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LOS ANGELES — Matt Kuchar, who has earned more than $45 million as a professional golfer, went to Mexico last fall in search of his first victory in four years — and a local caddie who could help him get it.
Kuchar found both. But that happy ending has quickly dissolved into a scandal that casts Kuchar, 40, as an ugly American and a particularly shameless elitist in a country-club sport.
Kuchar has been accused of fleecing his caddie in Mexico, David Giral Ortiz, by paying him a tiny fraction of what the job usually yields when the boss wins $1.