14 DAY TRIAL // A while back, when Tiger Woods' former swing coach Hank Haney announced that he would be coming out with a book about his career so far, which would also include his 6-year stint with the golfer, Haney insisted Woods had nothing to worry about.
This isn't really the case, it would seem.
Excerpts from “The Big Miss” have already been made available online (quotes via Daily Mail and AceShowbiz), and they make it crystal clear that Haney set out to expose the golfer to public ridicule.
During the 6 years Haney worked with Tiger as his swing coach, he never noticed him to be kind, generous, funny or respectful of the others.
He actually seemed to derive some sick pleasure of being anything but that, he says.
For starters, Tiger thought it was funny to be extremely cheap: he never paid for anything, whether it was takeout food or dinners at the restaurant.
As if that wasn't enough, he'd always get up and leave the table the instant he was done eating, even if no one else had finished their meals yet.
“When he was done – and he habitually ate fast – you were done,” Haney writes.
He recalls a particular occasion when he was out for dinner with Tiger and his then-wife Elin Nordegren: Tiger finished eating, got up to leave and expected Elin to do the same and follow him out.
She did just that.
Similarly, Tiger never paid for anything, whether they ordered food in while on tour, or at restaurants. He thought it was “funny” to be this cheap.
Also funny was for Tiger the way one of the episodes of “South Park” has a caricature of him call his wife a “fat Swedish cow,” the former coach also writes.
Haney also talks about Tiger's time in rehab following the media scandal that cost him his marriage to Elin, the way he used to behave before that, how he handled media attention and what he thought of it, and how he was so selfish and immature he never offered to bring anyone even a glass of water.
“What's been written violates the trust between a coach and player and someone also once considered a friend,” Woods' agent said of the book some time ago, before the release of the above-mentioned excerpts.