Senior PGA Championship: Steve Stricker wins with daughter caddying

Steve Stricker defeated Padraig Harrington in a playoff to win the Senior PGA Championship, together with his daughter Izzi Stricker caddying for him. The daddy-daughter duo shared a heartwarming second after Stricker received his second straight main in two weeks.

The reporters requested him about her in his put up spherical interview, and he choked up speaking about how particular it was for him to share this main along with her.

“She did an ideal job. It was loads of enjoyable to be along with her this week. She did an ideal job,” Stricker stated as he teared up speaking about Izzi. “You needed to deliver that up, did not you? To spend all this time along with your children — she seems to be as much as what I do for a residing, and he or she performs fairly dang good golf herself. It is loads of enjoyable to have her with me, and that is fairly particular.”

This lovable selfie video exhibits a bit perception into their relationship as Izzi tells her dad, “I am so pleased with you, and I am so glad I acquired to be part of it.”

The best way Stricker and Izzi work together with one another, this clearly meant quite a bit. Any time somebody wins a significant, it is a huge deal, however to have a toddler on the bag, it must be a fair sweeter win.

This championship marks Stricker’s sixth main championship on the Tour Champions. As for Izzi, she received the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Affiliation Division 1 ladies’ golf state title as a junior in highschool, per the PGA Tour web site. She is dedicated to taking part in school golf on the College of Wisconsin, following in her mother’s and sister’s footsteps.

Mother Nicki and sister Bobbi have caddied for Stricker up to now, and now it was IIzzi’s flip to tote the bag — bringing house a significant championship.