He Got Better Practicing Less - Cody Sundberg

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 [https://onelink.to/93ggkv] Free 59 minute practice plan: https://onelink.to/59minplan [https://onelink.to/59minplan] Virgil Abloh Foundation: https://thevirgilablohfoundation.com/donate/ [https://thevirgilablohfoundation.com/donate/] Broomsedge: https://www.broomsedgegolf.com/ [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

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

The App (use code PRGPOD): https://onelink.to/93ggkv [https://onelink.to/93ggkv] Nate's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nate_gahman/ [https://www.instagram.com/nate_gahman/] Identify over outcome: https://www.id-outcome.com/ [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 [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

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 [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

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

House of Hope of The Pee Dee: https://hofh.org/ [https://hofh.org/] Play Ready Golf 7-Day Trial (use code "PRGPOD): ⁠https://onelink.to/93ggkv⁠ [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

Amateurs Aren't Bad Putters. They're Bad From 150.

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 [https://onelink.to/93ggkv] Grab the free stat tracker and proximity benchmarks PDF mentioned in the episode: https://onelink.to/stats [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