Good for her. Venison makes for some good eatin’.
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So you’re saying she’s got the does in the back?
(I’ll show myself out)
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Megha Ghana will be a member of this team in the fall. That will make 4 players inside the WAGR top 27 and 5 players inside the WAGR top 47.
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I was significantly worse at Call of Duty any time my dad came in the room to watch my play, always liked when he was there but boy oh boy did those Nazi’s get me when he did.
Figure D1 Collegiate golf is very similar.
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Finally had time to watch this over coffee this morning and no golf show has made me want to run through my garage wall, organize my golf stuff, and hit the short game area more than this did. So well done and great insight to the structure of a college golf team while highlighting the top players too.
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It was really cool seeing some of the drills they did. Having never had any kind of formal coaching in golf beyond a swing lesson or two it gave me some great ideas for next time I find myself behind a slow group or with the course to myself.
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The team chipping drill where they tried to sink it was 
That’s a great way to mentally change the paradigm from “Don’t chunk / blade this” to “Hit this chip in the hole”
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I liked the “you’re in a bunker now get up & down” drill. We used to do stuff like on my HS team, our coaches would put us in bad spots to see how we’d respond. Eliminating the initial frustration of having put yourself there with the prior bad shot always tended to relax players and make them more creative with the next shot. It helped in match situations when you could recall back to a good recovery shot from practice.
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Just wanted to throw out the one piece that had me nearly uncontrollably laughing (when they were trying to feed the turtles during their practice round):
“Rose, it’s not a Clif Bar!”
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Lol since we’re in the Nest, I wanted to share one of my favorite things that happened that we didn’t have the right shots to explain/include.
Despite Coach’s pretty strict anti-caffeine rules, one of the players crushed a massive latte from the hotel Starbucks right before the round. Correct me if I’m wrong @rmattgolden or @sundaybag, but I think she claimed to think there was little to no caffeine in it. She started her round playing horribly and Coach calmed her down by coming by and telling her that she had researched how many MG of caffeine were in the drink and done the math on how much water she would need to drink/how long it would take for her to “flush it out of her system” quickly. Coach was laughing telling the story because it was very obviously BS.
She left the player alone for a few holes and saw her like 3 holes later and the player was beaming. “It’s working!”
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I know I could Google this, but does anyone have a high level update on how the rest of the team’s season went? I did some light Googling last night after I finished and seems like they may have cooled down going into the NCAAs?
100% man! I said to my wife watching the par 5 drill - gosh I wish I had the chance to do that. Its one thing to practice alone, its another to have those drills and people you are competing against/having fun with
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We go into this a bit in the Nest pod, but Rachel ended up getting mono shortly after and was totally out of it for like more than a month. Which obviously hurts the squad.
She tried to come back at Regionals last week, played a very mediocre round and got subbed out for Caroline. She’s giving it a go this week at NCAA’s. Compelling!!
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Thanks! Looking forward to it! As someone who’s had mono that is absolutely brutal in the middle of a season.
As someone who routinely consumes 32 oz of coffee before leaving the house, and then grabs another on the way to the course to sip for the first few holes and wonders why he’s a jittery fucking spazz that can’t hit the ball: she may be on to something.
Also interesting and pretty obvious, but I did a resting metabolic test the other day and they were telling me how crazy the difference in the test is with coffee in your system vs fully fasted
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I need a sports science with Coach on this (coming from a guy with a 550 am tee time tomorrow)
It was sick. She was MILITANTLY anti-caffeine.
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Did she get into why? Like what drove her to that - other than like some baseline stuff about heart rate/etc.
Link to the women’s NCAA golfstat page for those that want to follow along. TV coverage won’t kick in till match play I believe.
https://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=team&tid=24975
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I’m sure she could give a detailed explanation, but I think it was just the normal shift off your baseline – more jittery, changing decision-making, etc.
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