After Medal Haul, Phelps Plans to Work on His Golf Game

After 22 Olympic medals, 18 of them gold, Michael Phelps has a new goal: improve his golf game. And after providing NBC’s Olympic broadcasts with high ratings for his races, Phelps will get help from the Golf Channel, a part of the NBC Sports Group, as the latest celebrity to appear on the swing coach Hank Haney’s “Haney Project.”
Phelps follows Charles Barkley, Ray Romano and Adam Levine of Maroon 5 as Haney’s students on “The Haney Project.” Production on Phelps’s version of the series will begin next month and it will be televised starting in February 2013.
In a statement, Phelps said: “As I enter this next chapter of my life, I think I will be able to shift my competitiveness to anything I put my mind to, and golf is one of the things I want to focus on. If I have a goal of dropping a certain amount of shots, or working on my short game or putting, those things are going to keep me motivated and fire me up and keep me excited.”
He said that he wants to play the world’s great courses.
According to an article in The Baltimore Sun, Phelps got hooked on golf after winning eight gold medals at the Beijing Games four years ago. While in Beijing, he took some swings at a practice range.