A few feet from a flag signed by Tiger Woods and adjacent to Shaquille O'Neal's shoe, there is a tatty, small denomination banknote in the Las Vegas office of Butch Harmon. It carries more value than his mountains of rare memorabilia.
The 10 dirham bill is from the early days, before Greg Norman, Woods, Phil Mickelson or Dustin Johnson rocked up. Decent players, that bunch, but none of them quite left the same mark as the chap who gave him the note.
'It makes me smile when I look at that,' Harmon says. 'If we go back before Tiger, when I was working with Greg, people would look at what he was winning and be blown away by it.
Butch Harmon was with Tiger Woods from 1993 to 2004, covering eight of his 14 majors
'They would say to me, "You must really be impressed - he has the biggest plane, the best boat, helicopter". I used to say, "Not really, I used to work for a guy who had his picture on money".'
The guy was King Hassan II of Morocco, Harmon's pupil for a few years in the Seventies. He ran the king's golf resort, travelled the world at his side and asked no questions when miracles occurred from the rough. 'You seem to get a lot of good lies when you're the king,' Harmon says. 'But he was a wonderful man. And a good player in the end - he got to a legitimate eight handicap.'
Making good players has been Harmon's business for five decades, from $20-an-hour swing sessions in the Sixties to today, when it costs the great and the ordinary $1500 for the same slot with the 75-year-old. His clients have ranged from the king to Will Smith to the finest players in history, but now he's just about done.
He said last month he will no longer travel on Tour - Johnson and Rickie Fowler can still travel to him if he's needed - and with that the mediocre pro who became golf's leading coach is winding down.
Harmon believes it could be this year or never as the 42-year-old chases 15th major title
It would be incorrect to say he is the sort to hide his status in false modesty - his office walls are decorated with dozens of testimonials from his students, including one from Woods that reads: 'Butch, you have no idea how much you do for me.'
Indeed, it would be difficult to play down his place in golf, including 11 years with Woods from 1993 to 2004, covering eight of his 14 majors, and his work over the past 23 years as one of the most compelling pundits on television, where he will return for Sky Sports next week for the Masters.
'Whatever it is, reflecting now because I'm stopping travelling, or 10 years ago or 20, I would always say how great is was to have worked with Tiger,' he says. 'The hardest worker, the most technically perfect swing you have seen around 2000, he had everything. Even now that he has mellowed to be more like the Tiger I first met in 1993, he still has that competitive fire. When the flag goes up he wants to cut your heart out. The fact he won last year after all the problems on and off the course, that just tells you everything.
'When I first met him, before he turned pro, you knew he was going to be something. That first meeting, you could see raw talent, unbelievable. Unpolished, he could just do it. Earl Woods
