Tiger Woods & Sean Foley To Spend Way Less Time Together

In one of the more succinct reports ever issued from the TigerWoods.com newsroom, the lede is, well, very tight!

Tiger Woods said today he will no longer be working with Sean Foley.

He said this via telegram? To...?

Anyway, now the awkward quotes.

"I'd like to thank Sean for his help as my coach and for his friendship," Woods said. "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. With my next tournament not until my World Challenge event at Isleworth in Orlando, this is the right time to end our professional relationship."

Not sure why it's the right time, except that now Foley doesn't have to answer a million "hows he doing?" questions, so in that sense Tiger was doing him a favor. And now Foley...

"My time spent with Tiger is one of the highlights of my career so far, and I am appreciative of the many experiences we shared together," Foley said. "It was a lifelong ambition of mine to teach the best player of all time in our sport. I am both grateful for the things we had the opportunity to learn from one another, as well as the enduring friendship we have built. I have nothing but respect and admiration for him."

"Presently, I do not have a coach, and there is no timetable for hiring one," added Woods.

...as if this was a joint news conference, added Woods.

Personally, I think it's a shame this duo is finished only because I think Foley will be blamed for Tiger's awful 2014 and maybe even his back issues, which is terribly unfair. Foley is a fine coach and even finer person who loves seeing people get better. Unfortunately in this case, he was working with a less motivated, less physically sound and certainly less focused Woods than his predecessors had the pleasure of dealing with.