123: Why the Best Iron Player on Earth Never Aims at the Flag with Alex Huang

123: Why the Best Iron Player on Earth Never Aims at the Flag with Alex Huang

June 1, 2026 · 44 min · Episode 123

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Alex Huang discusses the analytical approach to golf and why aiming at the flag may not be the best strategy.

Most golfers think their blow-up holes are bad luck. Alex Huang has spent 18 years proving otherwise. In this episode we sit down with Alex Huang, co-founder of Decade Golf and the analytical mind behind the system used by Bryson DeChambeau, Will Zalatoris, and dozens of LPGA, Epson Tour, and college players. Before golf, Alex spent nearly two decades in professional poker, and he brings that same cold, objective decision-making lens to how we should be playing the game. We get into why "blow...

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