BUTCH HARMON!!!! best in the business.. but a full-time swing coach.. the pros usually use their caddie.. caddie recieves 10% of the winnings the player gets.. swing coaches are probably available with lessons.. full time i see it being alot
What about a swing coach that you meet with and do video lessons and playing lessons like 2 or 3 times a week? Would they charge normal lesson fees or give some kind of long term swing coach discount?
One of the best teachers in the south is Ron Gring, who has a school at Timbercreek Golf Club between Pensacola, FL and Mobile, AL. He charges $150 per hour and is well worth it. His students inckude many tour players and one old geezer Senior Amateur. Unless you've hit the lottery or are from 'old money," a lesson or two from this caliber teacher would be your best buy.
The cost varies on teachers. Lessons can run anywhere from $25/hour to the thousands of dollars for high profile instructors because their time and name are valuable. Just to get to a David Leadbetter, Jim McClean, Butch Harmon type is nearly impossible because the pros do occupy lots of their time. You may pay hundreds or thousands to go to one of their academies and never see them, though you would get great instruction from someone they trust to pass along their swing theories. Private lessons from them, I would imagine would be quite pricey and as far as having one of them as your own personal instructor at your disposal regularly would require a healthy retainer. Don't know what the pros pay, though they likely don't pay a per visit fee, and due to the instuctor being able to say "I teach Golfer X on the tour", I'm sure there is a reciprocating deal there as well.
Way to much for myself to afford...don't know about anyone else though.
Golf Magazine lists a morning session with David Leadbetter at 10,000, yes ten thousand. That's outrageous, but I would say he does it to keep us hackers from trying to get lessons from him, he only wants the big name people.
April 30th, 2006, 05:55 PM
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