Top Players Flocking to Sean Foley

Just a small excerpt from some interesting commentary from Bob Harig over at ESPN.

“I don’t tell them how to play, and I don’t really believe that any coach out here has a lot to do with whether a guy wins or loses,” Foley said. “I can’t do what Phil Jackson did. I can’t do what Bill Parcells did. I can’t grab a guy coming off the green and say, ‘Chin up, chest out, life is good, bud.’ So it’s not really coaching. We don’t shift the outcome at all. We don’t have anything to do with decision-making, the clubs they pick, anything.”

Although I don’t know him and only know what I’ve read about him, there’s got to be a lot of pressure on the guy. There’s a lot of pressure on anyone who does what he does, in that limelight and under that media microscope, facing enormous criticism from the armchair analysts when his players aren’t playing well. But when they are playing well, which has been the case for the past few years, there has to be something he’s doing that has the Harmon’s, Haney’s and Ledbetter’s of the teaching world scratching their heads.

He’s definitely the fattest cat in the barn right now as it relates to golf swing coaches.