A Beginner Documents His Quest to Become a Scratch Golfer | #896

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Sports, Society & Culture, Golf

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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896: Golf can’t be that difficult to understand, learn, and conquer, can it? Jerome Rufin believes it, so he launched a YouTube documentary series called “Scratch to Scratch” that documents his daily quest from knowing nothing about the sport…and I do mean nothing…to be a scratch golfer. The videos are informative, enlightening, compelling and sometimes frustrating to watch as he gets advanced instruction at a rapid pace. But it’s clear by watching that he, like many of us, is sometimes lost about what it all means and how it works. Even with a team of coaches and full time dedication, Jerome believes he could shoot par regularly in less than 5 years. In this conversation, we learn just how his innocent naiveté is keeping his spirits high and his frustration in check. https://www.youtube.com/@JeromeRufin Watch the complete interview at https://youtu.be/fhnZxqHTsHE
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0:00.0	I'm new to this game. I'm trying to do this whole scratch-the-scrash thing. And I just kind of like, invoke through them, like, I'm really hardworking. Like, you're not gonna get a student in regards to like, I will, like, blood, sweat and tears is like the definition. And so I think they were just also just bought into the journey. And then after kind of seeing like my relative dedication of just like constantly practicing, practicing,
0:21.5	practicing, hitting them up at 2 a.m.
0:23.0	with like questions.
0:24.0	They got more and more bought in. And so he was like right off the band was like, yeah, like this is crazy. And I get a lot of emails like that. It's like you're pretty crazy. But I'm in it. I think 95% of my emails are like that. Hi, this is Eric Christensen from Seattle, Washington,
0:39.6	and I play at the West Seattle Golf Course.
0:42.5	This is Golf Smarter number 896.
0:46.2	From scratch to scratch, a beginner documents his quest to become a scratch golfer with Jerome Ruffin.
0:53.4	This is Golf Smarter.
0:56.3	Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score
1:01.5	and raise your golf IQ.
1:04.1	Here's your host, Fred Green.
1:06.4	Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Jerome.
1:08.8	Hey, Brett, how's going?
1:10.3	It's going well.
1:11.5	This is going to be fascinating for me because you're actually in a position that I almost, almost was when I started this podcast.
1:21.6	Now, I started this podcast in 2005.
1:24.7	I started playing golf.
1:31.2	I had been playing golf about five or six years at that point.
1:35.0	And I was looking for free lessons, basically.
1:39.4	So I started calling teachers and asking them,
1:40.6	would you like to be on my podcast?
1:42.0	And they're going, what's a podcast?
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