Nobody gets good at golf alone. Brian Manzella (Golf Digest's #14-ranked teacher in America) and Sam Osborne (former touring pro) name the people who got them here: the books, the better players who never gave them a tip, the stranger on a putting green, the former prizefighter who tended the pin on Brian's first 79, and the famous names who put in a word.
Stories include Simon Griffiths at Wentworth, Joe Cook and Johnny Scurich at City Park, Ernie Makepeace, Walter Pryor, Carl Poche and Paul Azinger's college team, the Sea Island playoff, Monty, Bill Strausbaugh and Paul Marchand at the 1992 Teaching Summit, and Peter Fowler telling a kid to quit school. The takeaway: you don't improve in a straight line, you need people, and being nice is not that hard.
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Chapters
0:00 Cold open
0:42 Who got us here
1:31 Sam's first golf books: Leadbetter and Henry Cotton
7:21 Simon Griffiths: the best lesson was never a lesson
10:42 Brian's cousin, Don Horn and Street & Smith's
15:20 Reading Golf Digest cover to cover
18:09 City Park, Gary Schultz and Al Juhl
20:20 Joe Cook, Johnny Scurich and the first 79
30:52 Golf is hard: you need things to happen
32:19 Sam at 17: the Mail on Sunday and the Sea Island playoff
37:14 Brian at 15: shooting 67 and looking for a game
39:52 Ernie Makepeace and the putting green invite
42:42 Walter Pryor, Jimmy Cole and the money games
43:14 Carl Poche and Paul Azinger's college team
47:54 Walter Pryor's Tommy Moore advice
49:45 Famous people who helped: Monty
52:51 The Teaching Summit: Bill Strausbaugh and Paul Marchand
56:57 Being nice is not that hard
57:54 Peter Fowler and the closer
