What up you sticks?

My name is Brody McPherson.

I'm from Nova Scotia, Canada, and I play out a cabaret bread.

Welcome to Golf Smarter, boys.

Hi, I'm Thad Thomas, from Cottage Grove, Minnesota, and I play at River Oaks golf course.

Welcome to Golf Smarter. Episode

10024. When I was writing the publisher that I worked for owned a little golf magazine in Philadelphia

and I was the staff writer for that magazine and I interviewed Bob Rattella once, it was really cool.

It was me and other writer and him for like an hour just firing questions at him. He said, if you went to the range at a tour event and you took away the nameplate, so you didn't know who anybody was, and you just went up and down and watched each person swing the golf club, except for like Jim Furek or Tiger or somebody like that, who you knew what their swing was like. You wouldn't know if they were the fifth best

player in the world or the 500 and fifth best player in the world because they hit the ball so well.

And so something had to separate them. And it's the mental game. Can you do it when it matters most?

Can you manage your way around the golf course? Can you swallow your pride and play for four

rather than going for a pin tucked behind a bunker or over

the water hazard. So he said you can't recognize the fifth best player from the 500 fifth best

player in the world. So something has to separate them. And that's what it is. But mental game for sure.

A caddy at Marion Golf Club wrote a fun golf novel for all ages called The Philly Phenom by Nate Oxman.

This is Golf Smarter.

Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ.

Here's your host, Fred Green.

Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Nate.

Thanks, Fred.

I appreciate you having me here.

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