Steve Williams

Lore & Background

The source article lists Steve Williams as a drummer, jazz drummer, rapper, keyboardist, footballer, rugby player, sprinter, professional wrestler, caddie, cyclist, rower, gridiron football player, American football cornerback, politician, animator, businessman, and a character from Brickleberry. It does not mention any golfer or PGA Tour career.

In Their Own Story

The air on the back nine at the 1973 PGA Championship carried the particular stillness of a late-summer afternoon, the kind where the heat hangs low and the grass seems to shimmer. Williams stood over his drive on a par-five, the gallery a thin ribbon of sunburned fans stretched along the rough. He did not adjust his grip. He did not check the wind twice. He simply set the ball on the tee, took one breath that seemed to pull the whole crowd's attention into his chest, and swung. The sound was not a crack but a detonation, a sharp pop that rolled off the trees and made a child in the back row cover her ears. The ball disappeared into the haze long before the first whisper of applause reached the front row. The caddie, already walking toward the next tee, nodded once. That was the whole conversation. That was the whole point.

Reader's Guide

For golf-related entries, see Steve Williams (caddie) (born 1963), New Zealand golf caddy.

Did You Know?

• Steve Williams caddied for Tiger Woods during 13 of his 15 major championship victories.
• The 1973 PGA Championship was actually won by Jack Nicklaus, not a golfer named Steve Williams.