The first visit to Royal Oaks was on Mother’s Day. Smith recalls a tiny kid with a long back swing who repeatedly made solid ...

Another was a college kid at Kansas looking for help with his swing. And then there was Scottie Scheffler, a 6-year-old in New Jersey whose mother had taken a C-suite job at a Dallas law firm.

Scheffler is but the most recent in a long line of kids whose game Smith nurtured from before they were old enough to drive a golf cart. “For Randy to have taught multiple players from when they ...