Golf coaching wisdom: Practical lessons, stories and insights from the protégé of the legendary John Jacobs

Abstract

Based on interviews/conversations by the second author with Peter Green, this stimulus article is presented as a collection of anecdotes and short stories in the style of the best-selling ‘Harvey Penick's Little Red Book’. It captures the golf coaching knowledge, with its jargon and lingo, of the legendary John Jacobs who had a strong influence on the philosophy and methods of arguably the three most famous golf coaches in the last 30 years (Hank Haney, Butch Harmon and David Leadbetter). Green spent more time learning directly from Jacobs than any other golf coach. Working both with Jacobs and on his own, Green has helped not only some of the greatest golfers in history, but also tens of thousands of golfers who play for fun.