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Get the free cheat sheet: ⁠ https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/secretsofthemidam⁠ Want a practice plan built for your game and your schedule? Try Play Ready Golf free for 7 days. Code PRGPOD takes $20 off every year: ⁠⁠ https://playready.golf/the-app⁠⁠ Follow Austin: ⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/_alangdale⁠⁠_ Austin Langdale's job is deciding which college golfers get equipment deals. He scouts for Srixon/Cleveland Golf, which means he watches perfect golf swings every single week. Most of those players never make it. In this episode he explains what actually separates scorers from range heroes, and how he used it to win the 2026 South Carolina Amateur while playing twice a month with 2 kids and a full time job. 9 years after an MS diagnosis ended his shot at pro golf. You'll learn: Why players with 190 ball speed still shoot 76 The tell scouts look for when everyone on the range looks perfect How to win a state am on 40 minutes of practice a week What to buy with $1,000 and 2 hours a week, and what to skip Why most golfers carry 14 clubs but only need 8 or 9 The 1 club drill that builds feel faster than new gear Chapters 00:00 A state champion's practice month 01:29 Closing out Quixote with the lead 03:31 Watching good golf instead of practicing 04:28 What a Srixon rep actually does 06:29 Who gets signed and who gets passed 08:34 What a 15 handicap can steal 10:07 The lowest hanging fruit 11:28 The 16 Golfers cheat sheet 11:55 NIL and the new college golf 14:58 Everyone looks the part on the range 16:09 Feel is a lost art 17:10 The Play Ready Golf app 17:58 Beating NeSmith and Champ 20:36 The injuries start at Clemson 25:02 Turning pro and the MS diagnosis 26:49 What MS took and what it gave 29:50 What the dream means now 31:39 A trophy and a 4 year old 33:32 What he wants his boys to learn 37:08 2 hours and 1,000 dollars 41:17 Merion and the U.S. Amateur 45:45 Clemson football check in 48:31 The fall schedule 50:58 Where to find Austin

Try the app free for 7 days. Code PRGPOD gets you 20 dollars off the annual plan for life: https://onelink.to/93ggkv Free stats guide: https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/comprehensivestats Coaches. PRG Teams is built for high school and college programs at about half what our competitors charge. First month free, cancel anytime : https://playready.golf/teams Two weeks ago we quoted a stat saying driver and 3 wood hit almost the same percentage of fairways, and the comments came apart. One commenter was right, and we went and checked. The stat has a hole in it, and nobody in golf has fixed it. Not Arccos. Not Shot Scope. Not Lou Stagner or Mark Broadie. In this one: how far you actually hit driver, the one simulation that gets around the broken stat, the physics of why a 3 wood mishit curves less, exactly how many golfers should be hitting 3 wood off the tee, and 3 rules for the tee box that cost nothing. Isaak has been in and around club fitting since 2017. Hayden plays professionally. CHAPTERS 00:00 How many times did you actually pull driver 01:00 The comment that started this episode 01:50 The Arccos driving distance report 02:12 The amateur distance boom that never happened 03:33 What you hit it by handicap and by age 04:00 Everybody is 10 to 20 yards off 04:40 Where the strokes actually go 04:57 12% versus 45.1% 05:37 What counts as a big miss 06:23 Your miss is the same. Your aim is not. 06:59 The free stats guide 07:40 The stat we quoted has a hole in it 09:06 Nobody in golf has ever fixed it 10:35 The one study that gets around the problem 11:22 The shortest club won 12:02 The safety club is not safe, it is just shorter 12:44 Is a driver harder to square than a 3 wood 14:06 Gear effect, bulge and roll 15:31 What the robot test showed on toe hits 16:19 Why your own tendencies beat any stat we quote 17:02 How many golfers are straighter with 3 wood 18:20 The 1 in 10 number 18:36 If your 3 wood is as long as your driver 20:03 The 5% out of bounds rule 21:20 Nobody walked in asking me to fix their driver 22:00 Cutting down the driver shaft 23:07 The 2 reasons to shorten a shaft 25:26 Is driver marketing a scam 26:22 What a manufacturer told me about their own numbers 28:10 The fitting thing nobody thinks about 30:00 Tools, not jewels 33:20 Rule 1: driver is the default 34:00 Jason Day's pattern was 74 yards wide 34:40 Rule 2: aim off the trouble by half your pattern 35:50 Tee up on the same side as the trouble 36:10 Rule 3: the only 3 reasons to club down 37:19 The forced carry mistake I made for years 38:30 If you club down on 3 holes a round 38:49 How to think about lessons 41:36 Hayden argues against the whole episode 42:46 What actually fixes a 45% penalty rate 44:16 The guy who does not trust it right now 45:34 Findable and hittable 46:17 Tiger hit driver once at Hoylake 47:37 You do not have a driver problem SOURCES NAMED IN THIS EPISODE Arccos annual driving distance report, 25,000 golfers and 6.5 million tee shots Lou Stagner, analysis of the Arccos database Shot Scope, driver versus 3 wood fairway data Golf Digest and Golf Laboratories robot testing Mark Broadie, strokes gained Scott Fawcett, DECADE

