Cracking the Course Management Code with DECADE's Scott Fawcett

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Tiger's bogey rate fell from 15-16% to 11% after Steve Williams called out his aggressive play, and Scheffler's did the same with Ted Scott.

1. The IMAGEN Golf Podcast episode "Cracking the Course Management Code" covers Decade Golf's math-based approach to target selection and the claim that most scoring improvement comes from reducing bogeys. 2. Host Daniel Guest is a golf coach of roughly 35 years who runs Imagine Golf, with 5,500 students and five locations, and guest Scott Fawcett is the creator of the Decade app who has worked with Will Zalatoris and Bryson DeChambeau. 3. Fawcett's thesis is that golfers overwork the ball, and that committing to a single stock shot and a reasoned target beats shaping shots for a better birdie look. 4. Fawcett describes his path: professional golf from 1996 to 2001, a poker-room meeting with Chris Como in 2006, a 2008 Q-School run as a 35-year-old amateur, and a Korn Ferry card for 2009-2011. 5. He says only about 95% of Tour players hit one shot with the driver, and that Rory McIlroy's driver, set for a draw at 185 mph ball speed, would turn into a "spinny high flare" if he tried to fade it. 6. He argues Tiger Woods hit roughly 70% of fairways in the late 1990s and early 2000s with fades, and that his 2019 Masters win involved double-crosses on 13 and 14. 7. He recounts that Stewart Cink bought the Decade app for $300, had his son watch the videos twice, and won at Napa the following week, then at Hilton Head six months later. 8. Fawcett says Tiger Woods's bogey rate dropped from 15-16% to 11% after Steve Williams pushed back, and Scottie Scheffler's fell to 10-11% after hiring Ted Scott. 9. He disputes critics such as a social media account that questioned Sam Burns hitting iron off the 18th tee, citing ShotLink data that showed Burns "piped the driver all day," and he describes a similar disagreement with Brad Faxon over putts left short. 10. Golfers and coaches who want data-backed course management will get the most from it.

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