Tiger Woods' Former Caddie Steve Williams Defends "I Felt Like a Slave" Line from His Book

Tiger Woods’ former caddie Steve Williams defended his use of the word “slave” in his new book in an email to USA Today’s Seve DeMiglio.

"“In this part of the world where slavery has never existed people use slave as a description of their service or work every day,” Williams wrote Wednesday in an email while on tour promoting the book in New Zealand. “We use the word loosely Down Under. After reviewing the book several times before it was published, it never crossed my mind to change the word. “It merely was a description of how I felt about something, and in no way in the context it was used does it suggest I was treated like a slave.”"

Regardless of how Williams feels about the word or its usage in that part of the world, it’s very likely he knows, after spending 13 years working for Tiger and making a lot of money in the process, the background the word has in this part of the world. Williams’ explanation that he didn’t mean it to suggest that he was actually treated like a slave is ludicrous.

What exactly did you mean Steve? While describing ripping your former boss, who happens to be African American, you complained about having to pick up clubs he tossed at his bag and said, “I felt like a slave.”