Golf Science Lab

By Golf Science Lab w/ host Cordie Walker

What's Golf Science Lab about?

We help golfers understand what it ACTUALLY takes to get better at golf and perform your best.

Ignore the BS and cut to truth as we talk with leaders in the industry, from professional golfers, coaches, instructors, biomechanists, researchers and more.

Host, Cordie Walker is on a mission to figure out how to improve the way we learn and get better at golf.

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Ben Carr: from 52nd to U.S....

12.21.2022

Ben Carr joins Tony Ruggiero to talk about his past year; the mistakes and lessons that led to finishing as runner-up at the U.S. Amateur Championship. They share what they did to get him back on track, such as blocking ...

Golf Science Lab episodes:

12.21.2022 Ben Carr: from 52nd to U.S. Amateur Finalist Ben Carr joins Tony Ruggiero to talk about his past year; the mistakes and lessons that led to finishing as runner-up at the U.S. Amateur Championship. They share what they did to get him back on track, such as blocking ...
12.14.2022 Getting Through Q School Tony Ruggiero and Jackson Koert talk with Peter Knade and Emilio Gonzalez about getting through Q School, and their korn ferry card this year after missing it last year. They discuss the differences and process that lead to their growth ...
12.07.2022 What the best players do in practice rounds Tony is hanging out with Donald Cooper and Vaughn Taylor at RSM, for the last tour event of the year. They talk about what the best players do with practicing and practice rounds. Coop shares how practice rounds are to ...
11.30.2022 How to Cut Your Handicap by 20% Tony Ruggiero is joined by six coaches to discuss the many ways to cut your handicap by 20%. Everyone weighs in on what to focus on to make that happen. From understanding how far you carry the ball, your numbers, ...
11.16.2022 Josh Gregory: Simple and Effective Coaching Josh Gregory shares his journey from playing in college and on Tour to coaching some of the best players today. The most important factor for him is having a personal connection and relationship. He shares past mistakes and how he’s ...
11.09.2022 How to train and coach every skill level Tony Ruggiero, Jackson Koert & Morgan Hale hold a Q&A with players before heading into a training program. You’ll hear their team philosophy and plan for the training program. Each of them weigh in on how to coach recreational players, ...
11.04.2022 Good vs. GREAT mentorship Tony Ruggiero is joined by Paul Schempp, Steve Moore, Robert Campbell and Jackson Koert to discuss the differences between good and great coaches and define what novice coaches do compared to confident coaches. Discussion is full of great advice to ...
10.26.2022 Smylie Kaufman shares the success in keeping it simple After Tony Ruggiero and Smylie Kaufman reflect on their years working together – Smylie was one of the best students Tony ever had. Smylie shares the secret to his success it was his understanding of his swing and keeping his ...
10.19.2022 Zack Sucher: How He's Training for Q School Zack Sucher, Eric Brunner and Tony Ruggiero talk about getting Zack ready for Q School - mentally, physically and technically. They dive into the biggest factors that have improved his short game, full swing and how to get back to ...
10.12.2022 The Most Important Factors for Better Putting Ralph Bauer and Tony Ruggiero talk all things putting. He explains where he starts when work with tour players, it’s changing their perspective to understanding how they missed is due to misreading instead of pushing or pulling. He talks about ...
10.05.2022 Hal Sutton shares his best advice from playing on tour to instruction Hal Sutton joins Tony to talk about what he learned from his success of playing on Tour and how he transitioned into instruction. Hal shares how instruction has taking away his feel for the game, and what he would tell ...
09.29.2022 How to train with injuries and improve mobility. Tony Ruggiero, Dr. Scott Lynn, Mark Hackett, Dan Terlescki hold a Q&A for members of Palm Golf Club to share what exercises and areas to focus on for injuries, and how to adjust training to accommodate changes in physical ability. ...
09.22.2022 Ralph Bauer: What you need to know about putting Ralph Bauer and Tony talk all things putting. He explains where he starts when work with tour players, it’s changing their perspective to understanding how they missed is due to misreading instead of pushing or pulling. He talks about his ...
09.22.2022 Coaching Roundtable: Collaboration, Training for Q School and Best Advice Tony Ruggiero is joined by Luke Kerr Dineen, Jackson Koert, Justin Parsons and Wayne Flint to discuss how coaches can develop their influence with social media and improving player’s performance. Luke shares his experience as a player and Golf Magazine/GOLF.com ...
09.15.2022 Social Media Tips for Instructors Tony Ruggiero is joined by Luke Kerr Dineen, Jackson Koert, Justin Parsons and Wayne Flint to discuss how coaches can develop their influence with social media and improving player’s performance. Luke shares his experience as a player and Golf Magazine/GOLF.com ...
