Steve Williams knows all there is to know about Tiger Woods, having spent 12 years caddying for the 15-time major champion during his peak.
Tiger Woods has won all there is to win in the game, and Steve Williams was right by his side for the majority of his wins.
On Wednesday, Steve Williams said that he would caddie for Tiger Woods again, if he was asked to so.
That would be quite the reunion, but it seems highly unlikely right now.
Let’s not forget, we don’t often get to see Tiger Woods play as it is, due to his ongoing injury problems.
At the end of the day, Tiger has achieved everything, apart from eclipsing Jack Nicklaus‘s record of 18 major victories.
One thing’s for sure, he was head and shoulders above everybody who he competed against for the best part of a decade and a half.
Steve Williams on big difference between Tiger Woods and Charles Howell III
Tiger Woods and Charles Howell III spent a lot of tome together during the first decade of the new century.
Both were members of the exclusive Isleworth Country Club in Orlando Florida, and often practiced alongside one another.
‘Chucky three sticks’, as he is affectionately known on tour, is a very good player in his own right.
The 45-year-old has three PGA Tour wins to his name, and a win on the LIV Golf tour as well.
Those numbers obviously don’t compare to Tiger Woods’ record, and in fairness, 99.9% of professional golfers who have played on tour don’t come close to the 49-year-old.
Williams offered an insight into perhaps why Tiger has been so successful throughout his career, when speaking on The High Performance Podcast:
“We used to practice a lot at Isleworth and one of the guys that would often be on the range at the same time that Tiger was practicing was a guy called Charles Howell III. He was a very good player, an accomplished player and I was always intrigued watching. For every three balls Charles hit, Tiger only hit one because every shot he hit had some meaning to it. A lot of guys get on the practice fairway and they say okay I am going to practice for two hours and hit 200 balls and they just go through the routine of doing it but every single shot Tiger would hit after he had loosened up had a purpose. It was either a shape to a shot or a shot he was picturing for an upcoming tournament. It was never just a case of standing there swinging and hitting a shot.
“It was always, it had to be a left to right shot, high shot, low shot. Whatever it might be, there was always some purpose. He practiced with a lot of intensity and in every major, the lead up to a major, he never played the week before a major unless it was a tournament that he absolutely had to play and he would be practicing a week for a major, Those are the weeks I joined him all the time and he would stand there and I would say this is the 13th hole at Augusta, we don’t want to see this shot or that shot and almost play a round of golf on the range with some intensity as well. It meant something.
“So when you got to the golf course that’s why he hit some fabulous shots under extreme pressure because he put himself under that kind of pressure on the range practicing.”
How Tiger Woods reacted to Rory McIlroy’s Masters win
Tiger and Rory McIlroy have always been incredibly close.
Both were destined for greatness from a very young age, so it’s easy to understand why they are able to relate to one another.
Woods was clearly delighted to see McIlroy finally join him in the Grand Slam club.
That was wonderful to see from the 15-time major winner.
Will we see Tiger Woods ever compete again to try and make it 16 though? That remains to be seen.
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