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From Caddyshack to Corner Office : How Being A Caddie has Influenced Some of the World’s Top Executives

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Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3577 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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749: Kai Sato is an entrepreneur who learned just as many valuable lessons about business from being a caddie as he did from his Business degree from USC. He now has a website called CaddyshackToCornerOffice.com where he interviews some of the world’s top executives about their experiences and inspiration from looping as a young person. Our next giveaway is for a dozen eagle quality, hand inspected, sanitized premium used balls of your choice from TwoGuysWithGolfBalls.com. Deadline to enter is Sunday, July 19, 2020 at Midnight PDT/3a EDT. Enter at GolfSmarter.com/giveaway2020. Listen for details.This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans #65, we meet Titleist Performance Institute instructor Lynn Anderson and talk about “In and Off Season Workouts to Improve Performance”.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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This is kind of meant to give this caddy community a voice and to hopefully inspire future generations.

0:06.9

And I felt like back to the Kobe inspiration, but kind of where I was, being a caddy,

0:11.9

and then getting to join the club where I caddied seven years ago and then playing in member guests or different tournaments

0:17.5

and meeting so many folks from around the country and sometimes the world. And they're like, oh, yeah, of course, I caddy. People take such pride in it. At our club at Bel Air, there's at least 10, 12 guys that I know of the caddy. And I've deliberately not interviewed pretty much any of them because I wanted it to be about an objective community, not just some jerks in Bel Air talking about themselves. It's been really

0:38.6

humbling. I'll tell you, like the people who are writing in now, our cue is rather lengthy.

0:43.8

It's special and just got to keep at it and keep growing our team and whether it's podcast or

0:49.7

video, we don't know yet. We're exploring a lot of those things of just how do you reach the

0:53.5

audience and how do you tell

0:54.7

the best stories.

0:55.5

And if we think that we do that, then we'll win.

0:58.0

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1:18.7

From Caddyshack to Corner Office, how being a caddy has influenced some of the world's top

1:25.0

executives.

1:25.9

This is Golf Smarter,

1:28.4

sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds

1:32.2

to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ.

1:36.5

Here's your host, Fred Green.

1:38.9

Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Kai.

1:41.9

Thanks, Fred.

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