Showing posts with label Steve Williams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steve Williams. Show all posts

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Stevie Williams vs. Tiger Woods: Advantage Williams

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Who would have thought that the winner of a PGA Tour golf tournament would get overshadowed by his caddie. And yet that is exactly what happened today at the Bridgestone Invitational at the Firestone Country Club.

Adam Scott won the tournament, but was a secondary story.

That's because his caddie, Steve Williams, up until two weeks ago, was Tiger Woods caddie. There's apparently a conflict of stories as to how those two parted ways, but in a bit of a karmic confluence, Williams new boss won the tourney, his old boss was a non-factor.

And in lieu of all that, our pals at CBS Sports interviewed Mr. Williams, who used the medium to take a few not-so-veiled shots at his former employer. He told the world, "It's the greatest week of my life caddying and I sincerely mean that."

Read the story from CBSSports RIGHT HERE

We really aren't sure who root for in this drama. Both Tiger and Williams kind of come off as a pair of douchebags in our opinion. Yes, we laugh a bit at the Karma of Williams being on the winning bag and we get that he was hurt by his former friend dumping him hard. But dude, be a professional. Let it go.

There's no reason to take a public shot.

Nobody that we are aware of has gotten a comment from Woods and we would be mildly surprised if he was willing to give one. And we can respect him because of that. But it also reeks of him being a "High Priced" prima donna. We can't blame Williams for wanting more work to keep getting paid.

But we kind of equate this to piling on. Everyone is dumping on Woods and we feel sorry for him for that. But if he was as shitty to Williams and Williams says than yeah, it really was karma running full circle.

The interview from CBSSports.com:

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Tiger Woods' Kiwi Caddie Knows Nothing

Tiger Woods' longtime caddie Steve Williams was interviewed on 60 Minutes on Channel 3 New Zealand (not CBS) Wednesday about the whole scandal involving Woods' and the women he felt he was entitled to bonk.

Williams said he's going through the most difficult time of his life because,
"every single person believed that I should know or did know or had something to do with it,'' Williams said in the 60 Minutes interview.
Had he known that Woods was probing his putter off the golf course he would have blown the whistle.

Williams isn't happy with Woods right now either. He told 60 Minutes,

''Of course I'm mad at him, why would you not be? I'm close with his wife and he's got two lovely children and he's let them down. But when a guy's having a tough time, it's not up to me to beat him with a stick. He's getting enough grilling from everybody else. When you're a true friend … that's when somebody needs your support … that's when you don't walk away.

''Tiger's one of my closest friends and he needs my support right now and I'd never think of walking away. When I talk to him, I don't talk to him about what's happened. I talk to him about the future and about what we're going to try to accomplish and how we're going to get over it.''

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