Mac O'Grady

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Phillip McClelland "Mac" O'Grady (born April 26, 1951) is an American professional golfer and golf teaching professional who played on the PGA Tour in the 1970s and 1980s.

O'Grady was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended Santa Monica Junior College in Santa Monica, California, and turned pro in 1972.

O'Grady won two events on the PGA Tour. His first win came at the 1986 Canon Sammy Davis Jr.-Greater Hartford Open; his second and final win came a year later at the MONY Tournament of Champions. His best finish in a major was a T-9 at the 1987 U.S. Open. O'Grady had 18 top-10 finishes as a PGA Tour player, but never finished in the top-10 more than once in any individual PGA tournament or its successor. Recently, O'Grady has attempted to Monday qualify for several PGA events and he is entered into the 2006 PGA Tour Q-School tournament in order to regain playing status for the 2007 season.

O'Grady left the PGA Tour in 1989 as a result of back problems and became somewhat of a recluse. The main focus of his career then became teaching the game of golf. He is now recognized as one of the world's top instructors^[1]; he teaches at his Mac O'Grady Golf Schools. O'Grady is ambidextrous. ^[2] He lives in Palm Springs, California

Mac O'Grady was a good young player who got messed up by bad instruction.

He found The Golfing Machine, met and worked a bit with Homer Kelley, spent 10 days with Ben Doyle.

In 1990 he presented at the 3rd PGA Teaching and Coaching Summit. He didn't say much about mechanics, promoted his own "summit," and claimed Bobby Clampett had "too much lag and couldn't hit his driver straight as a result." Ben Doyle—reaching a decibel level with his voice never he before or since attained—shouted back: "That's not true."

Give Tom Bartlett two-weeks notice, and TOM—a guy that has played LESS GOLF in the past 5 years than Mac has in the past two months—would give a nice little clinic standing right next to Mac.