How to Start a Teen Caddy Business

Business Overview:

If you’re a golf-loving teen who enjoys the outdoors and you’re looking for a small business idea, you should look into how to start a teen caddy business. A caddy typically carries the golfer’s clubs, hands out clubs and puts them away, cleans golf balls, helps the golfer find errant shots and does anything else the golfer may need. Once you’ve learned how to become a caddy, you might also replace divots, pull the pin for putts and calculate the distance to the hole. The level of service you provide will determine the amount you charge. Since you will be an independent business, not affiliated with a particular golf course, it’s important that you clear your services with each course at which you will be caddying to ensure you aren’t breaking any course rules since many courses employ caddies. Once your business is up and running, you will likely want to hire other teens to be caddies in order to handle the demand. You may even talk to local golf courses to see if you can contract your business services directly with the course and be paid by the course and not the individual golfers. In this case, not only would you and your caddies earn money from the course but you would also earn tips from the golfers each time you caddied a round. As your team’s skills increase, you can raise your rates. Increased skills will turn into increased demand in the golf community. Soon your caddy business will be the talk of the town and you’ll need to keep hiring new caddies to keep up with demand.

A Day in the Life of a Teen Caddy Business Owner:

Your day will begin with a check of your schedule to see what caddy appointments you have. If you have a staff working for you, you will coordinate client assignments with them. If you don’t have any appointments of your own, you will spend your day distributing marketing materials to local golf supply stores, fitness centers, and golf courses that allow outside caddies to help course golfers.

About Your Customers:

Your customers will be golfers in need of excellent caddy services. Your customers might also include golf courses if you are able to contract your business services directly with them.

What You Need to Start:

• Excellent customer service skills
• Moderate to high level of golf knowledge
• Marketing materials
• Transportation

The Good:

• If you are interested in golf, this business is a great way to gain more experience.
• Owning a small business looks really good on college applications.
• The startup capital needed for this business is very low.
• You can charge top dollar for high quality caddy services.
• Working within the golf community is a wonderful networking opportunity.

The Bad:

• Golf is seasonal so you would only be able to operate this business during certain times of the year depending on where you live.
• Since golf is strictly an outdoor sport you may have days of working in intense sun and heat.

Resources:

• Professional Caddies Association
• Small Business Administration Teen Business Link
• PGA Junior
• Wikipedia on Caddies

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