On the golf Science Lab podcast is past week we had on Mark
Brody talk about some of his research and some of his work on
Strokes gained in some of the myths that he believes that we
have around stats and data. After you finish the podcast,
went through a round of quick questions, we can get to know
him a little bit better and this podcast and the pockets of Mike.
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Best golf Gadget that you've been given in the past year,
does anything pop to mind? Well, not in the past year, but
I've used the truth board that Dave, pelts produces two to
practice shortcutting. And I think that's that's very
useful. And he also has another putting
Gadget where you put through two Marbles.
And I think it's very helpful for reading the greens and
seeing the lines. So I think those are a couple of
A couple of gadgets that I find useful but you know the main the
main ones are things like trackman and quad for site.
That really give you a lot of information but those are
expensive gadgets that most individuals don't don't own yet.
Putting me, what would be your most memorable golf trip?
Does anything pop out? I haven't gone on too many golf
trips but I really enjoyed going to abandon Dunes.
I really enjoyed playing TPC Sawgrass.
Grass. And there's, there's probably a
few others, but, but Bandon Dunes was, was was great.
Yeah, that's the, I've heard that before.
That many times, it always gets good reviews.
That's for sure. Favorite Club in your bag right
now. Well, I haven't played in a
while because I have a little rotator cuff with problem with
my right shoulder, but I think I like a 60-degree wedge.
I tend to use that one Club all the time around the greens
ravan. Switching to different clubs,
depending on the LIE or the location.
So I guess that's my favorite at the moment.
You go. I'm curious but you because you
work with a lot of elite players.
I don't know if you work with high school players at all but
you know when talking with a high school golfer and they tell
you, they want to play on the PGA tour, they want to play at
the highest level. What kind of advice would you
give them? Well, I think it takes a lot of
work and so you've got a love, love the game and you have to
love it enough to be Willing to put in, you know, all the hours
on and off the course that it takes to become an elite and
Elite golfer. And I show them stats from
Strokes gained stats from some players that have you know, gone
from High School on De playing, you know, Division, 1 college
golf and it's about continuously improving.
It's not so much. How good are you now?
How far do you hit the ball? Now?
It's seeing this. This trajectory where Wherever
you start, you know, there is a goal of say being scratch or
better than scratch. And so that's going to mean,
you're going to have to gain Strokes in in driving and
approach a short game and putting.
And so what I like to see is that that upward trajectory sort
of continuing throughout their high school years on that kind
of note. If you're looking at the
development of players in that vein, over the past couple
years, is there been any like realization Or anything that
you've come up with that has had the biggest impact on how you
view. Good performances have been like
anything that you've done is like, that was a really key to
figuring stuff out over the past few years.
Well, if you go way back, I think Strokes gained a
certainly, the key to measuring performance that sorta gets into
the notion. That traditional stats are not
very informative, but I think you can, you can measure golf
performance in all sorts of areas using Skiing and that
applies from Junior golfers, High School, golfers women,
female golfers, mini-tour players.
And I think there's, there's also a misconception that this
just applies to PGA Tour Pros, but every amateur golfer, I
think could could benefit by getting a good read on their
game, where it currently is and then using that to set goals and
a measure progress, All right. And last questions ever rapid
fire here that you get back to playing some golf and you have
four hours this week before you have to go play on Saturday and
you want to play your best? What are you going to do in
those four hours to get yourself?
Ready? What would be your practice?
So I would definitely want to stretch and and warm up and I
probably spend more time on the short game area on developing
sort of Rhythm and tempo. Go and touch around around the
greens and spend time putting and then, you know, spend, you
know, maybe an hour or less actually hitting hitting balls,
different clubs throughout the bag.
And so, I think that's also a misconception that just because
different parts of the game contribute, different amounts to
two scoring doesn't mean that you should practice in those in
those same proportions and the reason I spend probably more
time Around the green is because the sand could be wet.
The sand could be, could be dry and fluffy and the Rough Around.
The Greens could be thick, it could be wet.
That could be long. It could be short.
So there's all sorts of different different lies that I
think it requires more practice to get used to that.
And I think that's sort of a valuable way to spend time
before before taking off.