The Big Miss by Hank Haney

My Years Coaching Tiger Woods
Hank Haney

This is Hank Haney’s candid, surprisingly insightful account of his tumultuous six-year journey with Tiger Woods, during which the supremely gifted golfer collected six major championships and rewrote golf history. From 2004 to the spring of 2010, Hank Haney was Tiger’s coach and Tiger was Hank’s only client. Hank was one of the very few people allowed behind the curtain and observed Tiger in nearly every circumstance. There has never been a book about Tiger that is as intimate and revealing—or as wise about what it takes to coach a star athlete. Hank was there through it all, observing how Tiger’s public identity sometimes meshed awkwardly with the role of husband and friend, and how the former child prodigy came to have a conflicted relationship with the game that made him famous.