Tiger Woods caddie acquired job as a result of he saved legendary golfer from bathroom mishap
Billy Foster is one in every of golf’s most recognisable faces, having caddied at greater than 1,200 tournaments. The 57-year-old has subsequently seen a fair proportion of memorable moments, together with changing into the “s***house saviour” for Tiger Woods after an incident virtually over twenty years in the past.
Foster, who has labored with huge names like Lee Westwood and Thomas Bjorn, noticed a profession spotlight when he labored with Tiger Woods again in 2005. At this level, Woods was on the top of his profession.
In these 12 months specifically the American would declare the 134th Open Championship, the 69th Masters Tournament and be named the PGA Player of the Year. But it was three years earlier than that when the pair first met.
In 2002, throughout a visit to the bathroom Foster recalled there being no tissue out there. Something that Woods would uncover too little too late.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, Foster recalled: “I am walking out and I hear this little sigh. Oh, he knows now that he’s in trouble. And it’s six minutes until he’s on the tee.
“Oh Tiger. But I can’t do it to him, so I roll up some paper, get down on my knees, and current it to him underneath the door. I used to be the hand of god to him in that second. ‘You’ll in all probability want this’.
“He grabs at it and then as I’m halfway through the door, I just say, ‘Europe, one up’, and walk out. He came out with the biggest smile. ‘Billy Foster, I owe you’. I caddied for him at the Presidents Cup in 2005 — I swear that’s why I got the job. Not because I’m a good caddie but because I was the s***house saviour.”
Foster continues to be caddying for the most important and greatest names in golf, and can be alongside Matt Fitzpatrick at The Open. Taking place at Royal Liverpool the event was final received on the celebrated greens by Rory McIlroy in 2014.
McIlroy was the one which acquired away for Foster as he had the possibility to caddie the Northern Irishman again in 2008. Instead he selected to companion with Sergio Garcia as an alternative.
Relfecting on his resolution, he mentioned: “I look back on that and call myself a bit of a t***.”