Here's what to eat during your next round.
I was watching a Trottie Golf video with Rory and I picked up on something I wasn't expecting.
His eating routine during rounds 😂.
Pretty simple...
- Protein bar after 5-6 holes.
- Protein shake walking down 10.
- Another protein bar around 15-16.
Every single round.
It came up because at The Masters, he forgot. Everything that happened on 15 and 16... he just didn't eat. Then between 17 and 18, cameras cut to him eating a protein bar. Which is kind of funny when the tournament is almost over.
It wasn't. He was just behind on his routine.
"With everything that was going on in that back nine, I just forgot to eat the protein bar."
Ok so pretty detailed insight here but why bring it up?
A lot of us fade coming down the stretch. And nutrition / hydration has a huge impact on performance.
So do a little prep. Get some protein bars and throw them in your bag.
Doesn't have to be hard but can have a big impact on performance.
How Scott Fawcett Became the Strategy Guy
Last week, we posted our first video with Scott Fawcett, which was incredibly insightful (we have another one with him coming out next Tuesday, so stay tuned for that).
Maybe you've heard of him before or not; he's had a huge impact on course management strategy, working with a lot of the best tour players in the world.
How did he get started? The story was pretty crazy...
It started with poker.
"When strokes gained putting was first released, I was playing a lot of poker and contributing to an online poker forum called Two Plus Two. I was in the golf section when strokes gained putting came out. I wrote a thread titled 'Drive for Show, Putt for Dough is False.'"
He and a few other guys on the forum... some of them are now directors of analytics for the Cavaliers and the Raptors... started trying to work through the math.
Then when the full strokes gained catalog came out in 2013, something clicked.
"I realized that if I could take the size of shot patterns and how many strokes it takes to hole out from any remaining spot... you could solve strategy. Because it's always been this mystical, elusive aspect of golf."
And then a bad cortisone shot was a catalyst for all this taking off.
"The week before the Texas Am in 2014, I got a cortisone shot in my right elbow and the doctor paralyzed my arm for a couple of days. So I called Will Zalatoris and said, let me caddie for you next week."
Will was 3,300th in the world at the time. A junior golfer at Scott's home course. Scott walked him through everything he'd built and told him to just do what he said.
"He won by four."
Then Will qualifies for the US Junior. Scott goes down to Houston and caddies for him again. Will wins that too.
"The SMU coach asked me... I've got this kid named Bryson DeChambeau. I can't get Bryson to listen to me about strategy. Can you teach this to him?"
Scott taught Bryson the system in February 2015. Bryson wins the NCAA championship and the US Amateur that same year.
"And now apparently I'm a strategy expert."
The whole thing started because Scott was, in his words, "a head case while playing professionally in my twenties."
He used some poker math, strokes gained data, and his own frustrations to build something that's now used by tour players, college programs, and thousands of amateurs.
Pretty wild origin story for a system that started on a poker forum.
Want access to the Decade app plus all of Scott's in-depth training?
You can get your membership here, and Scott did a very generous 30% off discount code. Use code GOLFWELL
Have a great week this week!
-Cordie
✍️ Written by Cordie Walker
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