Amateurs Carry 14 Clubs. They Use 10. - Ep. 35

Try the app free for 7 days. Code PRGPOD gets you 20 dollars off the annual plan for life : https://onelink.to/93ggkvFree stats guide. Every benchmark from 3 feet to 300 yards, 20 handicap through tour pro : https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/comprehensivestatsFree 59 minute practice plan: https://onelink.to/59minplanCoaches. PRG Teams is built for high school and college programs at about half what our competitors charge. First month free : https://playready.golf/teamsCHAPTERS00:00 How many of your 14 clubs did you actually hit01:19 The hybrid Isaak loved and had to take out02:15 The Arccos study nobody talks about03:37 This happens at every handicap level04:04 The 5 most abandoned clubs in golf05:18 Why the 3 wood is a security blanket06:30 You carry it so you are not the guy without one08:18 The free stats guide09:28 You did not pick 14 clubs, you inherited a slot10:47 The 1935 US Open and the guy with 32 clubs12:00 Lawson Little and his 7 wedges13:03 Why the USGA actually made the rule14:20 The man who invented 14 said 14 was too many16:56 Francis Ouimet won a US Open with 7 clubs17:27 A limit is not a quota18:20 Your 7 iron has the loft of a 1990s 5 iron19:21 Isaak on 8 years in club fitting20:24 The gap wedge exists to patch a hole20:57 The case for owning more than 14 clubs22:22 Hayden's qualifier, 14 holes, zero drivers25:20 Why leaving a gap on purpose works26:22 Rule 1: every club needs a job you can say out loud28:01 Rule 2: two clubs cannot share a job29:30 Rule 3: the receipt rule30:46 Hybrid versus long iron, the Shot Scope numbers31:58 Why long irons fail, and it is not your swing33:05 What being the outlier actually costs you36:00 Rule 4: replace it, do not just remove it37:03 Driver versus 3 wood39:09 Humility with a receipt39:39 Arguing against our own episode40:49 The USGA study on what golfers do not know42:37 Where this data comes from and its limits42:50 What to take with you44:59 Hayden on discipline and the Ohio OpenSOURCES NAMED IN THIS EPISODELou Stagner, analysis of the Arccos database, March 2023Shot Scope, long iron versus hybrid greens in regulationArccos, driver versus 3 wood accuracy and distanceUSGA TrackMan study, December 2023, 627 recreational golfersRobert Harris, Sixty Years of Golf, 1953Rand Jerris, USGA, on the origin of the 14 club ruleWorld Golf Hall of Fame on Lawson LittleGolf Digest and Ralph Maltby on iron loft changes