Secrets of the elite Mid-AM: ⁠ https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/secretsofthemidam⁠ Practice smarter with the Play Ready Golf app. 7 days free, code ISAAK takes $20 off the year: https://onelink.to/93ggkv Follow Payne: ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/paynerr/⁠ He plays 3 to 4 rounds before a tournament and hits balls maybe twice a week. He has a day job in logistics and just won his 3rd straight Tennessee State Amateur, something only 2 other golfers have done in 100 plus years. Payne Denman has played 5 U.S. Amateurs, coached college golf at MTSU, Tennessee, and South Florida, and played pro golf on PGA Tour Latinoamerica before walking away. In this episode he breaks down exactly how he practices now: the 60 minute range hour he splits into 3 blocks, why he stopped hitting drivers and got better, the mirror work he does at home, and how he talks to himself like a coach talks to a player. Timestamps 0:00 What he knows that college golfers don't 0:43 How many hours he actually practices 1:04 Mirror work, slow reps, and the 90 minute cap 2:10 Week 2: money games instead of range balls 2:33 The 45 minute session: where all the time goes 3:14 Why he quit hitting drivers (and got better) 4:41 Where college players waste unlimited hours 6:33 A lack of intent repeats what's easiest 7:10 How a coach fixes wasted practice 9:22 Talking to yourself like a coach 10:59 No coach? Write it down, 1 goal, max time 12:53 Separate mechanics from target practice 13:54 The 60 minute range hour: 3 blocks of 20 15:31 Why range games die on the course 16:22 Serial ball beating and why failure is the point 17:44 Playing scared: fear and embarrassment off the tee 19:14 Merion: the hardest course he's ever played 21:39 How he preps for championship setups 23:45 Adjusting to new grass, climates, and fog 26:45 The day job advantage 27:45 Down with 5 to play: birdies on 4 of the last 5 30:52 Fighting off the three-peat thoughts 32:22 What pro golf taught him about failure 33:35 The day he knew pro golf was over 36:32 What he tells players who want to turn pro 38:51 Reinstatement: the 4 year wait 41:31 PGA Tour Latinoamerica and the $4,000 career 44:32 What recreational golfers get wrong 46:45 What's next for Payne

Try the app free for 7 days. Code PRGPOD gets you 20 dollars off the annual plan for life : https://onelink.to/93ggkv Free stats guide. Every benchmark from 3 feet to 300 yards, 20 handicap through tour pro : https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/comprehensivestats Free 59 minute practice plan: https://onelink.to/59minplan Coaches. PRG Teams is built for high school and college programs at about half what our competitors charge. First month free : https://playready.golf/teams CHAPTERS 00:00 How many of your 14 clubs did you actually hit 01:19 The hybrid Isaak loved and had to take out 02:15 The Arccos study nobody talks about 03:37 This happens at every handicap level 04:04 The 5 most abandoned clubs in golf 05:18 Why the 3 wood is a security blanket 06:30 You carry it so you are not the guy without one 08:18 The free stats guide 09:28 You did not pick 14 clubs, you inherited a slot 10:47 The 1935 US Open and the guy with 32 clubs 12:00 Lawson Little and his 7 wedges 13:03 Why the USGA actually made the rule 14:20 The man who invented 14 said 14 was too many 16:56 Francis Ouimet won a US Open with 7 clubs 17:27 A limit is not a quota 18:20 Your 7 iron has the loft of a 1990s 5 iron 19:21 Isaak on 8 years in club fitting 20:24 The gap wedge exists to patch a hole 20:57 The case for owning more than 14 clubs 22:22 Hayden's qualifier, 14 holes, zero drivers 25:20 Why leaving a gap on purpose works 26:22 Rule 1: every club needs a job you can say out loud 28:01 Rule 2: two clubs cannot share a job 29:30 Rule 3: the receipt rule 30:46 Hybrid versus long iron, the Shot Scope numbers 31:58 Why long irons fail, and it is not your swing 33:05 What being the outlier actually costs you 36:00 Rule 4: replace it, do not just remove it 37:03 Driver versus 3 wood 39:09 Humility with a receipt 39:39 Arguing against our own episode 40:49 The USGA study on what golfers do not know 42:37 Where this data comes from and its limits 42:50 What to take with you 44:59 Hayden on discipline and the Ohio Open SOURCES NAMED IN THIS EPISODE Lou Stagner, analysis of the Arccos database, March 2023 Shot Scope, long iron versus hybrid greens in regulation Arccos, driver versus 3 wood accuracy and distance USGA TrackMan study, December 2023, 627 recreational golfers Robert Harris, Sixty Years of Golf, 1953 Rand Jerris, USGA, on the origin of the 14 club rule World Golf Hall of Fame on Lawson Little Golf Digest and Ralph Maltby on iron loft changes

