{"id":176,"date":"2011-08-09T21:53:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddesmith.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2012-02-03T19:11:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T19:11:08","slug":"steve-williams-racial-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/daviddesmith\/golf\/personalities\/176\/steve-williams-racial-slur","title":{"rendered":"What Steve Williams Should Have Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steve Williams on Adam Scott&#039;s Victory\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uRoo9XbioOg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve tried to put it behind me, but Steve Williams\u2019 diarrhea of the mouth on Sunday still rankles.\u00a0 Maybe I need to get a life.\u00a0 Or maybe Stevie needs to get a press agent.\u00a0 Put on the spot by CBS&#8217;s cowboy broadcaster David Feherty after he looped Adam Scott to victory in the World Golf Championship event at Firestone, Williams responded that it was \u201cthe most satisfying win ever.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve been caddying for 33 years and that\u2019s the best week of my life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me, Steve, but does it <em>really<\/em> rank above winning the Open Championship at St. Andrews \u2013 or any of the other 12 majors you won on Tiger\u2019s bag?\u00a0 <em>Really?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I can understand William\u2019s excitement.\u00a0 Scott played brilliantly and Williams no doubt played a role in the win.\u00a0 But as Paul Azinger pointed out, Williams broke \u201cthe unwritten caddie rule\u201d with his sharp responses and I can\u2019t disagree with anyone who says that he cast a shadow over Scott\u2019s win with his blatantly vengeful words, as English golf pro Chris Wood opined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWilliams has taken all the attention off Adam Scott\u2019s fantastic win,\u201d said Wood.\u00a0 \u201cPlayed great and nobody is talking about him.\u00a0 Shameful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I can appreciate William\u2019s apparent desire to stick the knife into his former boss, who, according to Williams, fired him over the phone after all their triumphant years together.\u00a0 But still, Steve \u2013 how about winning with a little grace, man?<\/p>\n<p>What Steve Williams should have said is something like this:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m very happy for Adam.\u00a0 He played beautifully all week and deserved to win.\u00a0 And I\u2019m certainly happy to have been here to help him.\u00a0 It\u2019s always nice to win, particularly when you\u2019re just getting started with a new player.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That would have been enough.\u00a0 Everyone would\u2019ve known what he really meant.\u00a0 The subtext didn\u2019t have to turn into the whole story.\u00a0 But instead Williams launched into full-tilt hyperbole and once started, there was no stopping him.<\/p>\n<p>In the heat of the moment, emotions often take over and words can get said that you\u2019d like to take back.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not like Williams didn\u2019t have time to think about what he might say to the voracious press as Scott&#8217;s victory came into focus over Firestone&#8217;s back nine.\u00a0 Two minutes should have been enough.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s Tiger\u2019s fault for corrupting him.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s just that Williams is just too brutally honest to spin anything.\u00a0 But I find myself wishing now that Williams was still on Tiger\u2019s bag.\u00a0 In a way, they deserve each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve tried to put it behind me, but Steve Williams\u2019 diarrhea of the mouth on Sunday still rankles.\u00a0 Maybe I&#8230; 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