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Adam Scott Takes Uneven Game to Wyndham Championship

Adam Scott was the third-ranked player in the world a year ago. Now, he's 46th and falling. He's fresh off a missed cut at the PGA Championship, carding 82-79 for a two-day, 17-over finish that left him outside the line by 13 strokes. His Hazeltine experience has been a microcosm of his season. But as John Paul Newport,...

Tiger Woods Isn't Dumping Hank Haney For Dale Lynch (for Now)

Whenever Tiger Woods struggles, Hank Haney's job security becomes a popular topic. It's been that way ... well, since they started working together in 2004, yet here we are, five years later, and they're still a team. And Woods' major championship winning percentage with Haney (.300) is slightly higher than it was with...

Hank Haney Explains That Tiger Woods Isn't a Robot

Shortly after Tiger Woods missed the cut at the British Open, it began. The talk that Hank Haney, Woods' swing coach since 2004, needed to go. It happens almost every time Woods doesn't win, even though Tiger's major championship winning percentage is slightly higher with Haney (.300) than Butch Harmon (.286). But that's...

Despite Changes, Results Are the Same For John Daly

John Daly spent the first half of the year in Europe, playing tournaments on that tour while he waited out his PGA Tour-sanctioned six-month suspension. He returned to the States at the St. Jude Classic two weeks ago, and relatively speaking, played well. Nothing spectacular, but he made the cut. Given how last season...

Daly Circus Coming to a Town Near You

Rumor spread a few years ago at a golf course outside Chicago, that John Daly, who was supposed to be there, had had a heart attack and died. The next day, he showed up at his practice round. Afterward, as he stuffed his clubs into the trunk of the car, prepared to head off to Hooters for an autograph session, and stopped...

ButchHarmon News From the Web

05/17/12 Tiger is the world's most powerful athlete Source: Globe and Mail For the past two and a half years, Tiger Woods' life has been one roller coaster after another - both professionally and personally.
05/16/12 Harmon wants to focus mostly on teaching Source: Golf Digest PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) Butch Harmon turns 69 this summer and he's ready to cut back on how much he works.
05/15/12 Butch Harmon's latest (and possibly last) instruction... Source: Golf.com I have picked up the phone to call Butch Harmon at various times through the years -- to talk about his players, to rap about other players -- and I have always left the conversation smarter in golf.
05/13/12 Tom Flannagan golf column: Harmon has teaching touch Source: Staten Island Advance - Staten Island NY Over the years we have enjoyed reviewing most written or recorded teachings on the game of golf.
05/12/12 Should Tiger fire Foley and hire Harmon back? Source: USA Today Tiger Woods' psyche has been analyzed constantly this week at The Players Championship. "fire" current swing coach Sean Foley and reunite with original coach Butch Harmon.