“I told Tiger I'd be there"

Robert Lusetich tracks down Stevie Williams who confirms he'll be on the bag at the Masters, and who offers a strong rebuke to Joslyn James' suggestion that she has met the looper out clubbing with Tiger.

“If she’s met me maybe it was in passing at a golf course, that’s all I could think of,” Williams said, “But as far as I’m concerned, I’ve never met this woman.

“I’m tired of having my name dragged through the mud over this. I’ve done nothing wrong. As I’ve repeatedly said, I knew nothing about what was going on.”

Comments

[sir real]

Another serial liar.

[Chuck]

I think that "I'm tired of having my name dragged through the mud on this," means, "I'm tired of the press asing me hard questions."

I don't think it means, "I've grown weary of the non-stop scandal that Tiger Woods has become, and perhaps it is time for me to retire to my farm in New Zealand and my saloon cars."

[Dr. Drew]

Why does Steve think this is about him?

[tlavin]

I'm with you, Dr. Drew.

[thusgone]

another sociopath.

[hitter]

a h--ker who has released only Tiger's side of the dirty e-mail chain says "i think he knows me"? if thats not confirmantion they've never met i dont know what is...If JJ had even sniffed the name Williams she would have dragged him right into the mess..

[The O]

I would be willing to believe Steve-O, but wasn't Rachel U. on the plane with them to Australia? Seems like many hours in an tube would make the relationship kind of obvious.

[CK]

I dunno. I think it's quite possible that Williams knew little about this. Think about it. If you were doing what TW was doing, would you want your professional associate to know? How close are TW and Williams off the course? Do they even stay in the same hotel when on the road? Do they go out for dinner and to bars together? It sounds as if Williams was present at the infamous bachelor party, but beyond that...?

I've never been a Tiger fan and Williams too seems to be a hard guy to like, but to my mind the evidence here is sketchy.

Also, when Tiger says it's all his fault and nobody else knew, at this point what else CAN he say? Implicating others who have previously denied knowledge would reveal them as liars and sycophants, and could ruin their careers, marriages, etc. Maybe they deserve to be ruined, but Tiger surely doesn't see it that way.

[hitter]

steve-o lives in NZ--doubt he was on the plane with tiger. and i thought RU was smuggled in by Bryon Bell--didnt fly down with tiger.

[Huck]

Bryon Bell was the chief enabler and Steinberg knew - though maybe not the details but he cut the deal with the Enquirer to cover it up in 07 - and I think Williams was kept out of that loop. Tiger lived lots of lives he kept separate from each other until, of couse, they weren't.

[Harrison]

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Tiger say yesterday none of his friends knew. But didn't Bryon Bell fly to Aus with RU and/or buy the ticket for her...........................

[al p]

Guess that means Byron is not a friend

[tlavin]

Huck,

There's plenty of speculation in this arena, but it seems plausible that plenty of people in his camp found out about the Perkins pancake server/Enquirer incident a couple years ago and, based on the text from Tiger, it seems that he was doing his best to keep his dalliances under wraps. He was probably trying to keep several significant people in his entourage from knowing what he was up to. This makes sense, because he must have told everybody that he found some form of religion after the Enquirer busted him. Exactly who is in which camp (enabler or out-of-the-looper) is pretty unclear, but Steinberg would appear to be in the latter while Bryon is in the former since he brought Uchitel down under.

[RM]

"I’ve done nothing wrong", which also means: Tiger's done wrong. Eventually Tiger will dump Stevie because Stevie can't stand on his high ground without stepping all over Tiger.

[Martin Del Vecchio]

Tiger dropped Fluff because 1) he didn't like how Fluff comported himself, and 2) he knew that Fluff could be replaced.

Tiger won't drop Steview because 1) he doesn't mind how Stevie is comporting himself, at least not enough, and 2) Stevie gives him the best chance to win.

[Huck]

I think Steve W will walk before he's fired. He's not a guy that puts up with shit and reading between the lines he's not happy with Tiger. Their relationship was as much professional as a friendship and he feels let down, as he's said. Tiger doesn't like his inner circle talking but this is different; Tiger knows he f'ked up and he knows Steve is the one guy who will tell it to him straight. Is he man enough to have that conversation? We'll see, but if there's a change on the bag, don't be surprised if it's Steve who walks away. As for Bell, he's one of Tiger's two lifelong buddies (Jerry Chang's the other) and I think the guy didn't have a choice when he was told to (a) make the arrangements and (b) keep his mouth shut.

[hitter]

stevie walks from the most lucrative bag in the history of golf? not a chance. Zero.

[Silly me]

I think I know how to really create the biggest comment thread (non-Sea Island category).

Just create a rumor that Steve Williams setup a secret rendezvous for Tiger Woods with Michelle Wie to make changes to the Road Hole with the help of Arthur Hills.

Oh, wait, that last part was for GCA.

[Miss Priss!]

Silly me! Proving that the length of the threads on this site show what we're most interested in ... golf personalities and places to play. Everything thing else is poo poo!

Seek pleasure!

