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Less than 1% of the people on your range are practicing with any feedback.

Which means almost all of them got worse today. Maybe you did too.

This week Andrew and I get into why: no game plan, no feedback loop, no record of what's actually working. Just buckets of balls and a new tip every time you hit two bad ones in a row.

We break down the difference between a lesson and real coaching, why "keep your head down" is quietly wrecking your swing and your low back, and the two cheap tools that let you debug your own game without anyone standing over you.

Then it goes somewhere else. Andrew's spent years around players at the top, and the thing that separated the ones who made it wasn't talent. It was how they showed up and what they did between sessions. He's also watched plenty of talented players get chewed up by the parts of the journey nobody films.

I've lived that side too. My own run at pro golf was short, expensive, and a lot less glamorous than the highlight reels suggest. Wrong turns, bad nights before early tee times, and one big amateur event where the smallest decision cost me more than the golf did. The lesson buried in all of it: stick with the setup that got you there, and don't get seduced by the shiny stuff on the way up.

Tour dreams, hard math, and why the fundamentals matter more than the fantasy.

Watch the full drop episode above 👊

~ Spencer

architect [golfhackz]

Faults and Fixes - 3 Putt Avoidance

Every golfer looking to shave 5 or more strokes off their scorecard should hear this story about Brandon.

Brandon's a guy I play with pretty routinely. He's constantly working on his game, but he wasn't actually shaving any strokes.

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So I asked him: have you ever considered working on your first putt? Your lag putt?

On average, he was getting on the green 30 to 35 feet from the hole, and he wasn't very good from there. But like most people, he'd been grinding on his short putts, because that's what the golf instruction industry tells you to focus on. I'd argue distance control on that first putt matters far more.

I learned this directly from Bryson years ago at Dallas National. He taught me the exact system he used to control his distances with the putter.

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So here's what I told Brandon, go to the practice green and putt from one distance only: 30 feet.

Get really good at rolling a 30-footer to within 3 feet of the hole. Do that, and you'll cut your three-putts and build real confidence in your speed control.

Keep it simple. Find a flat spot, and roll 30-footers on repeat, pre-round and any day you practice. The more you do it, the more consistent your stroke length gets, and it transfers to the course because it's such a simple, repeatable motion.

The biggest takeaway:

Start with that 30-footer and use a 15-inch backstroke with a tempo that replicates "Coca-Cola." "Coca" is the backstroke. "Cola" is the transition into the ball.
With that rhythm and that 15-inch backstroke, you'll quickly see whether it's producing 30 feet.
If you need more, add an inch. Add two. Add three. Once you dial in how long that backstroke needs to be with that Coca-Cola tempo, you're locked in for the round.

~ Andrew

fixer [golfhackz]

CHIP’d - A launch monitor inside of the ball 🤯

Earlier this week I had the great fortune of becoming the very first user of CHIP'd.

They're less than a month from launch, so I paid a visit to their HQ, ran some tests on the balls, and worked with the team on their Go To Market plans.

What you need to know:

CHIP'd is a real golf ball (not a toy) that shares live data:

Ball speed
Total distance
Make or miss
Spin
Launch angle
Skid (time to roll)

They won the Pinnacle Award at this year's PGA Show

It's the highest honor you can get. Coaches and ball manufacturers were freaking out.

The team is the real deal

Josh (CEO and co-founder) comes from a coaching background and built out multiple golf applications before this. Before CHIP'd, he was the guy who built all the virtual golf courses for Tiger and Rory's indoor league. The rest of the team is hardware gurus and literal rocket scientists.

The best part

They agreed to extend their Pre-Order pricing. If you’re ready to join the future of improvement and golf-tech now’s your chance.

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