Hank Haney Golf Instructor World renowned golf instructor and coach "Dean of Golf Instruction", ESPN Golf Schools Former ESPN & ABC Sports Golf Analyst Motivational & inspirational speaker

Place of Birth
Lake Forest, Illinois and grew up in the Chicago area

Education
Graduated Deerfield High School in Deerfield, Illinois in 1973
Graduated Tulsa University in 1977 with a B.S. degree in Education

Additional College Background
Received a 4-year scholarship for golf at Tulsa University where he was an All-Conference Golfer

Current Business Experience

• Has taught golf since 1976, given over 40,000 golf lessons in his career and traveled all over the world teaching golf
• Currently owns and is President of Hank Haney Golf Inc., which owns and operates four golf facilities in Texas
• Currently is the Director of Instruction for the Hank Haney International Junior Golf Academy on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Past Business Experience

• Instructor for the John Jacobs Golf Schools
• Director of Golf Instruction at Pinehurst Hotel and Country Club, which is the biggest golf resort in the world
• Director of Golf at Sweetwater Country in Houston, Texas, which at the time was the home of the LPGA
• Director of Golf at Stonebridge Country Club in Dallas, Texas, which was a 6,500 acre master planned community with two golf courses

Career Accomplishments

• Instructor to the #1 Player in the World, Tiger Woods
• Instructed over 200 touring professional from the PGA, LPGA, Champions, European, Japanese, Australian and Asian Tours
• His students have won every major championship in professional golf, amateur golf and junior golf including 1998 Masters and British Open Champion Mark O'Meara, two-time U.S. Open Amateur and one-time British Open Amateur Kelli Kuehne
• One of Golf Digest Magazine's Top 3 Teachers in the World in 2008
• Analyst for ESPN TV's golf coverage from 2005-2008
• Member of the following Professional Advisory Staffs: Nike Golf, Golf Digest, Golfsmith and Graphite Design
• Authored 3 books on golf instruction; "The Only Golf Lesson You'll Ever Need", "No More Bad Shots" and "Fix Your Yips Forever"
• Produced 10 instructional DVDs on golf instruction
• Appeared in 11 golf infomercials including the most successful golf infomercial of all time, the Adams Golf Tight Lies infomercial
• Written over 300 golf instructional articles over the years and has appeared on the cover of Golf Digest magazine 6 times

Guest instructional and motivational speaker for many organizations and businesses including the following: Nike, Buick, General Motors, ESPN, Elily Lilly, CA, IBM, Nortel, EDS, American Express, FBR, Jones Day, Wachovia, Merrill Lynch, Breakfast Club of America, Chevron, Morgan Stanley, Arean Sports, Golfsmith, PGA of America, Italian PGA, European PGA, German PGA, Australian PGA, Canadian PGA and many others.