Tiger Woods to face his nemesis Steve Williams at the President’s Cup this week
The unthinkable has happened. Tiger Woods will now be pitched against Australian Adam Scott in this week’s President’s Cup and will come face to face with his former caddie and now an arch enemy Steve Williams. The International Team Captain Greg Norman,
already had given aslight hint of the notorious pairing almost a week ago when he said that pitching Scott against Woods would do much to contain the fast recovering 14-major-winner and will keep his nerves on the edge for being in close proximity to Williams.
"I think it’s great for the tournament," Norman said. "It needed to be done. It played out the way it played out. There wasn’t any premeditation by it.”
But the pairing is definitely not a divine intervention. There is no saying whether the sponsors of the event and even the PGA Tour went over to pitch the players against each other in order to draw in more crowd and TV coverage across the globe. US Team
Captain Fred Couples, however, seems quite at home with the decision.
"I think it worked out awesome for everybody involved to have Adam and Tiger play," Couples said. "As we said all along, they are still very good friends, and I think it’s an exciting match."
Woods is paired with his old compatriot and top-ranked US player Steve Stricker who has been a big supporter for Woods selection for the President’s Cup team despite of his dilapidated form. The duo will be facing Scott and K.J Choi from the International
Team in a Match Play format of the event.
The pairing is drawing heated vibes from all nooks of the sport as the continued mudslinging between Woods and Williams has been going on for quite a while now. Williams hurled racial abuses at his former boss at the Players Dinner at the Australian Open
just last week, for which Woods allowed Williams to have a clean pass. The former world number one also said that for whatever Williams might have said that night, he most definitely is not a racist.
Some 24 top-ranking players from across the world excluding Europe and England will fight for the coveted title. 12-member teams from both US and the rest of the world will wrestle to lift the title on the weekend at the scenic Royal Melbourne Golf Club.
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