I don`t buy many books but I have just purchased my pre-order copy of Hank Haney`s book  “The Big Miss” which is a fairly graphical description of his six years working for Tiger as his swing coach. Tiger sacked Haney in 2010 and the Big Miss book has been described as Haney`s retaliation which he strictly denies. It’s an un-written rule in the professional golfing world that these kind of books do not happen with the relationship between player and coach being likened to that of a doctor and his patient. You will be pushed to find a single professional tour pro that would not say the same thing but for the general public this is a great read and gives us an insight into Tiger that Tiger never gave us as fans.  To be honest Tiger’s never been a favourite of mine personally, he’s an amazing talent which I am thankful for, as I’ve seen this phenomenal athlete take our game to another level.

Below I have taken some of the released snippets from the book and some other facts about Tiger that you may not be aware of:

1, Haney believes Tiger to be the best golfer who ever lived, but cheap, petty, ruthless and selfish

2, Haney said “Not once during their time together did the pair have a substantive conversation about anything but golf”

3, Haney said “He felt he had won the lottery when Woods called him in 2004 and asked him to be his swing coach, he was paid $50k a year plus $25k bonus for major wins.

4, Haney said In just their second lesson Woods finished 10 shots behind at Bay Hill and Haney met him on the range at Isleworth where Woods completely ignored him, he also ignored all his phone calls but later began returning texts. Haney said “My guess is that the publication of this book won’t bring us closer.”

5, before the 2007 US Open, when both Woods and Poulter played a practice round at Oakmont.

‘How are we getting home?’ asked Poulter of his Orlando neighbour, fully aware Woods had a private jet ready to go.

No invitation was forthcoming but Poulter showed up at the airport anyway, and got his ride home.

On the plane, Woods texted Haney: ‘Can you believe how this dick mooched a ride on my plane home?’

6, Woods purchased the adult channel package at the K Club a month before the 2006 Ryder Cup, purportedly
as a joke to tease Zak Johnson the devote Christian, who did not know where to look when he entered the suite.

Presuming it was what Woods wanted to watch, he left the channel on.

‘It was funny watching him acting like everything was normal,’ Woods told Haney, later. ‘I got him pretty good

7, Its believed that Tiger desperately wanted to be a Navy Seal and considered quitting golf to become a seal, It’s also believed that this is where the original knee injury that kept woods out for so long and has continued to hamper his progress came from, Tiger has always denied this but a statement from a women to Haney reads “ Woods came in for training in 2007 at a Kill House” — an urban-warfare simulator — and “got kicked pretty hard in the leg, and I think he hurt his knee pretty bad.”

8, On October the 5^th, 2004 Woods and Nordegren married, On June 18^th, 2007 they had their first child, daughter Sam Alexis, their second child was born on February 8^th, 2009 a baby boy named Charlie Axel. Woods and Nordegren divorced on August 23^rd, 2010.

9, A December 2009 study estimated the shareholder loss caused by Woods’ affairs to be between $5 billion and $12 billion

10, Tiger was only eight years old when he scored his first hole in one

11, Tiger loves to go fly-fishing and owns 17 fishing rods and reels. His favourite fishing spots are Alaska and Ireland.

12, Woods underwent laser eye surgery in 1999. Before this surgery, Woods eyesight was minus 11, meaning he was almost legally blind. He considered the surgery a big help in his career and a good alternative to the glasses and contact lenses, he had a second laser eye surgery when his vision began to deteriorate again

13, From childhood Woods was raised as a Buddhist

14, Woods has won fourteen professional major tournaments, the second highest of any male player, and as of today the 25^th of March 2012 he has won 72 PGA Tour events, third most of all time, and he has won $96`596`542 million dollars in prize money.

15, Tigers win today at the Arnold Palmer was his 7^th of the King`s tournament and it was his first win in 30 months.

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