DP World Tour caddie Hugo Gonzalez had a day he will never forget at the Genesis Scottish Open Pro-Am as he walked the fairways at the Renaissance Club with his footballing superstar dad Raúl.
Gonzalez is the bagman for Eugenio Chacarra, with the duo claiming victory at the Hero Indian Open earlier this season, but it will be no surprise to learn that football was his first calling.
Gonzalez Snr - known the world over simply as Raúl - was one of the game’s biggest stars for 20 years from the mid-90s until his retirement in 2015, becoming Real Madrid's all-time leader in appearances and third-highest goalscorer.
He also made over 100 appearances for Spain in a career that saw him finish his playing days with spells in Germany, Qatar and the United States.
Hugo would play academy football during his father’s latter-career globetrotting and on Wednesday in East Lothian his two worlds came together.
“It’s been a crazy day,” he said. “I wouldn’t have imagined this six or seven months ago when I started caddying that I would be here on this course caddying for Eugenio and playing with my dad.
“I’m never going to forget this.”
Hugo’s route to golf came via his brother, who is friends with Chacarra, and while the ten-handicapper was a novice in the caddying world when he got the call to jump on the bag, he did not hesitate in taking the chance.
“I played football all my life and I stopped playing when I was 17 or 18,” he said. “I played for the academies of the teams my dad played for at Schalke and in Qatar and New York.
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“But when I was 18 I wanted to just play for fun and I focused on my studies and I was finishing my last year at IE University in Madrid and Eugenio called me to jump on the bag and I said ‘let’s do it’. It's been fun.
“Eugenio is my brother’s age and they’re friends. He would come to watch the Real Madrid games and I would go with them and watch the games and talk to him and I got into golf.
“I would travel with him to some events and he called me and said he wated a friend on the bag so I jumped in.”
Chacarra’s rising star and his famous father means Gonzalez may get more attention than most caddies but having spent a lifetime in the spotlight, he is taking it all in his stride.
“You have good and bad things,” he said. “There are people that criticise you for who you are but also there are much better things than bad things. It’s amazing to have a dad like that.”
