NY Times: Hank Gets Personal, Is Also Sympathetic And Respectful

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the New York Times story by Naila-Jean Meyers and Julie Bosman after obtaining a copy of The Big Miss, since they led with an Odd Couple anecdote about popsicle retrieval, when the more interesting revelations were buried in their story.

John Strege covers those revelations, most notably that Tiger likely injured his knee in SEAL training.

Woods' infatuation with the Navy SEALs, documented in the Golf Digest excerpt, was responsible for his knee injury. "Haney says he was told Woods tore his anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in an exercise with the SEALs, not while running at home," the Times reporters Naila-Jean Meyers and Julie Bosmon wrote.

I'm not sure if they were sensing that the original story misfired or if the follow-up blog post was just planned all along, but Meyers follows up Saturday's story by suggesting the book is a bit of everything: respectful, sympathetic and deeply personal. Although they seem to suggest the personal material was unexpected due to Haney's statement earlier this year that the book would not "bother" Tiger.  Safe to say this will bother him...

But Woods’s camp will certainly not be pleased with Haney’s sharing of stories and conversations about Woods’s time in treatment for sex addiction. In the book, he also makes several observations about Woods’s marriage, before and after the revelations of his affairs. At one point, Woods is quoted as saying: “What I learned is that for the rest of my life I can’t have sex with someone unless I genuinely feel something for them. If I do, I’m putting myself in jeopardy.”