She was back in Madison, Wis., pregnant with their daughter, the week he finished second in the 1998 PGA Championship. So that makes this a big week for both of them. Steve came into the weekend at the Masters two shots off the lead. And Nicki was right there with him, on the bag and by his side in more ways than one. No other caddie can just lay into me like that and not be afraid to lose her job.
Wives are good at that.
They'll tell you what no one else will, often what you need to hear. Even when they're the employee. Now, if Nicki Stricker can talk her husband around Augusta National one more time today, she won't just be doing her job. If she can help him make up five shots on Tiger Woods and also pass Phil Mickelson, David Duval, Ernie Els and a bunch of other guys on the biggest Sunday of the season, she could be putting him in the first green jacket with His and Hers sleeves. And then she will have put office romances on a whole new plane.