article: But in a BBC interview, Williams cast doubt on whether the 40-year-old can win another major and suggested Woods' fitness problems might have been self-inflicted. No-one knows Woods' game better than Williams, who shared in 13 of the American's 14 major titles among 84 tournament victories together. Their partnership broke down in 2011 and Woods has since not added to his major tally. The former world number one last played competitively in August last year. Woods has slumped to 467 in the world rankings while he recovers from his latest back surgery and there seems no prospect of an imminent return. Yet Williams is convinced the golfer can achieve more professional victories. "I don't doubt he will come back to the winner's circle," Williams told 5 live Golf. "He is a great competitor, he has an incredible work ethic - when he can work hard - and one thing he does know how to do is win. "He has that ability to win even when he's not playing his best. But whether he comes back and wins major championships? That's going to be a very difficult task." The four-times Masters champion looks certain to miss next month's Augusta gathering for only the second time since his debut as an amateur in 1995. Williams was Woods' right-hand man throughout the period between 1999 and 2008 when the American dominated the game, and Williams thinks his old employer may now be regretting the way he punished his body during that spell. "I guess when he looks back, he might question some of the activities that he did, some of the gym work that he might have done that, you know, had all these injuries escalate," he said. Watching from a much greater distance, it seemed to me that Woods trained as an athlete rather than as a golfer. Athletes' bodies usually break down in their late 30s, certainly in terms of enabling competition at the highest level. Is this what has happened? Does Williams see any worth to this argument? "It is very hard to pinpoint how he has got to where he is now, but I'd have to say there is a lot merit in what you've just said," he said. Williams was caddying for US veteran Ray Floyd in the mid-1990s when he first came across the willowy youngster who made it a career ambition to overhaul Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 major titles. Greg Norman and Fred Couples were also in the group and they listened in disbelief while Woods contemplated carrying his drive over the fairway bunker down the right of Augusta's par-five second hole. Media playback is not supported on this device "We were laughing at him just talking about it, but then he actually did it," Williams recalled in the interview which publicises the caddie's recent autobiography Out of the Rough. Their first major triumph came at the 1999 PGA Championship when Williams gave an accurate read for a crucial putt on the 16th hole of the final round. "That was the moment between him and me that
summary: As Steve Williams prepares to help Adam Scott's quest for a second Masters title, the Kiwi caddie says his old boss Tiger Woods can still return to winning ways.