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Hack It Out Golf

Sean Foley's Greatest Coaching Accomplishment

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Sports, Education, Golf

4.7267 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is the second part of Mark's interview in Sean Foley. Here, Mark asks Sean what Sean regards as his greatest accomplishment in coaching. The discussion turns philosophical, as Sean reflects on what he really values most in coaching, what he's learned over the years, and what he appreciated most when (as a surprise gift) his wife compiled thank you videos from all his students over his coaching career.


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0:00.0

So this is part two of the time I spent with Sean Foley, one of the world's most recognized golf coaches.

0:06.0

I asked him what was his, in his mind, his biggest golf coaching achievement.

0:12.5

You know, I think with a coaching achievement, it's easy to think about, you know, when I had years where players won 10 times. I had players win majors.

0:23.2

I had players win U.S. amateurs. The problem with achievement as a coach is that the person

0:30.5

on the course is the one achieving. Right. So it, you can't identify with them playing well or missing cuts now i'm always going to look

0:43.8

in the rear view quite constantly so i charge my players roughly five percent of what they

0:51.2

earn on the course so i'm five percent of a win I'm 5% of a loss from a business standpoint.

0:58.1

Now, personally, I don't feel that way. For whatever reason, I am cursed with this idea that I'm

1:07.3

never doing enough and that I'm not good enough. And the cool part is it stops

1:12.5

right at the point that it can turn into a mental health issue. Yeah. Okay. So I'm aware of it,

1:18.9

which is the most, being aware is the only thing you can be, right? Yeah. It's okay to not be

1:25.0

okay. So that's kind of what pushes it. The thing is, I've helped four players get to number one in the world. I don't really count Tiger because he should have always been.

1:37.9

That's not really it because most of those relationships business-wise, not personally, that all people I still love and speak to

1:47.6

all the time, everything fractured after that.

1:51.4

And so I know the top of the mountain is not where I want to be because it gets weird up there,

1:56.5

right?

1:56.7

Yeah, yeah.

1:57.5

Less oxygen.

1:58.5

It's freezing.

1:59.7

And now you actually aren't concentrically moving against gravity.

2:04.5

You now have to centrically load the body as you're going down, which for a lot of people,

2:09.1

that makes weight a lot heavier.

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