Education
University of Tulsa.
University of Tulsa.
A graduate of the University of Tulsa, Haney owns and operates four teaching facilities in the Dallas, Texas area. Haney says, "My philosophy as a teacher is to teach my students to become their own best teacher by getting them to understand the flight of the golf ball and how it relates to the swing, with emphasis on swinging the golf club on their own correct swing plane". Haney changed Tiger Woods" swing from an upright to a flatter golf swing.
His wrist cock is much less obvious than it was with his previous coach Butch Harmon.
Woods" swing is much more around his body, Haney tries to get his students to swing on the same plane angle which the golf club is on at address. In 2008, Haney started working with former National Basketball Association star and current National Basketball Association analyst Charles Barkley on the Golf Channel"s The Haney Project: Charles Barkley, in an attempt to fix Barkley"s infamously bad swing.
Haney"s show continued in 2010, this time with comedian Ray Romano. The third season, in 2011, featured talk radio host Rush Limbaugh.
Series 4 (2012) featured a four-player shootout in Mario Batali, Adam Levine of Maroon 5, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Angie Everhart.
On Monday, May 10, 2010, one day after Woods withdrew in the final round of The Players Championship, Haney informed Woods that he would no longer be his coach. Haney has a videogame of his own, Hank Haney"s World Golf, that was released for Windows on November 16, 2010. A Mac Operating system X version was released under the name World Challenge Golf 2011 by Virtual Programming on September 28, 2011.
Professional Golf Association Teacher of the Year (United States of America) - 1993 Professional Golf Association "Harvey Penick Award for Teaching Excellence" - 1984 North Texas Professional Golf Association Section "Teacher of the Year" - 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 North Texas Professional Golf Association Section "Horton Smith Award" - 1990 North Texas Professional Golf Association Metro Chapter "Horton Smith Award" - 1991, 1992 Gulf Coast Professional Golf Association Chapter "Teacher of the Year" - 1984 Federazione Italiana Golf "Top Teacher" - 1989, 1990 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Golf Coach of the Year - 1998 Golf Digest Top 25 Teacher, 1984 - 1992 Golf Digest Top 10 Teacher, 1993 - 1999 Golf Digest Number 4 Teacher, 2000, 2002 Golf Digest Number 6 Teacher - 2001 Golf Digest Number 5 Teacher - 2003, 2004 Golf Magazine Top 100 Teacher, 1984 - 2004 Golf World"s Top 50 Golf Personalities Worldwide - 2000 Doctorate Magazine (Dallas) "The Best of Dallas" - "Best Golf Instructor" - 2003.
