Tiger Woods was instructed by Steve Williams “to ‘F’ off,” they usually every hung up the cellphone.
The sequence then repeated itself earlier than Woods known as a 3rd time.
In spite of everything, he was questioning if Williams … would need to be his caddie?
Williams tells the story effectively, and he did so each on this week’s episode of GOLF’s “Subpar” podcast (which you’ll watch by clicking right here) and within the e-book “We Roared Collectively,” which he co-authored with Evin Priest (and could be bought right here). On “Subpar,” Williams set issues up by saying that he had arrived on the 1999 Doral Open together with his then-pro, Raymond Floyd, and he’d heard that Woods had parted methods together with his caddie on the time, Mike “Fluff” Cowan.
We’ll let Williams take it from right here.
“I didn’t actually give it a lot thought,” Williams stated on the podcast. “And Tuesday night time in my lodge room — that is simply after arriving from New Zealand jet lag — we had the cellphone ring in my lodge room. I’ve a man, an excellent buddy of mine who’s a golf professional, and he can imitate Tiger to a tee — his swing, his physique language, his motion, his voice and da, da, da.
“I simply thought it was him, and no unsure phrases — it was pretty late within the night — I simply instructed him to ‘F’ off and provides me a hoop tomorrow. A pair minutes later, the cellphone rings, and it was the identical query, and I gave just about the identical reply. Then the third time, I believed, effectively, perhaps it’s not my mate, Bob.
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“And positive sufficient, it wasn’t; it was Tiger. In order that was an excellent begin concerning the banter that Kiwis have and Aussies have, that kind of our mind-set is a little bit bit totally different, I assume, to what Tiger could be used to. So we acquired off to an excellent begin there.”
However why Williams as Woods’ caddie?
“Subpar” co-host Drew Stoltz requested that, and Williams thought the selection was primarily based on his character.
“I’ve all the time had a popularity as a stand-up kind of a man,” Williams stated on the podcast. “I’m not scared to voice my opinion and never scared to again myself, when you like.
“And Tiger requested a number of folks — Mark O’Meara, his good mate; Butch Harmon, his coach on the time; and a pair different folks. Clearly every individual Tiger requested, they’d a number of totally different caddies, however my title was synonymous with all of the those who he requested, and that’s the way it happened.”
Editor’s observe: To look at the entire episode of GOLF’s “Subpar” podcast that includes Williams, please click on right here or scroll instantly under. To buy “We Roared Collectively” co-authored by Williams, please click on right here.
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