Bio After more than 20 years of covering everything from election campaigns to the Olympic Games, Robert Lusetich has turned his focus to writing about his first love ?golf. He is the author of Unplayable: An Inside Account of Tiger's Most Tumultuous Season. 950 Updated Sep 3, 2010 5:13 AM ET Sean Foley has 뱊o interest?in getting Tiger Woods to swing as he did in 2000, when the world No. 1 had arguably the greatest year in the history of golf. Tiger's Troubles Tiger: I'm 'infinitely' happier now Tiger gives Twitter a try Tiger taunted at Aussie Masters Report: Mistresses plan Tiger reunion Report: Fans warned not to heckle Tiger 밫hat 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, who뭩 working with Woods this week at the Deutsche Bank tournament outside of Boston. 밒t was pretty looking, but it just wasn뭪 the most efficient way to swing.? Woods won four straight majors from the middle of 2000 to April, 2001, but it came at a cost. The way he snapped his left leg on the downswing, Foley and Woods agree, caused serious damage to the knee, which had to be reconstructed in 2008. 밫his is nothing against Butch (Harmon, who was Woods?coach at the time) but trying to go back to that would be a huge mistake,?Foley said. 밣lus, he can뭪 rotate like he did when he was an elastic kid. He뭩 nearly 35, he doesn뭪 have that body anymore.? Instead, Foley has Woods more centerd over the ball throughout his swing, putting less stress on his body and, judging by the jump in fairways and greens hit last week at The Barclays, leading to improved ball-striking. Woods has stopped shy of anointing Foley as his new coach, but on Thursday he again spoke glowingly of how much better he was playing since starting to work with the 35-year-old Canadian three weeks ago. 밒'm hitting the ball much better, hence I have more confidence,?Woods said. 밒'm driving the ball much straighter, hitting the ball a little bit farther, especially with my irons, and those are all positive signs. 밒t's just a matter of, as I said, making it a little bit more natural, and that's just reps.? Although Woods has been careful not to criticize the unorthodox teaching methods of his previous coach, Hank Haney ?he made a point last week to note that they won six majors together ?Foley isn뭪 as diplomatic. 밚et뭩 be honest about this, it뭩 not like he was flushing it with Hank,?Foley said. 밒 think he hasn뭪 been happy with how he뭩 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 밹ounter-intuitive moves introduced in order to offset something else that didn뭪 need to be there.? WORLD GOLF RANKINGS Who's streaking and who's slumping? Check out the top 10 in the World Golf Rankings. What Foley, who is enjoying the challenge of taking on golf's most recognizable name, has in common with Haney is that they both quickly became aware that Woods is a lightning rod. Foley뭩 teaching philosophy wasn뭪 of particular interest to anyone outside the small world of golf swing nerds until he started working with Woods. Now, he뭩 at the center of a whisper campaign that accuses him of stealing his ideas from two colleagues, Andy Plummer and Mike Bennett. Plummer and Bennett developed a system of hitting a golf ball called Stack and Tilt, which calls for players to keep their weight on their front leg throughout the swing. Though hailed as revolutionary, it was met with derisive condemnation by the teaching establishment. Nonetheless, several players who switched to Stack and Tilt won on the PGA Tour, giving the method legitimacy. Foley admits that he enjoyed discussing the intricacies of the swing with Plummer and Bennett, whom he likes and respects, but ultimately, he credits them with 뱈aybe 5 percent?of the inspiration behind his own, very similar, swing ideas. 밃ndy and Mike are very bright guys, but how much of what they teach is Mac O묰rady??Foley said of golf뭩 Bobby Fisher, a tortured genius who뭩 spent years breaking down the secrets of golf. 밃nd how much did they take from (Sam) Snead and (Ben) Hogan? And how much of it is taken from (Isaac) Newton?? Foley says his swing ideas were developed over 15 years. He said he learned when still a teenager trying to copy the swing of Curtis Strange ?who swayed off the ball on his backswing ?that keeping the weight more centred worked better. He then studied the swings of great players in history and noticed they didn뭪 make dramatic weight shifts away from the ball either. 밠ike and Andy aren뭪 reinventing the wheel,?Foley said. 밚ike me, they watched old school players hit it good and realized there was something to what they were doing, but they didn뭪 invent the 1950 golf move.? FOX SPORTS POLL Who would you want as swing coach? Butch Harmon Hank Haney Sean Foley The most obvious difference between Stack and Tilt and Foley is that all the players taught by Plummer and Bennett swing very much alike. Foley뭩 three highest-profile students (before Woods), Sean O묱air, Hunter Mahan and Justin Rose, don뭪 swing anything alike. 밪tack and Tilt is one method of swinging,?Foley said. 밒f it뭩 such a great system, then why are people coming for a 몏atered-down version?from me?? Foley finds it amusing to hear that he뭩 being derided as the 밼lavor of the month?on the Tour practice range. 밒f I뭢 flavor of the month then I뭭e been flavor of the month for ten years,?he said. 밒뭢 doing what I was supposed to do, I really believe that. 밫here뭩 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. 밒 suppose my point is that I뭢 not a guru, and I뭢 not some guy who (BS'd) his way to the top. I뭢 just who I am.?