Tiger Woods' Golf Coach Quits Via Text Message

By PopEater Staff Posted May 11th 2010 09:45PM

Tiger Woods' luck just isn't getting any better. First, he didn't make the cut at the Quail Hollow Championship in Charlotte, N.C.--only the sixth time in his career he's missed a tournament cut. Then, less than two weeks later, he was forced to bail out of the Players Championship due to a neck injury.

And then to add insult to injury (literally,) PEOPLE reported Woods' swing coach Hank Haney abruptly resigned yesterday via text message.

Haney didn't give a specific reason for his departure. But the golf coach did release a statement to The Golf Channel according to Golf.com. "I believe at this time that it is in both of our best interests for me to step aside as Tiger's coach. I will always look back upon our past half dozen years together as my best days in professional golf," he said.

In addition to releasing a statement, Haney also chatted with KTCK-AM sports radio in Dallas this morning about his resignation. "I texted him last night [that I was leaving], and he texted me back. We went back and forth for a while, but he had his kids last night and couldn't talk. We are going to talk later today," Haney said. No word on how that conversation went.

There's also been no official word recently on whether Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren are still trying to work things out or if they're moving forward with divorce.

Tags: hank haney, tiger woods

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Monday 17 May

By Kenny

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Tiger does`nt need no coach.He`s Tiger Woods

Wednesday 12 May

By BTDT

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Resigned by text? It's a brave new world.
He must have been a good coach. Tiger's quite the swinger.

By BunnyGirl

Awwwww Tiger, I'm so sad for you . . . NOT!!!! Karma is a b*tch, aint it!!! LMAO

By Susie

Tiger,
You need to sit back, take a deep breath and get back to reality. Golf is a game that has been your whole life. It has taken you places that no man has gone before. You are still just a man who thought with your little head not the big head. Best of luck finding yourself again......you will but it takes time. Enjoy yur children because despite all the money and fame they are your greatest Joy.

By Advisor

Tiger Woods: Get your life back together first before you return to the game of golf.

By ed hill

Tiger needs a new image, he should hire Don King, he's more into the other stuff than Haney !!!!

By JC

It's obvious God has taken your talent away for sins against women. Repent thy naughty parts!!

Wednesday 27 July

By golf swing

Now that is not the way to handle a break up! Ha.

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