Tiger Woods Former Caddie Steve Williams on Retirement | Interview | Golf Digest

Former caddie Steve Williams is at home in New Zealand splitting logs and telling tales. Transcript The first thought of retirement certainly came to me when I was driving back from the Masters in , when I was driving back to my rental home in the car by myself. It was raining, and I just remember thinking you know, that this is my time to retire. Something came into my head, I had that thought that I wanted to retire, and I subsequently came home to New Zealand following that thought, and talked to a few of my friends. And then they said, well you can t really retire right now, you re still working with Adam. You can t just quit in the middle of the year, and so forth, but that s when retirement sort of entered my head. Like I said, driving home from the Masters. I don t miss caddying one bit, to be honest. You know I ve been out in the tour for years, and it s a lot of travel. It s a lot of time away from home, and a lot of time spent in hotels flying around, and not leading a normal life, as such. So retirement is great, and I haven t missed the tour one bit. Certainly enjoying being away from it. When you re faced with retirement and you decide to retire, one of the things that s great about it is that having spent so many years traveling to and from home, you never actually get a lot of things done. You sort of just keep maintaining things. When you live on sort of a big property like we do, there s always lots of things that need to be done, but you sort of only get to maintain, and you don t get a lot of projects done. For me, having had the opportunity to retire, I m getting a lot of those things done. A lot of those projects have started, a lot of them are finished, and some of them haven t been started, but it s been great. There hasn t been any downtime, if you like, and it s given me a bit more of a chance to spend time with my family, do a bit more racing than I normally do, and then spend some time raising money for my foundation. So, so far it s been all positive. I like property maintenance. I like cutting trees, trimming trees, trimming hedges, mowing lawns, cutting up firewood, all that sort of things. I love outdoor work. I love property maintenance. It s something that I ve always liked. I like at the end of the day when you go around mowing the lawns and everything, and everything looks great. I like tinkering with my race cars. That s something I like to do. You know, I like a bit of fitness sort of stuff. I like swimming and I like biking. There s lots to do around here where we live. Yeah, retirement is fun, but I guess one of the things with retirement is that some people say you can t retire forever. You know maybe, yeah maybe there might be a special young player that you think you could help win a major championship. At the end of the day, whether you re a player or whether you re a caddie, we all dream about winning major championships. That s what it all boils down to. If there was a young guy that really sparked my interest, and perhaps that might be something that would drag me out of retirement. Still haven’t subscribed to Golf Digest on YouTube? ►► http://bit.ly/golfdigestyoutubesub ABOUT GOLF DIGEST Home of the annual Hot List, instructional videos, news and trends, Golf Digest is the definitive destination for all-things golf. Tiger Woods Former Caddie Steve Williams on Retirement | Interview | Golf Digest