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We all want to get better at golf. But for whatever the reason, our game just doesn't improve. Sound familiar? Well, I am here to share the best secrets of improving your score. This podcast NOT about giving you swing techniques or swing tips but it's about giving you specific strategies, a tangible plan and a fun way to improve your score! So, welcome to Better Golf Academy Podcast…are you ready? Alright, HERE WE GO!
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Five episodes of looking backward would be a pretty rough way to spend a week, so today I'm telling you what we should actually do with all of it. The finale of Golf Needs a Village pulls the missing path, the missing mentor, and the doors I didn't knock on into what I built because of them, and leaves you with one real thing to do this week, wherever you're starting from.
This is the episode in the series I've had the hardest time figuring out how to talk about, because it's the one that's actually on me, not on my circumstances. Episode four of Golf Needs a Village gets into real research on regret showing that the doors we never knock on hurt worse over time than the ones that slam in our face, and one door I want you to go knock on this week.
There's one image from my childhood I keep coming back to while building this series, and it's not dramatic, it's a school van. Someone drove the van to away games every week, faithfully. But that was the whole job. Episode three of Golf Needs a Village gets into Emmy Werner's famous decades-long study on resilient kids, the one finding that shows up again and again, and why the difference between a ride and a mentor turned out to matter more than almost anything else in my own story.
I always assumed I started golf too late, and for years that assumption just sat there unquestioned. Then I found the actual research on how long this game takes to develop, and it wrecked that assumption completely. Episode two of Golf Needs a Village gets into a real study showing golf is a twenty-plus year developmental sport, not a ten-year one, plus the Olympic research on what actually separates medalists from everyone else, and what it means for the time you think you've already lost.
Two weeks ago I ended up in an ambulance with a hundred percent blocked artery, and it's the real reason I'm finally telling this story. Episode one of a five-part series turns the mic on myself, why college golf never became a real option growing up, using Tony Finau's immigrant, garage-built beginning as the mirror, and why I decided not to sit on any of this any longer.
Imagine finishing eighteen holes with your hands feeling just as calm and soft on the last tee as they did on the first. That's not a fantasy, it's an actual trainable skill. This is the finale of the Golf Grip Pressure Series, and I'm handing you four real drills, no golf club required for the first one, to actually build soft hands permanently, plus the bigger idea tying the whole series together: most swing problems are secretly tension problems.
Ever make a smooth backswing and then completely lose it on the way down for no reason you can point to? There's a real, physical reason, and it's not your swing plane. Episode four of the Golf Grip Pressure Series gets into how grip pressure actually spikes at the top of your backswing without you noticing, why that spike is the real cause behind casting and early release, and a simple pause drill that lets you feel it coming before it costs you a shot.
Back in episode one, I promised we'd actually settle the lead-hand-versus-trail-hand debate that got this series made. It turns out real data on tour pros flips a piece of popular advice most golfers have heard. Episode three of the Golf Grip Pressure Series resolves the hand dominance question using real motion-capture research, keeps the Fred Couples soft-grip story, and gives you the actual thing to check for on your next chip or putt instead of picking a side.
We all want to get better at golf. But for whatever the reason, our game just doesn't improve. Sound familiar? Well, I am here to share the best secrets of improving your score. This podcast NOT about giving you swing techniques or swing tips but it's about giving you specific strategies, a tangible plan and a fun way to improve your score! So, welcome to Better Golf Academy Podcast…are you ready? Alright, HERE WE GO!
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