Hank Haney
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 50,000 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 five golf facilities in Texas
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 Club 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
- Instructed 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
- Ranked #2 on Golf Digest Magazine’s Top 50 Teachers 2009
- 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 4 books on golf instruction; “Essentials of the Swing”, “The Only Golf Lesson You’ll Ever Need”, “No More Bad Shots” and “Fix Your Yips Forever”
- Produced 14 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, The Golf Channel, Golfsmith, BMW, Camalos Investments, The Newport Group, 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, PGA of America, Italian PGA, European PGA, German PGA, Australian PGA, Canadian PGA and many others