Stevie Williams Golf Digest Interview

[isukgolf]

Hopefully this is not a duplicate thread ... but found this interesting: [URL=http://www.golfdigest.com/magazine/2015-07/my-shot-steve-williams]http://www.golfdigest.com/magazine/2015-07/my-shot-steve-williams[/URL]

[mvmac]

Few parts that stood out for me.

TIGER RECEIVED a lot of threats you never heard about—on an almost weekly basis—for years. The PGA Tour people provided security, and it wasn't unusual for one of them to apprise me of some phone call or letter that had come in. It's not easy being him. When he would walk and sign autographs, the amount of pushing and shoving, the number of little kids getting knocked down, was unbelievable—collectors sending kids out to have stuff signed. It was the dark side of that life.

AGAIN AND AGAIN over the years, Tiger would say, "I want to own my swing, not rent it." Nobody I saw in my 35 years on tour tried harder to own his swing than Tiger. He was obsessed with always getting better. The irony is, by changing coaches so much, it led to him renting several swings instead of owning just one, which upset his original goal. But he was very good at renting.

GREAT PLAYERS don't want to accept they're wrong even when they're wrong. The better the player, the stronger that tendency. When bad things happen, the player needs to let off steam. A caddie needs the ability to let the player vent without hearing anything but information that matters.