Welcome in Rick Gaiman here, and this is a brand new episode of 300 yards to unknown.

And I'm very, very excited about this one because I've got Lou Stagner on.

And if you follow Lou on Twitter, you know exactly where this conversation is going.

It's big data and how it relates to our game of golf.

And it's fascinating stuff.

Lou and I, I wish I could say we think at the same level, but we're kind of in the same universe.

But he is so sharp with all of this data.

And now with his work with Arcos, which is an on-course system that recreational players contract their own data. We are just living in a

world where there's more information than ever. And Lou is on the forefront of taking that data,

making it usable, communicating it to guys like me who can hopefully

pass it on to everyone else. It's fascinating. I'm really excited about it, and I hope you

enjoy it. All right, let me welcome in Lou Stagner and Lou. I'm super excited about this.

Obviously, the intersection for us is kind of big golf and or big data and golf and I don't know if there's

anybody better than you to chat with this about. So thank you so much for the time. I really

do appreciate it. Yeah, Rick, thanks for having me. Looking forward to the chat. Yeah, so let's just

start with the general background, right? I mean, we are now living in a world in 2022 where there's a ton of data

in the world of golf, but it hasn't always been like that. So how did you get started to become

this, you know, this data nerd like I am? And how did you now get connected with Arcos, which I'm

excited to chat about? Yeah. So I've, so I've been working in analytics for over 20 years now in corporate America.

I was working in analytics before they called it that, a computer science grad, and got into software development,

and that morphed over pretty quickly into what they called reporting back then.

And then as that field grew, I expanded out into doing more and more of it.

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