Woodland On The Instructor Rebound, Lands With Butch

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I know many of you were lying awake at night worrying about the fate of Gary Woodland--he of the highly dysfunctional and extremely uncoordinated golf swing that produces mere drop kick drives--after his longtime instructor Randy Smith quit out of loyalty to his agent son after Woodland moved to Steiny Stables. Jeff Babineau reports that Woodland only managed a week as a single man before driving range instructor Butch Harmon agreed to take on this reclamation project.
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News Of The Weird: Haney Sued For Lack Of Personal Instruction

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A Golfweek staff report on instructor Hank Haney getting sued for not deliving on promises of personal instruction at his South Carolina academy.

Maureen Fitzgerald and her son, Matthew Teesdale, of Ambler, Pa., alleged consumer fraud in a suit filed Sept. 16 in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.

They claim that Haney, Tiger Woods’ former coach, gave a total of 7 minutes’ instruction to Teesdale, then 18, who paid $30,000 plus fees when he enrolled at the Hank Haney International Junior Golf Academy in Hilton Head Island, S.C., in 2009-10.

iPad And Golf Instruction

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I've had little time today to look at the specs on the iPad2, but with the same HD camera as the iPhone, I'm curious if we'll see this device become part of the golf instructor's bag of tricks? So many already use video, but it just seems that if the screen resolution is strong enough in the daylight, that this could become a revolutionary teaching tool due to its simplicity, screen size and portability.

Teachers out there: your thoughts?

Hank Gives As Many Interviews In A Day As Charlie Sheen

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The former Tiger Woods instructor wasmade available to anyone who would listen so that he could plug the season finale of his reality show. Unfortunately, he wasn't the train wreck that Charlie Sheen was, but Hank Haney did offers some interesting stuff on his former pupil. (Only Gary Van Sickle at golf.com refused to ask Tiger questions, so if you want to read about the great strides Rush Limbaugh made, this is your Q&A.)
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