Williams revealed his choice of what he considered the best shots he had seen in his autobiography, titled, ‘Out of the Rough: Inside the Ropes with the World’s Greatest Golfers’. The Kiwi caddie has been around a host of major championship winners in his time, most notably Tiger Woods and Greg Norman.
Williams caddied for Norman from 1982 to 1989, while the former picked up bags for Woods in a 12-year spell that lasted till 2011. His time with the American superstar was a major highlight in his career, as Woods won a plethora of major championships during the first part of the millennium.
Most notably, he was at hand to witness one of golf’s greatest-ever moments at the 2005 Masters Tournament. A confident Woods’ chip-in on the 16th hole at the Augusta Masters was nothing short of a miracle, which is one of the most replayed shots in the history of golf.
Having caddied for Norman in the past, he picked the 67-year-old’s driver from the fairway on the 14th hole at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club back in 1985. He also provided his food for thought, considering the seemingly dubious opinion, backed by the match situation and his employer’s fearlessness.
Williams detailed the events that followed on the 14th hole. “After a pure driver to the middle of the fairway of a long par-5 that played dead into the wind, I was stunned when Greg asked for the same club again in the fairway,” he mentioned. Norman pulled off a great shot to take a two-stroke lead, which he maintained till the last hole of the tournament.
“The reason that shot is so special is that I cannot think of any other player who would even try to play that shot, let alone make it…and that was one shot I never thought possible from Greg or any other golfer to this day,” Williams quoted, for which he ranked the shot better than any of Woods’.