Fall 2025

100 C A R M E L M A G A Z I N E • F A L L 2 0 2 5 Walking the Walker Cup Myster iously Disabled Caddie Vince Lucido Hopes to Get Back on the Greens B Y A L E X HU L AN I CK I Photo: Kelli Uldall F or more than 50 years, Cypress Point Club members have depended on caddie Vince Lucido to tell them yardage, the breaks on the greens and where their ball is in the rough. Now, Lucido, 70, can barely walk, and for the past three years has wandered hospital hallways in search of medical specialists, relying on the helping hands of mem- bers, as they support him with medical special- ists and the club’s Emergency Caddie Fund to try to get him back on the course. In September, he will act as honorary caddie coordinator for the Walker Cup matches at Cypress Point. Over the years, Lucido has looped for club members and visiting professionals like Lee Trevino who questioned his accuracy; presi- dents, including Gerald R. Ford, for whom he Vince Lucido, of Seaside, who caddied at Cypress Point Club for 52 years before being sidelined with a mysterious injury, works on leg strength at Montage Wellness Center in Marina. Club members helped him with medical care.