Dan McCracken
Reviews
89
Starting Price
$75.00
Lessons
542
Followers
34
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About the coach
Hi, I’m Dan McCracken—a PGA Teaching Professional and Director of Instruction at Five Iron Golf NYC. I’ve been lucky to work with players of all levels, from total beginners to competitive golfers, and my main goal is to help you get better and enjoy the process. With a background in Professional Golf Management from Penn State and experience at top-tier clubs like Philadelphia Cricket Club and Congressional CC, I bring both tour-level insight and a laid-back, results-driven approach to every lesson.
My coaching philosophy is rooted in building efficient, repeatable swings through a clear understanding of each player’s unique mechanics and tendencies.
One area I’m especially passionate about is helping players gain speed and distance. I’ve gone deep into the training myself—hitting 143.3 mph club head speed and 204.4 mph ball speed—and I enjoy helping others safely add speed in a way that fits their swing and goals.
If you’re looking to improve your swing mechanics, increase your speed, or simply become a more confident and consistent golfer, I’d be excited to work with you.
If you’d like to learn more about my style and see whether we’d be a good fit, shoot me a message and we can schedule a free consultation call.
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Reviews
Based on 89 ratings
Overall rating
Everyday, Dan McCracken receives a tape recorder that spells doom if he doesn't solve for 'X' with his students' woes, and the inevitable caveat looms.... "if you or any other member of your IMF team...."... you get the point. Dan has systematically taken apart mea badly wounded old broken down hippo with four appendagesand turned me into an IMF victory, of sorts. Yes, there's tons of work to be done done, but the world has been saved.... for today anyway... by Dan McCracken, the Impossible Missions Force who is the exemplar of what the PGA is all about, and who simultaneously makes this platform worthy of its reputation for results. This, on top of being a family man, and leader of instruction at one of golf's hottest brands. What a treasure. Shhhh. Just forget everything I just wrote! Go away!!! He's mine mine mine!!!
John Byrne
August 29, 2025 • Online
Dan McCracken is golf's Seal Team 6 Commander. He knows your anatomy better than you, he can tell you what levers to 'pull' to bring your swing together, and he's an unstoppable force of positivity. And, he's a Helluva family man too! A dad to the cutest baby girl you ever saw. If you want the light your game on fire, Dan is your man.
John Byrne
August 29, 2025 • Online
Dan McCracken could approach his students from a snobbish, almost condescending demeanor, like oh I dunno maybe Leadbetter or Harmon. But Dan's. not about Dan, even though the man is a giant in spirit, kindness, intellectual might, and encyclopedic in his golf knowledge and how he transliterates complex movements and variables in ways we as students can derive useful, actionable meaning. He is the little guy's biggest protector. Like a big brother, only better, and funnier, and brighter, and oh so multifaceted. Just a golfer's hero.
John Byrne
August 27, 2025 • Online
Dan McCracken embraces every aspect of the game with his coaching. From touting the benefits of mallet putters, to mini drivers, and the mental approach to good, bad, and indifferent swings, Dan offers a road map to thinking through what's in your bad, your head, and what to do about your body. His knowledge of the game, and the game's greats, is telling because he shares nugget after nugget of precious wisdom learned through the game's great history.
John Byrne
August 27, 2025 • Online
Dan keeps on tickin', no matter what I throw at him. He's focused, on point, and rolls with his plan in spite of my deviations and devolutions. The man is a machine, only with a sense of humor, warmth, and best of all: a love of the game, and a passion for his profession unlike anyone I've come to know among his industry peers.
John Byrne
August 27, 2025 • Online
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Single Online Lesson
1 Lesson- - Detailed video analysis of your golf swing using Skillest's analytical tool
- - Customized video of myself demonstrating exactly what you need to work on and how your swing/body will work
- - Customized drills that will help you integrate any changes required
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- - Detailed video analysis of your golf swing using Skillest's analytical tool
- - Customized videos of myself demonstrating exactly what you need to work on and how your swing/body will work
- - Customized drills that will help you integrate any changes required
3 Lesson Package
3 Lessons- - Detailed video analysis of your golf swing using Skillest's analytical tool
- - Customized video of myself demonstrating exactly what you need to work on and how your swing/body will work
- - Customized drills that will help you integrate any changes required
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