Steve Williams goes overboard making racial comments against Tiger Woods
It seems that Tiger Woods former caddie Steve Williams just cannot get over the humiliation he had to face on his termination a few months back. The old timer has been lashing out at the former world number one for quite a while but at the Annual Caddy Awards
dinner organized at the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai on Friday night, he finally decided to go overboard.
“My aim was to shove it right up that black [expletive],” Williams said in front of a distinguished audience of some 100 international players and their caddies. He was referring to his present employer Adam Scott’s victory at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
and spoke about his comments later on.
The shocking strong worded comments might come as a surprise as many of the critics never considered that there could possibly be a racist element hiding somewhere within the celebrated caddie, especially after giving more than 12 years of loyal service
to Woods.
Scott officially hired Williams after Woods decided to terminate him because of his acquaintance with Scott and a visibly frustrated Williams came out with scathing criticism of the 14-major–winner and went over to the extent of claiming that many of those
major titles were won because of his valuable suggestions.
Williams has now also publicly apologized for his racial comments and his website later said, “I apologize for comments I made last night at the Annual Caddy Awards dinner in Shanghai. Players and caddies look forward to this evening all year and the spirit
is always joking and fun. I now realize how my comments could be construed as racist. However I assure you that was not my intent,” he said. “I sincerely apologize to Tiger and anyone else I have offended.”
Woods will be returning for the coveted President’s Cup next week at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club hoping to reignite his former glorious form. He has not won a single event for the last more than two years and has remained off-course for most of the title
events this season. He has also dropped out of the top-50 on the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) for the first time in 15 years.
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