Winning 100+ championship titles and creating numerous records made Tiger Woods a hero in every golf lover’s heart. Many aspiring golfers, even professional players, consider him their role model. Nonetheless, his former caddie, with whom he had a fallout in 2011, doesn’t have a good report about the golfer’s personality. For him, Woods will always be the man who didn’t treat him as an equal. 

The New Zealander, Steve Williams, has caddied for many successful pros, including Greg Norman and Adam Scott. However, he got the limelight in the golf community mostly for caddying for 13 of 15 major events Woods has won. 

Despite thinking he is an overrated golfer from their first-ever event, Williams later understood why he is considered the best in the era. However, his respect for Tiger Woods was limited to his professional life and not extended to his personality.  

Tiger Woods used to consider Steve Williams his slave

It is not an easy task to accuse an entity of being bad-natured when he is considered the G.O.A.T. by many. Yet, Steve Williams did it. He manged not to sugarcoat his relationship with Woods while writing his book, ‘Out of the Rough,’ in 2015. 

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“One thing that really pi**ed me off was how he would flippantly toss a club in the general direction of the bag,” the Washington Post’s article noted what the caddie wrote in his autobiography. “Expecting me to go over and pick it up,” he added. 

This behavior of the golfer irked Williams a lot. “I felt uneasy about bending down to pick up his discarded club,” his autobiography further read. “It was like I was his slave.” 

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Notably, the Caddie had issues with Woods for mistreating him. However, he still stayed with the 82-time PGA Tour champion for more than a decade. 

Why did Steve Williams leave the greatest golfer of all time? 

Williams may have hated Woods for treating him like a “slave.” However, it was not him that left the golfer, but the other way around. 

According to reports, Woods fired his caddie of 13 years through a statement on his website. Interestingly, years after firing him, the golfer has yet to reveal his reason for doing so.

Notably, the news even took Williams by surprise as he later revealed that he didn’t know Woods would be taking such a big decision. 

Watch This Story: Longtime Caddie Reveals His Biggest Disagreement With Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods and Steve Williams were the ideal pair in the professional golfing world. However, it all ended after the golfer fired him, which made the New Zealander disclose the mistreatment he got from Woods through his autobiography.