Try Play Ready Golf free for 7 days. Code PRGPOD takes $20 off every year, forever: https://onelink.to/93ggkv Secrets of the mid-am: https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/secretsofthemidam Get a custom piece from Andrew: andrew@sanstudio.com Andrew Chapman shot 90 in the first round of a U.S. Am qualifier and wondered if the USGA would send him a letter. 4 years later he won the Michigan Amateur as the 32 seed, and today he builds custom furniture, raises 2 boys, and still chases USGA qualifiers. We get into the line between supporting a kid and pushing one, the multi-sport locker room at Michigan, the rebuild that started with grip and stance, the wedge ladder that carries his whole bag, AimPoint with a carpenter's level, and what a craftsman knows about the difference between good and right. Timestamps 0:00 Harder to watch than to compete 2:07 The temptation a champion dad resists 3:27 Family golf: 9 holes, 2 hours, 2 boys 5:33 Quick to the ball, then take your time 6:52 The line between helping and pushing 7:45 Playing golf swing instead of golf 9:43 What his parents got right 11:04 Too serious, and the try less lesson 13:19 The 12-second pre-shot fix 15:17 The golf bug at 13 17:49 Every Michigan player was multi-sport 22:29 Rock bottom: the 2009 qualifier 25:42 The 32 seed run, and where belief comes from 28:50 His practice: the 40 to 110 wedge ladder 30:13 AimPoint with a carpenter's level 32:12 The 9 shots drill 34:18 Good vs. right: lessons from the shop 37:40 Build this first: the beginner slab table 39:19 The 20 foot table at a golf course 40:36 What he wants his boys to take at 18 42:59 The reinstatement debate 47:24 Bring back the 36-hole qualifier 47:47 Staying with Scottie Scheffler at the U.S. Am 4 9:05 Where to find Andrew, and what's next

Free stats guide: https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/comprehensivestats Get tour level strokes gained data in 30 seconds a hole with Play Ready Golf. Free 7 day trial: https://onelink.to/93ggkv Code PRGPOD gets you $20 off every year for life. Tour pros make about half their putts from 8 feet. From 100 yards in the fairway they hit it inside 3 feet 1 time in 25. The standard you grade your golf against does not exist. Not for you. Not for them. This week we tear up the fake report card most golfers carry in their heads. Where it came from (the broadcast, the Ben Hogan legend, and your own inflated numbers), what breaking 90 actually looks like for a 15 handicap, what a real 68 and a real 63 look like in strokes gained, and a 4 rule grading system that costs nothing and starts working your next round. Sources named in this episode: Mark Broadie (Columbia, PGA Tour ShotLink), Shot Scope, Arccos and Lou Stagner, Jon Sherman (Practical Golf), Adam Young, Bob Rotella, and the Ben Hogan story as told by Dan Jenkins. Chapters 0:00 The number that ends the argument 1:35 Mad about a birdie 3:11 Tour averages, 3 feet to 300 yards 6:52 Tiger missed 4 putts in 4 years 10:01 Where the fake report card came from 11:37 Hogan graded himself on 3 shots 15:51 The 24 yards you don't have 17:57 Your handicap is not your average 18:59 The break 90 data dump 21:35 Playing US Open qualifying with tour pros 28:53 A 68 and a 63 in strokes gained 33:04 Shooting a gajillion and smiling 39:49 The new report card 42:27 Grade putts by the second putt 45:03 Steal Hogan's scorecard 48:39 Ambition vs unrealistic expectations 50:48 Why golfers actually quit 51:20 Hayden is coming to Instagram 57:07 Give the scorecard back

