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AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Adam Scott hit all the right shots Sunday in a round that was close to flawless and earned him his first World Golf Championship title.

He celebrated with a caddie who has won quite a few more.

Steve Williams, fired last month by Tiger Woods after a 12-year partnership, felt like a bigger winner when Scott rolled in one last birdie for a 5-under 65 and a four-shot victory in the Bridgestone Invitational.

Williams, who had been on Woods' bag for 72 wins — including 13 majors and 16 world titles — called it "the best win of my life."

It was Scott who hit the shots, such as a chip-in for birdie on the 12th and a birdie putt just inside 30 feet on the 14th that enabled him to pull away from 19-year-old Ryo Ishikawa over the final hour at Firestone.

Even so, Williams became part of the show this week, especially since Woods was playing for the first time in nearly three months. Williams took a jab at Woods in an interview off the 18th green by saying that of his 145 wins in his 33 years as a caddie, this WGC title with the affable Australian made it the "the greatest week of my caddying in my life."

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AKRON, Ohio

If anything can go wrong for Tiger Woods these days, it does.
Everything he touched used to turn to gold, but since his life was roasted around Thanksgiving 2009, he’s stumbled from one setback to the next, losing his marriage, his sponsors and his Q-rating and succumbing to injuries while precipitously dropping further and further down golf’s rankings.

On Sunday, hours after his comeback from a three-month layoff fell flat, came the latest indignity: The caddie he fired in June guided Adam Scott to victory at the Bridgestone Invitational and then hailed it the “most satisfying win I’ve ever had.”

Really? Steve Williams has been on Woods’ bag for 13 majors, among 72 worldwide wins together, and his first triumph with Scott trumped all of those?

“It’s the greatest week of my life caddying and I sincerely mean that,” Williams said.

To make a long and bitter story short, Williams is still so pissed at the way he was fired — unjustly, he believes — that he wanted to get back at Woods in a way he knew really would aggravate, and embarrass, his former employer.

“I was absolutely shocked that I got the boot, to be honest with you,” he said after walking off the final green at Firestone Country Club.

“I’ve caddied for the guy for 12 years, I’ve been incredibly loyal to the guy and I got short-shrifted. Very disappointed.”

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You really should listen to me, Eff. I know what I'm talking about.

Looks like even the Kiwis side with me on this one, Eff.

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