Butch Harmon labored his closing golf college at his eponymous Butch Harmon College of Golf and he went out in fashion on Saturday.
Harmon, 81, son of Masters champion Claude Harmon and the famed teacher who coached Greg Norman and Tiger Woods to world No. 1, and numerous different gamers similar to Phil Mickelson to majors and Rickie Fowler to the heights of their careers, opened his golf college at Rio Secco GC within the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson, Nev., in 1997.
This closing sendoff was a shock orchestrated by Harmon’s spouse, Christy.
“Butch had no thought it was going to occur till he walked into his instructing bay and there have been 30+ of his pals,” mentioned Harmon’s youngest brother, Billy.
Butch Harmon, talking at his closing golf college in Las Vegas, drapes an arm round his finest man, Seth Reeves. (Courtesy Billy Harmon)
Twenty-seven years in the past, Sam Reeves, who was Butch’s finest man when he married Christy in 2001, attended Butch’s first golf college within the Vegas desert with 9 members of his household. It was solely becoming that Reeves and his household, which now numbers about 25 and spans 4 generations, sponsored a two-day affair that marked the final of Butch’s faculties.
Billy Harmon, the director of instruction at Toscana Nation Membership in Indian Wells, Calif., and former caddie to Jay Haas, and his brother, Craig, the previous longtime professional at Oak Hill in Rochester, N.Y., participated in addition to many different instructors who had labored with Butch over time and discovered below his wing.
“Lots of them labored with Butch over 20 years in the past,” Billy mentioned. “An unimaginable affair and really distinctive expertise.”
Butch Harmon held his closing golf college alongside two of his brothers, Billy and Craig, and plenty of instructors who discovered below his wing. (Courtesy Billy Harmon)
“The Harmon brothers have been probably the most lucky household within the historical past of golf,” Billy added. “The conversations we shared the final couple of days of our experiences within the sport of golf had been each fascinating and humbling. Three atypical dudes which have lived extraordinary lives due to the sport of golf and the fantastic folks we’ve got met.”
All of that could be true however so is the truth that numerous golfers have been lucky to obtain instruction from probably the most sensible academics the sport has ever recognized. And what an unimaginable approach to wrap a profession for Butch, arguably probably the most profitable golf coach of the trendy period.
