Possible Clues:

• Helped of course to get rotter burned out
• Acted as an assistant to a golfer
• Carried the clubs
• Worked for Woods, perhaps
• Worked for a 40-Across
• Aided a golfer, in a way
• One helped, of course, when the rotter passed away
• The rotter was no more, having carried it in clubs
• Scoundrel pegged out - had a job getting back to the clubhouse