Author Biography

R A Yeager has been a golfer and a storyteller since he was an adolescent. In college he was selected to the All American team his junior year. This gave him the opportunity to get lessons with one of the best instructors in the country. For the first time in his life he was taught not just what to do, but how things worked in a golf swing and the importance of a short game. He now had been given the ability to teach himself as well as others.

Yeager was then asked to coach a golf team at Lake Point Academy, a  small Christian school near Charlotte, North Carolina. The team was not very good at first, but he was able to train them well enough to win the state championship, both teams and individuals, for the two years he was with the team. This gave him the opportunity to teach on a full-time basis.

A few years later Yeager was asked to help a friend with his screenplay about golf. He began by just giving technical advice about golf, but his role quickly grew to include writing actual scenes, and in the end, being a co-author of the piece.

Yeager moved to Pinehurst in January of 2019. Knowing no one, he soon started writing. His first attempt was an instructional book on golf that he later decided to put inside a fictional tale. It was the story of a person that needed to learn how to play golf at a high level in one year. He soon changed his focus to writing the fictional tale alone,  and subsequently wrote the instructional section as a separate book.

The Art of Golf – A Year with Saul is the first of a trilogy, with the second book to be finished by spring of 2021.