Legendary caddie Steve Williams opens up for explosive new Tiger Woods book
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‘Together We Roared’ will be released in April to coincide with the Masters
One of the most ludicrous stats in this bonkers game of ours is that Steve Williams can boast being his country’s highest-paid sportsman after 12 years working on Tiger Woods’ bag.
The New Zealander caddied for Woods in 13 of his 15 major wins, as well as more than 80 victories around the world, to firmly cement his place not only the Caddie Hall of Fame but in golf’s illustrious history.
And, as you can imagine, he has some stories.
Enter Evin Priest. The celebrated Australian journalist, who has covered golf for many years at the Associated Press and Golf Digest, “sat down with Steve Williams for six months of interviews so we could co-author a definitive account of his 12 years caddying for Tiger Woods”.
He added: “For the book, Steve opened up like never before: about 1999, the Tiger Slam, the slump, the return in the mid-2000s and more.
“He also opened his home, where a glorious, heartfelt shrine to their partnership lives. There are final-hole flags from 13 major wins together (Tiger hand-wrote meaningful messages on most), Tiger’s golf bags, and a rare Ford Tiger gifted Steve after a win.”
Priest also spoke with the likes of Mark O’Meara, Chris DiMarco, Adam Scott, other caddies and more for what he describes as a “love letter of friendship from a legendary caddie to arguably the greatest golfer ever”.
“We hope you’ll enjoy reliving some of the greatest moments in golf history,” he concludes.
We can’t wait to get our hands on this.
Here is a selection of topics you can expect from ‘Together We Roared’:
• Exclusive material about Williams’s whirlwind 12 years carrying the clubs for Tiger Woods, from their hilarious first encounter, to their icy split and their eventual reconnection.
• Fresh interviews with great golfers who played against Woods, including two-time major winner Mark O’Meara, Woods’s long-time rival, Chris DiMarco, Stuart Appleby, Ian Baker-Finch and Adam Scott. A list of prominent golf voices share previously untold details about Woods’s preparation habits, rituals, and on-course dominance.
• Inside the moment Woods and Williams reconnected for the first time in 12 years after their very public split in 2011. Williams opens up about the emotional toll of his estrangement from Woods, and how he longed for their silence to end.
• Woods’s role reversal to caddie for Williams at a local golf course—and his role as co-best man—on the day of Williams’s 2006 wedding. Williams shares the untold, touching moments from Woods’s best man speech, and world-exclusive pictures of Woods and Williams on the wedding day.
• The publicized professional breakup of golf’s greatest partnership, including Williams’s acknowledgement of a decision that cost him his job with the golf star, as well as his regrets in the aftermath.
• Woods’s spats with rivals, including Stephen Ames and Phil Mickelson.
• Insight into the 2000 Open Championship at St. Andrews, on the historic moment’s 25-year anniversary. Williams reveals previously unheard details about a reconnaissance mission that changed the course of Woods’s shot at the Open, and the moving message Woods wrote to his caddie on the 18th green flag after. Williams and Appleby share new, fly-on-the-wall insights into the private jet ride home from Scotland after Woods won the career grand slam.
• Inside Woods’s captivating 2005 Masters win, which celebrates its 20-year anniversary in 2025, including previously unheard and hilarious stories from DiMarco and Williams about Woods’s famous chip-in on the par-3 16th at Augusta National. The book also includes a never-before-seen picture of a game-time joke between Woods and DiMarco, which DiMarco kept as a souvenir.
• Inside Woods’s most emotional victory, the 2006 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool, two months after the death of his father, Earl, including rare insights from Williams and emotional recollections from his runner up, DiMarco.
• Never-before-seen pictures of Woods’s and Williams’s partnership, from the rare and valuable vintage Ford Woods once gifted Williams after a win, to the golf bags he gave Williams in the late 1990s and early 2000s, to the final-hole flags from each of the major championship wins they enjoyed together—upon which Woods wrote heartfelt messages.
• Statistics from Woods’s famous “Tiger Slam,” and his prime years overall, that Williams wrote each day by hand before official records began. These include Woods’s months-long streaks without three-putting, to data Williams personally compiled for Woods that contributed directly to his four major wins in a row and ongoing performance.
• The most raw and honest insights Williams has ever shared into his friendship with Woods. Williams opens up like never before on how their incredibly unique way of communicating was key to their success, as well as analysis such as: how long it took to develop a bond with Woods, exactly how they became almost telepathic in the early and mid-2000s, how Williams tried to maintain distance despite a burgeoning friendship, and the generous gifts and rewards Woods gave Williams after moments like the 2008 U.S. Open victory together.
• Hilarious anecdotes about Woods’s and Williams’s partnership, like the prank image Woods made for his caddie after their first major win together, to a wild and near-impossible marathon Williams once ran at a famous golf course, to the curious sandwiches Williams used to make for Woods, and even the bets the pair made on and off the course.
• A look at the unique messaging system Wiliams and Woods adopted before they took to cell phones.
• Woods’s pursuit of Jack Nicklaus’s record 18 major championships, including the real goal Woods and Williams discussed and vivid details on the exact moment the two put that goal in writing.
‘Together We Roared: Alongside Tiger for His Epic Twelve-Year, Thirteen-Majors Run’, by Steve Williams and Evin Priest, will be published by William Morrow and on sale from April 1 to coincide with the 20-year anniversary of Woods’ iconic shot on the 16th hole at the 2005 Masters.
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About the author
Alex has been in the golf industry since 2007 and has helped shape a number of publications in that time. He joined Today’s Golfer in January 2025 to lead the brand’s news division.
He is a keen golfer who claims to play off 12 and enjoys traveling the world to try new courses. His three favorites are Royal North Devon, the Old Course at St Andrews, and Royal Portrush – with special mentions for Okehampton and Bude & North Cornwall, where he first fell in love with the game.
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Steve Williams has written a book about his time on Tiger Woods' bag
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