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The Haney Project: Michael Phelps

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According to Golf World, U.S. Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps will be the pupil on the next season of The Haney Project. http://www.golfworldmonday.com/golfworldmonday/20120813?pg=16±=1&u1;=texterity&linkImageSrc;=%2Fgolfworldmonday%2F20120813%2Fdata%2Fimgpages%2Ftn%2F0016_rdqcmn.gif%2F#pg16

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I like Phelps. He's a great athlete. I'm sure he'll be able to learn golf quickly.

I'll be watching.

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There's just something totally uninteresting about Michael Phelps.

I feel that way about Hank Haney.

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Maybe he can toke up with Hank Haney.

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... Michael Phelps will be his student.      No idea what kind of game he has going in, but should be interesting ...

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6 things that will be said, possibly all in the same show Take it back outside and loop it back in Better You've got good athletic ability Other than Tiger, I've never seen someone work so hard Tiger once told me............ One time, at band camp, Tiger...............

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FWIW, I merged a few threads into one.

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Originally Posted by zipazoid

There's just something totally uninteresting about Michael Phelps.

Originally Posted by sacm3bill

I feel that way about Hank Haney.

I feel that way about the show, too.  It's a fantastic idea and should be interesting, entertaining and even informative for those of us trying to learn golf as well . .. but it's just formula-driven crap-ola.  With such a great concept and great guest stars it should really be a whole lot better.  Not sure who's to blame - Haney or Golf Channel.  Golf Channel makes a lot of shows that totally suck so I guess my inclination is to blame them.


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I concur with all these sentiments about Haney's show and his teaching. His method is uninspiring, uncreative brute force. He does the pupeteer thing showing various positions, and then goes home telling the student to hit 4000 balls while he drinks wine and soaks in his hot tub.

I find Golf Fix and At the Range to be much more usefull.

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With such a great concept and great guest stars it should really be a whole lot better.  Not sure who's to blame - Haney or Golf Channel.  Golf Channel makes a lot of shows that totally suck so I guess my inclination is to blame them.

Is Haney one of the producers?  I stopped watching when Rush Limbaugh was brought in...


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No, the exec producers are Steve Rotfeld and Tom Farrell.   They've done a bunch of other sports-related shows like Sports Disasters, Lighter Side of Sports, Baseball's 101 Funniest Moments, Super Sports Follies, etc.      They seem to specialize with fluffy sports shows and then sell the show to the various sports networks such as TGC.     They also did the Golf in America series for TGC.


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Yeah it's a  bummer this show is so bad.  I agree it could be fun and useful to watch a famous coach teaching, but it's like 98% crappy reality show.

In theory you'd think it might be more interesting with him teaching a world class athlete, but swimming of course is nothing at all like golf.  They should bring in some recently retired hockey star who wants to get into the game or something...

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Not much of a project, taking a gifted athlete and trying to teach him to hit a golf ball.  Phelps isn't entertaining out of the water, and Haney is Haney so I see this season being a snooze fest, but I'll probably watch it because I'm a golf addict.

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Haney has lived off of Tiger long enough.  I would like to see one of the best young instructors get a shot and make a bigger name for themsleves.  Someone like Jeff Ritter, etc. who are great instructors but do not have great pros on their resume to live off of.


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Originally Posted by newtogolf

Not much of a project, taking a gifted athlete and trying to teach him to hit a golf ball.  Phelps isn't entertaining out of the water, and Haney is Haney so I see this season being a snooze fest, but I'll probably watch it because I'm a golf addict.

That's why I posted my comment. He's boring...to me at least.


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