The numbers get you close to a story but are too indifferent to describe a life. From 1997 to 2008, King Oehmig might have been the most successful high school golf coach in America. Four of the boys he coached at the Baylor School—Luke List, Keith Mitchell, Harris English and Stephen Jaeger—have all won on the PGA Tour and one of the girls, Brooke Pancake Rende, won the girls' state title four years in a row before attending Alabama, winning a team NCAA title and then playing on the LPGA Tour.

In addition to coaching golf, Oehmig’s other calling was as an Episcopalian minister. Former players recall the sight of him cresting the hills of golf courses in his clericals when he didn’t have time to change, and other teams struggling to determine who this figure was.

Oehmig’s methods were simple, yet in other ways he was complicated and unconventional. Writer Michael Croley tells the story of how a minister raised four PGA Tour winners from one high school.