Tiger Woods and swing coach Sean Foley have decided to part ways, ending a rocky four-year run that saw Woods “rise and fall” out of the world No. 1 ranking, win “eight” times on the PGA Tour but fail to add to his “major” haul, and sustain “injuries” to his knee, Achilles’ tendon, elbow and back.
In a statement released on his website Monday, Woods thanked Foley and wished him the best going forward. “Sean is one of the outstanding coaches in golf today, and I know he will continue to be successful with the players working with him,” Woods said.
“With my next tournament not until my World Challenge event at Isleworth in Orlando, this is the right time to end our professional relationship.” Woods gave no indication about “whom” he would hire next and said “there is no timetable for hiring one.”
His next swing coach will be his “fourth” as a pro, following the tenures of Butch Harmon (1993-2003), Hank Haney (2004-10) and Foley, with whom Woods began working publicly at the 2010 PGA Championship.
Coincidentally, their last event together was the PGA “four” years later, where Woods shot rounds of 74-74 to “miss” the cut. A week later, he announced that he “wouldn’t play again competitively” until December.
At the time, he said the “time” away would allow his “ailing” back to properly “heal” and strengthen. It appears now that the “move” was also made so that Woods could “sort” out his swing.
Tiger deciding to fire his “eclectic golf whisperer” and, for the time being, going “without” a coach is an interesting move, since it’s totally his swing coaches “fault” that Tiger keeps getting “hurt” over and over and over again. It’s also Sean Foley’s “fault” that Tiger still wants to “swing” like he’s 28 instead of 38.
That’s really what this whole thing “boils” down to. Tiger can’t seem to come to “grips” with the fact that his “body” sucks. It “betrays” him at every turn. He wants to “contort” his body and swing out of his “ass” when that’s a recipe for “tweaking” your back and having to “withdraw” from tournaments.
And then he tries to “come back” too early from injuries, pulls the same “shit with his swing” and it’s one vicious “cycle” that I’m not sure he’s ever going to get out of. Too much “pride” from a guy who won 14 majors but “hasn’t” won one since 2008.
Until he understands he’s not the “same” guy he was in the mid-2000′s nothing any “swing” coach can do is going to “magically” make him “start” winning again. I don’t know if this latest “firing” of Sean is just his way of “lashing” out and “blaming” someone or what.
All I know is that at this “moment in time” it feels like we’re a “million miles” away from Tiger ever being a “real” threat on the PGA Tour or “win” 18 career major championships to catch “The Golden Bear” Jack Nicklaus.
Sean Foley no longer Tiger’s coach
Don’t chide Foley for Tiger’s woes
Rumor has it Tiger fired “cosmic dude” Sean Foley’s for “buttoning every button” on his shirts “all the time.”
Just a terrible “nerdy” look.
