You know who I like? Sean Foley. If he’s thinking something and you ask about it, you’re going to get a straight answer and it doesn’t really bother him to step on other people’s toes. Even if they are some of the world’s most famous teachers. In a fun and interesting look inside what makes Foley tick, Robert Lusetich from Fox Sports talked to the golf teacher “flavor of the month” about his new found celebrity now that he coaches the world’s number one golfer.

Beginning with Woods’s swing in 2000, arguably one of the greatest golfing years in the history of the game, Foley said he has “no interest” in reverting to the swing that then-coach Butch Harmon had Tiger doing.

“That was how he learned to swing, and he had great success with it but it was penal on the body and dependent on timing,” said Foley, who’s working with Woods this week at the Deutsche Bank tournament outside of Boston. “It was pretty looking, but it just wasn’t the most efficient way to swing.”

Both Foley and Tiger agreed that the way that his left knee snapped down on the downswing was a major factor in injuring his knee, which was famously repaired in 2008.

Saying that no offense to Harmon, if Tiger went back to that swing, it would be a horrible mistake. Foley says coupled with the strain put on his knee, that Tiger is not the young kid he was in 2000. Now, as a 35-year-old, Tiger needs to make an efficient swing that did not put so much strain on his body.

Moving on to his next coach, Hank Haney, Tiger has been careful not to say anything bad about his previous coach’s “unorthodox” swing ideas. Foley, on the other hand, is much more candid.

“Let’s be honest about this, it’s not like he was flushing it with Hank,” Foley said. “I think he hasn’t been happy with how he’s hit it for a very long time.”

Indeed, Foley has spent much of their time on the range together ridding Woods of what he calls “counter-intuitive moves introduced in order to offset something else that didn’t need to be there.”

What has Foley been doing that is making Tiger’s swing noticeably better in just a few weeks working with him? Don’t tell Foley it’s the Stack and Tilt swing, developed by Andy Plummer and Mike Bennett. Although there have been whispers that he has stolen ideas, Foley insists that he uses maybe 5% of their swing teachings. Foley prides himself on being a student of the swing and explains that he has developed his system over years of studying great players.

Foley believes that for better contact, the player must be centered over the ball and not include a swaying motion that transfers weight to both sides of the body because it leaves room for error based on timing.

“Mike and Andy aren’t reinventing the wheel,” Foley said. “Like me, they watched old school players hit it good and realized there was something to what they were doing, but they didn’t invent the 1950 golf move.”

Foley asserts that if the Stack and Tilt is such a great system, then why would players come get a “watered down version” from him. And amid whispers that Foley is only a “flavor of the month” teacher, Foley has this to say:

“If I’m flavor of the month then I’ve been flavor of the month for ten years,” he said. “I’m doing what I was supposed to do, I really believe that.

“There’s a sense that this was what I was meant to do, and here I am. But this is not fixing world hunger, this is getting people who are already very good to hit a golf ball better.

“I suppose my point is that I’m not a guru, and I’m not some guy who (BS’d) his way to the top. I’m just who I am.”

This new, outspoken member of Team Tiger is something that the media and public at large have been yearning for for years. Finally, someone close to the shut-down world number one who is willing to take a stand and say what he’s thinking.