Career
He was one of only nine golf instructors who met and worked with Mike Austin, the renowned swing expert and world record holder for the longest drive in tournament play. Shauger met Austin in 1979, and immediately began a golf apprenticeship that lasted 25 years. This was the most amount of time that anyone spent studying under Austin.
Since then, Shauger has been able to translate into layman terms the medical and scientific terminology of what has become known as the Mike Austin Swing Method.
Shauger’s ability to make the description of the Mike Austin Swing Method easy for the average golfer to understand gained him world-wide fame and recognition. As a way to teach more people about this method, Shauger established a series of seminars for golf instructors.
Those instructors who learned the Mike Austin Swing Method now teach in various parts of the world, including 9 states in the United States., 5 in Europe, and 6 in Canada, South America, Asia and New Zealand. Although Shauger succumbed to cancer in March 2014, his dedication to the Mike Austin Swing Method was such that he continued work on several instructional videos as well as teaching students until the cancer prevented him from doing so in December 2013.
In his passing, Shauger has left behind a legacy for all golfers to learn and follow.
