"You might say I've wasted the last 2 years of my life," Steve Williams told tv New Zealand. "I've stuck with Tiger and been incredibly loyal. i am not disappointed i have been fired — that is a part of the duty — however the timing is extraordinary."
Meanwhile, Golfweek reported that an sad Woods severed ties when a fill-in arrangement between Williams and Adam Scott went beyond the U.S. Open.
With Woods sidelined attributable to an injured left knee and Achilles' tendon, he granted Scott's request to let Williams caddy for him at Congressional Country Club. When Williams showed up once more with Scott at the AT&T National, the magazine said, Woods ended their 12-year arrangement amid words like "disloyal" and "overcaddying."
Williams, 47, currently caddies for Scott on a full-time basis, as well as last week's tie for twenty fifth at the British Open.
The caddie additionally spoke of loyalty throughout his TV interview, noting that he had stuck with Woods through last year's sex scandal, a brand new coach and subsequent swing changes.
"I am very disappointed, only if the last eighteen months has been a very tough time," said Williams, thought by several to possess known of his boss' string of affairs.
The Woods-Williams operating arrangement grew into a friendship off the course, and that they were in every other's wedding parties. Williams' wife, Kirsty, and Woods' ex-wife, Elin Nordegren, were said to be terribly shut.
"That was the foremost tough amount that I've ever been through in my life," Williams said on TV. "I'm pretty hard-headed and took it in all probability plenty higher than my wife and family did, however there is no method that I ought to are place through that.
"My name ought to are cleared immediately. It wasn't and that is what makes it even a lot of disappointing what is transpired."
According to Golfweek, strain within the Woods-Williams partnership had reached the purpose where Woods wasn't letting his caddie in on health updates. That resulted in an exceedingly trip to New Zealand curb when Woods determined to tee it up at the Players championship — an look that ended when 9 holes with a lot of knee bother. Williams went back to New Zealand, then reportedly already had came back to U.S. shores when he was informed Woods would sit out the U.S. Open.
"Through time I hope [Woods] will gain my respect back," Williams told his TV interviewer. "He positively has to earn my respect once more, that is of course."
0 Comment:
Post a Comment