Data Action Golf with Dr. Aaron R. Stewart

Arnold Palmer burst onto the golf scene via a black and white television screen, and golf was instantly cool. He won majors and tournaments, he created an army of fans and more importantly achieved a level of greatness that now lives on after his passing. We take a look at Arnie's accomplishments in this podcast, reviewing some of the incredible data of his life from an article written by Cameron Morfit. He grabbed our attention, earned our support and eventually our respect and love. There will never be another Arnold Palmer, and we would be unwise to forget him. Let's tee it up! #APInv #ArnoldPalmer #ArniesArmy

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We all overthink! We try to control our swings and shots with our conscious mind, and you know what, it just doesn't work quick enough to do it well. It is no fault of their own, they really want to help, but the most we can get out of them is a swing thought here or there or a negative thought right before we take the club back. To play really great golf, we just have to let it happen, just give everything we have practiced and all the experience we have earned a chance to shine through and get it done. If we try to control things with our conscious mind, we are just getting in the way of our best golf.

Instead, let's be like Justin Thomas in his final round of the WGC Mexico Championship. He came right out and tied his own course record because "he just didn't care." Oh sure he cared about his score and performance, but he stopped caring about the outcome, his value wasn't attached to his performance, and like predictable magic, he went low, really low. He even had a makable birdie putt on 18 to break his own course record! So cool. So how can we play golf and keep our conscious mind out of it? Excellent Question! Let's tee it up!

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This is Keith Mitchell's 2nd year on tour. He has played in 40 PGA Tour events and has made 70% of his cuts so far in his career. His putting has been very poor so far this year, but with the victory last week, it was the first time Keith has been a positive number against the field in the Strokes Gained-Putting (SGP) category. In this episode we take a few minutes to define SGP for a few of our listeners, then we dive in to see just how much more money Keith Mitchell would have made in the previous 5 tournaments, if he has just putted as well as he did last week, while playing in them. Additionally, we take the PGA Tour's leader (Brian Gay) in SGP and use his average to see how much more money Keith could have made if he was the best putter on tour. It makes for some pretty fascinating data. Let's tee it up!

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On this Data Monday, we dive into the data that matter and look to see how Keith Mitchell was able to navigate the Bear Trap at PGA National and hold off Brooks Koepka and Rickey Fowler to get his first win on the PGA Tour. His victory took me back to the situation at the Desert Classic in Palm Desert where Adam Long came from seemingly nowhere to steal the tournament away from two other veterans, Phil Mickelson and Adam Hadwin. It was such an impressive win, to sink a birdie putt to win it all will be something he and many of us will remember for the rest of the year and maybe longer. In the data, we will see where Keith made the biggest jump in his game to get this win and discuss where he might want to stay focused going forward based on the data. Great success and some fun and interesting data in this Data Monday, The Honda Classic edition. Let's tee it up! 

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Do you have passion for golf? Why? Is golf just a game? Or is it more to you? How do you play your best golf? How do we get in our own way and hurt our performance? What can golf teach us about ourselves and about others. And can golf, this silly little game, actually prepare us to get more out of life? Let's tee it up!

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The Honda Classic is on, and Brooks Koepka is in the field and again is speaking to be heard. Brooks seems to have decided that 2019 will be the year that his opinions will matter, and we are happy about it. Many of us just thought Brooks didn't have much to say, but we have learned in a recent article that he didn't feel he had earned the right to speak his mind. We also hear from R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers who fortunately disagrees from Mike Davis on how the Rules of Golf had been received and implemented. It is refreshing to hear someone in power who gets it! Let's tee it up! Rickie Fowler and Justin Thomas use very different methods to make their opinions on the new rules known. 😂😂

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Wednesdays are now "Whatever Wednesdays."  Giving us a chance to review all things golf for the week, the news, the feel good, and maybe feel bad stories, essentially... whatever. In today's show, we discuss how the schedule change has hurt the Honda Classic, how our perception of Rory McIlroy here in the US probably more positive, where Rory's decision to skip the Irish Open has raised some ire from his hometown paper. We discuss the difficult and near disaster at the Monday qualifier for the Honda Open, and even a little bit on the ridiculous outcry on backstopping. Give me a freaking break; let it die already. And finally, my favorite, the very first installment of "Fred Says," which will be a segment where I share a quote or teaching of Fred Shoemaker of Extraordinary Golf, and then discuss the how it can help us in golf and sometimes even in life. It is what a mentee should always do for a mentor, so here we go.  Let's tee it up!

Yep, I said it; I am a better golf coach than Butch Harmon. I don't want anyone's head to explode, so let me explain. I am a better golf coach than Butch Harmon... for my swing. And with technology to help us, we can all become the best coaches for our swings. When we choose a coach, we want to make sure they are asking us what we are feeling, what we are experiencing, for them to help us get closer to what is going on. Once we are experiencing what is going on, then our ability to get better goes throughout the roof. The key is to use technology and coaching to close that gap. Let's tee it up!

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Dustin seems to like playing out of the country. This is his second worldwide win this season, and he won both outside the borders of the good ole US of A. This win was a breeze for Dustin, who is showing some form similar to what we say out of him in the early portion of the 2017 season, when it really felt as if no one could beat him. You could hear in Rory McIlroy's voice in his Saturday afternoon interviews that he felt catching DJ was going to be difficult, and he was correct.  At the Puerto Rico Open Web.com graduate Martin Trainer won for his first PGA Tour win, and pick up $540K for his efforts and a 2-year exemption on tour, which has to feel great! Let's look into the number of the Dustin Johnson win, and compare it to out benchmarks to see how they hold up.  Let's tee it up!

NEW BENCHMARKS:

Driving Accuracy: 55%

GIR: 65%

Sand Saves: 45%

Scrambling: 55%

Putting:

Over 25': 4%

15-20': 14%

10-15': 25%

3-5': 80%

Putts Per Round: less than 30

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Wow, that was a weird one at the Genesis Open this year. Much to cheer about with the improvement to the tournament going forward joining with Tiger Wood's charities and becoming an Invitational, more money, more extended exemption. Very cool. JB Holmes and Justin Thomas have history, which we didn't learn about until after the tournament, but did that mentor/mentee relationship play a role in the outcome. We look at the number that matter in both $$, but also in performance up against the performance benchmarks we use to manage and monitor our games. Let's tee it up!!