09.07.2022 Lee Trevino's #1 Fan shares transforming training tips Tony sits down with Armando, from Lee Trevino's #1 fan page, to talk about how he decided to research Trevino and how it's improved his game. He shares his journey becoming a better recreational golfer, the less traditional information he's ...
08.31.2022 How to Understand your EVERY shot Peter Sanders and Tony Ruggiero on the podcast to share how he created Shot by Shot, now called Strokes Gained analysis. With his expertise with analyzing data and stats through the years, he shares the commonalities he’s found amongst players ...
08.23.2022 How Coaches Learn From Great Players Tony Ruggiero and Chris Mayson to talk about all things coaching, from juniors to tour players. Chris shares how he started coaching, and what’s changed since he first started. He shares the challenges and solutions that he uses with teaching ...
08.11.2022 Commitment To The Plan Tony sits down with Kolby and Greg to discuss the US Open, the level of commitment it takes for players to compete at the highest level, the value of consistency over time, and how any player is vulnerable to settling ...
08.04.2022 Round Table: Effective Practice Tony Ruggiero hosts a round table to discuss practicing effectively with Dr. Greg Cartin, Wayne Flint, Morgan Hale, Mark Hackett and Ryan Moque.
07.28.2022 Coach to Your Players Individuality Justin Parsons joins Tony Ruggiero, to talk about how to understand the individuality of your players and their tendencies. They share unique challenges with players, as well as coaching from a point of view that is holistic, including aspects outside ...
07.21.2022 Understanding Players' Patterns Tony Ruggeiro has Adam Schriber on the podcast, he shares his secrets on developing young players, the key to understanding their patterns developed in a specific age windows, learning movement patterns. They also talk about their ways of solving players' ...
07.14.2022 Owning Your Swing and Coaching Evolution Tony Ruggiero and Brady Riggs talk about how their coaching perspectives have changed in the past two years, and their greatest means to keep learning along with the best advice they received throughout their careers. They talk about the benefit ...
07.08.2022 The Challenges of Coaching on Tour John Tillery, PGA Tour Coach works with Scott Brown, Roberto Castro, Brice Garnett, Kevin Kisner, Rick Lamb, Will McGirt, and Brandt Snedeker as well as mini-tour professionals and up-and-coming collegiate athletes. He’s previously been selected as one of Golf Digest’s ...
04.26.2022 Better Coaching is a Lifelong Journey Tony Ruggiero and Jackson Koert sit down with PGA Master Professional, 2019 PGA Teacher of the Year and a GOLF Magazine Top 100 Teacher in America; Kevin Kirk. They discuss the lifelong commitment to better coaching. Kevin shares how he ...
04.08.2022 The Process of Improving: Q&A with Tony Ruggiero, Dr. Scott Lynn and Eric Brunner Tony Ruggiero, Dr. Scott Lynn, and Eric Brunner answer questions from club golfers at a weekend retreat. They share their insights on topics about consistency, different disciplines ever coach should know, overestimating how good tour players are, learning strategies on ...
03.11.2022 The Process of Getting Better with Tony Ruggiero and Zack Sucher Tony Ruggerio and Zack Sucher sit down to talk about a year that didn't get the results that Zack had hoped for. He shares how he took responsibility and what drills and focus to change his performance. Amazing episode on ...
03.03.2022 Team Coaching is it better for you and your players? Coming off a weekend program for developing Juniors, Tony Ruggiero sits down with Kevin Kirk, Kevin Sprecher and Ian Highfield to talk about all things coaching. From the mistakes that young teachers make, how to make learning stick and what ...
02.25.2022 Future of Instruction This episode is focused around our partner show, Tour Coach by Tony Ruggiero. He's joined by Cody McBride, from "No Laying Up", Wayne Flint and Ryan Smith, to talk about the unique culture of “The Dewsweeper” and the future of ...
02.10.2022 56 years of Golf Instruction with Ted Sheftic Golf Magazine’s Top 100 Teacher, Ted Sheftic, joins Tony Ruggiero to talk about what’s the same and what’s changed in his 56 years of teaching. They talk about the greats of golf instruction, and how instruction has changed over time. ...
12.22.2021 Being connected to who you lead Tony Ruggiero and Dr. Bhrett McCabe, a Clinical and Sports Psychologist, take a look at mental health, and the new pressures that players experience. He shares his thoughts on success, and incredible insight into success, doubts, and fears. Finding the ...
11.25.2021 Top 100 Teachers Summit Roundtable Tony Ruggiero sits down with legendary instructions at the Golf.com Top 100 Teachers Summit. He’s joined by Tom Resendez, Rick Silva, Jackson Koert, Jake Thurm, Mark Hackett, Wayne Flint, Ted and Mark Sheftic. They review what they’ve seen at the ...
11.18.2021 GSL - TC087 Brad Pullin Tony Ruggiero sits down with Brad Pullin to hear about how he went from an early age to becoming a golf professional. He never thought about becoming a teacher but as his career path evolved it became clear it was ...
