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If you want a good insight into Tiger Woods as a person I woud suggest you read Hank Haney's book on Tiger

"The Big Miss, My Years Teaching Tiger Woods".

The Big Miss excerpt in Golf Digest last month laid the foundation of Tiger's obsession with the military, his Navy SEAL experimentation and the toll it took on his body. What absolutely blew my mind was Tiger's answer to this question from Haney:

"Tiger. Man, what are you doing?

Are you out of your mind?

What about Nicklaus's record?

Don't you care about that?"

Tiger's answer—which, OK I'll admit, it's shocking—is worth the price of the book.

The picture Haney paints is that Tiger was going to be a difficult student, that he wasn't just going to accept what Haney was saying. Trust would have to be hard earned.

The message Tiger wanted to send was clear: "When I play bad, when I don't win, it's your fault."

It was a blend of selfishness, obsessiveness, stubbornness, coldness, ruthlessness, pettiness and cheapness that somehow turned out to be both good and bad, depending on the situation he was in.

Haney admitted to being one of Tiger's enablers, though. He never really challenged Tiger to be a better human being, but he never really saw anyone else do it, either.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...nk-haneys-book