Tiger Woods Fan? You Must Read ‘The Big Miss’ by Hank Haney

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Published: July 26, 2012

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I’ve read a lot of golf books in my day—frankly more than I’d like to admit. Everything from Tiger Woods: How I Play Golf to the nearly 400-page gem that is Dave Pelz’s Putting Bible. I’ve read books detailing struggling pros trying make a living on the European Tour, and I’ve read whimsical stories about falling in love with the windswept links in Scotland. Classics like Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book and Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons couldn’t escape me.

And or all the golf book’s I’ve read, Hank Haney’s The Big Miss was easily the biggest page-turner, and perhaps the most insightful.

Hank Haney was Tiger Woods’ coach for about six years, and The Big Miss is his account of their years spent together. The duo would eventually split shortly after the Tiger Woods scandal broke. Haney’s account of his time with Woods is absolute gold for any golf nerd – there’s all the detail you could ever want in there about Haney’s coaching strategies and his work on Tiger’s swing.

But at the end of the day what makes this book so remarkable is the insight it provides into the person that is Tiger Woods; a person so often veiled from the public as a result of his self-inflicted invisibility cloak. There’s no doubt that after reading this book I feel like I have a better understanding of Tiger Woods than I ever did before.

Before I dive in and give you a few juicy teasers, let me first address the critics of this book. Many assume that Hank Haney was fired by Woods, and that the publication ofThe Big Miss was a move made out of spite and an attempt to make a quick buck.

If you read this book, it seems as though nothing could be farther from the truth. Trust me, I’m not one to be easily sold – I’m about as skeptical as they come, and I certainly ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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