month of March came his first win on the tour at the 2023 Valspar Championship. The team of Tichenor and Moore beat out Jordan Spieth and Adam Schenk. The paycheck Moore was given was $ 1,458,000 and along with it the duo also won a trip to this year’s Masters Championship.

Other than Moore’s champion trophy, Chris Tichenor also received a trophy tray to memorialize his accomplishment as a Champion Caddie.

Tichenor recalls how excited he was when a tour official came to tell them about Masters, ‘Man, it’s real. We did it.’ Honestly, I didn’t really know what to do,”. They reached Augusta in April and Tichenor had the time of his life.

It was his first time at the revered tournament and he was in awe of his luck. Speaking about what a golden opportunity it was Tichenor had said “I’m very fortunate that all these people want to come and watch, but I get to live in it by the ropes. I’m very grateful for that. I don’t take it for granted. I know have one of the greatest and most sought-after jobs in the world to a lot of golf fans.” Moore finished on T39 at the event. Tichenor has also assisted Moore in other tournaments this season.

With two glorious wins already in their kitty, Tichenor and Moore looks forward to making more accomplishments.

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