Try Play Ready Golf free for 7 days. Code PRGPOD takes $20 off every year: https://onelink.to/93ggkv The Mid-Am Insights PDF. Every lesson from every mid-am we have interviewed, in one download: https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/secretsofthemidam Support the new home of the Ole Miss Patterson School of Accountancy: https://accountancy.olemiss.edu/new-building/ Brett's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bpatterson03/ Brett Patterson is the 5th ranked mid-am in America. He teaches 300 accounting students at Ole Miss, has 2 girls at home, and touches a club 3 or 4 times a week at best. In college he hit 300 balls a day and got worse. Then he left tournament golf for 5 years, came back, and started winning everything. We get into the 4 weeks off before he opened 7 under, the wedge and putter plan that replaced the bucket, the mental spiral that almost ended his golf, and the piece of advice he says actively hurts amateurs. Timestamps 0:00 The #5 mid-am barely touches a club 0:53 4 weeks off, then 7 under in round 1 2:18 A Tuesday with 300 students and 2 kids 3:52 College: 300 balls a day, sun up to dark 7:19 Less practice, better golf. The flip. 8:39 5 years away and the 2022 U.S. Amateur 14:22 What he'd tell every college golfer 16:54 His practice now: wedges and lag putts 19:59 An accountant's take on tracking stats 22:35 Bring back Golfstat 26:09 The biggest mistakes amateurs make 28:58 Never the most talented. What separates him. 31:08 What scratch golfers miss about scoring 34:16 Championship golf vs weekend golf 35:42 The advice that actively hurts amateurs 37:05 Pressure putts and choosing confidence 38:36 How to stay sharp after time off 40:43 The reinstatement debate 50:49 What he wants his daughters to know 53:48 A shoutout to the mid-am wives 54:02 Prepping for the U.S. Mid-Am at Sand Valley 56:26 Support the new Ole Miss accountancy building

Want 1 science based practice fix a day for the next 30 days? That is the second link: https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/30hacksin30 The Play Ready Golf app turns 30 seconds a hole into tour level strokes gained data and a practice plan built around your time and facilities: https://onelink.to/93ggkv Code PRGPOD gets you $20 off every year for life: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6752723937&code=PRGPOD Grab the free Greenside Menu, the 1 page decision card we walk through in this episode. Print it or save it to your phone: https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/menu Your short game problem is not your hands. It is the order you pick shots in. In this episode of the Play Ready Golf Podcast (Ep. 31) we use Shot Scope and Arccos data to show why golfers at every handicap level fail from 50 yards, why the flop shot became everyone's default, and the 4 question menu that fixes it without a single lesson. Timestamps: 0:00 Nobody has hands 1:42 The data: up and down by handicap 2:56 The app in 30 seconds 3:22 The highlight reel raised you 5:57 Extreme sells: the wedge industry 7:00 Jason Day: one motion, many clubs 8:53 Option 1: the putter 10:17 One email a day for 30 days 10:33 Option 2: the low chip 11:11 Option 3: the pitch 12:34 Option 4: the flop 13:40 The cost of ignoring the menu 14:17 Judge every shot by its miss 15:27 What Hayden sees caddying 19:19 Rule 1: can I putt it? 20:18 Rule 2: lowest loft that clears the trouble 21:59 Rule 3: pitch only when something is in the way 22:45 Rule 4: the flop is the fire escape 23:37 The menu in order 25:20 What about bad lies? 26:33 2 honest notes about the data 27:29 The takeaway Missed the double bogey episode we reference? Watch it here: https://youtu.be/D1ZK1E_06Xs Data in this episode comes from Shot Scope, Arccos data via Lou Stagner, PGA Tour scrambling stats, and Edoardo Molinari via Golf Digest.

