Chasing Scratch: Mike & Eli reflect on their quest to a 0.0 handicap | The Golfer’s Journal
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- Опубліковано 6 лис 2024
- Mike & Eli are the hosts of Chasing Scratch podcast, which documents their friendship and journey to scratch players.
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Thank you Mike and Eli for making this pod that I can listen to with my son (Declan). He thinks you guys are hilarious and we have had great shared memories together because of y'all 👊
Longtime Chasing Scratch listener. So glad you had the guys on. For your BT society members, just FYI, an Apple Watch is a game changer for Arccos. It makes the experience almost perfect. Almost zero time having to edit anything post-round. Not perfect, but really, really good.
Great discussion! I'm so excited for this season. So many goals I want to chase after and I'm so eager to put in the work. But maybe the goal I'm most excited about aiming for this year: finally getting my handicap lower than my dad's 💪
I can’t imagine going 5 months without playing golf. One of the benefits of living in Australia, year round golf
Cool to see this connection. Awesome podcast!
My low HDCP is 0.0 and I don’t want to be there anytime soon. The expectations are always higher when someone knows, and the time it takes to maintain that level isn’t sustainable for most.
Nobody knows your handicap unless you tell them
4 or 5 months off? You can play in every month in Kentucky, especially the last 5 years or so.
Agreed. "Off season" is a mental excuse. There is no off season in golf.
47:40 which tempo app is the one that you reference? There are several in the App Store.
The one they used to use was called "Tour Tempo" and it was vastly overpriced. I think it was $20 or so? I haven't looked at it in awhile but check that out.
a course called cranium
I must preface this comment by saying I am a +0.5 handicap from Ohio who works full time.
I have said this since the beginning of this podcast: These two hold themselves back with excuse after excuse.
You say you can’t practice in the winter, but you have the time and energy to take trips to Ireland? Give me a break. You are leisure golfers who probably won’t go to the range until it’s 70 degrees.
You say you don’t have time to implement a swing change, but then admit you do nothing for 5 months in the winter? Uhh, hello? Winter is swing change season and every serious Northern golfer knows this. You can make a swing change inside with no club by practicing motion. Getting nothing done in the winter is just laziness and excuse making. “I can’t make a swing change until June or July, but that’s scoring season!” What a load of crap. Do it or don’t. Shut up about your excuses.
Do you ever compete? Do you play your state or city Amateur? Golfweek Tour? Golf World tour? Anything? There are unlimited opportunities every year to put yourself under pressure which is how you forge resolve in golf. But I never hear anything except “woe is me, I don’t have time to make the swing change my coach wants me to make, I get help from the TPI but still can’t manage to give enough of a damn to use it.”
Stop expecting things to be so easy and show some tenacity.
There’s an article on the internet called “Stuck in the middle with Bruce” that you both would do well to read. Which you won’t. Because it’s work and you don’t get attention for it. Which this is all about.
Harsh, but admittedly pretty fair. I have to say I have binged all seasons of Chasing Scratch Pod as I though there would be a huge pay off after about the third year (and I could feel this warm confidence that "it could be done") and they would get to at least 2 HCP or better. I am actually pretty stunned that they are still where they are (FYI I'm a 5 HCP FYI after taking 9 years off).
Anyhow, my plan and commitment is that I'm going to get to scratch, and am giving myself three years, I do however expect to be off 2 HCP by December this year. Let's see... if I can pull that off then your assessment it correct...
@isambo400 why don't you tell us what you really think 😅