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Tiger didn’t use PEDs, says ex-caddy Stevie Williams

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Tiger Woods’ career has been one of greatness, and controversy, too. While there’s debate over whether he’s the greatest golfer of all-time, and whether he will ever regain his dominance, there’s also a swirling debate around Tiger’s career and body transformation — one spoken about in whispers: Did he ever use PEDs (Performance-enhancing drugs)?

Former-caddie Stevie Williams, who was on Tiger’s bag and a member of his inner-circle from 1999 to 2011, recently spoke on the matters of Tiger’s fitness regimen and PED-use, among other things, in Golf Digest’s July issue 

“Tiger bulked up over the years,” Williams told Gof Digest. “He always liked working out, and to a point it helped him, maybe more mentally than physically because of what exercise does to help your confidence and your thinking. As for his game, I’m not sure it helped him much, especially working with weights. Certainly he hit the ball farther when I first saw him than he did later.”

[quote_center]”Did Tiger do PEDs [performance-enhancing drugs]? There’s no chance,” Williams said.[/quote_center]

“Love him or hate him, Tiger always respected the game,” Williams continued. “He knows its history and people, its standing in sports and the world. He always knew what golf did for him personally.”

Williams, who retired from caddying professionally in September 2014, recently agreed to come out of retirement at the plea of Adam Scott, and will be on Scott’s bag for the remaining three majors in 2015.

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He played on the Hawaii Pacific University Men's Golf team and earned a Masters degree in Communications. He also played college golf at Rutgers University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.

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  1. Phatsoman

    Jun 5, 2015 at 10:46 am

    It’s entertainment. Juice up. I want to be entertained. Any sport in and of itself and its professional form are based on completely different foundations and motives.

  2. Jack

    Jun 4, 2015 at 11:18 pm

    Hmmm… Where does Stevie say he didn’t use PEDS? Also, How would Stevie know? Didn’t Tiger boff about a thousand hookers behind Stevie’s back too?

  3. James Foster

    Jun 4, 2015 at 11:16 pm

    I have grave suspicions about Woods (and not just because he hired Galea) and I do believe that some golfers are cheating. But Finchem has organised a cover up. I trust Gary Player and believe what he said in 2007 was and is correct. Just think of all the corporate sponsors who would leave the game if we had a massive juicing scandal. With the number of golfers declining 30% across the western world in the past 9 years, it would destroy the game.
    There are so many famous sports stars who were cheats, Barry Bonds, Lance Armstrong, Ben Johnson, Alex Rodriguez, Marion Jones. Carl Lewis, maybe the greatest athlete ever was a drugs cheat and caught using stimulants three times in the summer of 1988 alone. Florence Griffith Joyner was believed to have used PEDs and today Serena Williams is suspected of doing so.
    But that is just the tip of the iceberg. They are over two thousand professional sport men and woman who have tested positive for banned drugs. Check out the Wikipedia entry for doping in sports.

  4. Rich

    Jun 4, 2015 at 6:51 pm

    I never thought Tiger Woods looked excessively big but who knows if he took PEDs or not. No one will ever know unless someone admits he did and that’s never going to happen. As if Steve Williams would admit to Tiger taking steroids even if he knew something. He would have the biggest law suit smack him in the face so fast, he wouldn’t have time to caddy for Adam Scott at the majors. Silly article.

  5. anthony

    Jun 4, 2015 at 4:15 pm

    to that guy who said that ped’s have no use in golf. my question to you is whats your swing speed and how often do you golf? im 25 with a swing speed of 122 and i play atleast 18 holes a day nd hit a minimum of 300 balls at the range after my round. at the level these guys are playing it is no longer a relaxing pass time. playing at that level is complete destruction to the body. especially for guys with very fast transitions. if you are know the game then itll be simple to explain why to you. your hips and shoulders rotate to the right. then you stop your hips but continue to torque your upper body. ( strain on the lower back) then while you continue to turn your upper body right you abruptly twist your hips left. (more strain on the lower back and kness). then you have to hit into the ground. ( strain on elbows/wrist/shoulder). then you have to stop all that speed before you clunk yourself with the club. ( strain on back/ shoulders/ arms/ legs). all this equals a reason for taking something that helps with recovery. my point is i dont really care if every athlete takes peds. the amount of abuse that pro athletes put their bodies through is insane. and im all for these guys taking care of their injuries in whatever way/ways they want

    • M.

