Run your caddie program
with confidence.
Scheduling, payments, compliance and youth development — all in one platform. Built for caddie managers. Owned by your club. Every subscription funds Evans Scholar scholarships.
Goal: 100 Evans Scholar caddie scholarships funded.
THE MARKET
A Growing Opportunity
The caddie management market is expanding rapidly, with clubs seeking better solutions
for their most valuable asset: their caddie programs.
Growth in Caddie-Offering Facilities
Since 2018 — National Golf Foundation
US Private Clubs
With active caddie programs
Golfers Wish for Caddies
At their home course
The caddie is golf's original grassroots ambassador.
Caddying provides young people with the opportunity to learn work ethic, communication, perseverance, and financial independence — while developing the leadership skills that serve them for life.
The caddie program is not a job market. It is a development program. The best clubs treat it that way.
Outstanding caddie programs deserve outstanding infrastructure.
The best caddie programs are built on relationships and trust. But relationships and trust don't scale without systems. When a caddie manager leaves, the knowledge walks out the door. When a club grows, the infrastructure breaks down.
Caddie Barn solves four specific problems that every serious caddie program faces.
Scheduling
Availability is tracked by memory or whiteboard. Last-minute changes require phone calls. Members often don't know who will be carrying their bag until they reach the first tee.
Payments
Cash payments with no records create 1099 compliance gaps and administrative burdens for clubs and caddie managers alike.
IC Compliance
The legal landscape surrounding independent contractor classification has grown significantly more complex. Clubs that rely on informal arrangements and undocumented practices face meaningful exposure.
Member Experience
Member preferences and caddie relationships exist in the caddie manager's memory — not in a system. That knowledge doesn't persist through turnover, and it doesn't scale.
Everything a world-class caddie program needs. Built around the people who run it.
Caddie managers are the stewards of the caddie yard. Caddie Barn is designed to support their authority and preserve the culture of the traditional caddie program — while replacing the friction that holds it back.
For Caddie Managers
- Caddie-manager-controlled assignment — you decide who carries which bag
- Roster management with certification levels (Junior/B/A/Honor) and performance history
- Virtual check-in with GPS radius — caddies confirm availability from home, not on property
- Declination logging — every loop a caddie declines is timestamped and documented
- Tee sheet integrations — accurately assign loops based on upcoming schedules
- IC compliance suite — digital agreements, audit trails, multi-club tracking, exportable records
- Member preference database — persistent relationship data surfaced at assignment time
For Caddies
- You control your schedule — set availability days in advance, get assigned only when you're available
- Virtual check-in on assignment day — no waiting on property
- Know your fee before you leave home — no surprises at the end of the round
- Email and text notification of loop assignment confirmations
- Loop details — tee time, group size, and fee confirmed by text before you leave home
For Members
- Request your preferred caddie in advance — persistent across every booking
- Caddie profiles — certification level, ratings, and performance history at your club
- Share preferences pre-round — pace, bag weight, conversation style
- Transparent payment tracking — digital payments coming soon
- Post-round feedback that reaches your caddie manager and the caddie
For Clubs Investing in Youth
- Certification level tracking (Junior/B/A/Honor) — document caddie development over time
- Performance history and member feedback — persistent record of growth and excellence
- Certification progression — document the journey from Junior to Honor caddie over time
- Caddie profiles with specialties and ratings — showcase your program's quality
- Longitudinal performance records — a caddie's full history at your club, from first loop to scholarship application
Independent contractor compliance — built in as a standard feature, not an add-on.
The legal landscape surrounding independent contractor classification in golf has grown significantly more complex in recent years. Clubs that rely on informal arrangements, cash payments, and undocumented practices face meaningful exposure — and the financial and reputational consequences of misclassification claims can be substantial.
Outstanding caddie programs are built on trust — between the club, the caddie manager, and the caddies who represent the club on the course every day. That trust deserves a proper foundation. Caddie Barn builds IC compliance documentation directly into the platform as a standard feature of every subscription — not a premium tier, not an add-on.
Especially critical for clubs in New York, New Jersey, California, and Illinois, where IC litigation has concentrated. Caddie Barn's compliance suite is designed to withstand legal scrutiny in high-exposure states.
- Digital IC agreements signed at onboarding
- Automatic declination logging for every loop
- Multi-club work tracking
- Wage parity monitoring
- 1099 reporting documentation
- Exportable audit trails for legal counsel
Built on Three Principles
You Stay in Control
For Caddie Managers
Your caddie program on autopilot. Caddie Barn gives you a digital backbone for scheduling, communications, and payments — and gets out of the way of the culture you’ve spent years building.
You Own Your Data
For General Managers
Your caddie program data belongs to your club — not to a golf management company with competing interests. Caddie Barn is independently owned, with no relationship to any golf course management company. No conflict of interest. No shared data with operators running courses that compete with yours. Transparent pricing, published flat rate, and built-in IC compliance documentation — everything you need to present to your board with confidence.
Built for Caddies
For Caddies
Caddie Barn is built around the idea that caddying is a skilled profession. Know your loops days in advance. Cash loop tracking and 1099 documentation today, with digital payments coming soon. Reliable notifications on any phone. And every loop you work helps fund scholarships for caddies like you.
Funding Evans Scholar Caddie Scholarships
Every subscription to Caddie Barn funds Evans Scholar caddie scholarships. This is not a marketing claim — it is written into how the business is legally structured. A nonprofit foundation holds equity in the operating company and receives a defined share of profits, which flows directly to scholarships and youth caddie development.
Caddie Barn Foundation
501(c)(3) Nonprofit
Holds equity in the operating company. Receives a defined share of annual profits. Distributes funds directly to Evans Scholar caddie scholarships and youth caddie development programs.
Caddie Barn Inc.
Public Benefit Corporation
Runs the caddie management software company. As a Public Benefit Corporation, it is legally required to consider its public mission alongside financial performance — caddie scholarships and youth development are written into the corporate charter.
Every subscription moves this number forward.
One price. Every feature. The same for every club.
Caddie Barn is flat-rate. Published publicly. No tiers, no custom deals, One annual subscription covers your entire caddie program. One line item for the board to approve, once.
Early access clubs receive founding member pricing and direct input into the product roadmap.
- Full scheduling and assignment workflow
- Member preference matching and caddie profiles
- Digital payments
- IC compliance documentation suite
- Tee sheet integrations
- 1099 reporting tools
- Onboarding and live training