About this episode

Cody Sundberg discusses how he improved his golf game by practicing less and the journey of building a nationally ranked golf course.

Try Play Ready Golf free for 7 days and use code PRGPOD for 20 off your annual plan for life: https://onelink.to/93ggkv Free 59 minute practice plan: https://onelink.to/59minplan Virgil Abloh Foundation: https://thevirgilablohfoundation.com/donate/ Broomsedge: https://www.broomsedgegolf.com/ Most golfers think the path to lower scores is more reps. Hit more balls, grind more hours, fix the swing. Cody Sundberg is proof of the opposite. He is a plus 4.5 mid-amateur playing the best golf of his life right now, and he got there by practicing less, not more. Cody is also the guy who bet on Broomsedge, the brand new South Carolina course that just landed at number 94 on Golfweek's list of the best modern designs in the country. He went from grinding mini tours, to commercial real estate, to writing the first big check for a course that was being shaped by a guy with 82 dollars left in the bank. In this episode, Isaak and Hayden sit down with Cody to talk about why hitting more balls is quietly making you worse, how progressive overload applies to your golf game, what it actually took to build a nationally ranked course from dirt, and why great golf should not require two planes and a…

People in this episode

Hosts: Isaak Ramsey, Hayden Zimmerer

Guest: Cody Sundberg

Topics covered

• golf practice
• performance improvement
• course design
• progressive overload
• golf habits

Keywords

• golf
• practice
• Cody Sundberg
• Broomsedge
• progressive overload
• golf performance
• course design

Sponsors

Play Ready Golf

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Virgil Abloh Foundation, Broomsedge, Golfweek

Places: South Carolina

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