Sean Foley On The Tiger Breakup, Tiger As A Tipper, Firer

Rick Young of ScoreGolf.com caught up with instructor Sean Foley at La Guardia where all the great interviews happen these days.

As always the former Tiger Woods teacher offered candid views on a variety of topics, including how Tiger broke up with him, Tiger as a tipper and firer (in response to Dan Jenkins) and where he sees his career going post-Woods.

As always, I urge you to hit the link, but for archiving and discussion purposes some highlights...

“Tiger called me and we had this very heartfelt discussion. We know what we went through together. I know the state I found him in and so does he,” Foley said. “We came to a point where we weren’t communicating as well as we needed to anymore and we didn’t want to jeopardize our friendship. I love TW. We still talk back and forth. That’s one thing I’m very proud of. We handled the situation in a very classy way. That’s the only way we would.”

Easy there, Tiger has a sore back, we can't be patting it too hard.

As for Tiger's play over the Foley years and Woods' contributions to the game.

“He’s done so much for the game of golf and yet he continues to get torn down by all this bullshit. Let’s hope 20 years from now they’re talking about all the kids he’s helped, about him raising millions and millions of dollars through his foundation and sending kids to college instead of how doesn’t tip –  which by the way is more bullshit.”

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“They can talk about how he doesn’t tip or whatever but it’s just more bullshit. I’ve seen him tip caddies at local clubs $400 so I don’t know where that comes from,” he said. “Seriously, saying he doesn’t tip? How come he (Jenkins) doesn’t mention Tiger raising $300 million for kids? Tiger is the epitome of the double-edged sword. Anything he does great doesn’t get mentioned. Anything he doesn’t it’s all over the place. Can you even imagine what the fallout would be if it was him and not Mickelson who called out Tom Watson at the Ryder Cup?”

Foley also makes a decent case for Tiger as a firer of those around him. Check it out.