Playing the Masters with your brother alongside you as your caddie makes for a pretty special Sunday.
It’s a scenario that Maverick McNealy and his caddie brother, Scout, could have never imagined.
Maverick played college golf at Stanford while Scout did the same at Baylor. When Maverick’s post-collegiate career began taking off, he brought Scout along with him for the ride — including to the 2025 Masters.
“To be honest, this never even crossed my mind, playing the Masters,” Maverick said, according to Golfweek’s Beth Ann Nichols. “We were hockey players growing up.”
While the hockey thing didn’t quite pan out for the pair past their youths, it’s safe to say that the appearance in this year’s Masters suffices.
It wasn’t their first outing at Augusta National, though, as Maverick and Scout played the course back in 2017 with their father, Scott, and two other brothers, Dakota and Colt.
“That was just a bucket list item,” Maverick said of the family outing.
Maverick and Scout then returned to the famed course earlier this year to play with AT&T CEO John Stankey.
Those two previous outings culminated into this year’s Masters where it mattered most for Maverick. He wound up tied for 32nd, finishing one shot over par.
Maverick said he “never really had it in mind that we’d be back and definitely not really in the Masters.”
It was Maverick’s first PGA Tour victory at the RSM Classic at the end of 2024 that booked his return to Augusta for his first-ever Masters.
“I just point and the ball somehow ends up there,” Scout joked regarding his impact with Maverick’s precision.
But with Scout’s level-headedness and green-reading, Maverick recognized Scout’s impact and sacrifice on a more serious level.
“For me, I’m really grateful that he’s taking the time and putting everything else in his life on hold for probably the most valuable couple of years in my career,“ Maverick said.
