Football is unofficially here with the start of SEC media days. That said, there are a couple of things we need to clean out of the notebook.
Tiger Woods announced the firing of caddie Stevie Williams this week.
Hey, struggling golfers fire caddies or swing coaches or putting pros or mental healers or whoever they feel may change their luck. It’s never the golfer’s fault that putts are not falling or approaches are not sticking or drives are not landing in bounds. That’s one of the hidden secrets of golf greatness in particular and sporting greatness in general.
It may come off as narcissism or arrogance or cockiness or whatever, but a professional athlete is competing against the best in the world on a daily basis for big stakes, and there is absolutely zero room for doubt. If you doubt yourself, you’re done. Period.
So firing Stevie hardly came as a total surprise – especially after Stevie carried Adam Scott’s bag the last month. Wonder if think Tiger felt cheated on, and do you think even the notion of that made ex-wife Elin Woods just unload a “just-made-a-25-footer-on-No.-18-at-Augusta” fist pump?