Tiger Woods and his longtime swing coach are parting ways.

Haney announced on his website that he will no longer be working with the embattled golf star.

“I have informed Tiger Woods this evening that I will no longer be his coach,” Haney announced on Hankhaney.com Monday evening.

Haney has worked with Woods for the past six seasons.

Haney called his time as Woods’ coach “my best days in professional golf.” He stressed that it was his decision, and not Woods’, to move on.

“Tiger Woods and I will always be friends,” Haney writes, “but I believe that there is a time and place for everything and I feel at this time and at this place in my life I want to move forward in other areas.”

Haney said he wished his former pupil well in golf and “in finding peace and happiness in all aspects of his life.”

“Tiger knows that if he ever needs me in anyway, whether it be with his golf or just as a friend he can always call,” Haney writes.

Before Tiger, Haney worked with Mark O’Meara. Woods and Haney started working together after Tiger had a falling out with previous coach Butch Harmon.

Tiger stood up there with a 10-page pre-written speech and apologized to the universe for his infidelities. Was this necessary? I don’t think so.

First, in my opinion, Tiger doesn’t owe anything to anyone in this world, except his family. His indiscretions, vulgarities, or whatever he decides to do in his personal life, have nothing to do with his abilities as a golfer.

If you are one of those people that think he was a role model, or should be viewed as one, you’re stupid. He never claimed to be. You assumed it because he’s good at a game that has been associated with gentlemen (also ridiculous).

And don’t even give me that crap about golf giving Tiger everything. Make no mistake, TIGER gave golf everything! More than half of golf’s excitement in the past 10 years has come from Tiger. And if you think he owes his sponsors for “all of the money that he’s made,” you’re stupid.

Tiger has made THEM insane amounts of money through exposure and branding. And those sponsors pay him to increase their business, nothing more. Then they hypocritically drop him, claiming that’s not the image they want to portray. Way to turn your back on a guy whose success you’ve ridden for the past decade. A guy that you’ve touted as your money-making puppet.

Anyway, back to the apology speech. Needless to say, it was just more of a confirmation that Tiger really is a robot. It would have been so much smarter if he went outside the words of the speech a little bit.

Or if he didn’t look directly into the camera to make important points. All that did was make it looked coached and fake. Then again, he didn’t owe that apology to anyone other than his wife and kids.

But it was obvious that he knew that. Maybe, it was a necessary rouse for the crazed media and naive public. Either way, I would have liked to see some honesty. But it doesn’t make me appreciate Tiger any less. I’ve always thought of him as the King of Golf.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Apparently Monty is at it again with the ridiculous comments. Recently on a BBC radio show he was claiming that some of Tiger’s “mystique” would be lost if he did return to the game of golf. Is there anyone on the planet that would think Monty is anything but insane for saying this, let alone agree? I think not. If anything, all of the new found Tiger scandal will increase the mystique and hype surrounding the 1 in a 100 year athlete. Were not talking about presidential approval ratings here, just public interest. And you can bet that everyone in the world will be watching the god of golf when he does return. Whether or not people will continue to look at him as a personal role model is another thing; however, in my opinion, those people are just as ridiculous as Monty.

“Europe’s Ryder Cup captain told BBC Radio on Sunday that he had no doubt Woods would come back and add to his 14 majors, but said his mystique had now gone.” London (AP)

Tiger is tearin it up!

Here is a complete list of the clubs that he used to win at Warwick Hills:

• Driver: Nike SQ Dymo (10°) with a Mitsubishi Diamana White Board 83x shaft
• Fairway woods: Nike SasQuatch Sumo (15°, 19°) with Mitsubishi Diamana Blue Board 103g shafts
• Irons: Nike Forged Blades (3-PW) with True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 shafts
• Wedges: Nike Victory Red (56°), SV (60°) with True Temper Dynamic Gold S400 shafts
• Putter: Titleist by Scotty Cameron Newport 2
• Ball: Nike One Tour

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[Via golf.com]

Tiger Woods has been spotted court-side at many important Magic games this season, but he has almost always been alone. Yesterday, Game 4 of the Finals was one of the first games he has been seen with his wife Elin.

Other celeb’s that were spotted at the game include Chris Brown and Rihanna (sitting on opposite ends of the court) – and retired wrestler Hulk Hogan.

Hogan was also seen introducing himself to Tiger before the game.

“In an awkward meeting, Hogan stunned Woods just before the game when he went up to greet the world’s No. 1-ranked golfer, who at first didn’t see the towering figure standing in front of his courtside seat.”

[Via 2thedeuce.com]

Most people that have an interest in golf are aware of Tiger’s awesome close out performance last week at The Memorial. He shot a final round of 69 which included a narley chip in on the par 5 11th, and resulted in an overall score of 12 under 276. This was enough to propel him to the winers circle, beating out Jim Furyk by only one shot.

After the win, Jack Nicklaus made the comments ”it may be his best driving tournament.” Then to Tiger, ”you found your swing.” If anything, these quotations were understated. On Sunday Woods hit 14 of 14 fairways and has never looked better of the tee! Another interesting fact is that before the tournament, Tiger changed his driver to a 10.5 degree. Doesn’t seem to have a sensical correlation to his accuracy improvement, but it’s definitely a change that should be noted. Either way, his final round performance completely silences the ideas that he should drop the Nike driver for something else. If he can keep this 10.5 degree Nike driver in the fairway, there’s no doubting that he will be unstoppable.