Steve Williams: 'Tiger’s only acceptance of a good week was a win'

WINNING COMBINATION: Tiger Woods, left, receives a hug from his caddie Steve Williams after winning the 2001 Masters at Augusta National in 2001. Woods captured this second Masters title, defeating David Duval by two strokes. Pic: AP Photo/Elise Amendola

Working alongside Tiger Woods does not afford time to look up and smell the flowers. Woods won 13 of his 15 major titles with Steve Williams as caddie, a run the New Zealander quickly came to realise was about business rather than pleasure.

“Tiger’s only acceptance of a good week came with a win,” Williams says. “Every week with Tiger, unless he won there was just more pressure on the next one. I have never met someone for whom winning was so important, the be all and end all.