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🗓️ 29 August 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Mike and Eli talk with short game master and 2018 PGA America National Teacher of the Year James Sieckmann about the biggest mistakes amateurs make in the short game, how to practice, and the details of how to hit the coveted low-flighted wedge.
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0:00.0 | All right, Eli, we got a bonus episode today. |
0:03.0 | Bonus time. |
0:05.0 | I feel like we normally don't have music for a bonus episode. |
0:10.0 | I feel like we need something. |
0:12.0 | Lenny? |
0:13.0 | Today we have a special guest. |
0:16.0 | We, as you guys know, we got some new Voki wedges, we went to TPI, and when we were there, |
0:22.0 | Lucas and Joey convinced us that we did not know how to |
0:26.3 | hit a wedge. And so we then went when we got our wedges in, we went back to title us and and we said hey who's a great person that we could talk to and they said |
0:36.6 | James seekman is the best in the world you need to talk to you need to talk to him. So we did. |
0:43.0 | And by the way, the other reason we did this, after the TPI episode, we had a ton of people |
0:51.1 | right in and tell us, I think I'm hitting my wedges the same way that you guys are. |
0:57.0 | So, you know, just as a follow-up for the listeners and as a response to so much the feedback from you all |
1:03.8 | we just wanted to put something together that would be not just beneficial to our |
1:07.5 | games but beneficial to yours as well. Yeah and we get into a lot of very specific physics in this episode. |
1:15.4 | We asked James exactly how to hit not only the low flighted wedge |
1:20.4 | from 70 yards, he goes into how to hit the one hop and stop from 15 yards, really, really good information. |
1:28.0 | And by the way, just to give you a little bio on James, he's been rated as the number one short game expert by a Golf |
1:34.2 | Digest was the PGA of America's 2018 National Teacher of the Year and he |
1:40.2 | currently works with 18 tour players, |
1:43.1 | so we were truly honored to get some time with him. |
1:46.2 | We will jump you straight into our first question. |
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