      Jun 4, 2015 at 6:36 pm

      Lol

    • QB

      Jun 4, 2015 at 11:19 pm

      They don’t have a place in Golf I know all about them and I was one of the top golfers in Colorado but now I’m older and just have fun with it but I’m still a bit better than scratch +.3. If you knew anything about PED’s you’d probably think differently. What happens when you take testosterone or any steroid you shut down your HPG axis which means you aren’t producing natural testosterone anymore. So in order to get the benefits of steroids you need to shut your hormonal system down (HPG axis). Well problem is getting your system jump started again after its been suppressed for a good while. This in turn doesn’t bode well for your body because its in a down state and your joints and ligaments can hurt due to your homeostasis being off ie lack of testosterone and other mechanisms in your body that aren’t up to speed yet due to messing up your equilibrium. I’m not sure if you understand the ups and downs of it. Not only is your body doing this but your mind is as well, your not as confident any longer. You also have a very hard time holding on to gains due to your system being compromised. Which is why you see guys like The Rock or Mark Wahlberg having so little muscle at times because they need to give their nervous system a break and get burnt out from doing it. Not sure how this will benefit a golfer one bit due to the ups and downs of it all. Now on to HGH that is almost a good PED for golf yet you have to inject yourself almost everyday with it for 6-8 months before you even see gains from it which then you will notice your body being leaner but hardly anything else other than maybe a mood lift. But your going to have tendon problems with supra-physiological levels of growth hormone in your body which won’t work well with golf. You can keep arguing with me but I know a lot about these two subjects, I could keep going but I’m trying not to delve too deep.

      • Jack Nash

        Jun 10, 2015 at 12:50 pm

        PED’s also include HGH, which would most likely help a golfer more than a testosterone based product.

  6. Nathan

    Jun 4, 2015 at 3:02 pm

    What people are failing to see is that most PED usage is not about getting bigger/stronger. It sometimes is about out lasting or staying on the field longer. In golf that is very important (same for baseball, soccer, biking etc.). Just look at how Tiger is breaking down now. I am not saying he used, but I wanted to clarify this common misconception. Only time will tell. It happened with Lance. If their is a story it will come out. However, I think the professional golf world can be a lot more secretive.

    • QB

      Jun 4, 2015 at 3:10 pm

      Big difference between golf and cycling. Cycling is full of dopers.

      • Keith

        Jun 4, 2015 at 8:14 pm

        Cycling is “full of dopers” because cycling tests more than any other sport. It’s a fallacy to believe that rampant doping is limited to just cycling. The sport (cycling) has a long way to go to clean up it’s image, but to their credit, spend a lot of time publicly outing dopers, instead of sweeping the scandals under the rug.

        • QB

          Jun 4, 2015 at 11:24 pm

          Well of course its a fallacy to think dopers are limited to cycling lol. I’m just saying they’re not PGA tour pros.

  7. Kevin

    Jun 4, 2015 at 1:18 pm

    Some of you guys are talking about PED usage and talking about ONLY the body builders and people who have chosen to pack on huge amounts of muscle. A-Rod never looked like a body builder, he was using the same doctor. Steroids and HGH were openly distributed in MLB locker rooms sometimes as simply as by an agent walking into the locker room with vials in a check book box. The drugs were all over baseball. The ones who drew attention to themselves and their usage were the guys who did bulk way up, like Bonds. Plenty of pitchers were juicing but didn’t draw obvious suspicion because they didn’t allow themselves to get too big, the benefits they wanted were not for huge muscles. But the benefits are not just for adding massive amounts of muscle. I said before that Tiger never looked like Lee Haney, but he was a scrawny guy, known to eat poorly, out in the sun for long hours, and he transformed his body very quickly. I cannot give the smart alecs his baseline numbers, but we all know there was no real test for HGH until fairly recently, and there was not PGA Tour drug testing when Tiger got so much bigger. He’s no bulked up animal, I didn’t say that. But with his association with the doctor from Canada, as well as his body change, and friendship with A-Rod, combined with Tiger’s apparent lack of integrity and personal morals, even to those closest to him, he is not above suspicion.

