{"id":20242,"date":"2011-11-07T09:35:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T09:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/tigers-excaddie-unscathed-for-his-racist-remarks\/"},"modified":"2011-11-07T09:35:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T09:35:11","slug":"tigers-excaddie-unscathed-for-his-racist-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/tigers-excaddie-unscathed-for-his-racist-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger&#8217;s Excaddie, unscathed for his racist remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img_border alignleft size-full wp-image-1447\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/News_captura-de-pantalla-2011-11-07-a-las-10.36.44.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; border: 0;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/News_captura-de-pantalla-2011-11-07-a-las-10.36.44.png 471w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/News_captura-de-pantalla-2011-11-07-a-las-10.36.44-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/News_captura-de-pantalla-2011-11-07-a-las-10.36.44-110x80.png 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/>The New Zealander Steve Williams, former American Tiger Woods\u2019 ex-addie and currently with the Australian Adam Scott, has not been finally sanctioned for his racist statements about the former world number one tennis player after a match in China.<br \/>After the final round of the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai, Williams, who was alongside Woods in 13 of his 14 \u2018major\u2019 tournament victories, made disparaging remarks during the HSBC Champions awards gala in front of European Tour chief George O\u2019Grady and U.S. PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem when he claimed his intention in Akron was to \u201cwhip that black asshole.\u201d<br \/>The two leaders subsequently disassociated themselves from the New Zealander\u2019s opinion and issued a joint statement on behalf of the PGA on the incident. \u201cThe PGA Tour International Federation firmly believes that there is no place for any form of racism in this or any other sport. Steve Williams\u2019 statements are totally unacceptable in any context,\u201d they said in the statement.<br \/>\u201cWe are aware that he has fully apologized and are confident that we will not hear such comments ever again. On this basis, we consider the matter closed, and we have no further comment,\u201d they added.\u201d<br \/>Australian Scott, for whom the New Zealander has acted as caddie since August, hopes the matter is now closed. \u201cHopefully now that everyone has said that the matter is now closed and hopefully we can move on,\u201d he said.  <br \/>Williams had already apologized on Saturday in a statement. \u201cI am sorry for the words I uttered yesterday \u2013 Friday \u2013 evening. I now realize that my comments could be considered racist. I apologize to Tiger and everyone I offended,\u201d he said. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealander Steve Williams, former American Tiger Woods\u2019 ex-addie and currently with the Australian Adam Scott, has not been finally sanctioned for his racist statements about the former world number one tennis player after a match in China.After the final round of the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai, Williams, who was alongside Woods in 13 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[217,133,218],"class_list":["post-20242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-andalucia-golf-en","tag-costa-del-sol-en","tag-golf-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}