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Sick of 1 hole wrecking your whole round? Grab the free Disaster Card. It has the 4 rules on the front and a 3 round leak tracker on the back that shows you exactly where your strokes are going: https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/disaster Once you know your leak, the Play Ready Golf app builds every practice session around it: https://onelink.to/93ggkv Podcast listeners get an extended free trial plus a discount with code PRGPOD: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6752723937&code=PRGPOD Your golf handicap is not decided by your swing. It is decided by 3 or 4 blow-up holes a round. In this episode of the Play Ready Golf Podcast (Ep. 29) we use Shot Scope and Arccos data to prove that double bogeys, not birdies, separate every handicap level. Then we walk through the 5 leaks that cause blow-up holes and the 4 rules that stop them. None of it requires practice time. Timestamps:0:00 The number that breaks your brain1:14 Hayden's triple at US Am qualifying4:45 The data: doubles by handicap5:58 The free Disaster Card6:18 Why golfers blame the swing10:54 Birdies happen by accident12:30 The 5 leaks behind every blow-up hole13:00 Leak 1: tee shots into trouble14:20 Leak 2: the hero recovery15:43 Leak 3: the short-side miss17:47 Leak 4: the double chip19:01 Leak 5: three-putts21:15 Hayden's worst blow-up holes27:04 The Disaster Card: 4 rules27:59 Rule 1: count your doubles (the Train Game)29:52 Rule 2: the one-job shot30:56 Rule 3: get long putts inside 3 feet32:39 Rule 4: short-sided means middle of the green34:57 Is this just playing scared?37:26 2 honest notes about the data38:14 The takeaway40:15 What to watch next Data in this episode comes from the Shot Scope Annual Report (74M+ shots), Arccos data via Lou Stagner, Mark Broadie's Every Shot Counts, and Edoardo Molinari via Golf Digest.

Play Ready Golf app: ⁠ https://onelink.to/93ggkv⁠ Use code PRGPOD for 20 dollars off every year, for life. One science based hack a day for 30 days: ⁠ https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/30hacksin30⁠ Free 59 minute practice guide: ⁠ https://onelink.to/59minplan⁠ FIND NATE Mountain Creative Construction, licensed in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Teton Valley, Idaho Nate on Instagram: ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/ndizzle4shizzle/⁠ Nate Smith made it to pro golf, then walked away at 30 because he did not like who the game was turning him into. He got an MBA, moved to Idaho, built a construction business, and barely touched a club for eight years. Then he came back as an amateur and started winning, beating players half his age who practice every day. If you love golf but cannot give it your whole life, this one is for you. Nate plays a few weeks a year and still competes at the top of the amateur game. He breaks down how he practices with intent, why not being obsessed with results is his biggest edge, and what he would tell anyone trying to get better with limited time. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Walking away from a Tour card at 30 01:48 What eight years away taught him 04:23 The hardest lesson, he was not always first 05:53 What pulled him back in 2022 07:36 Coming back after eight years off 09:56 Winning right away, and why it did not surprise him 10:41 Competing while running a construction business 13:26 How much you should actually practice 15:04 Practice with intent, hit 20 balls and leave 18:04 Taking your practice to the course 20:12 North and South week, identity over outcome 22:10 Playing at elevation versus sea level 24:36 Grass League and the Hollywood Hitters 28:06 The truth about amateur reinstatement 33:48 What he would tell his 25 year old self 35:14 What is next on his schedule 38:03 Where to find Nate

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Try Play Ready Golf free for 7 days and use code PRGPOD for 20 off your annual plan for life: https://onelink.to/93ggkv Free 59 minute practice plan: https://onelink.to/59minplan Virgil Abloh Foundation: https://thevirgilablohfoundation.com/donate/ Broomsedge: https://www.broomsedgegolf.com/ Most golfers think the path to lower scores is more reps. Hit more balls, grind more hours, fix the swing. Cody Sundberg is proof of the opposite. He is a plus 4.5 mid-amateur playing the best golf of his life right now, and he got there by practicing less, not more. Cody is also the guy who bet on Broomsedge, the brand new South Carolina course that just landed at number 94 on Golfweek's list of the best modern designs in the country. He went from grinding mini tours, to commercial real estate, to writing the first big check for a course that was being shaped by a guy with 82 dollars left in the bank. In this episode, Isaak and Hayden sit down with Cody to talk about why hitting more balls is quietly making you worse, how progressive overload applies to your golf game, what it actually took to build a nationally ranked course from dirt, and why great golf should not require two planes and a four hour drive. We cover: Why a plus 4.5 plays his best golf by practicing less The tour pro range habit that changed how Cody practices How progressive overload applies to golf, and why we never apply it Betting on a course being built by a guy with 82 dollars left The welcoming private club idea and sharing great golf with everyone What it really takes to build a nationally ranked course from scratch Timestamps 0:00 The most mispronounced course in golf 1:09 How a real estate guy from Chicago got involved 2:00 The club supply problem that sparked the idea 3:26 Finding the land with Koprowski and Franz 4:31 Why Cody thought modern courses got too easy 6:14 Borrowing the UK model and letting outsiders play 7:05 Funded by spring, playing it by that October 7:40 Betting on a course built with 82 dollars left 9:02 Why he first wanted Broomsedge to be public 10:01 Learning to run five businesses at once 11:16 Bringing in Mike Keiser Jr. and Baker Thompson 12:29 The professional golf years 14:37 Life on the Hooters tour with future major winners 17:52 What he tells the golfer who wonders how good he could be 20:26 Why tournament golf is a completely different game 21:43 The welcoming private club idea 23:56 The design philosophy behind the course 26:10 Back-to-back par 3s and building on 180 acres 27:25 The postage stamp 11th that almost did not exist 29:48 What the Carolinas Mid-Am taught them 32:33 Why he plays his best golf practicing less 34:15 The tour pro range habit that changed everything 36:41 Why progressive overload applies to golf 38:34 The lessons his dad passed down 40:42 What is next on his calendar 42:51 Where to find Broomsedge

