Tiger Woods Former Caddie Steve Williams Treated Like A Slave?!?
According to Steve Williams aka Tiger Woods Former Caddie Steve Williams Treated Like A Slave during his time with Woods.
CelebNMusic247.com has learned that Williams biography Out Of The Rough was released this week and the tell-all-book it casing national controversy.
CelebNMuisc247.com also has this remark from Steve Williams.
Williams writes:
“One thing that really pissed me off…was how he would flippantly toss a club in the general direction of the bag, expecting me to go over and pick it up. I felt uneasy about bending down to pick up his discarded club – it was like I was his slave.”
Meanwhile, Jonathan Liew in Britain’s Telegraph writes:
“Those of you with a marginally broader perspective – say, anyone above the age of eight – may be tempted to pick holes in Williams’ definition of captive servitude. Welcome to The History of Slavery with Steve Williams, in which white men are brutally invited to carry the golf bags of black men, savagely consulted over club selection and putt lines, sadistically given a share of the winnings, cruelly allowed to leave whenever they want.”
“…As he lopes into semi-retirement, Williams finds himself slighted at every turn. Such is the eternal struggle of the ex-slave who strives to be taken seriously. Decorated athlete, acerbic after-dinner comedian, celebrated author, and yet the world responds only with ridicule.
“And what is ridicule, really, if not a particular sinister form of enslavement? In a supposedly enlightened society, the plight of Williams and other beleaguered white middle-aged millionaires carries on unabated and unheeded. Where is the uprising, the popular rage, the picketing of Opens and Ryder Cups? From this day forth, let the cry ring true: I am Steve Williams! No, I am Steve Williams! Caddies of the PGA Tour, throw off your shackles and cry freedom!”
Not surprisingly in America where slavery is a sensitive subject, Williams has found few admirers like Michael Rosenberg on Golf.com who writes:
“It’s been a long time since I took a history class, and my grades weren’t the best anyway, so maybe you can help me out: Were slaves paid an enormous sum of money to pick up golf clubs? I don’t remember that.”
Adding more salt to Tiger Woods, his former coach for six years until their acrimonious split in 2010, Hank Haney said on Monday during an interview on SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio:
“Steve Williams is the last person in the world that would lie. He just doesn’t do it, so obviously that happened.”
Haney was referring to a snippet from Williams’ newly released autobiography in which he took Tiger to task for some of his on-course behavior like spitting into a hole if he missed a putt. But if Stevie never tells a falsehood, then he must be right about how having to lift a club up off the ground after Woods tossed it is just like being owned by another person and forced to do menial chores for nothing.
Haney said:
“I think you have to consider when you have these books, the excerpts are always going to be the most outlandish things.”
“You saw it with my book, The Big Miss. You saw it with Joe Torre’s book [The Yankee Years]. You see it with every book that comes out. Big books, they want to promote them and they pick out the most inflammatory statements they can.”
Haney contended that Williams, a native of New Zealand, published his book in his home country to get around a non-disclosure agreement he signed that prohibited him from writing or talking about Woods. While Monday’s release of his memoir marked the first time the veteran looper went to press with his views, that NDA must be full of loopholes considering how Williams has never shied away from opining about his former taskmaster. – Stuff.com
