Children's Golf

How would you like to teach your child to swing a golf club in one hour? Impossible? Not if you follow John J. McBrearty's 4-step approach to the golf swing.

John has developed the golf swing into the simplest of terms. By way of numerous well photographed pictures, John's techniques can be easily followed in this how to guide to Children's Golf.

Golfweek

Miraculously, McBrearty built a golf course, range, and practice putting green in Iraq. Call him the Donald Ross of what had been a golfless country.

Soon McBrearty was playing Butch Harmon to these curious junior golfers.

Golf Digest

John J. McBrearty was introduced to golf at the Navy GC in Seal Beach, Ca., the course Tiger Woods and his father Earl Woods often played during Tiger's formative years, and John became immediately hooked.

Callaway Magazine

For a guy who has only been in the sport for a few short years, who would have figured he would have had an impact on the game that spanned tens of thousands of miles, transcended multiple cultures, and even, in some small way, had a positive influence on a war?

Stars and Stripes

Major's dream, a golf driving range in Iraq. It's called Operation Iraqi Putting Green.

Maj. John J. McBrearty, executive officer of an Armor Battalion, Army National Guard, is trying to bring a piece of American life to the wilds of Iraq, a driving range.

Press-Enterprise

I also saw the course as a fulfillment of another, somewhat loftier goal. Part of our mission over there was to introduce the Iraqis to a free society, a democratic society, and expose them to our culture, said McBrearty.

From the author of COMBAT ESSAYS, COMBAT JOURNAL, and CLAIRE THE MAGICAL DOG.