    • QB

      Jun 4, 2015 at 3:05 pm

      Yeah so a guy like A-rod you can’t even tell that hes using. So how can you base anything off of how a guy looks if A-rod used and didn’t look like it? So how do you say this guy used but that guy didn’t? You can’t but I can assure you there’s no point in taking PED’s for golf so why risk it especially when your the number 1 golfer in the world? Only one that would make sense would be a beta blocker which golfers have used in the past yet only helps mentally. Stevie Williams even said it he didn’t think Tiger’s game benefited any from lifting weights so to make your argument doesn’t make a lot of sense. As for the baseline comment I was making a point I wasn’t asking you what his baseline numbers are. On another point pitchers use compounds like winstrol or very androgenic drugs to help tighten them up these drugs don’t pack on the muscle like testosterone does so you won’t see the difference. By the way reason I’m defending him is because I looked just like Tiger when growing up until I hit the gym and started focusing on diet, now after years of doing so I know for a fact that you can do exactly what Tiger has in the gym based on experience. Like right now I’m looking to put on 10 lbs of lean muscle in the next 2 months and given I stick to a strict diet and work out correctly I will definitely be able to reach my goal. All it takes is a caloric surplus with the correct foods people!!!!!

  8. GMR

    Jun 4, 2015 at 11:42 am

    I am 28 and never lifted weights or monitored my diet until 2 months ago. At that time I was 6’0″ and 155lb. Two months after 3x a week of progressively heavy compound lifts (squats, deadlifts, overhead press, bench press, power cleans) and eating to caloric excess for the first time in my life, I am 173lb. In two months. While skipping the occasional workout, and not eating as much as I should many days.

    If I can do that in 2 months, do you really think that an ultra-competitive professional athlete with a dedicated nutritionist and personal trainer can’t get bulkier over the course of a year or two? The whole PED accusation is laughable.

    As an aside, I have (as I am sure many here have) seen Tiger multiple times in person and I think the old adage “the TV adds 10 pounds” definitely applies in that case. In fact, Adam Scott at 185 looks downright skinny when standing next to him.

    • Steve

      Jun 4, 2015 at 2:04 pm

      You didnt mention tigers doctor, that supplied PED’s to professional athletes. Answer this, why would Tiger have a doctor in canada? The same doctor that is known to give PED’s to his patients?

      • QB

        Jun 4, 2015 at 3:25 pm

        Because he wanted to heal quicker from injuries that’s it.

        • Steve

          Jun 4, 2015 at 8:53 pm

          Healing from what?

          • QB

            Jun 4, 2015 at 11:31 pm

            Who knows go ask Tiger! Unless you like to keep up with his injuries lol.

            • Steve

              Jun 5, 2015 at 8:34 am

              You make a terrible detective. Roids rotting your brain?

              • QB

                Jun 5, 2015 at 2:47 pm

                Why would they rot my brain?

                • QB

                  Jun 6, 2015 at 3:02 pm

                  Funny stuff Steve if you think a 5’10” 165lb person uses steroids your sadly mistaken lol.

