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Golf improvement for people with a 9 to 5. We use strokes gained data and motor learning science to help you practice smarter, save time, and shoot lower scores with the clubs, schedule, and life you already have. Most golf advice is built for people with unlimited range time and a coach on speed dial. This show is built for the rest of us. The weekend warrior. The dad who gets 90 minutes on a Saturday. The mid-handicapper who has been stuck at the same score for three years. Every episode gives you one thing you can actually use. A practice drill you can do in your living room. A course management decision that saves you two shots. A data point that shuts down the bad advice you keep getting from your buddies. New episodes every Friday morning. Try the Play Ready Golf app free for 7 days at playready.golf

  1. 2d ago

    Amateurs Practice Fancy Shots. Winners Drill Boring Ones. - Scott Cahill (Ep. 30)

    Download Play Ready Golf and get tour level strokes gained data in 30 seconds a hole, plus a practice plan built around your time and your facilities: https://onelink.to/93ggkv Use code PRGPOD for $20 off every year, for life Get 1 science-based practice hack in your inbox every day for 30 days: https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/30hacksin30 Grab the free 59 Minute Practice Guide, built on strokes gained data and motor learning research: https://onelink.to/59minplan Follow Scott: https://www.instagram.com/cachill21 Scott Cahill had full status on PGA Tour Latinoamerica. He gave it back, took a full-time job, and barely touched a club for 5 years. Then he fell back in love with the game and won the Arizona Mid-Amateur at Grayhawk, on a course where the field made 1,158 bogeys in 3 days. He did it with a newborn at home and a practice routine he calls a cram session. This episode is the blueprint for playing your best golf with the least time you've ever had. Timestamps: 0:00 Walking away from the Tour 2:17 The pro golf grind nobody sees 5:37 Five years without touching a club 8:11 When golf stopped feeling like work 11:35 What he'd change about his pro practice 14:02 Golf with a newborn and a full-time job 18:24 Inside his boring practice routine 21:30 The stat that surprised him 25:21 Winning the Arizona Mid-Am at Grayhawk 32:00 The 59 at Tobacco Road 35:55 Signing with the Grass League 38:04 The reinstated pro debate 48:42 What winning actually gets you 51:17 Lessons for his son

    Amateurs Practice Fancy Shots. Winners Drill Boring Ones. - Scott Cahill (Ep. 30)

  2. Jul 10

    Scratch Golfers Hit the Same Bad Shots You Do - Ep. 29

    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.

    Scratch Golfers Hit the Same Bad Shots You Do - Ep. 29

  3. Jul 3

    Amateurs Aren't Lazy. They Practice Too Hard. - Nate Smith

    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

    Amateurs Aren't Lazy. They Practice Too Hard. - Nate Smith

  4. Jun 26

    Practice Is Cheaper Than Golf. That's the Trap.

    7-Day App Trial:⁠ https://onelink.to/93ggkv⁠ 59-Minute Practice Plan: ⁠https://onelink.to/59minplan⁠ 30-Hacks for Busy Golfers: ⁠https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/30hacksin30⁠ Chapters: 0:00 A $12 bucket vs a $40 round 1:48 Why leaving the range happy is a bad sign 2:59 What practice costs, and what actually lowers scores 4:20 Quality over quantity: making 30 minutes count 5:58 Where the "beat balls" myth came from 8:48 The 1992 study: why your range swing doesn't show up 9:54 Bubba Watson barely touched the range 13:39 Hayden's confession: practicing just to say he did 14:58 How to actually practice: fewer balls, real pressure 20:02 Tournament golf exposes your tendencies 24:45 Why "just hit more balls" fails 27:38 Rule 1: Play more, and play cheaper 29:45 Rule 2: Give the range rules 32:15 Rule 3: Practice on the course for free 34:27 Rule 4: Aim where you leak 35:49 Tendencies vs dispersion 43:32 When the range is actually the right call 46:16 Good intentions vs being intentional

    Practice Is Cheaper Than Golf. That's the Trap.

  5. Jun 19

    He Got Better Practicing Less - Cody Sundberg

    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

    He Got Better Practicing Less - Cody Sundberg

  6. Jun 12

    Amateurs Practice Too Much. They Play Too Little. - Nate Gahman

    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

    Amateurs Practice Too Much. They Play Too Little. - Nate Gahman

  7. Jun 5

    You Are Almost As Straight As Scheffler

    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

    You Are Almost As Straight As Scheffler

  8. May 29

    More Practice Won't Lower Your Scores. Less Will. - Jon Weiss Jr.

    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

    More Practice Won't Lower Your Scores. Less Will. - Jon Weiss Jr.
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Golf improvement for people with a 9 to 5. We use strokes gained data and motor learning science to help you practice smarter, save time, and shoot lower scores with the clubs, schedule, and life you already have. Most golf advice is built for people with unlimited range time and a coach on speed dial. This show is built for the rest of us. The weekend warrior. The dad who gets 90 minutes on a Saturday. The mid-handicapper who has been stuck at the same score for three years. Every episode gives you one thing you can actually use. A practice drill you can do in your living room. A course management decision that saves you two shots. A data point that shuts down the bad advice you keep getting from your buddies. New episodes every Friday morning. Try the Play Ready Golf app free for 7 days at playready.golf

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