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07/18/2026

Bryson DeChambeau. Royal Birkdale. 5th hole. Two-shot penalty. Rule 8.1a.

Before we talk about the putting secret, did everyone see what happened at The Open this week?

Bryson just walked around his ball in the tall native grass and compressed it behind the ball while assessing his shot.

Didn't even swing yet. The R&A reviewed the footage, called it, and his 66 turned into a 68 on the spot.

He dropped off the leaderboard mid-round.

He threatened to withdraw. Rory McIlroy called it "pretty obvious."

My Hot Take: the rules don't care about your world ranking, your sponsors or how loud the crowd is.

Rule 8.1a exists because the ground is supposed to give you honest conditions.

You don't get to alter that because it's inconvenient.

That rule applies at your Sunday morning club game and at The Open Championship.

Same game. Same rules.

Now here's what today's episode is about: The putting secret most golfers never figure out has nothing to do with your stroke. It's tension and it starts in your feet.

On pressure putts, you tense up. That tension moves: feet → ankles → knees → hips → shoulders → hands.

By the time it reaches your stroke, the putt is already gone before you've taken it back.

The fix isn't a stroke drill. Before you putt, press your feet into the grass. Feel it.

Let the ground give you feedback. That one reset drops the tension out of your entire upper body.

Your hands go soft. The stroke takes care of itself.

Bryson got penalized for trying to remove ground feedback. The best putters in history spent careers learning to use it.

The ground doesn't lie. Work with it, don't compress it.

Was the penalty fair? And where does your putting go first when the pressure comes on? Comment below.



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07/17/2026

Stop playing golf wearing high heels!

Traditional golf shoes have a 10–14mm heel built into them.

That's not a design quirk.

That elevation is physically shifting your weight before you even start your backswing.

Most golfers change their shaft, adjust their grip, tweak their stance and never once look down.

I didn't for 20 years.

When I finally hit a few balls barefoot, I got it immediately.

My misses were happening at address before the swing started.

The setup was wrong. And the shoes were creating the setup.

A 10–14mm heel drop forces an anterior pelvic tilt at address.

That changes your hip rotation mechanics.
That changes your weight transfer.
That changes your impact position.
Every round. Without you knowing.

This is Episode 5 of UNLEARNED: 10 things every golfer believes that are quietly wrecking their game.

Have you ever tried hitting barefoot? Drop it in the comments. 👇

Follow for Episode 6.



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oot golf · ground reaction force · golf swing mechanics · zero drop · minimalist golf shoes · hip rotation golf · golf biomechanics · golf performance

07/16/2026

The grip is the most taught fundamental in golf. It might also be the most misunderstood.

Every lesson starts here. Every instructor has an opinion. Vardon, interlocking, ten-finger, pick your religion and maintain it under pressure.

Here's what nobody talks about: maintaining a textbook grip under pressure requires tension.

And tension is the last thing your hands should have when they're the only thing connecting you to the club.

I spent years gripping a club "correctly." Neutral pressure. Proper overlap.

V's pointing at the right shoulder. Looked exactly how it was supposed to look.

And I couldn't feel a thing.

The shift that changed it wasn't a new grip style. It was a new pressure level.

I dropped from a 7 or 8 down to a 3. It felt wrong immediately.

The club felt loose. Unstable. Like I'd lost control.

Then I hit a shot and felt something I hadn't felt in years, the clubhead moving through the air.

The position at the top of the backswing, without looking. The strike, actual strike quality, not just the outcome.

Tension in the hands kills the circuit. It's not a metaphor.

At grip pressures above a 4, proprioceptive sensitivity in the hands drops by over a third.

You lose the feel signal before it reaches your brain.

Softer grip isn't a bad habit. It's a better conversation between your hands and the club.

Test this today.

On the range, next shot, drop to a 3. Let it feel wrong. Hit the shot anyway.

Notice what you feel that you normally don't.

That feeling isn't a fluke. That's the game you've been standing in the way of.

Episode 5 tomorrow: why aiming straight is quietly destroying your swing path. Hit follow. Don't miss it.

07/15/2026

You don't lose your swing. You lose your connection.

Every golfer has lived this moment. You're standing on the 9th tee.

The swing that felt effortless three holes ago suddenly disappears.

You start changing your grip. Your takeaway. Your tempo. Your posture.

And with every "fix," the round slips further away.

Here's what I've learned after years of chasing swing thoughts: When your swing falls apart mid-round, stop trying to fix your mechanics.

Reset your nervous system instead. Feel your feet on the ground. Press into the turf. Slow your breathing.

Reconnect with where your body is, not where your mind is spiraling.

The goal isn't to build a new swing on the golf course. It's to get back to the one you already brought with you.

Because the best recovery shots rarely come from better mechanics.

They come from a calmer golfer.

📌 Save this. The next time your swing disappears, you'll want this reset before you make things worse.

Tomorrow on UNLEARNED: The grip mistake I repeated for 25 years.