11.04.2021 Keys for Preventing Burnout and Sustaining a Long Career Tony Ruggiero and Dr. Greg Cartin discuss the adversities they've seen Tour Players and teachers face. They dive into how success follows the joy of the action and how balancing the three components of results, fulfillment and learning are intricately ...
10.21.2021 Preparing for Q School Heading into Q School, Tony Ruggiero sits down with Tour Players, Rick Lamb and Emilio Gonzalez, to talk about heading into Q School. Both share how their mentality plays a huge role in the lead up, the process to getting ...
10.14.2021 Akshay Bhatia: The Journey to Playing Pro at 17 Tony has Tour Player, Akshay Bhatia, on the show this week. Tony shares what really stood out to him about Akshay. They talk about his journey and choices with turning Pro at 17 years old. The uncharted challenges he struggled ...
09.30.2021 Rick Smith's Shares his Greatest Learning Moments Tony sits down with legendary instructor Rick Smith. With decades of experience coaching the game’s greatest players, this episode is full of wisdom to all players and instructors. Rick shares the greatest lessons he’s learned from his players and experience. ...
09.09.2021 Unlocking Tour Players' Potential Coach Adam Schriber, is recognized as one of the top 100 instructors and known as a pioneer of integrating fitness, biomechanical-influenced instruction, and digital technology tools into the game. Adam shares how meeting Mark Verstegen had a significant impact on ...
08.26.2021 Old School Coaching in a Modern World This week's episode is a roundtable at the Ocean Reef Retreat with Tony Ruggerio. He's joined by Dr. Scott Lynn, Jackson Koert, Michelle Winkler and a few players. They discuss the benefits of technology, science has brought to coaching alongside ...
08.19.2021 Developmental Coaching: Expanding Your Scope and Creating a Better Future for the Game Kevin Kirk, PGA Master Professional, 2019 PGA Teacher of the Year and a GOLF Magazine Top 100 Teacher in America is Tony’s guest this week. Kevin attended the 2021 Olympics and has incredible insight from what he saw firsthand. Tony ...
08.12.2021 From Start to on Tour, Coaching's Greatest Lessons Jeff Smith and Tony talk about the recent boom in golf and give their predictions for how that'll play out in the future. Jeff shares how he started, the lessons he learned starting out from coaching all levels and how ...
08.06.2021 Growing the Game Suzy Whaley, former president of PGA tour and Top 100 instructor, shares her experience learning from the greatest coaches, the non-linear path from college golf to the LPGA and instruction, and how to continue growing the game. Tony and Suzy ...
07.29.2021 From Officer to Coaching Some of the World's Best Players This week we hear the great story of how Noah Montgomery went from being an officer to coaching some of the best players in the world, like Gaganjeet Bhullar and John Catlin. He shares candid stories of being on tour, ...
07.22.2021 Five Points of a Successful Training Program Five experts: Tony Ruggiero, Kolby Tullier, Wayne Flint, Dr Greg Cartin and Jay Coffin discuss how to create a successful training program. Each sharing their experience on the environment, process of instruction and the significance of having different expertise but ...
07.16.2021 Science Behind the Swing Michael Jacobs - 50 Best Teacher in America by Golf Digest, and top 100 Teacher in America by Golf Magazine; shares his journey, with Tony Ruggiero to creating his own research software and what the Jacobs 3D team is working ...
07.13.2021 Integrating Athletics into Golf Training This week’s guest is Shaun Webb - he’s a top 100 teacher, been coaching for 20 years and has achieved great success with his business Athletic Motion Golf. Athletic Motion Golf integrates other sports' exercises and drills to golf instruction. ...
06.24.2021 What is Effective Mentorship? Tony Ruggiero is passing over his baton as Director of Instruction at Frederica Golf Course to Jackson Koert. For this significant moment, Tony sits down with Jackson and Abby Koert, Emilio Gonzalez, Nathan Jolly, and Joseph Dent to talk about ...
06.17.2021 Technology's Influence on the Future of Golf Tony Ruggiero and Tim Briand talk all things Golf Technology, from hybrid instruction, remote learning, on-course data, to fitting and equipment. A major driving factor is directly related to the average golf's age being younger. Tim Briand is the Global ...
06.03.2021 Biomechanics and Eliminating Misconceptions This week, Tony Ruggiero talks with Rick Silva, from Movement 3 Golf, about implementing golf research and biomechanics into better coaching. Rick was one of the first teachers in the USA to build his own 3d-capable studio and study advance ...
05.27.2021 Sticking to the Plan: the Common Denominator to Playing Better Tony Ruggiero and James Oh sit down to discuss improving your game, where to put your focus in practice and what it takes to get better. They also explain the mindset of the best players, and what instruction looks like ...

