The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods by Hank Haney

Despite some alarming revelations, Hank Haney's book is mostly a book about golf, and a good one at that.

(Crown Archetype, $26)

No wonder Tiger Woods doesn’t want you to read this book, said Bradley S. Klein in Golfweek. Hank Haney, Woods’s swing coach for six years, has produced a book about working with golf’s greatest star that doubles as “an alarming look” at a man whose public triumphs “masked a day-to-day existence of profound superficiality.” Forget the sex scandals—which Haney says took him by surprise. The Woods we meet here is an “emotional blank wall,” so shut down around Elin Nordegren, then his wife, that he prohibited her from smiling on the golf course. Haney’s Woods is also incapable of empathy, once agreeing to share a hotel room with a player who is a devout Christian and then commandeering the TV to watch porn. Mostly, he’s just shallow. Though they spent 100 days a year together, Haney says he and Tiger never had a substantive conversation.

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