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07/14/2026

Scottie Scheffler's swing secret isn't in his hands. It's in his feet — and nobody is talking about it.

Watch his lead foot before impact.

There's a pressure shift that happens so early, so deliberately, that most analysts miss it completely.

His foot is loading the ground before the club arrives.

Not at impact. Before it.

That forward press into the ground is what creates the flush contact.

The ground pushes back.

That force travels up through the kinematic chain.

That's where his speed actually comes from.

I've felt this pattern for 30 years — playing barefoot, training without cushioning, building Win36 around the exact mechanism Scheffler's force plate data confirms. He didn't invent it. Evolution did.

He just executes it better than anyone on tour right now.

Most amateurs never feel it because their shoes are in the way.

14mm of foam midsole between your foot and the ground means the signal never arrives.

You can't feel what you can't sense.

Here's what to try next time you're at the range:
→ Take your shoes off. Or find the softest shoes you own.
→ Address the ball and feel the ground under your lead foot.
→ Before you start the swing, press that foot into the ground — not hard, deliberately.
→ Now swing. Notice what happens to the contact.

That pressure shift is what Scheffler does instinctively on every shot. You can train it. But you have to be able to feel the ground first.

Episode 3 tomorrow: what to do when your swing completely falls apart mid-round.

Hit follow — it drops tomorrow. 👇



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Everyone talks about the "perfect swing."Almost no one talks about the mental state that makes your swing show up.The be...
07/10/2026

Everyone talks about the "perfect swing."

Almost no one talks about the mental state that makes your swing show up.

The best rounds of golf aren't usually the rounds where you're hyper-motivated, pumped up, or trying to force a low score.

They're the rounds where your brain stops negotiating with every shot.

You stop carrying the last hole into the next one.

You stop predicting what might happen on the next tee.

You simply play the shot that's in front of you.

That's because your brain has limited attentional bandwidth.

Every emotional reaction celebrating too hard, replaying a bad swing, arguing with a bad bounce, checking the leaderboard after every hole, uses up mental resources that could have been spent on decision-making, commitment, and ex*****on.

Elite golfers aren't emotionally flat.
They're emotionally efficient.

They know that consistency isn't just a physical skill. It's an emotional one.

The goal isn't to eliminate emotion.
The goal is to shorten its lifespan.

Feel it.
Accept it.
Reset.
Move on.

Because the next shot doesn't care what happened on the previous one.

Have you ever experienced this "cruise control" state during a round? Share in the comments what it felt like.



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07/09/2026

Rory didn't win the Masters by training harder.

His WHOOP data told a different story: a 23% recovery score increase from December to March.

Not a swing change. Not a new fitness block. A smarter relationship with rest.

Sleep first. Manage load. Protect recovery. Train when the body is ready. That was the protocol.

I tried to run it for 30 days. As a 46-year-old with a startup, two kids and factory calls that don't respect bedtime.

Here's what actually happened:

→ Week 1: Sleep target hit 5/7 nights. HRV baseline established. Felt like I was doing something.

→ Week 2: Company hit a crunch. Sleep took the first hit. Data confirmed what I already knew.

→ Week 3: Adjusted. Simplified the protocol to 3 non-negotiables. That version held.

→ Week 4: Round-by-round data mapped against recovery scores. The correlation was real — and humbling.

The finding that changed everything: my worst rounds weren't tied to my swing. They were tied to my sleep the night before.

Rory's not built differently. He just decided recovery wasn't optional.

30-day verdict, round-by-round scorecard, in the next slide.

Recovery or Training: which one do you actually prioritise before a round? Comment below 👇

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07/08/2026

Everyone’s obsessed with Bryson DeChambeau’s massive transformation. But I'm not so sure they're taking the right lesson from it.

​Bryson was already an elite, arguably more skilled player long before the distance craze hit!

We saw the added muscle but missed the real story.

​The real shift wasn't his extreme diet or heavy lifting regime, honestly, how does that hold up when he's 50?

The magic was in the dynamic, ground-up work he did with coaches like Chris Como.

Load-and-explode mechanics. Overspeed training. Treating the golf swing like the athletic movement it actually is.

​When you prioritize longevity, wellness, and taking care of the body so you can play this game for a really long time, you stop chasing a bigger swing and start training a faster, more grounded body... and, the handicap moves.

​Here's what actually changes the game when you focus on longevity and ground-up mechanics:

→ Swapping out extreme lifting for dynamic, athletic movement and overspeed protocols.

→ Stopping the attempt to create speed with just your arms. Starting it from the ground.

→ Making ground contact the first thought not the last.

​The science backs it up. Recent 2026 Frontiers research confirms that foot-to-ground impulse and efficient energy transfer along the kinetic chain are the primary drivers of clubhead speed.

It’s exactly what Bryson’s force plate data shows.

And it’s exactly what Win36 was built around.

​Taking care of your body starts from the ground up, which means it always starts with your feet.

​If you're over 40 and still training like a weekend golfer, what's the one thing you'd actually change? Comment below.

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