“[Tiger Woods] Never Ever Came Back to Me”: Ex-Caddie Reveals the Truth Behind Working With the 15x Major Champion

Tiger Woods has officially returned to his favorite sport. But for his next term, he will be moving ahead without his old caddie Joe LaCava. Last year when Woods took a break from golf, after an amicable understanding LaCava and Woods split ways and the caddie went on to work with Patrick Cantlay.

But for more than 12 years, LaCava stood by Woods as he collected many laurels. Together they scored 11 wins one of which was the 2019 Masters Tournament. Recently the caddie gave a candid interview where he explained what habit of Woods irked him.

Joe LaCava was humbled by Tiger Woods’ goodness

LaCava recently appeared on the Quiet Please podcast where he revealed many incidents from the nostalgia with Woods. Recalling some special memories from his earlier days the looper revealed that Woods had a golf coach, his agent, Mark Steinberg, who mostly stayed out for business so at the beginning of their term he used to be much nervous around him “because it’s Tiger Woods, right?” He always wanted to do a good job and make sure he was doing all the things correctly.

But he was also aware that he was going to make mistakes. The first couple of tournaments he was very nervous and anxious. And it was at that time that two things struck out to him. First Woods was low maintenance and second that the golfer never went to him to complain about any wrongdoing. He said, “The fact that he never ever came back to me once and I probably worked, I don’t know, 10 years, I probably worked 100, 110 tournaments for the guy.” The 15-time major winner was always so good to him that LaCava had to request him to stop being so nice.