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Golf Science Lab

What's Golf Science Lab about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Golf Science Lab episodes:

Ben Carr: from 52nd to U.S. Amateur Finalist

Getting Through Q School

What the best players do in practice rounds

How to Cut Your Handicap by 20%

Josh Gregory: Simple and Effective Coaching

How to train and coach every skill level

Good vs. GREAT mentorship

Smylie Kaufman shares the success in keeping it simple

Zack Sucher: How He's Training for Q School

The Most Important Factors for Better Putting

Hal Sutton shares his best advice from playing on tour to instruction

How to train with injuries and improve mobility.

Ralph Bauer: What you need to know about putting

Coaching Roundtable: Collaboration, Training for Q School and Best Advice

Social Media Tips for Instructors

Lee Trevino's #1 Fan shares transforming training tips

How to Understand your EVERY shot

How Coaches Learn From Great Players

Commitment To The Plan

Round Table: Effective Practice

Coach to Your Players Individuality

Understanding Players' Patterns

Owning Your Swing and Coaching Evolution

The Challenges of Coaching on Tour

Better Coaching is a Lifelong Journey

The Process of Improving: Q&A with Tony Ruggiero, Dr. Scott Lynn and Eric Brunner

The Process of Getting Better with Tony Ruggiero and Zack Sucher

Team Coaching is it better for you and your players?

Future of Instruction

56 years of Golf Instruction with Ted Sheftic

Being connected to who you lead

Top 100 Teachers Summit Roundtable

GSL - TC087 Brad Pullin

Keys for Preventing Burnout and Sustaining a Long Career

Preparing for Q School

Akshay Bhatia: The Journey to Playing Pro at 17

Rick Smith's Shares his Greatest Learning Moments

Unlocking Tour Players' Potential

Old School Coaching in a Modern World

Developmental Coaching: Expanding Your Scope and Creating a Better Future for the Game

From Start to on Tour, Coaching's Greatest Lessons

Growing the Game

From Officer to Coaching Some of the World's Best Players

Five Points of a Successful Training Program

Science Behind the Swing

Integrating Athletics into Golf Training

What is Effective Mentorship?

Technology's Influence on the Future of Golf

Biomechanics and Eliminating Misconceptions

Sticking to the Plan: the Common Denominator to Playing Better