FORMER RYDER Cup captain Bernard Gallacher insists Tiger Woods needs to change the management team around him.

Gallacher believes Woods’s entourage are partly to blame for the sex scandal which has engulfed his career. Woods broke a three-month silence on Friday in a stage-managed apology for cheating on his wife Elin with the timing heavily criticised for diverting attention from the Accenture matchplay championship.

“This is someone humbled, very remorseful, a shadow of his former self, a broken man,” said Gallacher.

“He has been badly handled by his management. Badly mentored. It was the wrong timing on Friday to do it during Accenture week. It was almost a cyncial attempt to undermine the tournament.

“Tiger needs to take control of his life a bit more and get better people around him. He’s got those sycophants around him but he’s also got lawyers and PR people and he needs to kick them into touch.”

Gallacher believes Woods needs to change his ways professionally as well as privately. “We know he needs to change himself extramaritally but he needs to change on the golf course as well.

“He’s been swearing, he’s been throwing golf clubs, spitting . . . His whole lifestyle needs to change.”

Meanwhile, Woods’ New Zealand caddie Steve Williams insists nothing will change about how he reacts to comments from the crowd whenever the world number one returns.

Williams says that he will definitely be retaining his job and he will not tolerate any cheap-shots aimed at Woods. “When I go back to work with Tiger Woods nothing will change,” he said. “My job is to give him the best information I can and get him around in the fewest possible strokes as I can.

“I won’t do anything differently. I won’t view him any differently. I will do the utmost best to be as professional as I can.”