Dick Harmon was one of America's top golf

Golf

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 instructors with clients including Fred Couples

Fred Couples

Frederick Steven Couples is an American professional golfer who competes on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. A former World No. 1, he has won numerous events, most notably the 1992 Masters Tournament. In August 2011 he won his maiden senior major at the Senior Players Championship...

, Jay Haas

Jay Haas

Jay Dean Haas is an American professional golfer.Haas was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Belleville, Illinois. He attended Wake Forest University and was a member of the NCAA Championship team of the middle 1970s with Curtis Strange and Bob Byman that Golf World has called "the...

, Craig Stadler

Craig Stadler

Craig Robert Stadler is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level....

, Lanny Wadkins

Lanny Wadkins

Jerry Lanston "Lanny" Wadkins, Jr. is an American professional golfer. He ranked in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for 86 weeks from their debut in 1986 to 1988....

, Steve Elkington

Steve Elkington

Stephen John Elkington is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He spent over 50 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings from 1995 to 1998.-Early years and education:...

 and 2009 U.S. Open

U.S. Open (golf)

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 winner Lucas Glover

Lucas Glover

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His father Claude Harmon

Claude Harmon

Eugene Claude Harmon, Sr. was an American golfer.Harmon was born in Savannah, Georgia, and spent much of his boyhood in the Orlando area. A youthful prodigy, Harmon qualified for the U.S. Amateur at age 15 in 1931...

 won the 1948 Masters Tournament

1948 Masters Tournament

The 1948 Masters Tournament was contested from April 8 to April 11 at Augusta National Golf Club. It was the 12th Masters Tournament. The purse was $10,000.Claude Harmon defeated Cary Middlecoff by five strokes. It was Harmon's only professional tour victory....

. His brothers Butch

Butch Harmon

Claude "Butch" Harmon, Jr. is an American golf instructor and former professional player. He is the son of 1948 Masters Tournament champion Claude Harmon, Sr. and has been in the golf industry since 1965.-Early life:...

, Craig and Bill were also ranked in Golf Digest's

Golf Digest

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Top 50 Teachers.

Harmon was the professional at the River Oaks

River Oaks, Houston, Texas

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 Country Club between 1977 and 2001. After leaving that position, he established two teaching centres in Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

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Harmon established the Dick Harmon School of Golf at the Houstonian with teaching assistant and friend Arthur J. Scarbrough. The School became a great success especially within the junior golfing community in and around the Houston area and later throughout Texas. Harmon was said to be one of junior golf's greatest ambassadors by many teaching professionals throughout the country. His brother Butch said "He was the glue that held us together."

Harmon died at the age of 58 from complications due to pneumonia on February 10, 2006 while vacationing with his daughter Mary and brother Billy in California. Harmon left his wife Nancy, sons Chris and Rick, and daughters Mary and Heidi.