The New Zealander was Tiger Woods’ caddie for 13 major victories but he was also the bag man for Adam Scott’s Masters win
New Zealander was Woods’ caddie for 13 major victories but he was also the bag man for Adam Scott’s Masters win a decade agodoes not afford time to look up and smell the flowers. Woods won 13 of his 15 major titles with Steve Williams as caddie, a run the New Zealander quickly came to realise was about business rather than pleasure.
Williams, 59, seeks no sympathy for the attritional nature of that environment. Far from it. He and Woods laughed and joked during a chance meeting in a Los Angeles hotel earlier this year. Earlier, Williams had been portrayed as the barking, brooding caddie by Woods’s side. “Was it unfair? Probably,” he says.
Adam Scott and Steve Williams celebrate Scott winning the 2013 Masters, beating the 2009 champion Ángel Cabrera in a sudden-death playoff.“When Adam won the Masters, we had a great celebration. With Tiger, that was never happening.” Scott’s inquisitive nature duly served him well. “I decided I was going to tell Adam this but he actually asked me to read the putt, which was good,” Williams says. “I didn’t have to say something he didn’t expect. I didn’t have to put doubt in his mind. He asked me if it broke a hole to the left. I said: ‘That’s not even f-ing close. It’s two and a half cups out with a bit of speed.’
“That appeared a catastrophic failure but it made a difference when he got to Augusta in 2013,” Williams insists. “He had played extremely well there for 68 holes. With a few holes to go, I didn’t see any way he wasn’t going to win it. It kind of unravelled but he knew from that situation how well he had played for 68 holes. He just had to do it for 72. It was the last piece of the puzzle.
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