Amazingly, Stevie Williams still has a job today
A. Isaac The Jerry Sandusky-PSU scandal has dominated headlines since coming to light Saturday and fortunately for caddie Stevie Williams, everyone’s forgotten about that, uh, comment he made about former employer, Tiger Woods.
The New Zealander, who was fired by Woods earlier this year and has since joined up with the Australian Adam Scott, made the comment while on stage at a “caddie of the year” awards ceremony in Shanghai. He was being honoured for the “celebration of the year”, an ironic acknowledgement of his emotional reaction in the aftermath of Scott’s victory at the Bridgestone Invitational last summer.
The caddie described his new employer’s triumph at the time as the “greatest victory of my career”. Asked on Friday to explain why he had made such an obvious exaggeration given that he had caddied Woods to 13 major championship wins, Williams said: “I wanted to shove it up that black arsehole.”
Adam Scott has stood firm in his defense of Williams saying:
“I think everything in that room last night was all in good spirits and for a bit of fun, and I think it probably got taken out of that room in the wrong context,” Scott said after Saturday’s third round of the HSBC Champions.
And another former employer, Greg Norman, chimed in:
“We’ve all made stupid comments at stupid times, unfortunately his stupid comment became global news.”
The suggestion that he wouldn’t have said it had he known it was on the record is almost as disgusting as the comment itself. As if, off-color racist remarks are acceptable when it’s just you and your buddies sharing a pint.
Awful.
Tiger Woods is scheduled to speak to the media sometime tonight, presumably for the upcoming Australian Open. It’ll be interesting to see if he opts to comment on the elephant in the room.
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