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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

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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.

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

Connor Doyal is a 26 year old caddy at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island. He almost never goes to the range. 3 weeks ago he won the Terra Cotta Invitational against a stacked junior field. Last week he Monday qualified into the PGA Tour's Myrtle Beach Classic and made the cut on the number after hitting his approach into 18 from 137 yards in a divot. This week he's at Desert Mountain playing the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball. In this one we get into the 14 for 12 playoff that put him in the U.S. Mid-Amateur at Kinloch, the quarterfinal against Evan Beck that gave him the confidence to compete with the best mid-amateurs in the country, the mental reframe that made the PGA Tour feel less nervy than an amateur event, why he never practices on the range, and the 30 minute practice protocol he'd give an average golfer. Follow Connor: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connordoyal/ Try Play Ready Golf (Use code PRG POD): https://onelink.to/93ggkv Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:34 Quitting Consulting in Atlanta 02:26 Why He Didn't Play College Golf 04:19 An Albatross on His First Day Caddying 06:12 The Practice He Actually Does 10:16 The Biggest Mistake Amateurs Make 12:08 The 14-for-12 Playoff at Kinloch 13:50 First USGA Match. Down Three Early. 17:25 Quarterfinal vs Evan Beck 19:58 Monday Qualifying for the PGA Tour 21:21 Making the Cut From a Divot 22:49 "I'm Just on Vacation." 25:56 Winning the Terra Cotta 30:46 He Never Goes to the Range 32:21 The 30 Minute Practice Protocol 34:11 Prepping for the Four-Ball

App: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6752723937 Most amateurs think they know how far they hit their irons. The Arccos data says they don't. The average 20 handicap thinks their 5 iron flies 187 yards. The actual median carry is 152. That 35 yard gap doesn't just cost one shot. It cascades. Short approach, harder chip, missed up and down, lag putt from 90 feet, three-putt 27% of the time. Two to three strokes per round, every single round, and it had nothing to do with your swing. This episode breaks down where the cascade actually starts, why "80% of strokes lost inside 100 yards" is the most repeated lie in golf, and the 15 minute gapping session that fixes most of it before your next round. ——— Free resources The 59 minute practice plan: https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/59minuteplan The PRG benchmarks PDF: https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/comprehensivestats The simple stat tracker: https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/simplestatstracker ——— 00:00 The 35 yard lie in your bag 01:46 Hayden's college par-3 story 03:25 Why hitting past the pin feels worse 05:43 The cascade from one wrong club 06:32 Where amateurs actually miss from 150 08:45 Aim long until you actually go long 10:48 The 9, 7, 5 gapping drill 13:52 Why Pelz was wrong about the short game 15:30 Isaak's launch monitor rabbit hole 17:58 The middle 6 of 10 balls drill 21:04 Two rules that kill club selection ego 23:54 The Bryson 5 iron rant 25:50 The take two more clubs challenge 29:35 Why block practice does not transfer 30:38 What to actually do at the range 34:21 Resources and final word

Scott Turner owns the Minor League Golf Tour, runs over 100 events a year, raises a daughter, and somehow still wins elite mid-am tournaments against fields full of guys who hit it 310 yards.

He hits balls 4 to 5 times a year. His best tournament prep is 9 holes with his buddies for 20 bucks. In this conversation he explains exactly how he competes without practicing, why 90% of professional golfers lose money every year, what Eric Cole was like for a full decade before breaking through to the PGA Tour, and the course management mistake that every handicap level makes without realizing it.

We also get into his years as a "part-time hobby professional" working 28-hour weekends in a cart barn to fund Monday qualifiers, the college golf team that rejected him for 4 years straight, and what he tells young players who ask him whether they should keep grinding or hang it up.

If you're a working golfer trying to get better with limited time, this one's for you.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 Introduction 0:27 How Scott stays sharp hitting balls 5 times a year 2:41 Beating 310-yard bombers with a 15-year-old hybrid 5:09 Why 9 holes beats 7 days at the range 7:54 The college team that rejected him for 4 years 13:44 Life as a "part-time hobby professional" 17:21 Turn pro or stay mid-am at 23? 20:50 How the Minor League Golf Tour started 24:18 90% of pro golfers lose money every year 27:45 What separates the 10% who make it 30:25 Eric Cole shot 65 every day for a decade 34:09 The $100 training division for working golfers 37:07 How good are mini tour players really? 41:26 The club selection mistake every golfer makes 43:28 Winning the Gasparilla at Palmacia 47:18 Legacy, fatherhood, and the Jumbotron story 50:21 Where to find Scott and the Minor League Golf Tour