The App (use code PRGPOD): https://onelink.to/93ggkv Nate's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nate_gahman/ Identify over outcome: https://www.id-outcome.com/ Last year an insurance agent with 2 kids walked into the Georgia Open and beat a field of professionals by 2 shots. He barely practices, and when he does, he never grinds for more than an hour. In this episode Nate breaks down how he competes at the top of the amateur game on almost no practice time. Play more than you practice. One good 4 iron and the work is done. 90 percent of his putting is 4 and 5 footers. And he decides how he is going to react before he ever hits the putt. If this makes you rethink how you spend your range time, that is exactly what the Play Ready Golf app is built for. It takes the time you actually have, the facilities you can get to, and your skill level, then builds a practice plan that gets harder as you get better. Use code PRGPOD on the link below for a free 7 day trial and 20 dollars off your annual plan for life. The App: https://onelink.to/93ggkv Chapters 0:00 Beating the pros with a full time job 1:11 Play more than you practice 2:56 The $0 pro career that made him quit 6:34 How his wife pulled him back in 8:13 Decide how you will react before you putt 9:37 What 90 minutes of practice looks like 11:01 Why one good 4 iron is enough 12:49 Winning the Georgia Open in the rain 15:40 Play your game, not the optimal one 16:23 Stop copying YouTube golf 17:22 The 50 footer at the Palmetto Amateur 19:12 An insurance agent against the world's best 22:42 His wife on the bag 23:43 Removing joy from your results 26:40 Why treating practice like a job burns you out 27:46 What he hopes his kids learn from golf

Use code PRGPOD for $20 off your first year. Link below for a free 7-day trial. https://onelink.to/93ggkv Your driver pattern is almost the same width as Scottie Scheffler's. About 5 yards apart. You don't have a swing problem. You have an aim problem. In this episode we break down the four things amateurs do off the tee that quietly cost them 4 to 7 strokes a round. None of them are about your swing. All of them are about how you're aiming a shotgun like it's a rifle. We cover: What a tour pro's actual driver dispersion looks like, and why yours might be closer than you think The 4 wrong moves: aiming at the middle, pulling 3-wood for safety, standing on the wrong side of the tee box, and trying to work it both ways The Scott Fawcett rule for when to hit driver, and when not to Why penalty strokes, not crooked drives, are what's actually blowing up your scorecard Hayden's 7-over-par confession from one hole at a tournament last year The four things you should do on your next round Sources cited in this episode: Mark Broadie, Every Shot Counts (PGA Tour data from top 40 pros, 2004 to 2012) Lou Stagner / Arccos (1B+ shots tracked, dispersion data and penalty stroke research) Scott Fawcett, DECADE system (course management principles and the 70-yard rule) PGA Tour stats (Scheffler's 2025 strokes gained off the tee, right rough tendency, driving distance) Want to actually see your own dispersion broken down? Stop guessing what your shot pattern looks like and start measuring it. Play Ready Golf builds a custom practice plan based on where you're actually losing strokes. 0:00 You're Not A Bad Driver. You're A Bad Aimer. 0:50 The Stat That Reframes Everything About Scheffler 3:00 How Wide Is Your Driver Pattern, Really? 8:48 You Are 5 Yards From The Best Player On Earth 11:13 Wrong Move 1: Aiming At The Middle Of The Fairway 13:00 Wrong Move 2: Pulling 3-Wood For Safety 16:55 Wrong Move 3: The Wrong Side Of The Tee Box 22:00 Wrong Move 4: Trying To Work It Both Ways 30:55 The Fawcett Rule: Hit Driver Almost Every Time 35:30 The Hole Hayden Was 7-Over On 39:25 Four Things For Your Next Round 42:00 What To Watch Next

