I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg

fried egg lie I'm about ready to run off the golf course Oh, Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to another edition of the fried egg

podcast we have a second podcast this week and excited to bring on Jake Nichols

Jake is the head of intelligence at the 15th club which is a golf analytics company

that helps players kind of analyze and look at their stats to play better. Some of their players, they have a lot of European tour players are Danny

Willitt, Darren Clark, Lee Westwood, Matt Fitzpatrick, Juice Luton, Torborn, Olison, and many more.

Jake, thanks for coming on.

Thanks for coming on. Thanks a lot, I appreciate you having me.

Yeah, yeah, I'm excited to kind of get into, you know, what everybody needs to know about the

saber metrics of golf. I'd, you know, to kick things off, I'd love to hear a little bit

about how you got into it in your background.

Yeah, sure. So, uh, I was always a Gulf fan more than more than anything.

I played a little bit when I was younger, but, but I was always much more of a fan. And then in college

really started to get into looking at sports in a statistical way so baseball and basketball were the two big ones back then.

And after a year or two of reading blog posts and books and whatever was available in those

sports, I started to wonder why. and books and whatever was available in those sports.

I started to wonder why golf didn't have very many people operating in it.

And this was before Mark Brody and Strokes Gain got big before his book came out and so there

are only a handful of people really on the corners of the internet who were

analyzing golf with with data so I just picked it up as a side hobby in college and it's grown

into a full-time job with 15th club for the last two years. That's cool. Did you do

anything else before you got into that in the working world?

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