Matt Kuchar’s regular caddie is angry the world has stiffed the golfer of respect.

John Wood, the longtime club-carrier of the golfer enmeshed in a tipping controversy, wants the world to settle down and give Kuchar a break.

“I don’t understand the need to tear down a guy who has spent his career trying to uphold the game and himself to some pretty high standards,” Wood wrote on Twitter late Friday night. “Nobody’s perfect. All we can do when a mistake is made is reconsider, apologize and make amends.”

The cheapness charges that came with Kuchar originally tipping $5,000 for a check of $1.3 million for winning the Mayakoba Classic in November are foreign to the caddie who usually holds Kuchar’s bag.

“Matt,his entire family and team have never been anything but generous,inclusive,respectful, and complimentary of me and the job I do for him,” Wood wrote. “I wouldn’t work for someone I didn’t respect, or who didn’t value my opinion. To crucify for one mistake feels wrong.”

Tipping stand-in caddie David Giral Ortiz a pittance also (eventually) felt wrong, as Kuchar agreed to pay him $50,000 this weekend, when he apologized to Ortiz and the world.

“Listen, I was stubborn, hard-headed,” Kuchar said at the Genesis Open in Los Angeles, after explaining he and Wood had struck a deal that was not altered when Kuchar won. “In my mind, I had it as a deal is a deal, but after I won the tournament, a deal wasn’t a deal. Not a good deal.

“Any transaction, all parties should come out feeling like they’ve won, and certainly in David’s case, he did not feel like he won in that situation, and I needed to make that right. It’s as simple as that.”