David Leadbetter made a playful reference to the absence of female members at Augusta...first saw Howell practice when he was 12 and started attending the David Leadbetter Golf Academy in Orlando, Fla. "It's amazing. To this day, there...

David Leadbetter made a playful reference to the absence of female members at Augusta...first saw Howell practice when he was 12 and started attending the David Leadbetter Golf Academy in Orlando, Fla. "It's amazing. To this day, there...

...guys."Golf also used to be sprinkled with all manner of characters who didn't all look like they came off the David Leadbetter assembly line."Terrible-tempered, tempestuous Tommy (Thunder) Bolt" ? as Dan Jenkins referred to him...

...guys."Golf also used to be sprinkled with all manner of characters who didn't all look like they came off the David Leadbetter assembly line."Terrible-tempered, tempestuous Tommy (Thunder) Bolt" ? as Dan Jenkins referred to him...

...his gregarious personality. The effects were obvious in his game, which had become such a mess that swing coach David Leadbetter advised him to stop playing to avoid ingraining bad habits."Literally within a couple of weeks of me taking Accutane...

...found the kind of consistency that once made him a fixture on leaderboards. He went back to coach Kevin Smeltz at David Leadbetter's academy."In golf, everybody is looking for a way to get better and improve," Howell said. "I wanted to...

...promise as a golfer after picking up the game from his mother, who caddied at a local course.Pan enrolled in the David Leadbetter Academy in Bradenton, Fla., and has steadily progressed in the amateur ranks. He reached the quarterfinals of...

...which took him out of his homeland for much of the year.There was also constant retooling of his game with coach David Leadbetter.But primarily, there was that nasty divorce late in the year from his second wife, Gill, and suddenly very public...

...times. All that is inspiration, and I see a lot of that in myself. My dad and I used to study his tapes with (David) Leadbetter. I still today do a lot of the drills."I look at Retief, and a lot of people don't know him very well. On...

...mental coaches. "I overhauled it," he said. "I jumped the cliff." Howell, 26, has been a disciple of the David Leadbetter school since he was 13 years old. But the son of the chief of pediatric surgery at Medical College of Georgia decided...