Woods said
he met with Williams on Tuesday morning in Sydney and shook hands with the New
Zealander, who used the term “black --------” at an awards dinner in Shanghai
last Friday.
“Obviously,
it was the wrong thing to say – something we both acknowledged,” Woods said.
“It was hurtful, certainly. But life goes forward.”
Woods, in
Sydney for the Australian Open at the Lakes golf course, said he and Williams
had “met face to face” and the caddie showed remorse.
“We talked
it through,” he said. “Steve is certainly not a racist. There is no doubt about
that. It was a comment that should not have been made.
"It was
one he wished he did not make.”
Asked about
the source of the apparent animosity with his former caddie, who accompanied
Woods to 13 major championship wins over 12 years, he said: “That is between
Steve and me.”
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