Henry Brunton

Henry Brunton, Stouffville, ON 

Born: May 22, 1965 in Ottawa, ON 

PGA of Ontario Hall of Fame- Inducted 2024

Born in Ottawa, Henry Brunton began his golf journey with his first job when he was twelve years old in his hometown of Kemptville, Ontario- spending his entire life working to make the game better for all those around him. He has had a significant impact on golf development in Canada and his fellow PGA Professionals. Brunton, A PGA of Canada Master Professional and graduate of the University of Ottawa, is a recognized global leader in golf coaching and PGA coach education. He created the PGA of Canada Teaching and Coaching Certification Program and took the lead in developing the Golf Canada Long-Term Player Development Guide. He authored two best-selling books and has been a keynote speaker at major golf conferences across Canada and the USA and worldwide in more than a dozen countries including the PGA of America Teaching Summit and the World Scientific Congress of Golf in Australia.  

Henry Brunton won a career grand slam of PGA of Canada national awards: Junior Leader of the Year (2011), Professional Development Award (2012), Teacher of the Year (2016) and Coach of the Year (2018). Brunton received international recognition-   by the PGA’s of Europe with its most prestigious honour- 5 Star Professional Award; GOLF Magazine Top 100 Teacher in the USA; Golf Digest Best in Country and Top International Teacher. In 2013, Henry was the first golf coach to be awarded the Andy Higgins Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Coaches Association of Ontario.  

For more than a decade beginning in 1999, Brunton was Golf Canada’s first National Men’s Coach laying the foundation for the future success and supporting several players who became PGA Tour Stars including Graham DeLaet, Nick Taylor, Adam Hadwin, Corey Conners, Adam Svensson, Taylor Pendrith, and Mackenzie Hughes. Teams he coached won silver medals at both the World Junior and World Amateur Championships. He has coached sixteen NCAA All-Americans and two NCAA DI Champions.  

Since 1999 he has operated the Henry Brunton Golf Academy with his wife Rhonda Fleury, PGA in Ontario and in 2015 added locations in California and Florida. He was elected a Class A Member of the PGA of America in 2021.