  9. B

    Jun 4, 2015 at 10:17 am

    To go from 6’1 160 to 6’1 185 as a 7 day a week gym rat is not out of any realm of possibility. If you have the time to actually workout in the gym. Just because he was skinny doesn’t mean that he was a hard gainer. He had a teenager’s metabolism when he was at Stanford and he probably never lifted weights. If you have never lifted a weight until you are older then you will receive more immediate results. Hard Gainers are the ones who no matter what they do they can’t gain weight. There is no reference to Eldrick lifting weights in high school or college. Probably started in college but didn’t really get the coaching or instruction that he needed because he was “just a golfer”. Majority of college golfers during that time and before didn’t lift weights, especially not power lifting. Proper power lifting regimen will have an incredible transformation on the body. Look at what its doing to Rory

  10. Steve

    Jun 4, 2015 at 9:19 am

    I dont think Steve Williams would say he did anyway. He isnt Haney trying to score a buck on Tiger. PED’s were common in all sports, even in college and high school. He most likely was introduced to them, did he or didn’t he, who cares.

  11. dapadre

    Jun 4, 2015 at 4:30 am

    Im sorry but some comments just show that some people have NEVER been to the gym. If you go to the gym I can guarantee you that you will see people who look twice as better as Tiger and more stronger and have never used PEDs.

    Im not pleading his case, but simply using his physique as proof is ludicrous. Keep in mind that Tiger has the the possibility of getting the best diet, coaches/training etc. You know that Nike has a training facility thats out of this world. Last but not least, Tiger seems to have an all out aggressive/possessive demeanor, wasnt he doing Navy Seal training that was off the charts. Many wouldnt be even able to attempt it let alone complete it. Was that also PEDs?

    • Dr Troy

      Jun 4, 2015 at 8:15 am

      Dapadre- You’re spot on with your comments…Many people, including I’m sure quite a few people that come through this site have no idea what they’re talking about when it comes to PEDs, lifting, putting on size, strength, etc….If Tiger had put on, say, 50-60 pounds of muscle, then someone might have an argument as to what he was putting in his body. ANYONE that goes and trains and eats clean, and does this often for several years, can and probably will add muscle to their frame…I suspect some of you guys should try one of these days.

  12. Kevin

    Jun 3, 2015 at 11:29 pm

    Yes he’s not Lee Haney or Ronnie Coleman, but he was a very very skinny kid. In the muscle building world he would be known as a “hard gainer”. His front deltoids are pretty out of proportion with the rest of his body as well. A 300+ lbs bench press for someone with his long arms, at a 180 lbs body weight, is a lot of weight to bench press. He also transformed his physique really really quickly. It’s also difficult to pack on that much muscle when you are out in the heat as much as he would have to be. None of this is proof obviously, but he has proven to be someone who can justify any action or lie to himself. Maybe it wasn’t steroids, maybe it is HGH, maybe it was nothing. Maybe there’s smoke but no fire.

    • QB

      Jun 4, 2015 at 5:01 am

      Lol PED’s? No way! If you people think that he was on PED’s go try for yourself sticking to a strict gym regimen as well as a very good diet 1 gram of protein per lb of bodyweight and 1.5-2 grams of carbs per lb of bodyweight while having a caloric surplus of a couple hundred calories over the diet that keeps you at your weight. You will see for yourself that you too can make the gains Rory or Tiger has. Such a joke to even think they used them they look nothing like PED users to me and I know what PED users look like since I worked out at World Gym in San Diego. Tiger being affiliated with that doctor might have meant he had used GH or IGF-LR3 to repair his body quicker for a very short time but in no way does that even matter. To see results from GH takes long periods of time like 8 months if not several years and its only good for cutting fat really, you’ll see very minimal muscle gains over what you would if you hadn’t taken them. Its like Vijay Singh taking deer antler spray, what a joke, so your saying he has supra-physiological levels of GH according to what? His baseline? Which is well below what guys in their 20’s have naturally. On another note deer antler spray doesn’t even work.

      • Dr Troy

        Jun 4, 2015 at 8:18 am

        QB- Could not have said it any better! If you guys want to see what TRUE PEDs do to a man, go to a gold’s, powerhouse, etc and you will see what it all really looks like. If and when you stand next to Tiger, he’s not even CLOSE to being that big. There are a LOT of guys on this string that are very very naive.

