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DORAL, Fla. (AP)\u2014No other caddie has traveled so far to work so little
\nthan Steve Williams.<\/p>\n

Part of that is because Williams lives in New Zealand, and his 5-year-old
\nson Jett is now going to school. And part of that is Woods playing in different
\nparts of the world this early in the season.<\/p>\n

Asked how his frequent flyer profile was looking, Williams just shook his
\nhead Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cPut it this way,\u201d he said. \u201cQantas has me on speed dial.\u201d<\/p>\n

When he leaves Miami after this week\u2019s Cadillac Championship, Williams
\nalready will have flown some 60,000 miles to work four tournaments. In one case,
\nWilliams spent more time in the air than his hotel room.<\/p>\n

He started in January by flying from Auckland to San Diego for the Farmers
\nInsurance Open. Then came the Auckland-Dubai round trip two weeks later. But the
\nworst of it was the Match Play Championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI stayed in my hotel one night and went home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Williams arrived in Tucson, Ariz., on Tuesday. Woods lost in the first round
\nthe next day to Thomas Bjorn<\/a>, and by evening, Williams was on a flight to Los
\nAngeles to catch a connection back home.<\/p>\n

After this week, he will stay two days in Orlando for a made-for-TV
\nexhibition, leaving Tuesday and getting home on Thursday. He\u2019ll be home three
\ndays before flying back to Orlando for the Arnold Palmer<\/a> Invitational, then
\nreturn home after the tournament.<\/p>\n

His wife used to come to America for Bay Hill, and they would go somewhere
\non vacation before the Masters. But with his son in school, Williams goes back
\nto New Zealand for three days before flying to Augusta.<\/p>\n

When he gets home after the Masters, he already will have logged nearly
\n94,000 miles in the air.<\/p>\n

TWITTER WARS: Tiger Woods<\/a> is part of another emerging rivalry\u2014between his
\ncoaches.<\/p>\n

Sean Foley, who has been working with Woods since the PGA Championship,
\nstarted with an interview last year in which he was quoted as saying about
\nformer coach Hank Haney, \u201cLet\u2019s be honest about this, it\u2019s not like he was
\nflushing it with Hank.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then came a story posted Wednesday on golf.com when Foley poked fun at Haney
\nonce saying he knew Woods from observing, without ever getting to know him.<\/p>\n

Haney has been firing back on Twitter ever since.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to be entertained go to Golf.com and read Sean Foley\u2019s latest
\nversion of ripping Hank Haney, all I can say is wow,\u201d was the first of several
\ntweets from Haney.<\/p>\n

He sent out some two dozen tweets\u2014mostly retweets from his followers\u2014
\nover the next five hours related to the dispute. Haney\u2019s twitter account is
\nHankDHaney.<\/p>\n

SPANISH HERO: Alvaro Quiros<\/a> knows plenty about Seve Ballesteros and the
\ngreatness of his game. But when it comes to Spanish golfing heroes, he starts
\nwith Jose Maria Olazabal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Quiros did not start playing golf until he was 9, and Ballesteros was on the
\ntail end of his career. He remembers Olazabal winning his first Masters in 1994,
\nand especially the second green jacket in 1999 after returning from an injury
\nthat nearly ended his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Olazabal is a gentleman inside and outside the golf course, and
\nthis is the most important thing, to be a gentleman or to be a nice person, more
\nthan a great golfer,\u201d Quiros said.<\/p>\n

The first time he met Olazabal, the big-hitting Spaniard could barely speak.<\/p>\n

It was in 1999 for the American Express Championship at Valderrama, and
\nOlazabal was invited to see the public course when Quiros and other juniors got
\ntheir start.<\/p>\n

\u201cI played with a friend, and on the second tee, suddenly arrives the main
\nguy of the pro shop and he said, \u2018Hey, get out of the way because Olazabal is
\ncoming behind you,\u201d\u2019 Quiros said. \u201cIt was Olazabal! So he arrives to the tee,
\nhits his driver in the third hole and he says, \u2018Come on, hit the ball.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were watching each other and I said (to his friend), \u2018He\u2019s speaking
\nwith us.\u2019 I cannot even put the ball on the tee. I was shaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

TIGER AND TYSON: NBC Sports analyst Johnny Miller didn\u2019t pull any punches
\ntwo weeks ago when he said Tiger Woods\u2019 downfall reminded him of the Mike Tyson
\nstory.<\/p>\n

\u201cSort of invincible, scared everybody, performed quickly under pressure\u2014
\nuntil Buster Douglas came along,\u201d Miller said. \u201cTiger sort of hit that and
\nit\u2019s life. And his life crumbled.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woods was asked about the comparison with Tyson on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m as big as he is,\u201d Woods said. \u201cNo, that\u2019s Johnny being
\nJohnny, and making statements like that, I think he\u2019s done that before in the
\npast, hasn\u2019t he?\u201d<\/p>\n

Woods then was asked if Miller had crossed the line.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is entitled to their opinion,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd he has his, which
\nis a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

DIVOTS: Louis Oosthuizen<\/a> and Charl Schwartzel<\/a>, who grew up together in South
\nAfrica, will be in the same pairing the first two days. Schwartzel said it will
\nbe the first time they\u2019ve been in the same group for the early rounds since they
\nturned pro. \u2026 Tim Clark<\/a> will be playing for the first time since his runner-up
\nfinish at the Sony Open two months ago because of an elbow injury. \u2026 Of the 48
\nPGA Tour members in the 69-man field, five have never won a PGA Tour event\u2014
\nrookie Charl Schwartzel, Kevin Na<\/a>, Jeff Overton<\/a>, Rickie Fowler<\/a> and Kevin
\nStreelman<\/a>, who got into the field based on his third-place finish in the FedEx
\nCup playoff opener last year at The Barclays.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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