Better Golf Daily: Play the Percentages Series - Digging the Hole Deeper
Better Golf Academy: Strategy to Awesome Golf
Release Date: 07/28/2026
Better Golf Daily: How to Win Match Play Series - Closing the Door
Better Golf Academy: Strategy to Awesome Golf
Four down with seven to play, and Justin Leonard didn't just come back — he closed the door so hard it's still one of the most replayed moments in Ryder Cup history. This is the last episode in the How to Win Match Play series, and it's about the quiet mental flip that turns a comfortable lead into a blown one, plus how to make sure it never happens to you.
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Better Golf Daily - How to Win Match Play Series - Get Excited
Better Golf Academy: Strategy to Awesome Golf
One six-foot putt decided an entire Ryder Cup in 1991. Bernhard Langer missed it by less than an inch, and what he did the very next week says more than the miss itself. There's a study on golfers choking under pressure that genuinely surprised me, plus a ridiculously simple one-word fix from Harvard research that actually changes how you perform under pressure. Both are in today's episode.
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Better Golf Daily: How to Win Match Play Series - Make Them Earn It
Better Golf Academy: Strategy to Awesome Golf
Walter Hagen once had a rival come out of the clubhouse mid-change just to watch him drain a putt he didn't even need to make yet. That's not nerves, that's a strategy. Today's about the most underused weapon in casual match play, and it has nothing to do with being obnoxious on the course. It's actually kind of boring, and that's exactly why it works.
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Better Golf Daily: How to Win Match Play Series - You’re Never Actually Down
Better Golf Academy: Strategy to Awesome Golf
Down 10 to 6 with one day left. That's basically over, right? Except it wasn't, and what happened next is still called one of the greatest comebacks in golf history. Today I get into what the players actually say was going on in their heads during that comeback, and it's a lot simpler — and more useful for your Saturday match — than you'd think.
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Better Golf Daily: How to Win Match Play Series - Play the Course
Better Golf Academy: Strategy to Awesome Golf
Ever notice how your opponent playing great golf suddenly makes YOU want to abandon your own smart play and go match them shot for shot? There's actual research on that exact impulse, and it explains a lot about your worst match play decisions. Today I'm kicking off a brand new series, How to Win Match Play, with the single most repeated piece of advice in the sport's history, from the guy who might have been the best match player ever. Simple to say, brutally hard to actually do.
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Better Golf Daily: Suckville Series - Decisions Habits & Momentum
Better Golf Academy: Strategy to Awesome Golf
Mariano Rivera — five championship rings, first unanimous Hall of Fame closer ever — also blew the lead in Game 7, twice, on baseball's biggest stage. His own sports psychologist uses those nights as proof of something most golfers get backwards. This is the finale of our five-part Suckville series, and it's where all four earlier ideas turn into one simple exit plan. No dramatic breakthrough required — just one decision, on purpose, that you can actually start using in your very next round.
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Better Golf Daily: Suckville Series - Quicksand
Better Golf Academy: Strategy to Awesome Golf
In 2005, scientists actually studied the physics of quicksand — and found that fighting it is exactly what pulls you under. Turns out there's a version of that exact trap that happens to golfers almost every single round. Episode four of the Suckville series borrows Dr. Bhrett McCabe's own metaphor for getting stuck in a bad stretch, and the science backs up something that sounds almost too simple to work. Here's what to do with your hands, your pace, and your next shot when a round starts sliding.
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Better Golf Daily: Suckville Series - Your Own Psychological Fingerprint
Better Golf Academy: Strategy to Awesome Golf
Two golfers shoot the exact same score. One's onto lunch in five minutes. The other is still replaying one swing on Tuesday. For years I assumed that meant one of us was doing it wrong. Episode three of the Suckville series gets into Dr. Bhrett McCabe's idea of a "psychological fingerprint" — why there's no universal right way to handle a bad round, and how copying some Tour pro's mental routine might be working against you instead of for you.
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Better Golf Daily: Suckville Series - The Expectation Trap
Better Golf Academy: Strategy to Awesome Golf
In 1978, researchers tracked down actual lottery winners and compared their day-to-day happiness to their next-door neighbors — and also to people who'd just survived life-changing accidents. The results were not what anyone expected, and they explain something about golf that most of us have never quite put into words. Episode two of the Suckville series picks up where we left off: why hitting your goals almost never feels the way you think it will, and why chasing a number is quietly setting you up to be disappointed no matter what you shoot. There's a shift you can make today that...
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Better Golf Daily: Suckville Series - Welcome to Suckville
Better Golf Academy: Strategy to Awesome Golf
So Jon Rahm wins the U.S. Open, throws himself a party, and turns to his sports psychologist to ask what's next. The answer he got — with Michael Phelps standing right there agreeing — was not the pep talk you'd expect from a guy who just won it all. Today I'm kicking off a brand new five-part series based on a book that gave a name to the thing every golfer feels but nobody talks about: the gap between how good you think you should be and how you're actually playing. Turns out even major champions live there. Here's why that's actually good news.
info_outlineEvery golfer knows the moment — ball in the trees, easy bogey right there if you just chip out sideways. But almost nobody takes it. Instead we go looking for the hero shot, and when that fails, we go looking for another one.
There's a decades-old study on why we do this, and it's got nothing to do with the club in your hand — it's about ego, and what happens the second something becomes "your" mistake. I get into the research and the one rule that can save you from turning a bogey into a blowup.