VIDEO: Steve Williams is angry with Tiger Woods

A. Isaac Senior Editor

Yesterday, news broke that Tiger Woods and his caddie, Steve Williams were parting ways. I stupidly assumed that the break-up was amicable or perhaps even Williams’ doing. But not long after Woods’ statement on his website, Williams sounded off about the situation, expressing shock and disappointment over being canned. Here’s a few snippets from an interview he did Wednesday night with The Telegraph.

Let’s ignore for a moment that the two had developed a strong friendship over the last decade and just look at this strictly from an employer-employee relationship. In general, caddies make money when their golfers are actively playing (and making the cut). Normally, their take is 10%, although Williams and Tiger may have worked out some kind of exclusive deal.

For the purpose of this post, let’s just assume it was 10%.

Here are Tiger Woods results, starting from his return at the 2010 Masters and ending with his withdrawl at this year’s Players Championship (via Wikipedia).

Tiger Woods results 640x885 VIDEO: Steve Williams is angry with Tiger Woods

As you can see, Tiger played in 18 PGA tournaments and made a paltry (by Tiger standards) $1,866,128. Williams take was $186k. That’s certainly nothing to scoff at for 18 months of work. Most of us, in fact, would love a job that pays us about $10k a month. But for a man who regularly made between $500k and $1 million dollars over an entire decade, that’s a huge cut in salary.

So naturally, when Williams was unceremoniously dumped after staying loyal and for the most part, unemployed, he was angry. And frankly, I don’t blame him.

Maybe we don’t know the whole story. Maybe Williams spouted off about Tiger secretly to others. Maybe Williams is penning a tell-all book behind closed doors.

But if this was simply getting rid of someone from the past to start anew, then the waiting game Tiger played says as much about his character as any one of his numerous affairs did.

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