  13. john

    Jun 3, 2015 at 10:14 pm

    rory has made a bigger change in a shorter time, no PED calls though?

  14. Chuck

    Jun 3, 2015 at 9:59 pm

    Lol. If the day ever arrives that Stevie is my lead/best defense witness, I think I’ll just plead guilty.

  15. slimeone

    Jun 3, 2015 at 6:13 pm

    This article tells me nothing. Williams clearly doesn’t know either way and doesn’t really pretend to know. He’s also stated that he had know idea about the affairs, so obviously he was not privy to Tiger’s personal life.

  16. Paul

    Jun 3, 2015 at 4:24 pm

    Pat M:-

    That photo above is two separate photos joined together to make it look like they’re in the same shot? The rest of what you wrote is worse drivel than what you said about the photo!

    • Pat M

      Jun 3, 2015 at 9:05 pm

      Name any other PGA golfer working closely with Dr. Anthony Gallea and the PED and steroid doctor who is a convicted felon?

      • Snowman2134

        Jun 3, 2015 at 10:03 pm

        Well sir, Mark O’Meara and Fred Couples were clients of Dr. Gallea for back treatment. By your logic, they are/were cranked up on PED’s…

  17. Tcann32

    Jun 3, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    Tiger was,is in great shape, but he’s not a freak. Spend enough time in a gym and you’ll 20 people in equally as good, if not better shape, all free of PED’s. Kudo’s to him for being in good shape, but why is it that whenever someone looks like they are in better shape than the average person, which isn’t very difficult, people automatically assume PED’s are involved. He has the body of a very dedicated fitness enthusiast, not a powerlifter or bodybuilder you see on the cover of some of the crazy muscle magazines.

  18. Dennis Clark

    Jun 3, 2015 at 3:08 pm

    Tiger also helped Stevie have a comfortable retirement

    • Pat M

      Jun 3, 2015 at 4:00 pm

      The picture is kind of proof that Tiger did use them. Steve Williams is a big guy. Tiger looks a lot bigger in that picture. Tiger looks totally jacked in this picture.

      Tiger is not as big now since Dr. Galea went to jail or got parole.

      Adam wants Stevie back on the bag badly. Tiger without Steve will never win another major. Tiger without Steve on the bag is just an average player. Steve is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, caddy to ever play the game.

      • Tcann32

        Jun 3, 2015 at 9:55 pm

        How is the picture proof? He’s in good shape, so what? You and anyone else commenting here could look like Tiger. He is not beyond genetic possibility. The last thing I read, when he was in prime shape, he was benching in the low 300’s, which is impressive, but it’s not some amazing accomplishment. If it were 500+, then maybe I’d have some questions. Again, Tiger has a great physique, especially comparing him to the rest of the golf world, but comparing him to individuals in say.. the fitness world, he’s not anything to be marveled at.

        If Tiger did PED’s, then I feel sorry for him. His results are nothing that is unattainable by someone with some decent knowledge and alot of dedication to building said physique. He’s a fitness nut, many fitness nuts with good genetics and dedication look just like him. I think if Tiger took PED’s he would be a monster by standards of measure outside of the golf world.

      • christian

        Jun 3, 2015 at 10:39 pm

        I can’t believe how some people through around words like “totally jacked” when describing somebody like Tiger..he looks very normal, like somebody that like to work out and have some basic natural foundation body-wise. People that say this are either suffering from severe Testo-deficiancy and use themselves as a yardstick or have never ever been a commited gym rat. Walk in to any gym and you’ll find everyday people that are both bigger and stronger than Tiger.

        • Dave

          Jun 5, 2015 at 7:44 am

          Absolutely agree, Tiger has never been that ‘big’ that you would think he was doping, with the amount he trains he’d look like the Rock if he used PED’s. These conspiracy theorists make me laugh, if Tiger couldn’t keep a few affairs from his wife how on earth would he manage to cover up years of PED abuse?? Utter nonsense.

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