Tiger Woods and Steve Williams broke up more than three years ago and while the shock of the sudden split still stings the former No. 1’s ex-caddie, the nickname may have rankled even more.
Steve ‘Don’t call me Stevie’ Williams really wants Tiger Woods to call
Tiger may still call his former caddie Stevie — if he called at all. Williams, whom Woods fired in 2011, really, really wishes his old boss would get in touch.
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“It’s Steve,” Williams corrected Steve Sands when the Golf Channel broadcaster introduced Adam Scott’s current looper to the Caddie Hall of Fame earlier this month, according to the New York Times’ Karen Crouse. “Stevie’s what Tiger used to call me, so that’s what everybody calls me. I hate that name.”
The New Zealander was on Woods’ bag for 13 of his 14 major championships over a span of 13 years and helped Scott win the 2013 Masters on the Aussie’s way to a brief stay atop the official world golf rankings. He told Crouse his plan for semi-retirement starting next year had not changed.
Woods and Williams
Nor, apparently, has his eagerness to hear from his old boss. Sure, he said, the two old horses had pawed the turf a bit since Woods gave Williams the heave-ho, like the bro shake the two exchanged after last year’s British Open.
Tiger averred that the moment amounted to more than perfunctory pleasantries and that Williams “was saying it was a good fight out there today,” but Stevie, er, Steve, was left wanting more and has said so a few times since.
“I think Tiger and I need to sit down and have a conversation,” Williams said last November. “That opportunity hasn’t arisen yet, but that’s something I’d like to do.”
As of last week, his ardent overtures had still gone unrequited.
“It’s disappointing,” Williams said to Crouse. “I caddied for the guy for 13 years, put my heart and soul into it, and there’s been no correspondence at all.”
Not even a Hallmark ‘thanks for the racial slur’ card or anything. Go figure.
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