TIGER WOODS: "He's coaching me (smiling)."

Tiger sounded a little touchy about the Sean Foley relationship status. As if the writers didn't see their Facebook status shifting from "It's complicated" to, "In a teaching relationship."

Q. How long do you think the process of modification will take?

TIGER WOODS: Well, we'll see. It's progress. I'm making progress, I'm making steps, and just got to keep heading in the right direction.

Q. Just a quick follow-up, how different is the concept versus what Hank teaches and what Butch teaches?

TIGER WOODS: Very different.

Q. Just to clarify, how would you characterize your relationship with Sean, your working relationship?

TIGER WOODS: We're working on it.

Q. Is he your coach?

TIGER WOODS: He's coaching me (smiling).

Q. Are you paying him?

TIGER WOODS: That's none of your business.

Q. How formal, I guess, is the question.

TIGER WOODS: Well, it's none of your business, first of all.

Steve Elling was with Foley when his cell phone exploded on the news and has some new information on how the two met how the two started working together.

He stood on the driving range at Cog Hill, looking down at the screen on the device, quizzically thumbing through the assault of e-mails and text messages that began bouncing off satellites and into the contraption.

"What's this all about?" he said.

As ever, it's all about Eldrick.

Moments earlier, in his own inimitably paranoid fashion, world No. 1 Tiger Woods confirmed he has formally forged a work relationship with Foley, who coaches a half-dozen other PGA Tour players, and the news precipitated the flurry of inquiries that will soon make him the most famous Canuck in the States since Dudley Do-Right.