Jim ‘Bones’ Mackay is again to broadcasting full-time

Longtime Tour caddie and fashionable broadcaster Jim “Bones” Mackay is heading again to the small display screen for full-time broadcast work for NBC/Golf Channel, community president Sam Flood confirmed in a media convention name.

Whereas Mackay was beforehand introduced as a part of subsequent week’s U.S. Open broadcast group in Pinehurst, his full-time return is welcome information for golf followers, who’ve loved his insights since his broadcast debut on the 2015 RSM Basic, alongside fellow caddie John Wooden.

Previous to working for NBC, Mackay made a reputation for himself as top-of-the-line caddies on Tour, spending 25 years on the bag for Phil Mickelson earlier than the duo’s break up in 2017. Mickelson received 41 PGA Tour tournaments, together with 5 main championships, with Mackay.

Nearly instantly after splitting with Mickelson, Mackay was employed as a full-time on-course reporter for NBC and Golf Channel. He labored as a fill-in caddie for Justin Thomas on two events earlier than Thomas employed him as a full-time bagman in 2021.

“I like to caddie and I cherished my position with NBC/Golf Channel, nevertheless it’s Justin Thomas,” Mackay instructed Golf Channel on the time.

Mackay’s partnership with Thomas was highlighted by Thomas’ victory on the PGA Championship in 2022 — the pair’s solely win collectively.

Mackay stored a toe within the broadcast water all through his tenure with Thomas, working tournaments just like the Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Beginner and the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship. In February, on the Mexico Open at Vidanta, Mackay turned the primary lively caddie ever to function a lead analyst.

In April, Thomas and Mackay parted methods, and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than TV got here calling as soon as extra. Does this imply Mackay, now 59, is hanging up his bib for good?

“Tv is my No. 1 precedence and I’ll do what I did earlier than — if somebody is sick or between caddies and wishes a man for every week and it’s not an NBC occasion, then I’d be comfortable to assist out,” Mackay instructed Golfweek’s Adam Schupak. “However past that I shall be doing TV primarily so far as what I do for a residing.”

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