Hank Haney Book: Why the Release Date Is a Real "Big Miss"

Hank Haney's book, The Big Miss, on his time with Tiger Woods could not have hit shelves at a more inopportune moment. 

This book, which was released on Tuesday, will still undoubtedly soar to the top of best seller charts.

The public can't ever seem to get enough of Tiger, and there have been enough salacious details released from this book that it will sell just fine. 

However, as Haney has been so adamantly professing, this is a golf book.

This is where the timing will take the sting out of the book's punch.

CBS Sports' Steve Elling gives us an excerpt from the book's closing that sums up Haney's feelings on Woods' future in golf. 

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Unlike the Tiger in his 20s and early 30s was virtually indomitable, today's Tiger has discovered that in real life, disaster lurks. Plans don't come true. Things can go wrong. That realization creates doubt, and in competitive golf, doubt is a killer. ... The big miss found its way into his life. If it's ingrained, primed to emerge at moments of crisis, his march toward golf history is over.

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The problem with this is that Tiger is marching again.

Woods won his first event in 30 months this past weekend. He did so in convincing fashion, and after a steady climb back to the top. 

Woods is playing as good as ever. It's not just his five-stroke victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational that tells us that.

A quick look at his stats from his 2012 PGA events reveals how well he is playing. 

Tiger is hitting 67.9 percent of fairways with a driving distance of 298.1 yards. He is hitting 71.9 percent of greens in regulation. 

Compare these to his stats in 2000, the year he won three majors. 

That year he hit 71.2 percent of fairways with an average distance of 298 yards. He also hit 75.2 percent of greens in regulations. 

These numbers are strikingly similar. And that's not all.

Tiger has once again found his putting stroke. Woods is 10th in the PGA in strokes gained putting. 

Haney's book asserts that Tiger is too broken to regain his top form, and that book comes out just after Tiger has undeniably regained that top form.

Now that is what you call a "Big Miss."