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| Mark O'Meara |
 EXEMPT STATUS: Top 25 on PGA TOUR Career Money List
FULL NAME: Mark O'Meara
HEIGHT: 6-0
WEIGHT: 180
BIRTH DATE: January 13, 1957
BIRTH PLACE: Goldsboro, NC
RESIDENCE: Windermere, FL
FAMILY: Wife, Alicia; Michelle (3/14/87), Shaun Robert (8/29/89)
EDUCATION: Long Beach State (1980, Marketing)
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Golf course consulting, hunting, fishing
TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1980
PGA TOUR Victories (16) 1984 Greater Milwaukee Open. 1985 Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, Hawaiian Open. 1989 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. 1990 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, H.E.B. Texas Open. 1991 Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic. 1992 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. 1995 Honda Classic, Bell Canadian Open. 1996 Mercedes Championships, Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic. 1997 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Buick Invitational. 1998 Masters Tournament, British Open Championship. |
| Camilo Villegas |
 BIRTH DATE: January 7, 1982 (1982-01-07) (age 25)
BIRTH PLACE: Medellín, Colombia
HEIGHT: 5-9
WEIGHT: 160 lb
RESIDENCE: Gainesville, Florida, U.S.
EDUCATION: College University of Florida
TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 2004
Villegas was born in Medellín , Colombia , and took up the game as a child. He excelled as a junior and earned a scholarship to play collegiate golf at the University of Florida . He was a three-time All American there, and was the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year in 2002 and 2004.
He began playing on the PGA Tour in 2004 and earned his PGA Tour card just prior to the 2006 season. Villegas had a blistering start to his 2006 rookie year on tour, with two second place finishes and a third place (at The Players Championship) in his first nine events. He missed making the 2006 Masters Tournament in his rookie year by a single position on the Official PGA Tour Money List (11th). However, he made his first Masters' appearance in 2007 by finishing in the top 40 of the Official PGA Tour Money List for 2006. |
| Bruce Fleisher |
EXEMPT STATUS: Top 30 on '03 Champions Tour Money List
FULL NAME: Bruce Fleisher
HEIGHT: 6-3
WEIGHT: 205
BIRTH DATE: October 16, 1948
BIRTH PLACE: Union City, TN
RESIDENCE: Ballen Isles, FL
FAMILY: Wife, Wendy; Jessica (3/23/80)
EDUCATION: Miami-Dade Junior College, Furman University
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Music, fitness, nutrition
TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1969
JOINED TOUR: 1999
PGA TOUR Victories
(1) 1991 New England Classic.
Champions Tour Victories(18)
1999 Royal Caribbean Classic, American Express Invitational, The Home Depot Invitational, BellSouth Senior Classic at Opryland, Lightpath Long Island Classic, The Transamerica, EMC Kaanapali Classic. 2000 Royal Caribbean Classic, GTE Classic, The Home Depot Invitational, Lightpath Long Island Classic. 2001 Las Vegas Senior Classic, The Home Depot Invitational, U.S. Senior Open. 2002 RJR Championship. 2003 Verizon Classic. 2004 Royal Caribbean Golf Classic, Bruno's Memorial Classic. |
| Jack Lumpkin |
The 1995 PGA Teacher of the Year, Jack is currently instructing PGA Tour Professional Davis Love III, LPGA Tour Professional Donna Andrews (3rd on LPGA Money List in 1998) and PGA Tour Professional Loren Roberts. He teaches many young and inspiring Tour Professionals as well as Amateurs of all handicap levels.
Jack played on the PGA Tour in the late 50's, including three U.S. Opens and the PGA Championship. He was Player of the Year as a club professional in New York in 1970-71 and was named Teacher of the Year by the Georgia Section PGA in 1993. He is listed among the 1999 Top 100 Teachers by GOLF Magazine.
During the past three years Jack has presented golf clinics at business and charity events with Ben Crenshaw, Tom Kite, Lee Janzen, Brad Faxon, Fred Couples, Lee Trevino, Greg Norman and Davis Love III.
He served on the committee for the Professional Golf Association Teaching Manual and is featured in "Hit It Longer and Straighter" an instruction video and "When The Chips Are Down," part of the GOLF DIGEST Magazine including "Playing the Utility Wood" in the October 1998 issue, "Swing-Plan," part of your Cure Your Slice special section of the May 1998 issue and, with Davis Love II, "How You Can Hit Every Green: in June 1998.
Jack and his wife Sherry have a golfing family. Their son Jay won the 1987 National PGA Club Professional Championship. Their daughter Sandy is a teaching professional in Scottsdale, Arizona and is married to Mike LaBauve, also a Golf Digest School instructor. Their daughter Susie is married to Eric Smith, the teaching professional at The Country Club of Virginia in Richmond. |
| Hank Haney |
 Hank Haney developed his desire to teach while majoring in education at Tulsa University, where he graduated in 1977. In the years since, Hank has enthusiastically set out to be a great instructor of the golf swing. He has steadily built a reputation as an instructor, not only to the club level player, but to touring pros as well.
Hank has taught more than 100 touring professionals from the PGA, LPGA, and European, Japanese, and Asian tours. His pupils have included 1998 Masters and British Open Champion Mark O'Meara, two-time U.S. Open Amateur and one-time British Open Amateur Kelli Kuehne who is currently playing on the LPGA, and former NCAA Champion and two-time LPGA, winner Emilee Klein and 1998 U.S. Amateur Champion Hank Kuehne.
Hank Haney works with his students to develop an accurate plan to improve the flight of their golf ball. By giving cause and effect analogies, coupled with physical hands on examples, the student and instructor can create a relationship that will produce positive results. The correct swing plane is the basis of Hank's philosophy.
"My philosophy as a teacher is to teach my students to become their own best teacher by getting them to understand the flight of the golf ball and how it relates to the swing, with emphasis on swinging the golf club on their own correct swing plane". |
| Kip Puterbaugh |
Kip, head of instruction at the Aviara Golf Academy (Top 25 Golf School in America) is one of Golf Magazine's Top 100 Teachers. He works with numerous PGA Tour Players including Scott Simpson, Dennis Paulson and Larry Mize. Kip has a passion for working with and developing top junior players. |
| Debbie Steinbeck |
 After playing 12 years on the LPGA Tour (posting eight course records), Debbie decided to focus on golf instruction and was selected by Golf for Women Magazine as a "Top 50" instructor. She currently teaches at The Palms Country Club in La Quinta, Calif. Debbie is the founder and CEO of Venus Golf and the author of Venus on the Fairway. |
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