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The Mental Game with Aaron Rai | Mulligans

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Sports, Society & Culture, Golf

4.3577 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This weeks Mulligans one is a special rerun from 2023 feature recent PGA Champion Aaron Rai. Cary Valentine interviewed Rai about the mental game from the Sony Open in Hawaii.

Quick reminder: Golf Smarter airs archive favorites every Friday, and new episodes of Corrected Mistakes with Josh Karp drop every Tuesday. Tune in next week for a special episode with Big Randy from No Laying Up. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, it's Josh Karp.

0:01.9

This week's episode of Mulligans features interviews from the 2023 Sony Open with two of the last four major winners,

0:08.4

JJ Spahn and Aaron Rye, who just came out of nowhere to win the PJH Championship.

0:13.0

And be sure to join us next week for a special episode of Golf Smarter's corrected mistakes

0:17.3

with Big Randy from No Laying Up, who talks about his video series

0:21.0

strapped, what he's learned about the game, and what it's like to play golf with

0:24.8

Max Homa.

0:25.8

It's probably the most important aspect of the game because we can group the mental

0:30.8

side on how the pre-shot routine is, how calm you are over your shot, how well you visualize

0:36.2

it, how clear you are in your mind, how well you visualize it, how clear you are in your mind,

0:38.8

how you can think of the right thoughts but clear the other thoughts out of it. And that's not to

0:43.8

mention mental game goes into how well you react to mistakes, how well you deal with adversity,

0:49.6

how well you can ride good waves of momentum as well. And within all of those things, that's a significant part of golf.

0:56.0

So if that part of the game can be sharp,

1:00.0

then it can take you a long way.

1:03.0

I was curious when you did your world record of, was it 207 putts of 10 feet?

1:11.6

Yeah.

1:12.6

Did you have any, you know, kind of thoughts, if you remember back then, like of any doubts

1:18.0

that were coming up, like, can you really do this or things like that?

1:22.1

And how did you overcome that if that happened during that time?

1:25.6

Yeah, definitely.

1:26.6

So that was my third attempt,

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