Golf Smarter number 367 published on January 22, 2013.

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Golf Channel picked up Aimpoint in January of 07, and I told my wife in December of 06, I said,

if they don't pick this up, I'm done, I'm out because I'd already kind of been through CBS and NBC, and they were really the last network. The problem of TV is there's only really three people to choose from. You have three customers, and if they all say no, then you're done. You're done. And I was literally within days of just giving up and moving on. Could you have really walked away from it?

At that point, yeah.

Well, at that point, I mean, I loved it,

but if there's no business for it, you know, you're starving to death.

If I couldn't prove a legitimate business, it was time to move on, like it or not.

Came down to really, really a couple days around Christmas of 06.

And Golf Channel didn't say, hey, great, we'll do this

three-year deal. They said, we'll do it one tournament.

Part one of the Aimpoint Pudding System with creator Mark Sweeney. This is Golf Smarter.

Sharing tips and insights from golfers and golf professionals to help lower your score.

It's worked for your host, Fred Green.

Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast, Mark.

Thanks, hi, Fred.

It's so good to hear your voice on the other end of the line here because so many

golf smarter listeners have said, have you talked to Mark Sweeney at Aimpoint Golf yet? Why haven't

you got him on? Even Nick Chertock, who introduced us, who's a listener, a long-time listener,

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