Finally, I reached Butch Harmon, the top-ranked teacher on the list.
As Laird Small, the Pebble Beach Golf Links pro and another top-ranked teacher, said: "At the driving range, people hit golf balls.
Mike Bender, another top-ranked teacher, said average golfers played the ball back in their stances and did not think about much more than that.
Mike Bender, another top-ranked teacher, said having a driver you could adjust to your swing was a good thing - in the right hands.
"It's a golf laboratory where people relax and swing without any thought to who is around them - because there really isn't anyone," said Randy Henry, a longtime, top-ranked teacher of recreational and tour pros who uses simulators daily in his instruction.
Jim Hardy, also a top-ranked teacher, said the toughest shot for an average player was a tee shot with a driver that must stay in a corridor framed by a row of trees on the left and right of the fairway.
"That wouldn't work," said Mike LaBauve, a top-ranked teacher based at the Westin Kierland Resort and Spa in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Craig Harmon, another top-ranked instructor, son of the renowned teacher Claude Harmon and brother to the noted coach Butch Harmon, agreed.
Butch Harmon, Golf Digest's top-ranked golf teacher, called the Stack and Tilt "too specific".
Randell Erving, a top-ranked Liechty teacher, now works as a residential director at Chapman University in Orange.
