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514 Premium: LPGA Tour Player Daniela Iacobelli and Get Real Golf Stats Founder Josh Marris

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3577 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2015

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

514: Golf improvement is so much more than hitting the ball farther. Compiling stats and using the metrics to lower your golf scores is a logical and scientific approach to becoming a better, happier golfer. In this episode we have two guests. Josh Marris is a former Touring Pro who is the founder of GRGS, or Get Real Golf Stats, which is both a website and mobile app. Our special guest is Daniela Iacobelli, who played on the Symetra Tour in 2015 and after compiling stats using the GRGS App for just one season, she has improved enough to be in the Top 10 of the Symetra Tour and will be competing in the LPGA Tour for 2016.The GRGS App is free, but as a Golf Smarter listener who plays at least twice per month, you are encouraged to take advantage of either the Gold or Platinum subscriptions and get a significant discount. Go to GRGS.cc/golfsmarter to sign up. To receive the discount, you must sign up at the website, not the app. This discount is applied for the lifetime of your account, so each renewal will be at the discounted rate. You can cancel at anytime. No credit card is required to create a free account. If you already have a membership and want the discount, email info@getrealgolfstats.com and mention Golf Smarter Podcast to take advantage of this incredible offer. This episode was conducted at Blab.im. Each new episode of GOLF SMARTER will be live on BLAB, which allows you to participate with your own questions. To receive an automatic notification of our next recording time and date, use Blab or Twitter to follow us. @GolfSmarter.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Golf Smarter Premium number 514 published on November 10, 2015.

0:07.2

Conversation with LPGA Tour player Daniela Yacabelli and Get Real Golf Stats founder, Josh Maris.

0:14.5

This is Golf Smarter Premium.

0:17.8

Here's your host, Fred Green.

0:20.8

Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Josh.

0:23.6

Thanks very much, Fred. Pleasure to be on.

0:25.6

Yep. Now, I immediately can detect that you are not from Southern California, but I think that's where you are right now, right?

0:32.6

I'm based in Southern California, yes, but yeah, instincts are correct there, Fred.

0:38.9

I'm from the other side of the pond, as we'd say.

0:42.7

Home for me is Australia, but I've been here in Southern California for four years now.

0:48.0

Okay.

0:48.6

Well, tell us, you know, what your golf experience is and what brought you to creating a golf app?

0:56.5

Sure.

0:57.3

My experience in the golf industry started when I was about 17.

1:01.8

I got my first job at a golf resort.

1:04.2

I worked under the same golf professional for eight years before I completed a PGA apprenticeship

1:10.0

with the PGA of Australia.

1:11.9

And as soon as I'd finished that, I followed my dream of wanting to compete on the PGA

1:18.0

tour and made tracks to come over here to the great United States.

1:23.9

So that was about four years ago that I came over here.

1:26.6

And in the first few weeks, got off to a pretty good start, played some good golf.

1:32.7

But really, what started the process for Get Real was I'd actually been keeping stats for my game since I was a young teenager.

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