Butch Harmon
Claude "Butch" Harmon Jr. (born August 28, 1943) is an American golf instructor and former professional player. Butch, the son of 1948 Masters Tournament champion Claude Harmon Sr., has been in the golf industry since 1965.
Harmon was a PGA Tour player from 1970 to 1971, with one win to his name on the Tour, the 1971 inaugural Broome County Open, which was a satellite event during The Open Championship in the UK. Harmon became well known through his work with Greg Norman, beginning in the early 1990s, and is best known for having been Tiger Woods's golf coach from 1993 to 2004 and Phil Mickelson's golf coach from 2007 to 2015.
He has also worked with other major champions such as Ernie Els, Stewart Cink, Greg Norman, Davis Love III, Fred Couples, and Justin Leonard, and with younger stars such as Nick Watney and Rickie Fowler. Before retiring from the tour in 2019, he coached Jimmy Walker, Dustin Johnson, Rickie Fowler, Gary Woodland, and Nick Watney.
In 2003 Harmon was ranked the top golf teacher in the United States in a poll of his peers organized by Golf Digest magazine and has repeated as winner of this honor each year since. He now runs the Butch Harmon School of Golf and gives golf clinics around the world.
Golf Course designed by Butch Harmon
