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#ICYMI - Hole-istic Golf, with Craig Davies and Sean Foley

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🗓️ 22 June 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In case you missed this episode on the Playing with Science channel… The U.S. Open may be over but we’re still on course. Hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice chat with Dr. Craig Davies and golf coach Sean Foley about taking the hole-istic approach to golf and the secrets that make the best players great. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/hole-istic-golf-with-craig-davies-and-sean-foley/ Photo Credit: Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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0:00.0

I'm Gary Aurelie and I'm Chuck Nice and this of course is playing with science and today

0:16.4

we're back in the swing. Yes, we are. It's golf and Dr Craig Davis performance optimizer.

0:23.4

Yes, absolutely. So we're here talking with Dr Craig Davis performance optimizer. Yes,

0:31.5

and golf coach Sean Foley. Yes, and here we are in the Hamptons No Less.

0:36.4

Yes, yes, yes. For the US Open Golf Tournament. And if you think it's quite simple,

0:43.9

ball on a tee, swing and hit, good walk ruined or whichever view you have, we might just be able

0:51.5

to change your minds because they are two incredibly interesting people. Two of the leading

0:58.6

components that you will not hear a great deal about because they are behind the scenes,

1:03.6

but the golfers themselves depend so heavily. And there's one calling. That's right now.

1:09.4

That could be talking. That is tiger saying, please, I need these two guys. I need them desperately.

1:14.5

This is how important they actually are. Dr Craig Davis, who is a golf performance

1:20.8

imprudent or optimizer. Optimizer. Yeah, absolutely. And of course, golf coach Sean Foley.

1:27.6

Absolutely. Gentlemen, how are you? Yes. Good. Thanks for having us. Thanks for joining us.

1:33.4

How many times have you been to the US Open between the pair of you now? 20 or something, probably.

1:38.1

It's been, we were very young when we got out there originally, but it's been every year for me

1:45.0

since 2007. Wow. So 11 years. Nice. Biggest change. Yeah, I think the field's gotten a lot younger.

1:53.0

Yeah, I'm not the bigger field's gotten a lot younger and the field has gotten a lot longer.

1:58.6

That these guys are, you know, you get these young kids coming out. It's not all of them,

2:03.4

but you see a lot of them like 6, 2, 195. So physical specimens as opposed to just what

2:11.2

is just athletes playing athletes? Well, it's covered physically as well as in their game.

2:17.5

There's before you stuff a lot of people who are golfers. Yes. Right. And now you're having a lot of

2:22.3

people who are athletes that golf. And so it's a very, I think, there's a difference now in the

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