The Surprising Link Between 3-Point Shooting and Golf
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🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:15.5 | So backster holes. Where, oh where should we start? |
| 0:20.1 | Well, let's start in the winner of 2005 with a gentleman named RJ Caswell at Charlotte |
| 0:26.4 | Christian High School in North Carolina. |
| 0:29.0 | RJ Caswell is the new varsity coach. He's in his early 30s. He's known for wearing a |
| 0:37.2 | bow tie to school every day. But he's got a problem. He's taking over a team that has |
| 0:46.9 | been decimated by graduation. It's got five freshmen and he needs some bodies. |
| 0:55.0 | So he walks up to between classes a skinny 17 year old senior named Steph Curry. |
| 1:02.6 | And he goes up to Steph because Steph had played for the team during his freshman and soft |
| 1:07.4 | more seasoned. And he says Steph, would you play for us? And Steph says, yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:14.9 | And very quickly, Steph becomes the team's best player. Wins them a conference tournament, |
| 1:20.3 | mentors, younger players passing down wisdom from a sport that he picked up many years |
| 1:24.9 | ago. Caswell is watching and playing and thinks, man, if this guy keeps working, he's |
| 1:30.5 | going to go on to even better success beyond high school. And one area that he notes where |
| 1:37.0 | Steph shows problems in particular is from long distance. And the rest is basketball history |
| 1:44.9 | right back, sir? You would think so. But I'm actually talking about golf here. |
| 1:53.8 | This trend had kind of started to come onto my radar. And part because of a player, you |
| 2:00.2 | know, having mentioned it to me about the concept of other three point shooters, not just |
| 2:04.6 | Steph, but some of the game's greatest really excelling on the golf course. |
| 2:09.0 | You know, I was curious about these parallel and why did this is? So I decided it was |
| 2:17.0 | time to get to the bottom of this. It's not exactly a hot tape that Steph, |
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