Jim Furyk says caddie Fluff Cowan ‘thinks he’s going to be good to go’ after returning from injury

RICHMOND, Va. — A week ago, Jim Furyk’s son Tanner caddied for him at the PGA Tour Champions regular-season finale, the SAS Championship. Father and son made quite a pair, as Furyk took the clubhouse lead late on Sunday before settling for a tie for third.

Furyk’s regular caddie, Fluff Cowan, missed the tournament due to an injury. At the Dominion Energy Charity Classic this week, the first of three events in the postseason, Fluff should be back on the bag.

“I’m actually surprised at how well he’s gotten around this week,” Furyk said of Fluff’s status. “He really was hobbled last week and wasn’t able to bear a lot of weight. He’s still got a little bit of a limp to his gait.

“He was on the cart for the [Thursday] pro-am and he put the bag on his shoulder a significant amount … He’s limping a little bit right now. I’m sure it’s a little sore. I’m sure he’s hiding it a little bit, too. He seems to be all right, thinks he’s going to be good to go.”

Furyk will need his right-hand man to be on his A-game this week as the duo take on the top-72 players from the season-long Schwab Cup points list, especially at 54-hole Champions tour events that are more of a sprint than a marathon compared to the 72-hole Tour stops.

“You can have a bad nine holes out on the PGA Tour, you’ve got seven more to kind of catch up. Out here you play a bad nine holes, you feel like you’ve put yourself behind the eight ball,” said Furyk.

Furyk tees off alongside Bernhard Langer and Miguel Angel Jiménez at 12:30 p.m. ET on Friday at the Country Club of Virginia.