Mark Blackburn Interview: From sleeping in a maintenance shed to being named 2020 PGA Teacher & Coach of the Year

Subpar

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🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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On this week's episode of GOLF's Subpar, PGA Tour instructor Mark Blackburn joins former PGA Tour pro Colt Knost and his close friend and on course rival Drew Stoltz for an exclusive, in-studio interview. The 2020 PGA Teacher and Coach of the Year talks how working with Tour pros like Charley Hoffman, Kevin Chappell, and Chez Reavie differs from working with the everyday golfer, his stance on the distance debate, and what the average player can pick up from studying the swings of the best players in the world.

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0:00.0	Hello world. Welcome to this week's episode of Golf Sub Park
0:14.6	Colt Noast and Drew Stoltz one of us is here in studio obviously the other one's
0:18.7	out living the high life and banned in dunes out in Oregon sleighs.
0:22.6	How we doing fellow?
0:23.9	Man, I'm hanging in there, Colty.
0:25.2	I miss being with you this week, dude.
0:26.8	And I am just moments away
0:28.6	from making my debut here on the Howled Grounds of abandoned dunes.
0:32.0	It's gonna go and play a little abandoned trails
0:33.9	a little later today.
0:34.7	The Curra Crenshaw design tucked in through the trees,
0:37.3	a little less wind, no ocean.
0:39.7	So looking forward, I'm looking outside right now.
0:41.8	It's blowing about 20-25 should shoot an
0:44.8	absolute gris load out there so looking forward to it. Well here's hoping so but we
0:49.3	got to talk about this past week's event on the PGA tour, the second leg of the PGA Tour, FedEx Cup playoffs, and
0:55.9	John Rom wins in a playoff over World Number One, Dustin Johnson.
0:59.7	How exciting was that?
1:00.9	Dude, not just the fact that we got the world number one and two battling each other at the end, but the way it went down
1:06.1	with those putts back to back, Dustin Johnson making the 40 footer.
1:09.6	I mean, God knows what the percent make chance was with that.
1:13.2	And then Rom, I thought, like, once Dustin made that,
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