Tiger Woods had seriously considered giving up his golf career to become a Navy Seal, according to a new book.
The 36-year-old's former swing coach Hank Haney makes the revelation in his soon to be released book The Big Miss.
Mr Haney writes that he tried to convince Woods - whose father Earl was a special forces soldier in Vietnam - not to go on secret training exercises with the Seals but says the golfer was obsessed with joining the Navy's elite fighting unit.
The coach said he told Woods that Seals cannot not be older than 28, hoping to show him it was a pointless ambition.
But he said Woods responded: "It's not a problem. They're making a special age exemption for me."
Mr Haney wrote: "I thought 'Wow. Here is Tiger Woods, the greatest athlete on the planet, maybe the greate......................
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