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ORLANDO, Fla. — After biting his tongue for one day, Tiger Woods’ ex-caddie didn’t hold back his unhappiness at his dismissal during a TV interview in his native New Zealand.
“You could say I’ve wasted the last two years of my life,” Steve Williams told Television New Zealand. “I’ve stuck with Tiger and been incredibly loyal. I’m not disappointed I’ve been fired — that’s part of the job — but the timing is extraordinary.”
Meanwhile, Golfweek reported an unhappy Woods severed ties when a fill-in arrangement between Williams and Adam Scott went beyond the U.S. Open.
With Woods sidelined to heal an injured left knee and Achilles tendon, he granted Scott’s request to let Williams work his bag at Congressional. When Williams showed up again with Scott at the AT&T National, the magazine said, Woods ended their 12-year arrangement amid words such as “disloyal” and “overcaddying.”
Williams, 47, now works Scott’s bag on a full-time basis, including last week’s tie for 25th at the British Open.
The caddie also spoke of loyalty during his TV interview, noting that he had stuck with Woods through last year’s sex scandal, a new coach and swing changes.
“I am extremely disappointed, given that the last 18 months has been a particularly difficult time,” said Williams, thought by many to have known of his boss’s string of affairs that ranged from club hostesses to porn stars to a pancake house waitress.
“That was the most difficult period that I’ve ever been through in my life,” Williams said on TV. “”I’m pretty hard-headed and took it probably a lot better than my wife and family did, but there’s no way that I should have been put through that.
“My name should have been cleared immediately. It wasn’t and that’s what makes it even more disappointing what’s transpired.”
According to Golfweek, strain in the partnership had reached the point where Woods was not letting his caddie in on health updates.
— The Orlando Sentinel
