Anthony Kim's first win in 16 years at LIV Golf Adelaide may have felt like a made-for-TV movie, but it was neither scripted nor sudden. It was the result of a year of consistent grind: a player ready to work every day, win or lose, and a caddie who understands his golfing mind in a way that makes everything click. That Sunday in Australia, Kim played a flawless 9-under 63, overtaking Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau, and winning by three strokes. Kim's assault on the back nine stemmed from months of building trust with his caddie, Grant Bennett. "He grinds harder than anyone else," Bennett said of Kim, the new star of 4Aces GC, who turns 41 in June.
Bennett never intended to work as a caddie professionally. He tried Q-School but didn't make it, and when his old friend Danny Lee from his home club in Dallas needed a caddie on short notice in the fall of 2020, he agreed. Lee immediately played well, including a strong push into the Korn Ferry Finals thanks to a medical exemption, with Bennett as his caddie. Bennett quickly realized that a caddie job was better than grinding on mini-tours for peanuts. "I can make a bit more money doing this and have a good time," he said.
In 2024, Bennett and Lee parted ways after three LIV Golf events together. When Bennett was back at his home course in Dallas, playing, as he put it, "way too much golf," his phone rang. It was Kim. Ryan Todey, who was Kim's caddie during the initial phase of his comeback and one of his best friends, had vouched for Bennett. Kim's call was straight to the point: "Hey, I'm looking for a caddie. Let's do three weeks on a trial basis and see how it goes." Bennett's first week with Kim was at LIV Golf Hong Kong in 2025. Although Kim didn't play well, the duo was already in sync. The same golfing mind. Kim texted him right after their first round together: "The job is yours if you want it." Bennett couldn't reply fast enough.
"We just thought alike about golf," said the former Wichita State University golfer. "Even off the course, we get along great. That just makes things really easy." "I just felt we thought the same way about golf," Kim recalled. "I wasn't very good yet, but I could tell he was going to work hard whether I was playing well or not. Not everyone has a good attitude every day when they come to the course, and that's all I needed to see... It was a pretty easy decision." On the course, their dynamic is simple. "He likes it when we read greens. We both read the putt and then he asks, 'Do you see it that way too?' We see things very similarly, so most of the time we see pretty much the same thing."