House of Hope of The Pee Dee: https://hofh.org/ Play Ready Golf 7-Day Trial (use code "PRGPOD): ⁠ https://onelink.to/93ggkv⁠ Most golfers grind for hours and never drop a shot. Jon Weiss does the opposite. He runs a 50-employee ministry, he is married with a full calendar, and he rarely practices more than an hour. Then he goes and wins one of the toughest mid-am events of the year in 35 mph wind. In this episode Jon breaks down how he competes at a high level on almost no practice. Low expectations. Drive it in play. Putt it well. Zero double bogeys over his last six competitive rounds. A good attitude before he ever reaches the first tee. Chapters 00:00 The lowest expectations in golf 01:43 The last time he practiced over an hour 03:50 What he works on, and what he ignores 05:33 Why mid-am golf runs on supportive wives 08:08 The switch that erased his double bogeys 10:30 Winning Jupiter in brutal wind 12:15 Coaching a JV team to 40 fewer shots 15:28 The coaches who built his short game 17:55 Make 3 footers before you chase 20 footers 20:44 The dumbest thing range golfers do 21:47 Get more from 34 balls than a full bucket 24:38 Inside House of Hope of the Pee Dee 30:13 Why he really plays golf now 32:41 Rock bottom to surrender 38:08 The national stage, Erin Hills and Philly Cricket 43:51 The qualifying mindset most golfers get wrong 45:33 How attitude beats most of the field 48:22 Course rankings and a 340 yard hole he hits 7 iron on 50:44 What is next, and slowing down

Try the Play Ready Golf app free for 7 days. Use code PRGPOD at checkout for $20 off your annual plan for life: https://onelink.to/93ggkv Grab the free stat tracker and proximity benchmarks PDF mentioned in the episode: https://onelink.to/stats Most amateurs spend 30 minutes on the practice green before every round. They hit 5 greens out of 18 and lose 40 yards of proximity from 150. You're not a bad putter. You're bad from 150. Mark Broadie analyzed the top 40 PGA Tour pros from 2004 to 2012 and found putting is 15% of the gap between elite and average pros. Approach play is 40%. A scratch golfer beats a Tour pro on the greens in more than 30% of rounds. The data has been public for 12 years. In this episode Isaak and Hayden break down where your strokes actually leak, why Bobby Locke, Harvey Penick, and Dave Pelz built the putting myth, and what to practice instead. 📊 Data sources cited in this episode: Mark Broadie, Every Shot Counts (Columbia University, top 40 PGA Tour pros 2004-2012) Shot Scope (350M+ shots) Arccos via Lou Stagner (1B+ shots) Dave Pelz, Short Game Bible (2000) Harvey Penick, Little Red Book (1992) Chapters: 00:00 Why you're not actually a bad putter 00:53 The Broadie data nobody talks about 02:20 The Play Ready Golf app 02:42 Putts per round vs greens hit 04:57 The 150 yard truth (54 feet vs 122 feet) 09:00 How to practice when nothing feels like progress 15:00 The myth: Bobby Locke and "drive for show putt for dough" 20:56 The myth: Harvey Penick's Little Red Book 27:57 The myth: Dave Pelz and the 80% lie 29:26 Where putting actually matters (the steel-man) 32:33 How to raise your floor with approach play 40:00 Random practice and why blocked practice fails 44:42 "But I 3 putt all the time" (the data on lag putts) 48:19 What to take from this conversation

