Stevie, Stevie, Stevie: “My aim was to shove it right up that black --------.”

Oliver Brown reports that Steve Williams, receiving a "tongue in cheek" award from his fellow bagmen for "celebration of the year," was asked on staged during a dinner at the HSBC Champions in Shanghai to explain his infamous celebration after Adam Scott’s win in the WGC Bridgestone.

He replied, in reference to Woods: “My aim was to shove it right up that black --------.”

The remark by Williams left the audience of players, caddies and sponsors aghast. While the occasion had been intended as a light-hearted celebration of the ‘caddie of the year’ award, Williams’ comment was uniformly seen as beyond the pale and escalated his bitter sniping at Woods to a new level.

Scott, the Australian world No 8 whose bag Williams took over after being sacked by Woods in July, was listening in the ground-floor room at the Le Meridien Sheshan hotel, alongside other top-10 players including Rory McIlroy.

Writing in the Daily Mail, Derek Lawrenson says:

When Tiger Woods' former caddie Steve Williams claimed all the credit for Adam Scott's victory  in the Bridgestone  Invitational in August he hurt nobody but himself. What he did with his racist remark at a caddies’ awards dinner caused immense damage to the entire sport.

Now we know what Graeme McDowell meant by this Tweet:

Naturally anyone who was there that just happened to have their camera phone running is more than welcome to share their video with us. After all, it may be the last time we ever see Stevie!

Comments

[me]

well, I guess the REAL man has appeared before us. Too bad the perceptive already saw that through his celebration in the WGC and now the rest have a blatant understanding of this heinous, ridiculous human being.

[JRP]

Idiot. He makes Tiger look great...which is quite a feat. Go away caddy!

[d.b.cooper]

Off Scott's bag within hours and basically out of golf would be my guess.

[Del the Funk]

Oooh boy!

So, how will the TW detractors somehow spin this as Tiger's fault? Everything is Tiger's fault, isn't it? And I mean everything!

Can Adam Scott afford to take no action? Personally I don't care if he does, or not.

[Matt]

Off his bag and out of golf? I'd say there is more chance of Tiger getting back with Elin than there is of that.

[JW]

Steve Williams is a bozo but this entire episode is ridiculous. It's crazy, but I'm afraid to even attempt to explain it for fear of being labeled a racist myself.

[.....]

No more pro golf for me

[AK47]

If Stevie was black and TW white and he said he wanted to shove it up his white ass, would there be an outcry?

[Tom]

Yes, because whites have been oppressed for centuries. You know, with the racism.

[Uncle Me]

PC run amok. Who cares. Yawn.

[NRH]

The world would have known about this sooner if not for that draconian no Twitter/Facebook rule at the dinner.

[KCMG]

NRH -- thank you!!!!

[Kelly Blake Moran]

"Naturally anyone who was there that just happened to have their camera phone running is more than welcome to share their video with us. After all, it may be the last time we ever see Stevie!"

How much would Golf Digest be willing to pay for this.

[Press Agent]

I'm amazed how pussified the world has become.

If only he had said 'African American Ass' - all would be right in the world.

[COB]

It would take the biggest jackass on earth to make Tiger look like a victim. It would take Steve Williams.

[steve]

The boorish, foul-mouthed moron is now the boorish, foul-mouthed, bigoted moron. Please believe me, not all Kiwis are like this clown.