Steve Williams in a television interview to be made public around the world today questions Tiger Woods’ ability to win the five major championships he needs to pass Jack Nicklaus’ all-time record of 18 majors. Steve caddied for Tiger for 13 years until he was fired in July.
In the interview, which was recorded before he made a racially insensitive remark about Woods during a caddies end-of-season function in Shanghai a few weeks ago, Steve tells Yahoo! Sports he was disgusted by the former world No. 1’s infidelity, which was exposed by the media at the end of 2009 and led to the end of Woods’ marriage.
”I just didn’t like having my name associated with it. That sort of activity is not something that I have anything to do with,” Steve said.
Steve repeated his earlier claim he had no clue about Woods’ infidelity, and would have counselled him had he known. ”I don’t agree with that sort of behaviour. I mean, I would have been strongly giving my piece of advice,” he said.
The caddie also spoke of his shock due to Woods’ actions: ”I guess I thought I knew him well, and I didn’t.”
Woods, whose world ranking slid to 58th in a year dogged by leg injuries, finished third in the Australian Open last week showing signs of a resurgence. However, Steve said in the interview he doubts that Woods can achieve his aim of overhauling Nicklaus’s landmark of 18 major titles.
”Well, if you look at it in the perspective that he has to have a career sort of equal to Phil Mickelson from here on in. Phil is a fantastic player and he has had four majors, the next best number of major championships won besides Tiger in the time frame that Tiger has been playing on the tour, so he [Woods] has to sort of replicate that kind of career down the road here.”
It’s safe to say that we won’t be seeing Steve carrying Tiger’s clubs again.
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