Tiger Woods’ former golf coach, Hank Haney, reveals his protégé’s obsession with scouring the internet to read media reports about his infidelities and gauging readers’ responses to them in a new tell-all book entitled The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods.

According to The Daily Mail, Henry wrote, “Rather than trying to ignore what was being written and said about him, Tiger was taking it in. While we were in Augusta driving back and forth to the course, Tiger sat in the front passenger seat while I sat in the back, and I could see as he surfed the web on his phone that he was searching for stories about himself on gossip sites.”

Tiger, always the overachiever, even read the scathing comments left by readers. “Many of them vicious cheap shots,” Henry noted. “I was thinking there was no way that could be helping his frame of mind.”

The pro-athlete took a hiatus from golf after he was exposed for having relationships with more than 15 women, including Rachel Uchitel, while he was married to Elin Nordegren. He returned to the game with a vengeance last Sunday by winning his first PGA tournament at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

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Tiger may not want to admit to being a sex addict, but the people in his life sure don’t mind spilling his secrets!

A lot has been reported on the six weeks of treatment Tiger Woods, 34, received for his sex addiction in Mississippi … but Tiger, himself, has never publicly acknowledged his addiction. But in a new interview airing tonight on The Golf Channel, his former swing coach Hank Haney pretty much spills the beans. “The only thing I knew about was his issue with the sex addiction,” Hank confesses, when asked about his knowledge of Tiger’s private life. Well, well… I guess we have our answer!

“It’s an ongoing day-to-day battle, but so far I think he’s doing a really good job,” continues Hank, who resigned as Tiger’s coach last week.

In an interview with ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi on March 21, Tiger carefully dodged questions about his addiction. “I didn’t know I was that bad,” he said. “That’s living a life of amends and that’s just working at it
 each and every day. But still, I still have a lot
 more treatment to do, and just because I’m playing, it doesn’t mean I’m
 gonna stop going to treatment.”

Now that Tiger’s “friends” are blabbing about his not-so-secret addiction, I think it’s about time Tiger makes a public statement himself!

Do you agree, BFFs?