Dan McLaughlin

51 Strokes

Barstool Sports

Golf, Sports

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Hear how one man quit his day job to become a professional golfer through 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. Dan McLaughlin sat down on 51 Strokes this week to talk about his incredible story. Can he give Caleb the confidence to go for it all? Is "The Dan Plan" a reliable method to go from never having played to pro? Find out on today's episode. 51 Strokes is presented by Five Iron Golf!!!

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0:00.0	Hey, Barstool listeners, you can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
0:04.4	or YouTube.
0:05.4	Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:08.4	Perfect.
0:09.4	A perfect episode today because our guest, Dan McLaughlin, did what I'm trying to do.
0:17.8	He went for it.
0:19.1	At the age of 29, he quit his job, he gave up his previous life, committed himself to
0:28.0	becoming a pro golfer.
0:29.9	His idea was around the 10,000 hours rule where if you spend 10,000 hours of purposeful
0:36.8	practice, you can acquire any skill and become a master of that skill to become one of
0:42.8	the best in the world at it.
0:44.2	He actually made it, and of course we'll get into his story, but he made it to a minus
0:50.3	three golfer or minus three handicap in five years, but then he heard his back really
0:58.7	bad.
0:59.7	He was basically going to have to decide between what you're going to have to get a surgery
1:03.6	that was going to cause him to get tons more surgeries down the road or could he have
1:09.6	to give up golfing.
1:11.6	Anyways, he's been through what I'm going through, and on the episode today, he gives me
1:16.7	some tips.
1:17.7	We talk about his experience and pretty much just put him barbed in with questions.
1:22.1	I had like a 1 million questions.
1:23.5	I still honestly do.
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