When you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
Steve Elling looks at the latest Paddy Power odds on the Tiger-caddy replacement search and it seems Fanny did not put on a good show in the paddock, because she's dropped to 8-1. It's about 20 minutes long and you've heard some of the answers, but there was also some fresh stuff. Plus...
A) You get to see Phil dressed like a Nucky Thompson
B) Hear Charlie interrupt Phil just like he interrupts everyone else
C) Get to hear Charlie and Phil open up with some major name dropping (Aspen, Ari Emanuel, zzzz...)
D) Phil start every answer with "So," his equivalent to Tiger's "It is what it is" and "It's a process"
E) Hear Charlie use multiple tennis analogies because he really doesn't know anything about golf
F) Phil say that no one has benefited more from Tiger's success than Phil
In no particular order, let's remember some of Stevie Williams' finest moments as Tiger's bagman:
In 2008 Stevie went positively batty at a car race (tragically, the video has been removed...).
At the 2010 Players there were growing rumors of his dismissal.
He removed his Masters caddie hat and was reprimanded at the 2008 Masters.
Josyln James claimed to know Stevie.
Stevie dropped a nine-iron into a pond at the 2006 Ryder Cup. IMG put in a request to have the video removed from YouTube (why not from NBC?).
Stevie called Phil Mickelson a prick. And then Tiger had to apologize for him.
He took off his bib before Graeme McDowell had putted on the 18th green, 2010 Chevron World Challenge. And we know how that ended up.
Tiger suggested Stevie was giving him bad club selection advice.
Stevie announced that had he known about Tiger's other life, he would have blown the whistle.
Stevie questioned Tiger's decision to not play another event prior to the Masters.
And most egregious of all...Stevie posed for photos in a tank top with a pitchfork.
Robert Lusetich, who interviewed Steve Williams at length for his book on the Tiger scandal and who frequently has scored several Williams related exclusives, recounts the loyalty shown by Williams despite spousal pressures. But he also takes us through the build-up and ultimate cause of the highest profile breakup in player-caddy history: Tiger felt betrayed.You have your choice of Thai Chinese or English versions.
An unbylined BBC story transcribes Steve Williams' Television New Zealand interview following his dismissal as Tiger's looper.
Sometimes blogging is traumatic and so upsetting that my keyboard is flooded with tears of raw emotion. This is not one of those nights!
Doug Ferguson on the break up of golf's sweet lovebirds, reveals that Tiger broke the news in a board room at Aronimink after the AT&T National final round and Stevie chose to keep quiet out of respect for his new client.
You may recall back on June 3rd after Forbes released its annual listing of top athlete income at $75 million, I questioned the math based on reports from IMG that the agency income from Tiger Woods endorsement deals had fallen to just over $1 million.
Well not entirely, but we now know from the former Stanford teammate that Tiger has committed to an August 31 rescheduling of a postponed appearance in the Notah Begay III Foundation Challenge.
Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning
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