Williams not a racist, insists Norman

GREG NORMAN insists his former caddie Steve Williams is not a racist and that Adam Scott was right not to fire him for a remark he made about Tiger Woods in Shanghai last week.

Williams made a derogatory comment about his former employer Woods at the annual Caddie Awards dinner in China on Friday after receiving the prize for the season’s best celebration after Scott’s Bridgestone Invitational win. Before helping Woods win 13 major titles, the New Zealander had worked with Norman for seven years, and the Australian said he thought his former caddie had mistakenly thought he was in a “restricted environment” when he made the remark.

“Steve’s not a racist, not at all,” the 56-year-old former world number said ahead of the Australian Open.