Former Caddy Steve Williams in the success of the Grand Slam -a Tiger Woods, wins the masters and his future big hopes

Former Caddy Steve Williams of Tiger Woods supported him to overcome the latest injury backlog and believes he is the career of the five -time Masters champion “has not yet been done”.

Woods has played a limited schedule in recent years after a car accident in February 2021 left him with threatening legs and ankles, making only 11 official starts in the last four seasons and finished 72 holes on just four occasions.

Former world no. 1 will miss the masters – live from 10th to 13th April to Sky SportS – after his Achilles broke, raising doubt about his participation in the rest of the majorettes this season and when he would be able to return to a competitive action.

For him, Williams played an important role in ‘Tiger Slam’ and 13 of his 15 main wins from 1999 to 2011, and the new Zealander is still expecting Woods to try again for the Major.

“Tiger still has a task at hand,” Williams said Podcast Sky Sports Golf. “He was obviously injured with another failure, but I really believe he will not give the opportunity to win another major.

“He will still want to exercise and reach a point where he feels he could stand on the T -shirt and physically compete for 72 holes, knowing that he gave him any practice he could make him get there and tries to win another main one.

“He hasn’t finished yet!”

Would Tiger’s career be different without Williams?

Williams was already a Caddy for over 20 years and worked for the main winners of Greg Norman and Raymond Floyd when he replaced Mike “Fluff” Cowan as Woods’ Looper in March 1999, where it became clear where the priorities of the future winner of Grand Slam stood.

“When I went to work with Tigra and talked to him about what his plan was and what his goals were, it was only an irresistible importance set up in the main championships,” Williams explained.

“After his victory in Masters (1997), he did not win another major championship when I stepped on my bag in 1999. With all the majors that passes, it is a smaller opportunity to win one and he doesn’t get a career on the trail he wanted to enter. I could feel it immediately.”

The couple enjoyed the great success of later that year at the PGA Championship, where Williams’ decision to overcome Woods led them to the penultimate hole to see the then teenager Sergio Garcia in Medina.

“Tiger read the Putta and said he was out of the hole, but I assured him that it was in the hole – it was a big call,” Williams admitted. “It’s the first time we had the opportunity to win a major. In fact, it breaks a little, and Sergio (Garcia) is a crowd behind him.

“He included that path and who knows where his career may have gone away that he hadn’t knocked that path and continued to beat Sergio. The second main thing I feel is the hardest to win, and you look at the number of great players, scored by players who won only one major championship.

“Tiger obviously won in 1999, so it does not start in 2000 with this additional pressure to win that second major and start this race. At a great moment, I outweighed the tiger and I was right and there was a huge amount of our trust that followed in the coming years.”

In 2000, Woods won three of the four major, including US Open and Open with a record margin, before winning masters next April to hold all four directions at the same time.

He is still the last player to win a green jacket in recent years, after defending the title in 2002, in which he also saw that he claimed to be a US Open, part of an extraordinary victory of seven wins in 11 major.

“Everything was compared to Jackov (Nicklaus) a record of 18 major championships,” Williams said. “As every year passed and every major passed, there was only a growing pressure on it. There and then, I truly believed it would eclipse him.

“His dedication, his drive, exercise, the way he was playing and preparing, and we reached the maximum for the majorettes was better than anyone else. The big pressure for Tiger, but that is a great pressure and things we succeeded in.”

That chip and their legacy together

Woods failed to add his main sum during the next two seasons, but changed Masters in 2005, beating Chris Dimarc in the playoffs, produced one of the greatest shots in great history with his extraordinary bird bird birds.

“While Tiger hit the ball in a teenager and I think he’s” Jeez, that’s a little left! “Williams looked back.

“I thought it was in a bunker, then it’s not a bunker. Then it’s in water, it’s not in the water now – I don’t know where it’s gone and what’s there! Tiger, as we walk from teenager to green, he asked me what was there. I didn’t know there!

“Tiger said, ‘Do you think if I shrug the ball on this brand, it won’t roll over too far by the hill or will it go back too much speed and go too far by the hole? “Well, he landed the ball right on that mark.

“He could stand for the rest of his life and hit as many shots as he wanted, he would never reproduce that shot – it was just an amazing moment.”

Williams was there to comfort him a year later in the open air, the first major won from the passing of Woods’s father, Earl, with their close embroidery that stretched from the Golf Town until the 2011 separation.

We roared together – Williams’s new book about his time with Woods – more reflects at the end of their partnership and restricted communication, and the veteran Caddy felt “luck” that he spent so long with the 82 -reasons PGA Tour winner.

“When he came to the course, everything was a job,” Williams said. “It was his job, he had a task and wanted to do the task at best every day when he came to the golf course.

“He must have had a softer side, which only those people around him would see from the golf course. He had a very kind touch. He says nothing without any meaning and takes his time.

“I was very fortunate to wear one of the biggest players ever and be part of a golf history. He was an amazing guy for work and was very generous to himself and my whole family.

“I have nothing but praise for the guy and I feel happy to be able to stand by him and watch him play some of the best golf ever played.”

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