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Kapalua, Hawaii. Hank Haney has written a book about the six years he spent as Tiger Woods’ swing coach, a volatile time in which Woods went from winning nearly half of his tournaments to a scandal that derailed his pursuit of golf history.

“I get asked all the time about Tiger, what it was like to work with him,” Haney said. “I felt like I had a front row seat to golf history. It just kind of chronicles a little bit of what I went through, what I dealt with, how I coached and the observations I made.”

Haney began working with Woods at the Bay Hill Invitational in 2004. They parted ways a month after the 2010 Masters, where Woods returned to golf after being exposed for multiple extramarital affairs that shattered his image and led to divorce.

Most of the people involved with Woods have signed a nondis closure agreement. Haney said he signed no such thing, although he said the book was not intended to “take jabs at anyone.”

Mark Steinberg, Woods’ agent, said he was aware of the book “The Big Miss” but that Woods had not seen any excerpts and would have no comment.

Haney was asked whether he thought Woods would like it.

“If he reads it, I don’t think it will be a book that bothers him,” Haney said. “Anybody who reads it will think it’s interesting, very fair and honest, and that’s what I wanted to do. I was on that job for six years. There were 110 days a year I was with him... You make a lot of observations.”

The book is scheduled to be published in March, one week before the Masters.

Haney wrote the book with Jaime Diaz of Golf Digest, whose coverage dates to when Woods was a teenager and Diaz played golf with Woods and his father. Diaz also spoke at the memorial service for Earl Woods.

Associated Press