{"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":"He Won the State Am by 21 Shots ft Christian Brand","slug":"he-won-the-state-am-by-21-shots-ft-christian-brand","published_at":"2026-03-12T14:52:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/play-ready-golf-strokes-gained-for-the-9-to-5-golfer-7640129/he-won-the-state-am-by-21-shots-ft-christian-brand","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/2622875","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/360796/2622875/play-ready-golf/2026_03_12_14_51_41_d7f81819-3e4f-49cd-b6be-e211e27994af.mp3","summary":"He won the West Virginia Amateur by 21 shots at 22-under par. He's also a State Farm insurance agent, a husband, and a dad who practices 30 minutes a day in his garage simulator. Christian Brand is proof that you don't need 8 hours on the range to play elite golf. In this episode, Christian breaks down exactly how he structures practice around a full-time job. Why 10 minutes of putting drills six days in a row beats one long session. How to build a repeatable process you can fall back on when nothing is working. What he means when he says playing free is just \"don't care where the ball goes.\" And the story behind holing a pitching wedge at the U.S. Amateur at Hazeltine while a boom mic was in his face. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 0:23 How does a State Farm agent win by 21 shots? 1:14 What daily life looked like on the Korn Ferry Tour 3:41 How he carves out practice time now (family, business, golf) 6:01 \"You don't practice what's fun. You practice what you need.\" 7:49 Has his practice gotten smarter with less time? 9:08 Why 10 min/day for 6 days beats one 60-min session 10:28 The one putting drill every golfer should do daily 12:10 What amateurs almost certainly get wrong about practice 14:20 His exact process preparing for a big tournament 17:17 How to handle playing better than you're used to 20:37 Listener Q: The Azalea story (driving 100 miles back) 22:28 How to get the most out of a bad round 26:05 The analytical on/off switch in his process 26:42 The U.S. Amateur boom mic story (pitching wedge, hole 9, Hazeltine) 28:03 What \"playing free\" actually means (7 words) 30:17 His one piece of advice for the next 15 years 31:14 Gasparilla: \"like fighting the strongest little person in the world\" Christian is a two-time WV Amateur champion, four-time WV Open winner, former Kor…","meta_description":"He won the West Virginia Amateur by 21 shots at 22-under par. He's also a State Farm insurance agent, a husband, and a dad who practices 30 minutes a day…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2128,"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/he-won-the-state-am-by-21-shots-ft-christian-brand/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/he-won-the-state-am-by-21-shots-ft-christian-brand.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}