{"id":231585,"date":"2025-10-22T09:53:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231585\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:53:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:53:30","slug":"legendary-caddie-reveals-tiger-woods-expletive-laden-reaction-to-upset-us-teammates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231585\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary caddie reveals Tiger Woods’ expletive-laden reaction to upset US teammates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Legendary caddie Billy Foster has lifted the lid on what it was like to caddie for Tiger Woods<\/a> for one week during the hall of famer’s illustrious career.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Foster looped for Woods’ at the 2005 Presidents Cup as his then bagman, Steve Williams, took a week off for the birth of his first child.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the time, Foster was carrying the sticks for Darren Clarke.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Foster recently told the most recent edition of the Rick Shiels Golf Show<\/a> that Woods approached Clarke on the range during the 2005 PGA Tour event at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio.<\/p>\n

Woods asked Clarke if he would be cool with the one-week arrangement. Clarke, Foster said, then asked: “What are you going to do?”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“And Westy [Lee Westwood] is hitting balls at the side and he turns around and says, ‘Hey Billy, if you don’t work for him, I will,’ said Foster. “And I went, ‘Good point, Lee.'”<\/p>\n

Foster agreed but over the next few weeks he had heard there was some unease in the Team USA camp that a European was going to be in the locker room.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Foster said: “So I went to Tiger a few weeks later, the next time I saw him I said, ‘Tiger, I understand there’s a bit of unrest in the camp – they don’t want me to caddie for you.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He just went, ‘F— them Billy, you’re caddying’. \u00a0“I went, ‘Alright mate, fair enough.'”<\/p>\n

The US team ultimately won the 2005 Presidents Cup<\/a> by three points over the International side. Woods went 2-3-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“I wouldn’t swap lives with you” \"Tiger <\/p>\n

Tiger Woods and Justin Thomas at Augusta National<\/p>\n

Foster said that week was like winding the clock back to the days he caddied for the late, great Seve Ballesteros.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“There are only two people I’ve ever worked for where you feel that aura and the excitement of the crowd,” Foster said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Everywhere [you] go, it’s like, ‘Wow, this is another level’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Walking through that crowd – the noise levels were just a joke. Screaming and shouting, caddying, pen marks all over him, hats on sideways. I needed to get out of there – my ears were bleeding.<\/p>\n

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“We walked up to the first tee, it was set back on its own, nobody there apart from me.<\/p>\n

“I remember stopping and saying, ‘Tiger, I’ve got to tell you something. You might have any woman in the world you want, you might be a billionaire, the best golfer that’s ever played the game – but I wouldn’t swap lives with you.’<\/p>\n

“And he went, ‘Thanks for that Billy, at least somebody understands what I have to go through.'”<\/p>\n

What surprised Foster the most \"Billy <\/p>\n

Billy Foster said he would’ve rejected Woods in favour of Lee Westwood<\/p>\n

Foster said he was a little bit apprehensive working for Woods given he “is the chosen one”. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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But he soon realised that the 15-time major champion, now 49, was just an ordinary man.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“His manners – that was the one thing that stood out to me,” Foster said. “Absolutely impeccable. ‘Please’ and ‘thank you’ for everything. I like that.<\/p>\n

“He was struggling with his game a little bit, but still showed me enough to go, ‘Oh my God – how good is this? This is another level.”<\/p>\n

After Woods acrimoniously split with the aforementioned Williams in 2011, there were whispers that Foster would be approached as the replacement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Foster told the pod he was prepared to turn down Woods in that scenario as he and Westwood were the perfect match.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Woods is currently recovering from his latest back surgery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last week, he fell out of the world’s top 2000 in the OWGR for the first time<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our Andy Roberts believes the 2027 Open at St Andrews must now be his farewell to the sport<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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