Connor Doyal is a 26 year old caddy at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island. He almost never goes to the range. 3 weeks ago he won the Terra Cotta Invitational against a stacked junior field. Last week he Monday qualified into the PGA Tour's Myrtle Beach Classic and made the cut on the number after hitting his approach into 18 from 137 yards in a divot. This week he's at Desert Mountain playing the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball. In this one we get into the 14 for 12 playoff that put him in the U.S. Mid-Amateur at Kinloch, the quarterfinal against Evan Beck that gave him the confidence to compete with the best mid-amateurs in the country, the mental reframe that made the PGA Tour feel less nervy than an amateur event, why he never practices on the range, and the 30 minute practice protocol he'd give an average golfer. Follow Connor: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connordoyal/ Try Play Ready Golf (Use code PRG POD): https://onelink.to/93ggkv Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:34 Quitting Consulting in Atlanta 02:26 Why He Didn't Play College Golf 04:19 An Albatross on His First Day Caddying 06:12 The Practice He Actually Does 10:16 The Biggest Mistake Amateurs Make 12:08 The 14-for-12 Playoff at Kinloch 13:50 First USGA Match. Down Three Early. 17:25 Quarterfinal vs Evan Beck 19:58 Monday Qualifying for the PGA Tour 21:21 Making the Cut From a Divot 22:49 "I'm Just on Vacation." 25:56 Winning the Terra Cotta 30:46 He Never Goes to the Range 32:21 The 30 Minute Practice Protocol 34:11 Prepping for the Four-Ball

App: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6752723937 Most amateurs think they know how far they hit their irons. The Arccos data says they don't. The average 20 handicap thinks their 5 iron flies 187 yards. The actual median carry is 152. That 35 yard gap doesn't just cost one shot. It cascades. Short approach, harder chip, missed up and down, lag putt from 90 feet, three-putt 27% of the time. Two to three strokes per round, every single round, and it had nothing to do with your swing. This episode breaks down where the cascade actually starts, why "80% of strokes lost inside 100 yards" is the most repeated lie in golf, and the 15 minute gapping session that fixes most of it before your next round. ——— Free resources The 59 minute practice plan: https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/59minuteplan The PRG benchmarks PDF: https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/comprehensivestats The simple stat tracker: https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/simplestatstracker ——— 00:00 The 35 yard lie in your bag 01:46 Hayden's college par-3 story 03:25 Why hitting past the pin feels worse 05:43 The cascade from one wrong club 06:32 Where amateurs actually miss from 150 08:45 Aim long until you actually go long 10:48 The 9, 7, 5 gapping drill 13:52 Why Pelz was wrong about the short game 15:30 Isaak's launch monitor rabbit hole 17:58 The middle 6 of 10 balls drill 21:04 Two rules that kill club selection ego 23:54 The Bryson 5 iron rant 25:50 The take two more clubs challenge 29:35 Why block practice does not transfer 30:38 What to actually do at the range 34:21 Resources and final word

Scott Turner owns the Minor League Golf Tour, runs over 100 events a year, raises a daughter, and somehow still wins elite mid-am tournaments against fields full of guys who hit it 310 yards. He hits balls 4 to 5 times a year. His best tournament prep is 9 holes with his buddies for 20 bucks. In this conversation he explains exactly how he competes without practicing, why 90% of professional golfers lose money every year, what Eric Cole was like for a full decade before breaking through to the PGA Tour, and the course management mistake that every handicap level makes without realizing it. We also get into his years as a "part-time hobby professional" working 28-hour weekends in a cart barn to fund Monday qualifiers, the college golf team that rejected him for 4 years straight, and what he tells young players who ask him whether they should keep grinding or hang it up. If you're a working golfer trying to get better with limited time, this one's for you. FOLLOW SCOTT + THE MINOR LEAGUE GOLF TOUR: Website: ⁠ https://minorleaguegolf.com⁠ Instagram: ⁠ https://instagram.com/minorleaguegolftour⁠ ALSO MENTIONED: Back of the Range Podcast (Ben) : https://www.instagram.com/thebackoftherange/ PLAY READY GOLF: Download the app: ⁠ https://apps.apple.com/app/id6752723937⁠ CHAPTERS: 0:00 Introduction 0:27 How Scott stays sharp hitting balls 5 times a year 2:41 Beating 310-yard bombers with a 15-year-old hybrid 5:09 Why 9 holes beats 7 days at the range 7:54 The college team that rejected him for 4 years 13:44 Life as a "part-time hobby professional" 17:21 Turn pro or stay mid-am at 23? 20:50 How the Minor League Golf Tour started 24:18 90% of pro golfers lose money every year 27:45 What separates the 10% who make it 30:25 Eric Cole shot 65 every day for a decade 34:09 The $100 training division for working golfers 37:07 How good are mini tour players really? 41:26 The club selection mistake every golfer makes 43:28 Winning the Gasparilla at Palmacia 47:18 Legacy, fatherhood, and the Jumbotron story 50:21 Where to find Scott and the Minor League Golf Tour