About Stan Utley
Stan is one of the few coaches in golf to have both played and taught at the highest levels of the sport. You might know him now as one of Golf Digest’s 50 Best Teachers (No. 11 on the 2024-2025 list) and the instructor who has worked with everyone from Sergio Garcia to Charles Barkley. But before embarking on his coaching career in 2002, Stan was a two-time All-America golfer at the University of Missouri (1982 and 1983), three-time Missouri Open champion and long-time PGA Tour player. In 1989, he won the PGA Tour’s Chattanooga Classic to go along with three victories on what is now the KornFerry Tour. Stan still holds the PGA Tour record for fewest putts over nine holes, with six at the 2002 Air Canada Championship.
In addition to working with numerous players on every professional tour and conducting dozens of private and corporate instruction events every year, Stan helps clients from his bases at Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth and Maroon Creek Golf Club in Aspen, Colorado. He is the author of four golf instruction books with Golf Digest’s Matthew Rudy—The Art of Putting, The Art of the Short Game, The Art of Scoring and The Art of Sequencing Your Swing.