News Of The Weird: Haney Sued For Lack Of Personal Instruction

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.