Scott Becker
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Podcast Appearances
I'm not patient.
I'm picking wrong club choices and all those things.
And all of them I think are true, but he essentially said, look, I can't work with that.
You got to tell me specifically, are you hitting the ball to the right or to the left?
And let's cut out one of those two sides.
Then let's sort of measure when you're on the course, how many sort of
horrific shots you have, what you would call a penalty shot, where it either goes out of bounds or you've got to sort of punch back in that you've sort of given up a stroke because it was just a bad shot.
The second concept is how many two-chips have you had?
How many times when you're chipping onto the green do you not get on in one and have to redo it again?
And that is, again, if you get rid of the two-chips, you help yourself.
The third thing is the putting, how many three-putts you have.
Second is you can analyze how many bad shots you had, like penalty shots where they caused you to actually lose a stroke versus how many two-chips you have versus how many three-putts you have.
If you just get rid of those and focus on those,
making less bad shots, getting your chips on and not three putting, then all of a sudden you're scoring at a place that's much closer to a single handicap, a single digit handicap, which of course has always been my dream as a golfer.
Now you have to remember.
I'm still terrible.
But when I started 10 years ago, I was awfully terrible.
So now I'm just terrible.
Again, that's a story of making some improvement in golf.
I've got a long way to go.