Steve Williams worked with Tiger Woods at the height of the golfing great's success, but the New Zealand native got the boot for temporarily switching allegiance when the American was injured
Steve Williams caddied for Tiger Woods during the height of the superstar's success but was sacked for temporarily jumping ship to another player.
With Williams at his side, Woods would win 64 of his tour victories, 13 of his 15 majors, nine Tour Player of the Year awards, and spend 281 weeks at World No. 1 between June 2005 and October 2010. But the good times would soon come to an end for Williams, who has previously opened up about the reason that he was sacked by Woods.
He added: "I was just expecting a phone call at any moment to say 'I'm playing again next week, get your s*** together and get over here'. There was a lot of uncertainty. So when a friend I had caddied for before called me and asked me if I could caddie for him, I ran that by Tiger and he said absolutely no problem."
"He had his agent call and he said 'If you go and caddie for your friend, that will be the end of your time caddying for Tiger'. I thought there was no way the guy is going to fire me. But a couple of days after the tournament I got the phone call to say our time had ended.
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