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The Sweet Spot - Golf Podcast

Micro vs. Macro: The Invisible Forces Shaping Your Golf Game

The Sweet Spot - Golf Podcast

Adam Young/Jon Sherman

Sports, Golf

4.8 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Fill out our listener survey here Join Jon's Masters pool here Adam's book, The Practice Manual, celebrates its 10th anniversary and 100k copies sold mark! In this episode, we discuss the evolution of golf instruction, the importance of understanding impact laws, and the distinction between macro and micro techniques in improving golf performance. Thank you to our sponsors Tailor Brands and Tangent 60% of Americans dream of starting their own business, but less than 20% actually take the first step. That’s because building a business is tough. Tailor Brands is here to simplify that. Tailor is a complete business builder with everything you need to guarantee your business is set up for success from day one. You can register your LLC within minutes to keep your personal assets separate from your business assets. Visit tailorbrands.com/podcast35 to get 35% off • PGA Tour pros have a team—caddies, data scientists, and coaches—guiding every shot. But you? All you need is TANGENT. TANGENT is your AI-powered caddie and coach, learning your game with automatic shot tracking running seamlessly in the background. It analyzes your real distances, dispersions, and tendencies, getting smarter with every round.  With real-time course data, including weather, elevation, and hazards, TANGENT helps you navigate the course like a pro—giving you optimized target and club recommendations for every shot right from your phone or wrist with the best Apple Watch app in golf. And after the round? TANGENT goes beyond strokes gained. It doesn’t just tell you how you played—it tells you why. Get clear, actionable insights and a personalized AI Coach that maps out exactly what to work on—down to the drills, metrics, and benchmarks from pro to 25 handicap. Try TANGENT Golf free today in the iOS App Store—and as a Sweet Spot listener, use promo code SWEET30 for 30% off a premium subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, Sweet Spot listeners, just a quick note that I am bringing back my master's pool again.

0:05.5

Last year, it was a huge success and we had multiple winners take home some serious cash prizes.

0:11.2

I'm trying to go bigger this year so you can sign up now before it fills up and feel free to let your friends know.

0:16.7

To learn more, go to splashports.com forward slash practical golf.

0:22.7

Once again, that is splash sports.com forward slash practical golf.

0:29.3

Welcome back to another episode of The Sweet Spot.

0:31.9

This is John Sherman from the four foundations of golf.

0:35.2

And as always, I'm joined by Adam from Adam young golf I have to

0:40.8

enunciate this correctly at the moment because I noticed that when we've got our new

0:45.4

YouTube channel up so look for the sweet spot golf podcast at the sweet spot golf podcast on

0:51.7

YouTube and you can actually watch some of these things.

0:54.9

And it gives you subtitles.

0:56.8

And yeah, when I was saying Adam Young Golf, he was saying Adam Ian, Adam Ian, it wasn't, yeah, it wasn't doing it properly.

1:04.0

So kind of enunciate it.

1:05.4

Yes, I will pronounce everything correctly.

1:07.9

I thought you were stressing it because you want to feel like younger.

1:11.0

Like I'm young. I'm young. Yeah, I got another birthday coming up soon. So yeah, need to feel that.

1:18.7

They keep coming. Also, a reminder, we'll plug this for the next few episodes, but we have a listener

1:24.1

survey. We've been doing this show for four plus years.

1:28.0

Adam and I always have tons of ideas, but we want to make sure that we're covering the topics

1:31.8

and the questions that are important to all of you.

1:34.3

Plenty of people have filled it out.

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