Yolk with Doak 44: Links Travel, Analytics in Golf, and Short Par 4s

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🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Andy Johnson sits down with Tom Doak for the first of two October Yolk with Doak episodes. To start, Tom shares travel tips for golfers headed to Australia, New Zealand, and links courses throughout Ireland and the U.K. Andy and Tom then talk through Tom's first round at Sedge Valley and his experiences playing his own design for the first time. They then discuss the strategy around designing and playing short par fours, debating on whether longer hitters should resist temptations to reach the green in one. This leads into a conversation about the prevalence of analytics in golf, as younger golfers now have access to more data and information about their own games and swings than prior generations. This episode wraps with Tom talking through the pros and cons of working on private or resort courses and more accessible public courses, and how the feedback he'll receive is different based on how often golfers play a course.

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0:00.0	I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg
0:06.8	fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg lie
0:11.8	I'm about ready to run off the golf course So, Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast. I'm your host Andy Johnson and welcome to another episode of our series with
0:46.6	golf architect Tom Doak. I was excited I made a last minute decision to head to Traver City for one of our events at the Kingsley Club
0:56.6	and was able to catch Tom up there while I visited.
1:00.6	So we recorded a couple of
1:03.1	a couple episodes. This one will be out now. The second part of this
1:07.3	conversation will be out in a couple weeks. This podcast is going to kind of
1:12.1	center around a wide range of topics, but mostly Tom playing
1:16.9	Sedge Valley for the first time. Then we dive into a bunch of different topics there.
1:23.2	So this was super fun.
1:26.2	Thanks to Tom for the time as always and enjoy this podcast.
1:31.1	Before we get to Tom, let's talk about our partner, Club Champion.
1:36.3	Club Champion is, I think, the best way to get fit for golf clubs.
1:41.0	You go there, it's an amazing experience. From the moment you walk in the door, it is just the
1:47.2	studios are amazing. There are golf clubs everywhere. I think like one of the things that's super unique is you know you
1:55.8	have the ability to get basically any setup you want any type of shaft any type of
2:03.0	a shaft, any type of manufacturer, they have 65,000
2:05.0	potential, hitable, head and golf
2:08.0	and shaft combinations,
2:10.0	including like all the new stuff.
2:13.0	I had a fitting done at a manufacturer and that iron head that I got wasn't available at the manufacturer and was available there.
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