Dr. Jim "Doc" Suttie
One of golf's biomechanics pioneers is one of the most respected teachers in the game today.
Dr. Jim Suttie (known by his students simply as "Doc") is one of the world's best-known and most-respected golf instructors. His students include many of golf's top professional and amateur stars, but he still works one-on-one with anyone who would like to come to his lesson tees at Cog Hill G.&C.C. in Lemont, IL in the summer and at The Club at TwinEagles in Naples, FL in the winter.
In 2000, he was named the PGA of America's National Teacher of the Year and is a three-time winner of the same award from the PGA's Illinois Section. He's also included among GOLF Magazine's Top 100 Teachers and is ranked as one of the Top 20 teachers in America on Golf Digest's 50 Greatest Teachers list.
For more than three decades, Doc Suttie has been devoted to developing a teaching framework for golfers by applying biomechanical principles to the golf swing. This framework optimizes the relationship between each individual's natural build and the golf swing that is the most easily adaptable to it. Without question, he has improved the games of thousands of golfers from around the globe.
Doc's decades of motor learning and biomechanical research (his doctorate is in Biomechanics), have culminated in some of golf's most revolutionary teaching methods such as those detailed in his ground-breaking book The LAW's of the Golf Swing. The concepts in the book became a hugely popular GOLF Magazine cover story soon after its publication in 1998. Doc continues his research today and works with his staff instructors to communicate what he has learned to all of their students.
Doc has taught many of the best-known golfers in the world including PGA TOUR stars Paul Azinger, Chip Beck, Loren Roberts, Brad Elder, David Ogrin and Mark Wilson. Students who have consulted with Dr. Suttie include Carin Koch, Silvia Cavalleri, Mark Lye, Vicki Goetze-Ackerman and Steve Flesch. Additionally, Doc is a frequent contributor to such national publications as Golf Digest, GOLF Magazine, Golf Illustrated and Golf Tips Magazine and he is seen frequently on The Golf Channel. His depth and breadth of knowledge about the golf swing has also made him a very popular speaker for PGA teaching seminars around the world and at the PGA's biannual Teaching and Coaching Summits.
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