Williams, 62, enjoys helping out young tour pros by imparting his wisdom in temporary stints. He is caddieing for Quayle at the Australian PGA and next week\u2019s Australian Open at Royal Melbourne.<\/a><\/p>\nQuayle was awestruck at the mental edge he felt at Royal Queensland\u2014the golf course that will hold the 2032 Olympic competition in Brisbane\u2014with the clear and concise guidance of Williams.<\/p>\n
Including that moment on the 10th hole at Royal Queensland.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable; that trait is so rare,\u201d Quayle said after the round. \u201cI think he is really putting his neck on the line. It\u2019s cool for a player [to see that]. I felt like he wouldn\u2019t be doing it unless he was 100 percent set [sure], and I felt pretty confident as soon as he did. His language and how he delivers the message eliminates any doubt and I felt like that new plan was the only plan and then just executed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quayle, originally from the remote town in the Northern Territory, secured one of three DP World Tour cards for the 2025-26 season via the Australasian tour\u2019s Order of Merit earlier this year. He spent several years on the lucrative Japan Tour before that.<\/p>\n
As he prepared to set sail for Europe, Quayle wanted Williams to consult for him during the two DP World Tour co-sanctioned events in Australia.<\/p>\n
With a $2.5 million tournament purse, the Australian PGA is the richest tournament Down Under. Quayle felt 36 holes with Williams had already changed his approach. He\u2019s more focused in practice rounds and spends less time on the course\u2014but treats each shot like it\u2019s in competition.<\/p>\n
In the tournament proper, well, Quayle has seen how that is going. He has been in form, with top-10s in all four tournaments on the Australian tour that led into the two big dances: this week\u2019s PGA and next week\u2019s Australian Open.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like I played really nicely out there,\u201d Quayle said as Williams sat on a chair only yards away writing down statistics from the round, as he did for Woods and every other player he\u2019s caddied for. \u201cI gave myself a lot of chances. Stevie\u2019s going through the stats now \u2026 but I think I hit every green except one today. I was 80 metres out in the middle of the fairway, so that one stings a little bit, but everything felt really good. Just feel like we plotted our way around that really nicely.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quayle has won two state-level tournaments in Australia, the Queensland Open and PGA. But he wants to step up in Australia\u2019s two biggest championships, considering the stakes are high. Next week\u2019s Australian Open will see the winner invited to play the 2026 Masters at Augusta National, as well as the top three (not already exempt) on the leaderboard receiving a start in the 2026 Open Championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnthony\u2019s got the game,\u201d Williams said. \u201c[This week is] the first time I\u2019ve seen him play up close and that should he be fortunate enough to get a win at the Australian Open, he\u2019s got the game to play at Augusta. Everybody next week will be excited. It just brings another level to the Australian Open. It\u2019s a fantastic event already and if you look at that Stonehaven Cup through the years, great players have travelled the world and won the Australian Open, like Gary Player, Greg Norman, Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus. It was always considered alongside the Canadian Open, outside of the majors, as one of the most important tournaments in golf.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maybe. But there\u2019s still two more rounds at Royal Queensland to go. And Quayle is right where he wants to be.<\/p>\n
Editor\u2019s Note: Evin Priest and Steve Williams co-authored the book Together We Roared, about Williams\u2019 12 years on the bag with Woods from 1999 to 2011 that included 13 major wins together<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo: Getty images] Anthony Quayle lined up a short iron approach to a tucked pin on the 10th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,176114,3193,118461,755,176607,44,178574,163416,163420,85],"class_list":["post-316085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bmw-australian-pga-championship","tag-cameron-smith","tag-dp-world-tour","tag-golf","tag-kazuma-kobori","tag-news","tag-news-anthony-quayle","tag-pga-tour-of-australasia","tag-royal-queensland-golf-club","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}