The richest person at the 2014 U.S. Open is a caddie. Here’s his incredible story.

Meet Scott McNealy, a 59-year-old businessman from Columbus Indiana. McNealy will be a caddie for his son Maverick at this weekend’s U.S. Open. He is worth an estimated $1.1 billion. Here’s the amazing story.

Scott McNealy was the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and served as its CEO for 22 years. His 18-year-old son Maverick qualified for the U.S. Open at a sectional tournament in California. Rather than scouring the caddie ranks for a weekend affair, Maverick asked his billionaire father to loop for him.

The senior McNealy is a good enough golfer to play Pinehurst — He’s consistently ranked one of the best amateur golfers in the business world and makes regular appearances at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am tournament. Scott McNealy was once ranked one of the best CEO golfers in the world by Golf Digest.

Has anybody caddied and played in a U.S. Open before? Because that would be an incredible rags to riches story. Except McNealy’s already rich and well, yeah that analogy made no sense. Disregard please.

McNealy is now the Chairman of Wayin, “a social intelligence company that integrates social content into new experiences for consumers and delivers greater value and control for brands.” Which basically amounts to, “hey, we’re gonna give a rich guy a lot of money for a company that makes and does very little.”

Wish somebody would give me money for doing something very little. Instead I’m out here barely scraping by making GIFs and Vines and wait, did you see this one about a dog humping a girl?

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