It was the 2002 Skins Game in California. A photographer, after multiple ignored warnings, snaps a picture of Tiger Woods mid-swing. But before he could celebrate his shot, Steve Williams grabbed his camera and threw it in the pond. There went his $7,000. For 12 years, Williams was the shield between Woods and the chaos that followed him. Not by choice but because he had to.

“I mean, I think a lot of people don’t know…I caught a lot of bad publicity from time to time. And what I would always say to that, ‘Okay, well, you come and spend a week with me and walk from Monday to Sunday beside me. Walk, working alongside Tiger Woods, and see what’s going on here,'” said Williams on Tee It Up Golf podcast.

“Tiger made it very clear to me what he wanted and how he wanted to operate… The g

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