Sean Foley on Coaching Tiger
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.7 • 267 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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In this special episode of the Hack It Out Golf Podcast, Mark has the opportunity to sit down for an extended conversation with famed golf coach Sean Foley. In this segment of their discussion, they talk about Sean's time coaching one of the greatest players in the history of the sport: Tiger Woods. Sean discusses the unique pressures of coaching Tiger, what he learned from the experience, what he might have done different, and what he thinks of Tiger as a student.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Hackett Out Golf Podcast. This week's slightly different. I was lucky enough to spend some time with Sean Foley, which I think you might have seen in other episodes or listen to if you haven't checked the other episodes out. |
| 0:11.8 | I asked him about his time with Tiger. I was interested in if he was able to speak about his experiences with Tiger and what it felt like, teach. Obviously, one of the best players that's ever lived. |
| 0:23.2 | Really interesting interview with Sean. |
| 0:25.8 | I hope you enjoy it as much as I did talking to one of the coolest guys in golf. |
| 0:30.1 | Let's talk a little bit about Tiger and that time with Tiger. |
| 0:34.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:34.6 | What was that like? |
| 0:36.3 | How, what was the, what was it like compared to teaching |
| 0:40.8 | any other student, similar, different, was there a boss and not a boss? Like, what was some of the |
| 0:46.6 | dynamics of teaching a, because it's not like you're getting him in, you're getting him in a point |
| 0:52.5 | where he is beyond established as |
| 0:55.3 | the world wants him to be. Yeah. So how was that experience for you? Yeah, I think that that was, |
| 1:04.5 | you know, it was experience of a lifetime. Yeah. Obviously, I was a huge fan since he was, I played in some AJ, I was one of the first |
| 1:12.3 | Canadian guys to play down in AJJ tournaments. |
| 1:14.7 | Right. |
| 1:16.5 | And so I didn't play in the big ones with him, but in some of them. |
| 1:21.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.5 | And so I was familiar as a golf nerd about this kid at 14 years old or 12 years old, right? |
| 1:28.5 | Yeah. So I really followed him a lot. I actually moved from Canada to Orlando with that |
| 1:36.1 | as one of my kind of dreams was to coach Tiger. And I think that when it comes to dreams, |
| 1:41.6 | it's like, you got to be careful what you wish for. That's what, that's one of them. |
| 2:03.9 | Totally. Well, we'll take that away as a definite happen. You know, to come around at the time that I did, I think I was naive to the fact that, you know, I thought this is going to be a piece of cake. Right. You know, he's dropping like half a foot in the back swing. Yeah. His wrist angles are nowhere close to where they were when he was at the peak of his powers. |
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