The first Boston athlete to reach out to Bill McInerney for golf instruction was none other than ex-Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
Brady was interested in setting up lessons for his two sons, Jack and Benny, so his agent contacted McInerney, a local golf pro with years of experience teaching kids the game. The Brady boys soon visited McInerney’s academy at McGolf, a driving range in Dedham, and started to learn the basics.
“You’d have people peeping through the curtains,” McInerney recalled. “It’s hard to miss Tom because he’s so tall and he just — I mean, he looks like Tom.