The 42-year-old Brandt Newell Snedeker was born on December 8, 1980, in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, and is well-known as an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He won the 2012 FedEx Cup with a victory in the season-ending Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club. Following this victory, he moved into the top ten of the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time in his career.
Who is Brandt Snedeker’s coach?
Snedeker was coached by Butch Harmon. Butch Harmon was born Claude “Butch” Harmon Jr. and he is an American golf instructor and former professional player. He is the son of 1948 Masters Tournament champion Claude Harmon Sr. and has been in the golf industry since 1965.
Harmon was born on August 28, 1943, in New Rochelle, New York, and was raised by Eugene Claude Harmon and Alice Cullen McKee Harmon. He graduated from Iona Grammar School in 1958 and went to Iona Prep for one year before he transferred to and graduated from New Rochelle High School in 1962. He excelled at all sports and was a star halfback on the 1961 New Rochelle High School football team that compiled a 5–2–1 record.
Harmon attended the University of Houston, and served in the U.S. Army for three years, seeing duty in the Vietnam War. He 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 lived in Morocco for several years in the 1970s, serving as the personal instructor to King Hassan II. He was a club professional in the United States, beginning his career at Crow Valley Golf Club in Davenport, Iowa where he met his now wife Christy.
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