Jake Olson

51 Strokes

Barstool Sports

Golf, Sports

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Blind golfer Jake Olson. He joins the program to talk about his amazing and inspiring life. From playing Division I football to now absolutely dominating the golf course, Jake can do it all. Olson is beating the odds of what everyone said he couldn't do after battling cancer and losing his vision. It is truly an incredible story that you don't want to miss. Enjoy the show! (00:00 - 04:00): Intro (04:01 - 08:07): Caleb meets Jake Olson and talks playing golf without his vision (08:08 - 16:20): Jake talks about how he lost his vision (18:00 - 30:00) Playing Division I football (31:00 - 1:01:50) Learning how to play golf without being able to see (1:02:30 - 1:08:55) The 51 Strokes After Show 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.
0:08.2	We have a phenomenal, awesome episode today with Jake Olson.
0:13.6	You probably know him or at least I first heard about him and he was the first completely
0:18.8	blind football player in college football history to successfully long snap a point after
0:24.7	attempt for the USC Trojans and then, you know, his story was going super viral and
0:30.0	long snapper for USC.
0:33.0	But the reason he's on 51 strokes today, and we talk about a little bit in the podcast,
0:37.8	but I'm scrolling Instagram the other day and there's an account I follow called Zaire
0:42.6	Golf and they post this clip.
0:46.7	He's out there.
0:47.7	Keep in mind, Jake has been completely blind since he's been 12 years old.
0:53.8	And we'll cover all this in the podcast, but he's been completely doesn't see it all.
0:59.2	He's on the golf course, absolutely dominating the course.
1:04.8	He's playing full-fledged golf.
1:07.1	His swing is beautiful.
1:09.9	His dad tells him, he goes out there with his dad, his dad helps him line it up and do
1:14.9	like the small things, tells him his distance, they pick a club, and then he just pipes
1:18.7	the ball.
1:20.3	I was like, this is unreal.
1:21.6	We have to get him on 51 strokes.
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