With the Masters Tournament underway this week, everyone is focused on the golf legend on the course: Tiger Woods. But a month ago, not many were thinking about the golf pro’s possible contention in the major. All they could talk about was his recent mega-controversy with his ex-girlfriend, Erica Herman. And while the entire world continues to speculate about the feud between the two, Woods’s caddie, Joe LaCava, recently shed some light on how the 15-time major winner was dealing with it.

LaCava gets candid about how Tiger Woods has been affected by the public war

Nearly a month ago, news of Herman and the 82-time PGA Tour winner’s split broke the internet. Had the two just normally broken up, it may have blown over in a week or two. But that wasn’t the case. In March, the golf pro’s ex-girlfriend took the PGA Tour star to court on multiple accounts.

Herman left no stone unturned in her public battle against the golf legend, from suing him for $30 million on account of breaking a verbal contract by letting her live in his Florida mansion despite their separation, to claiming that the NDA that Woods made her sign in 2017, was void on the grounds of sexual assault.

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Many were certain that this personal life spiral was sure to affect Woods on the course this week. But not Joe LaCava! “I think he’s got the mindset that he’s able to deal with [the Herman case] even though it’s in the public,” said the caddie, per a recent New York Post report. “And still do what he has to on the golf course and at home with his family.”

Caddie claims that Woods is quite strong mentally

LaCava, who has been caddying for Woods for well over a decade now, has seen him tackle many controversies. “I think Tiger’s been through so many different things in the public eye—good, bad, or indifferent—that I’m not saying you get used to it,” he stated. “It bothers you regardless.”

But the caddie believed Woods has learned to block it all out. He claimed that no matter what the golf legend was facing off the course, he was strong enough mentally to give his best while competing. Woods has proved the caddie right several times in the past. In 2019, at Augusta, he kept his cool and came back from two strikes behind on the final day to win his fifth Green Jacket.

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Woods now fights on to make the cut after the suspended second round at Augusta. Can he prove LaCava right once more and do so? Tune in to find out!