{"podcast":{"title":"Play Ready Golf | Strokes Gained for the 9 to 5 Golfer","slug":"play-ready-golf-strokes-gained-for-the-9-to-5-golfer-7640129","podcast_index_feed_id":7640129,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/play-ready-golf/feed.xml","website_url":"https://playready.golf/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/play-ready-golf/20251215_101243_c048af2f1682e2cd5f30c3973f4f58d4.png","author":"Isaak Ramsey & Hayden Zimmerer | Smarter Golf Practice in Less Time","episode_count":26,"summary":"Golf improvement for people with a 9 to 5. We use strokes gained data and motor learning science to help you practice smarter, save time, and shoot lower scores with the clubs, schedule, and life you already have. Most golf advice is built for people with unlimited range time and a coach on speed dial. This show is built for the rest of us. The weekend warrior. The dad who gets 90 minutes on a Saturday. The mid-handicapper who has been stuck at the same score for three years. Every episode gives you one thing you can actually use. A practice drill you can do in your living room. A course management decision that saves you two shots. A data point that shuts down the bad advice you keep getting from your buddies. New episodes every Friday morning. Try the Play Ready Golf app free for 7 days at playready.golf","last_synced_at":"2026-06-19T20:17:08.119297+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/play-ready-golf-strokes-gained-for-the-9-to-5-golfer-7640129"},"episode":{"title":"74 Million Shots Prove You're Not a Bad Putter","slug":"74-million-shots-prove-you-re-not-a-bad-putter","published_at":"2026-04-24T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/play-ready-golf-strokes-gained-for-the-9-to-5-golfer-7640129/74-million-shots-prove-you-re-not-a-bad-putter","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/play-ready-golf-strokes-gained-for-the-9-to-5-golfer-7640129","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/play-ready-golf/2746232","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/360796/2746232/play-ready-golf/2026_04_19_00_01_43_5197298f-7e7c-4251-8c4b-15115c5f2608.mp3","summary":"You watched four days of the Masters and decided your putting is broken. It's not. 74 million shots say amateur golfers miss more than 60% of putts from 8 feet. Tour pros miss 3 out of 4 from 15 feet. A scratch golfer misses 2 out of every 3 from 10 feet. Your putting isn't the problem. Your expectations are. And those broken expectations are quietly making your putting worse round after round. In this episode, Isaak and Hayden break down what the data actually says about putting performance at every handicap level, why watching the Masters creates a choking loop you didn't know you were in, and how to recalibrate what a \"good putt\" actually looks like. Plus the drills that build putting under real pressure, not practice-green pressure. Get a handicap-specific benchmark card in the show notes. Figure out where you actually lose strokes and practice the right things with Play Ready Golf. Use code PRGPOD for $20 off your first year. CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold Open: The Masters Made You Think You're a Bad Putter 00:56 Why Your Expectations Are the Real Problem 03:46 15%, 40%, 25%: The Putting Stats Nobody Shares 11:28 The Choking Loop That Starts on Your Couch 14:18 Hayden's Ohio Am Putting Meltdown 15:52 Green Reading and the Pre-Shot Routine 25:37 Realistic Make Rates by Distance (The New Scoreboard) 36:20 How to Practice Putting Without Wasting Time 42:15 You're Not a Bad Putter RESOURCES Play Ready Golf app: ⁠ https://onelink.to/93ggkv⁠ Realistic Expectations by Handicap: ⁠ https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/comprehensivestats⁠ #golfpodcast #golfpractice #puttingtips #strokesgained #golfstats","meta_description":"You watched four days of the Masters and decided your putting is broken. It's not. 74 million shots say amateur golfers miss more than 60% of putts from 8…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2665,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/play-ready-golf-strokes-gained-for-the-9-to-5-golfer-7640129/episodes/74-million-shots-prove-you-re-not-a-bad-putter/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/play-ready-golf-strokes-gained-for-the-9-to-5-golfer-7640129/74-million-shots-prove-you-re-not-a-bad-putter.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}