Mike Adams
The current No. 2 ranked coach on Golf Digest’s 50 Best Teachers list, Mike Adams has been helping players at every level improve for nearly 40 years. The 2016 PGA National Teacher of the Year, Mike is a member of the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame and is a four-time PGA Section Teacher of the Year. He has worked with USGA champions, PGA and LPGA tour players, celebrities, U.S. Presidents and tens of thousands of players just like you.
Known as the “teacher of teachers,” Mike has helped mentor, train, influence and develop 20 current members of the Golf Magazine Top 100 Teacher List, including: Mike McGetrick (PGA National Teacher of the Year), Mike Bender (PGA National Teacher of the year), Krista Dunton (LPGA National Teacher of the Year), Terry Rowles, Bernie Najar, Brian Mogg, Jerry King, Mark Hackett, Mark Steinbauer, Don Sargent and Scott Munroe, to name a few. He has been listen on every Golf Digest Top 50 Teacher and Golf MagazIne Top 100 Teacher list since their inception, and has written more than 20 golf instruction books—including two that were named the Golf Magazine Instruction Book of the Year. Mike is also a pioneer in integrating scientific research and advanced technology into golf instruction and coaching, starting with one of the first large-scale movement measurement studies on professional golfers in the early 1990s.
Mike divides his time between two of best coaching facilities on the East Coast. From May through October, he is the Director of Instruction at Fiddler’s Elbow Country Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. The rest of the year, he is based at The Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Florida.
Some of Mike’s current and former students have included Presidents George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Gerald Ford, celebrity clients Keanu Reeves, Willie Nelson, Neil Diamond, Michael Douglas and Jack Nicholson and baseball Hall-of-Famers Jim Palmer, Whitey Ford and Mike Schmidt. On the professional tours, Mike has worked with Chris DeForrest, Briny Baird, Michael Simms, Scott Langley, Brett Wetterich, Mark Brooks, Hank Kuehne, Bob Estes, Betsy King, Rosie Jones, Belen Mozo, Nicole Hage and Kelli Kuehne, as well as working as a trusted “second set of eyes” for many of the current players based in and around Jupiter.
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