[dsl]

Why is it so hard to believe that no one knew about this? Affairs are meant to be secret, until you get caught.

In my circle of friends, you'd never just openly admit to cheating on your wife/ girlfriend while actually doing so. The men would tell the wives, the wives would tell the wives and on and on. It's just not something you'd ever share, unless you actually wanted to get caught. I have to assume that this would be true for most people, but maybe not.

Plus, these relationships appear to be all about the sex in a secluded/ private location. It seems reasonable to assume that Tiger wasn't taking these women along for sponsor's dinners and the like. If the texts are true, then they seemed to go to great lengths to ensure that Tiger and his lady were never seen together. So, maybe they weren't? Couldn't it be that simple?

[BigSky]

Let's see...

Arthur Hills would paint a bullseye on the Old Course Hotel and redesign the Road Hole Bunker in the shape of the R&A Clubhouse, Tiger Woods would overrule him and redesign the bunker to resemble Joslyn James' knockers; and Steve Williams would yell at the townspeople walking along the road, demanding that they stop while his man is shaping the knockers (er, bunker).

P.S. Michelle Wie would cancel her appearance due to a sprained ankle.

[Ky Laffoon's Ghost]

dsl: Yes, it could be that simple where Stevie is concerned. And Stevie is probably the only person on TOUR who could intimidate Eldrick of Windermere, so the protagonist of this melodrama would have good reason to keep it from him. The others, Byron Bell in particular? Not that simple if BB was on the plane with the lovely Rachel and/or made her reservations for Melbourne.

[benseattle]

TW stated clearly that NONE of his posse helped him arrange or had knowlege of his trysts. If so, then how did it come to pass that he agreed to pose for the cover of Men's Fitness in 2007 to explain his gym workout after sister publication National Enquirer snapped him snuggling with the Perkins' waitress? He completed all those negotiations BY HIMSELF? And isn't it a fact college buddy Byron Baird was his main contact with Rachel Uchitel, actually help getting her to the Australian tourney just last November? Aren't these blatant lies designed to protect the enablers and hangers-on?



See: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/how_mag_helped_to_cover_his_great_BFCGNjKBET7xxUtac2hAKP

[Miss Priss!]

ABOUT THIS BUDDHA BRACELET BULL SQUEEZE

Those with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) will often latch onto exotic religions or belief systems in order to impress others, but mainly to deflect attention away from their sinister agendas and lack of empathy. In other words, the more exotic the better so the victims/followers of the NPD begin to believe that the NPD “knows something we don’t” so the victims/followers are so impressed they figure the NPD is making a huge leap to a huge change in their behavior.

Sorry.

This is just a typical ploy of the con man and NPD. Question the deepest meaning of everything an NPD says or does and when you get the answer you’ll find it’s tremendously sinister and self centered.

Question everything. Everything.

But I know it’s hard when you’ve never encountered a true NPD. When you do … it’s usually years before you know what’s happened. You thought you were crazy, and then you unravel everything and you’re so damn mad you’ve been conned you could kill.

Sound like what the world’s greatest golfer did to his wife?

[JohnR]

Miss Priss, Sounds like Madonna and the Kabbalah thing. Sorry for the left field comparison.

John

[Miss Priss!]

JohnR! You don't have to apologize! Everybody with sense is shocked and confused! And just so he understands the growing fan anger first person ... what snake eaters are going to tell him, in a loud voice, at the Masters, how they feel? I can't wait.

[Tighthead]

I would wager 6 months pay that anything Stevie says these days is scripted and controlled.

[dsl]

KLG : Admittedly, the Byron Bell thing is one heck of an onion in the ointment. However, there are some other details we need to know before we can sure that Byron was actually 'in the know'.

Chiefly, we need to know how many other such travel plans Bell arranged for people who WEREN'T sleeping with Woods (or, in Uchitel's case weren't possible madams). Let's say that making these arrangements is a big part of his job involving many different people. Let's also say that Bell makes a sweet living ($) being a glorified assistant and wants to keep his job working for his friend (who's also a complete arsehole of a boss). If we combine these two, then I'd say there's a real good chance that Bell just made arrangements and worried very little about the 'who' and 'why' and 'HER?!'. It's a stretch, but seems plausible.

As far as the magazine shoot goes - isn't that whole thing dangerously close to illegal? It reminds me of what happened with Letterman. Assuming it is illegal, I would think that the whole thing could have been done without actually sharing the details of the contents of the pictures. Maybe it went down like this:

Tabloid: We have unflattering pictures of your client that we'd like to publish.
Agents (to Woods): They say they have 'unflattering pictures' of you. (Imagining photos of Tiger at fast-food restaurant, driving a Ford, wearing Reebok, wearing hat during anthem, falling on face at bootcamp, supporting Republicans, etc, etc)
Woods (to Agents): Oh. I see. I can't imagine what they'd be, but I'm trying to build a brand here. These photos might damage all of us.(Imagining photos of any number of ridiculous sexual acts he's performed in the last 6 hours)
Agents (to Tabloids): What do we need to do to keep those from getting out?

Done and done. Again, a stretch but still sort of possible.