"As good as he is, as much work as he put in, the stuff he was working on couldn't have been right, or it would have worked better."

Jaime Diaz analyzes Tiger and Sean Foley's flirtation game.

"We are literally in the sharing ideas stage. There's nothing official," the instructor said from the Milwaukee airport Sunday morning as he awaited a flight home to Orlando. "I really enjoyed talking to Tiger about the concepts of my teaching and finding out what he's looking for. I think he can tell that I like to challenge my players, and that I'm not going to be a 'yes' man. I'm always going to be who I am. That's it."

Oh Tiger just sign up for a series and get it over with! But there is this...

Indeed, candor is Foley's métier. Consider this assessment: "I want to get Tiger back to a place physically that he has been before, but with a new understanding. If he had understood what was so good about what he did before, he wouldn't have changed it.

Somewhere Butch is laughing...go on...

At the same time, I want to give him a better awareness of what he is doing now. The reason he has been hitting it where he has is that he didn't understand. As good as he is, as much work as he put in, the stuff he was working on couldn't have been right, or it would have worked better."

Foley's natural jauntiness, which might be jarring in Woods hermetically sealed world, could prove to be a hurdle.

Or maybe it's time that Tiger surround himself with some honest, to-the-point folks?