Hank Haney‘s tell-all book about Tiger Woods, “The Big Miss,” is set to hit bookshelves next week, but already this month we’ve been treated to select excerpts, such the one about Tiger wanting to become a Navy SEAL. But just in case the passages that Golf Digest and The New York Times have shared with us were a little boring for your taste, the New York Post is here to save the day.
The Post on Saturday revealed some of the more sordid tidbits of Haney’s memoirs from coaching Tiger, who Haney at one point describes as “the nerdy kid with glasses and braces. When Tiger first got to Stanford, [golfer] Notah Begay called him Urkel.” Particularly, there was the time when Tiger explained to his coach his lesson from sex rehab.
“There are some girls who are going to be after me even more now, especially the wild ones,” Tiger told Haney. “But what I learned is that for the rest of my life I can’t have sex with someone unless I genuinely feel something for them. If I do, I’m putting myself in jeopardy.”
The Post also says that Haney writes about how Woods actually enjoyed all the attention — albeit negative — he was getting after his sex scandal went public, especially when “South Park” featured him calling his ex-wife a “crazy b-tch” and a “stupid Swedish cow” as she swung at him with a golf club.
And then there was this fun detail about a prank Tiger pulled on “devout Christian” Zach Johnson when the two shared a hotel room during the 2006 Ryder Cup:
Tiger “immediately purchased the adult-movie 24-hour package and turned the television on.”
Johnson ignored the porn.
“It was so funny watching him acting like everything was normal,” Woods told Haney. “I got him pretty good.”
I’m not sure what Haney’s motivation for writing this book was, other than money. He comes off as quite the sleazeball for doing it, in fact. That’s not to say I haven’t enjoyed all the book’s wonderful leaked-out details, but maybe now I look at him more dismissively as I watch him on TV tell Mario Batali how to swing a golf club.
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