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On the golf Science Lab podcast 
is past week we had on Mark 

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Brody talk about some of his 
research and some of his work on

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Strokes gained in some of the 
myths that he believes that we 

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have around stats and data. 
After you finish the podcast, 

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went through a round of quick 
questions, we can get to know 

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him a little bit better and this
podcast and the pockets of Mike.

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Brody are sponsored by Adele 
golf going to learn more about 

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single lengths, irons, and get 
the most common questions 

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answered said over the gulf 
science. 

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Dot-com / the Dell to find out 
more. 

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Best golf Gadget that you've 
been given in the past year, 

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does anything pop to mind? 
Well, not in the past year, but 

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I've used the truth board that 
Dave, pelts produces two to 

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practice shortcutting. 
And I think that's that's very 

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useful. 
And he also has another putting 

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Gadget where you put through two
Marbles. 

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And I think it's very helpful 
for reading the greens and 

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seeing the lines. 
So I think those are a couple of

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A couple of gadgets that I find 
useful but you know the main the

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main ones are things like 
trackman and quad for site. 

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That really give you a lot of 
information but those are 

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expensive gadgets that most 
individuals don't don't own yet.

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Putting me, what would be your 
most memorable golf trip? 

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Does anything pop out? 
I haven't gone on too many golf 

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trips but I really enjoyed going
to abandon Dunes. 

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I really enjoyed playing TPC 
Sawgrass. 

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Grass. 
And there's, there's probably a 

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few others, but, but Bandon 
Dunes was, was was great. 

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Yeah, that's the, I've heard 
that before. 

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That many times, it always gets 
good reviews. 

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That's for sure. 
Favorite Club in your bag right 

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now. 
Well, I haven't played in a 

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while because I have a little 
rotator cuff with problem with 

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my right shoulder, but I think I
like a 60-degree wedge. 

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I tend to use that one Club all 
the time around the greens 

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ravan. 
Switching to different clubs, 

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depending on the LIE or the 
location. 

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So I guess that's my favorite at
the moment. 

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You go. 
I'm curious but you because you 

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work with a lot of elite 
players. 

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I don't know if you work with 
high school players at all but 

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you know when talking with a 
high school golfer and they tell

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you, they want to play on the 
PGA tour, they want to play at 

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the highest level. 
What kind of advice would you 

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give them? 
Well, I think it takes a lot of 

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work and so you've got a love, 
love the game and you have to 

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love it enough to be Willing to 
put in, you know, all the hours 

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on and off the course that it 
takes to become an elite and 

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Elite golfer. 
And I show them stats from 

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Strokes gained stats from some 
players that have you know, gone

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from High School on De playing, 
you know, Division, 1 college 

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golf and it's about continuously
improving. 

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It's not so much. 
How good are you now? 

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How far do you hit the ball? 
Now? 

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It's seeing this. 
This trajectory where Wherever 

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you start, you know, there is a 
goal of say being scratch or 

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better than scratch. 
And so that's going to mean, 

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you're going to have to gain 
Strokes in in driving and 

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approach a short game and 
putting. 

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And so what I like to see is 
that that upward trajectory sort

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of continuing throughout their 
high school years on that kind 

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of note. 
If you're looking at the 

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development of players in that 
vein, over the past couple 

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years, is there been any like 
realization Or anything that 

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you've come up with that has had
the biggest impact on how you 

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view. 
Good performances have been like

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anything that you've done is 
like, that was a really key to 

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figuring stuff out over the past
few years. 

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Well, if you go way back, I 
think Strokes gained a 

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certainly, the key to measuring 
performance that sorta gets into

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the notion. 
That traditional stats are not 

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very informative, but I think 
you can, you can measure golf 

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performance in all sorts of 
areas using Skiing and that 

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applies from Junior golfers, 
High School, golfers women, 

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female golfers, mini-tour 
players. 

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And I think there's, there's 
also a misconception that this 

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just applies to PGA Tour Pros, 
but every amateur golfer, I 

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think could could benefit by 
getting a good read on their 

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game, where it currently is and 
then using that to set goals and

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a measure progress, All right. 
And last questions ever rapid 

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fire here that you get back to 
playing some golf and you have 

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four hours this week before you 
have to go play on Saturday and 

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you want to play your best? 
What are you going to do in 

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those four hours to get 
yourself? 

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Ready? 
What would be your practice? 

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So I would definitely want to 
stretch and and warm up and I 

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probably spend more time on the 
short game area on developing 

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sort of Rhythm and tempo. 
Go and touch around around the 

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greens and spend time putting 
and then, you know, spend, you 

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know, maybe an hour or less 
actually hitting hitting balls, 

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different clubs throughout the 
bag. 

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And so, I think that's also a 
misconception that just because 

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different parts of the game 
contribute, different amounts to

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two scoring doesn't mean that 
you should practice in those in 

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those same proportions and the 
reason I spend probably more 

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time Around the green is because
the sand could be wet. 

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The sand could be, could be dry 
and fluffy and the Rough Around.

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The Greens could be thick, it 
could be wet. 

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That could be long. 
It could be short. 

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So there's all sorts of 
different different lies that I 

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think it requires more practice 
to get used to that. 

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And I think that's sort of a 
valuable way to spend time 

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before before taking off.