Nobody Gets Good at Golf Alone | Ep. 16

Nobody gets good at golf alone. Brian Manzella (Golf Digest's #14-ranked teacher in America) and Sam Osborne (former touring pro) name the people who got them here: the books, the better players who never gave them a tip, the stranger on a putting green, the former prizefighter who tended the pin on Brian's first 79, and the famous names who put in a word.Stories include Simon Griffiths at Wentworth, Joe Cook and Johnny Scurich at City Park, Ernie Makepeace, Walter Pryor, Carl Poche and Paul Azinger's college team, the Sea Island playoff, Monty, Bill Strausbaugh and Paul Marchand at the 1992 Teaching Summit, and Peter Fowler telling a kid to quit school. The takeaway: you don't improve in a straight line, you need people, and being nice is not that hard.Watch the video version on YouTube at @funnelgolfx. Be your own coach.Chapters0:00 Cold open0:42 Who got us here1:31 Sam's first golf books: Leadbetter and Henry Cotton7:21 Simon Griffiths: the best lesson was never a lesson10:42 Brian's cousin, Don Horn and Street & Smith's15:20 Reading Golf Digest cover to cover18:09 City Park, Gary Schultz and Al Juhl20:20 Joe Cook, Johnny Scurich and the first 7930:52 Golf is hard: you need things to happen32:19 Sam at 17: the Mail on Sunday and the Sea Island playoff37:14 Brian at 15: shooting 67 and looking for a game39:52 Ernie Makepeace and the putting green invite42:42 Walter Pryor, Jimmy Cole and the money games43:14 Carl Poche and Paul Azinger's college team47:54 Walter Pryor's Tommy Moore advice49:45 Famous people who helped: Monty52:51 The Teaching Summit: Bill Strausbaugh and Paul Marchand56:57 Being nice is not that hard57:54 Peter Fowler and the closer