My daughter and I built this replica of Augusta National #12 out of Lego. We are planning to sell it to raise money for charity. Enjoy!

Do you agree this is one of the best bag sponsors you’ve ever seen? What a clever company name! I am caddying at first stage of PGA tour q-school and this is a player in our group. The player also has one the best names for a golfer I’ve seen: Cougar Collins.

How are you playing this tee shot? I am caddying this week at first stage of PGA Tour Qualifying School. Check out the stracka yardage book below. The wind is forecast to be light this week (~5mph), and mostly out of the Northeast all week. How are you thinking about this tee shot if you are a top level player? What is the target? What club are you hitting?

Does "never up, never in" apply to PGA Tour players? Do the best players in the world get every putt to the hole? I dug into 5 years of PGA Tour putting data to find out. Inside 10 feet, almost nothing finishes short (3.4% or less). Then it climbs. Fast. ▶️20-24 feet: 26% short (about 1 in 4) ▶️30-34 feet: 40% ▶️45-49 feet: 49% ▶️70+ feet: 59% From 45 feet and out, the best players on the planet leave about HALF their putts short. The best putters (top 20 in strokes gained putting) leave a few less short than the worst putters (ranked 160+). From 15-16 feet it's 11% vs 15%. So getting it to the hole matters the closer you are. As you move farther from the hole, the bigger difference is speed control. Here's how to read the "Where Putts Finished" chart. Each bar shows where about 68% of missed putts finish (for the math nerds, that's plus or minus 1 standard deviation from the average “North/South” miss). Where the bar sits shows where the misses are centered. From 20 and 30 feet, the bars sit mostly PAST the hole. As the putts get longer, the average miss moves back toward the hole. By 50 feet, the bar is centered right over it. How long the bar is shows how good the speed control is. The number on the right is the length of that “speed control” zone. The shorter the bar, the tighter the distance control. The best putters have the shorter bar at every distance, and the gap grows the farther back you go. From 50 feet, their zone is about 8 feet long. The worst putters' zone is almost 10 feet. Tighter distance control means a shorter next putt. Shorter next putts mean fewer three-putts.

How often do you three-putt? Here are three-putt rates for scratch and 12 index golfers from 5 feet all the way out to 70 feet. Data from Arccos Golf.

This is crazy!!! Can’t say I’ve seen this before! 🤯

Does this count as a hole-in-one? A good friend of mine made an ace at the sand box. It’s the par three course at sand valley. ➡️43 yards ➡️he was on a buddies trip, and they may have had a few cocktails at this point. 😀 ➡️he was messing around and teed it up as high as he would with driver. Hit a 56 degree wedge that hit past the hole and spun back into the hole ➡️he bought drinks after Does it count?

Are they shorter than you thought? 👇

Is a one-way miss overrated? Some Tour players have a balanced left/right miss. Some miss it to one side more often. Players who have a more balanced left/right miss are more likely to be ranked in the top 25% (and top 10%) in strokes gained off-the-tee. Players who have a more one-sided miss are more likely to be ranked in the bottom 25% (and bottom 10%) in strokes gained off-the-tee. And it flips when you look at the players ranked near the bottom of strokes gained off-the-tee. The players that miss it to one side more often are more likely to be ranked in the bottom 25% and bottom 10%. This doesn’t mean a balanced miss MAKES you a better driver. Golf is messy. But it does appear to tip the scales in your favor.

The best drivers of the golf ball do NOT eliminate one side of the golf course. They center their pattern so that they are missing equally left and right. Below is off-the-tee data from a world ranked top 100 amateur who is VERY GOOD with driver. cc: @adamyounggolf

We were lucky enough to play in this last year and it was the coolest experience I have had in college golf by a wide margin. It didn't hurt that we won as well!😀

Should be a fun day!

This is definitely the worst rule in golf! 😀

PGA Tour has been tracking radar data off-the-tee since 2007. I compared the 10 players who gained the most club-head-speed over a two-year interval (e.g., 2017 vs 2019) with the 10 players who lost the most club-head-speed over a two-year interval. Here’s how their average results changed from the starting season to the ending season. (e.g., 2017 numbers versus 2019 numbers): The players who gained speed: ➡️averaged $1.40 million more in official money per season ➡️gained an average of 0.32 more strokes per round off the tee ➡️gained an average of 0.50 more strokes per round overall ➡️fairways hit decreased by 3.9% (~0.55 fewer fairways per round) The players who lost speed: ➡️averaged $121,215 less in official money per season ➡️lost an average of -0.13 more strokes per round off the tee ➡️lost an average of -0.30 more strokes per round overall ➡️fairways hit increased by 3.1% (~0.43 more fairways per round)

Bryson’s left handed swing! Sick! These players are incredible athletes.

This is disgusting. Straight to jail for this destruction.

Give this one a listen! It was a fun chat. Thank you for having me on fellas!