He Needed a Baseball Bat. Golf Got Him Instead. | Putting Is Fun Ep. 1
He needed a baseball bat. Golf got him instead.
In the first episode of Putting Is Fun, Brian Manzella sits down with John Ortega, the man who has coached PGA Tour winner Jake Knapp since age 8, to hear the whole story: three rounds of caddying to earn a bat, teaching lessons for $12 an hour, co-founding John Byron Putters in the era when Scotty Cameron was still Scott, tour wins with Trevino and Floyd, the Spalding deal that got away, and the lifetime of putting knowledge that came out of all of it.
Brian brings his own honesty: 44 years of teaching, a stack of 27-putt rounds, the nerves…
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