In the News
The success I have experienced as both a player on the PGA TOUR and a short game instructor seems a bit over-the-top. Despite my best efforts to stay relatively low-key, there have been a number of stories written about me, and for that I am very grateful. and count my blessings every day.
The “In the News” section will keep tabs on what the top golf publications, golf bloggers and TOUR Pros have to say about me as a player, an instructor and a budding social media user. I’ll share some of those postings and articles right here.
America’s 50 Greatest Instructors
From Driving to Putting by The Country’s Best Instructors, as Ranked by their Peers:
August 2009
For the fifth consecutive time, instructors nationwide voted Butch Harmon No. 1 in Golf Digest’s ranking of America’s 50 Greatest Teachers. But it nearly took a sudden-death playoff. In the closest finish since we started the game’s only peer ranking in 2000, Harmon edged Hank Haney for the top spot by seven votes out of more than 500 ballots cast by instructors from all 50 states. Both teachers were well ahead of No. 3 David Leadbetter — a testament to their work with the game’s two highest-profile players, Harmon with Phil Mickelson and Haney with Tiger Woods. Jim McLean and Chuck Cook round out the top five.
