“I ain’t never before caddied for a grown man wearing short pants,” drawled the caddy. The plus fours that Bobby Locke brought with him from South Africa got plenty of attention last week in Texas.

Jowly Bobby Locke had sprouted a mustache. But nothing new had been added to his game. It was still the same old methodical, plodding show that once prompted Lloyd Mangrum to say to Bobby: “You’re the ...