May 17, 2012

Steve Williams Finds a New Home After Tiger

Looks like Tiger Woods’ former caddy Steve Williams has found a new home, and by the looks of the Firestone Tournament, it may be a nice change. Williams was fired by Tiger Woods last month but has landed on his feet as the new caddy for Adam Scott. How is that working out? Well, Scott leads the Firestone after two rounds.

Why did Adam Scott choose Steve Williams as his caddy? Well Williams does have a pretty good track record, albeit he was caddy for the world’s best golfer for a almost a decade, but still, Williams has shown that he is one of the best. This should be the only reason that Scott has, but there are probably some underlying factors as to why he did this.

Having Williams on the course could really play with Tiger’s head – an already troubled head that has shown he is very beatable as of late. Whatever the reason is, this situation makes for a great story, and could lead up to something very interesting. How fun/interesting would it be to see Tiger Woods and Adam Scott paired together on Sunday? Would they even speak? Would Tiger get rattled?

The way it stands now we may not know, as Woods is sitting tied for 18th going into the weekend. Whatever happens should be interesting, as Scott and Williams will have a lot of questions to answer.

Is Tiger Woods Done?

The fallout from Tiger Woods continues, with his latest move being to fire his caddy of a decade Steve Williams. This begs the question; is Tiger Woods done?

Woods had the world and was on his way to shattering every major golf record in history before the ugly incident that turned out to be quite a big deal. Simply put, Tiger has just not been the same since then. Who can blame him, his actions tore his family apart, and from the looks of it, mentally destroyed him in certain aspects of golf.

He continues to be outplayed – when he plays, and does not present the “terror” factor to other golfers the way he once did. The Tiger of old would never lose a playoff; the Tiger of recent can’t even make a playoff. He had a good Master’s showing, but even then you could see that it wasn’t going to be enough.

Unless Tiger can make some serious mental adjustments (a new caddy isn’t going to help), then I don’t see how he can ever be as feared as he once was. We patiently await any injury news and we all want to know when he will play next. Crowds still flock to see him play, and they probably always will.

So, is Tiger Woods done? Unless he gets something figured out, he is going to come up short of all the golfing records he was once expected to break with ease. Only time will tell.