Sean Foley net worth
Sean Benefit Net Worth: Sean Foley is a Canadian golf coach who has a net worth of $4 million. Sean Foley has coached Sean O’Hair, Hunter Mahan, Stephen Ames and Parker McLachlin, among other PGA Tour professionals. He has also coached Justin Rose and Canadian PGA Tour player Chris Barilla since late 2009.
Foley began its partnership with Tiger Woods in the summer of 2010. He also became Noh Seung-yul’s coach in 2012, and Lee Westwood started working with Foley in the summer of 2013. Foley is known for claiming to have a scientific approach to the golf swing. He recommends putting about 55% of your body weight on the left side (for right-handed golfers) and staying on the left side throughout the swing until you touch the ball, at which point close to 80% of your weight should be on the left foot . This is the same setup and weight transfer trainer prescribed by Mike Bennett and Andy Plummer. Foley acknowledged that their coaching styles are similar, reportedly because they both studied the swings of older players who kept the ball centered throughout the swing. Foley has been the head coach of the Canadian Junior Golf Association since 2003 and teaches at the Orange County National Core Golf Junior Academy in Winter Garden, Florida. He graduated from Tennessee State University with an art degree and played on the college golf team. Foley’s goal was not a professional golf career, but he set it up as a teenager after watching David Leadbetter work with Nick Faldo on the driving range at the RBC Canadian Open at Glen Abbey Golf Course. With the goal of becoming a top player coach in the early 1990s. Foley moved to Orlando, Florida in August 2006. Foley and O’Hair split in May 2011, with Foley stating that O’Hair needed a fresh start and wanted to change the direction of his teaching.
Foley is represented by Wasserman Media Group’s agent Chris Armstrong.
