Women of Golf · Ted J. Odorico and Cindy Miller

Women of Golf: Season 13 - Episode 4 | Breaking Barriers in Golf

March 31, 2026·51 min·4 clips

Maddie McCrary describes her first professional win as one of the most peaceful days she's ever had on a golf course.

1. Women of Golf Season 13, Episode 4 features an interview with Epson Tour champion Maddie McCrary and a discussion segment on whether amateur golfers should measure their games against professional standards. 2. Hosts are Ted Odorico and Cindy Miller, an LPGA professional and long-time teaching pro with 40 years of instruction experience. 3. The episode's thesis is twofold: McCrary's win illustrates the role of mental composure and faith in professional performance; the 'no BS zone' argues that amateur golfers damage their confidence by using tour pros as a measuring stick. 4. McCrary won the inaugural Orlando Health Championship on the Epson Tour with a one-shot victory, completing 54 holes without a single bogey — a level of clinical play Odorico describes as remarkable in a game defined by mistakes. 5. She describes her mental state throughout the tournament as unusually peaceful, attributing it to faith and a conscious decision to surrender the outcome, telling God during day two's nerves: 'I really, really want this, but it's all for you and all for your glory.' 6. McCrary notes that the Bible study community on the Epson Tour has grown from two or three players to nearly 30 attendees including caddies and staff — a trend she connects to the loneliness and constant travel of professional women's golf. 7. On the final hole, she chose driver over a lay-up despite water left and right, hit her second shot from 180 yards to 15 feet below the hole, and two-putted for birdie as playing partner Mariel Galdiano made a 60-foot eagle. 8. McCrary won by one shot after Galdiano's eagle on the final hole; McCrary says she did not know the exact standings and simply focused on making her two-putt. 9. Her wrist injury involved a torn TFCC (triangular fibrocartilage complex) that she played through for one to two years before surgery; post-operatively, surgeons discovered a lesion between muscle fibers invisible on the MRI that had opened and closed on every swing. 10. After eight weeks in a cast, she lost significant muscle mass — describing her arm as 'like a stick' — required a second cast for further healing, and spent months substitute-teaching at her parents' suggestion to remain productive and earn income. 11. McCrary began the 2024 or 2025 season on a medical exemption, and describes asking God whether her desire to keep playing was real before committing to an off-season of intense preparation. 12. The win moved McCrary from the low sixties to the number two spot in the Epson Tour's race for the card, and she described the confidence boost of returning to competitive golf after the injury period as significant in itself. 13. She practices at Sherald Park Golf Course and Lakewood Country Club in Wiley, Texas, northeast of Dallas, and gives credit to both clubs for supporting her during the recovery. 14. In the 'no BS zone,' Miller and Odorico address the 'comparison trap,' arguing that television coverage shows only the top six to eight players in contention and filters for dramatic shots, creating an unrepresentative picture of professional golf. 15. Miller's central argument is that a player shooting 100 who believes they need more distance is solving the wrong problem: she says hitting every green one-over-regulation and two-putting produces a score of 90 with a driver that carries only 160 yards. 16. She describes a recurring lesson pattern where 100-shooters ask for distance coaching before they have ever measured how many fairways they hit, and frames the better goal as achieving consistent proximity from within 50 yards. 17. The conversation references the 2025 Houston tournament in which a European player nervously yanked his shot on the 18th hole while Gary Woodland hit driver down the fairway to make par, as an illustration of how pros also crack under pressure. 18. The episode is conversational and upbeat with both hosts and guest trading jokes — Odorico apologizes for being 'thrown under the bus,' McCrary admits she hated substitute teaching in front of two teaching pros — giving it a relaxed broadcast-show energy. 19. Competitive golfers interested in mental performance, women's professional tours, or comeback narratives from injury will find the first half engaging; recreational players looking for practical game improvement logic will find the second half useful. 20. Listeners with no interest in golf, faith-based content, or sports interview formats are unlikely to engage with this episode.

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A resilience story centered on Maddie McCrary's Orlando win and the process behind it.

Women of Golf puts Maddie McCrary's Orlando win at the center and treats it as a real recovery story, not just a scoreboard note. The episode keeps returning to the work behind it: staying in process, moving carefully, resisting the urge to get ahead of herself, checking in with…

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