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This is Scott Becker with the Becker Business Podcast, the Becker Private Equity Podcast.

And today's discussion is, we are a lot closer to being a decent golfer than we were some time ago.

So here's the discussion on this.

At the end of the day, my golf game in the big scheme of things still sucks.

And it's all a matter of who you compare it to and what you think about

but we are seeing some progress.

Just to give some people some detail on this who are truly golfers and understand these numbers, my index is down to a 12.7, which is okay other than the fact that just a couple years ago it was down at about 10.2, 10.3, 10.4.

So moving in the wrong direction.

Index, for those that are not regular golfers, is sort of the amount of sort of handicapping you get if you're a good or bad golfer based on what is par for the course.

So if you're a great golfer, your index is down at like zero or better than that because you're so good, you don't need any handicap strokes.

If you're a horrible golfer, like a couple of the guys I golf with regularly, your handicap index is closer to 18 to 20, which means on every single hole, you're essentially getting what's called a handicap stroke.

Now, for me, when I first started just taking lessons again and started to get serious about golfing again,

I went to go see this pro and he would off off actually laugh at me as to how I tried to describe what I'm doing right or wrong.

He would essentially say, I've never heard anybody explain it so poorly.

And my explanations would be along the lines of, you know, I just am all over the board.