Tiger Woods’ one-time guru helping a new pro. And the results? 'Really nice'

Harry Hall says he looked astatine the wall, and the show floored him. There were 20 to 25 flags, he thinks. All represented major-championship wins earned nether his eye. 

Of course, Butch Harmon’s Las Vegas plaything laboratory besides awed him, he said past twelvemonth connected a podcast, erstwhile he remembered the subordinate who erstwhile swung wherever he was now swinging. 

Tiger Woods. 

Harmon tin surely wow a player, though his entreaty is justified, arsenic the wall and Woods tin attest. Which is seemingly a logic why Hall, a 27-year-old pro from England who said he’d antecedently had conscionable bits and pieces of instruction, dialed up 1 of the game’s top plaything whisperers and a GOLF Magazine Top 100 Teacher hallway of famer. Couldn’t hurt. Harmon took him in. And from there? This is impressive, too. Since past June, erstwhile he said he visited for the first time, Hall has:

— Won for the first clip connected the PGA Tour, successful mid-July astatine the ISCO Championship 

— Missed conscionable 1 trim successful 11 starts 

— Posted 7 apical 25s, including past week astatine the season-opening Sentry event 

“I started moving pinch him,” Hall said, “and since past I’ve played really nice.”

Thursday, the bully continued, arsenic he fired a six-under 64 to drawback a stock of the round-one lead astatine the Sony Open. Afterward, he’d noted his tee balls — “drove it precisely wherever I was looking today” — and reporters wondered whether that effort was common. “No,” Hall said, pinch a laugh. He explained that a caller driver helped. 

Harmon, too. Hall, who played assemblage play astatine Nevada-Las Vegas, said he’d been shown to get much width connected his swing, on pinch sticking pinch conscionable a tie changeable shape. There’s much to Harmon’s genius, though. He’s personable, he told Matt Chivers past twelvemonth connected an section of the “NCG Golf Podcast” (which you tin perceive to successful afloat by clicking here.)

“It’s amazing,” Hall said connected the podcast. “He lives successful Vegas. Got his ain schoolhouse retired there. Just hitting successful the aforesaid bay arsenic Tiger Woods and you’ve got, you look behind, really galore fields are connected the wall from his players. He mightiness person 20 aliases 25 flags. Hopefully, I tin put a fewer much up there.

“It’s conscionable the stories that he’s got. A batch of the instruction is plaything work, and a batch of it is him telling funny jokes and stories that can’t beryllium repeated. So it’s good. There’s decidedly thing astir him that’s calming and he astir apt has a batch of occurrence erstwhile he sees players erstwhile aliases twice. He’s conscionable a bully feline to beryllium around.”

The results show it. The stats, too. Below is simply a look astatine Hall’s non-putting strokes gained numbers from the 2022-’23 Tour play (his first afloat Tour season), followed by his numbers from past year: 

— Strokes gained: total: 94th successful 2022-’23 to 37th successful 2024

— Strokes gained: tee to green: 166th to 60th 

— Strokes gained disconnected the tee: 173rd to 139th 

— Strokes gained attack the green: 163rd to 77th

— Strokes gained astir the green: 53rd to sixth

“I ne'er really had a coach before,” Hall said, speaking of connecting pinch Harmon. “… I had a fewer increasing up, but not successful the past astir apt 10 years.

“I felt for illustration that’s what I needed to do to get to the adjacent level.”