Tom Stickney - Top 100 Coach and Top 5 Human

Whats up everybody and welcome to another episode of the golf guru show, I am your host, Jason Sutton and I am the Guru,  I am  also the director of instruction at the beautiful Colleton River club in Bluffton, SC where it is my mission to break down high performers in the teaching and coaching business and all fields of study, unpack and tease out what makes them great and successful from daily habits, their continuous growth journey,  to how they help and train with their students. Make sure that you download this episode and hit that purple subscribe button so you don't miss out of future episodes that will be coming your way. All I ask is that you share this podcast on social or with your friends and with other coaches and players that might benefit from the information. My guest this week is Derek Demensky. You can follow him on instagram @bettergolftucson where he has a massive following of more than 149 thousand. A little bit about Derek, he is the director of instruction at the Forty Niner Club in Tucson Arizona where he has been for the past 16 years. He teaches all parts of the game but has found his niche in the short game where he teaches a few tour players, such as Erik Van Rooyan, Michael Thorgbornsen and Matt Wallace and alot of really good college and amateurs as well. He is on the Ping advisory staff and did some really cool research on how the high launch, high spin shot is produced. When I saw that video a few years ago I was amazed at what Derek can do with a wedge which is what makes him so special as he is still a fine player himself. In this conversation we get into everything short game including his framework for assessing whether to use the ground or hit the ball first on your shots around the green to the different pieces that are necessary. We also discuss some of his work with a few of his players and some of the common mistakes that amateurs make around the greens. Finally we cover a few of his favorite drills and how to practice your short game and much more including some personal growth tips and how he stays sharp everyday. This is the first time that I have met Derek and I really enjoyed his caring personality and you can tell that he has intentional passion or golf and for people which is why he is one of the most sought after coaches in the game. So without further adeiu here is Derek Deminski.....enjoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick began his instructional career at Odessa National Golf Course in Middletown, DE. Since then, Nick has worked at facilities such as The Polo Club of Boca Raton (Boca Raton, FL), Ardsley Country Club (Irvington, NY), and Chester Valley Golf Club (Malvern, PA). Nick now resides in Malvern, PA where he is the Lead Golf Instructor at Merion Golf Club. Over the course of his coaching career, Nick has earned a wide variety of certifications to help give him a better understanding of the golf swing. Some of Nick's certifications include TPI: Golf Mechanics Level 2, SAM PuttLab Level 3, Aimpoint certified instructor, and is a TrackMan Certified Professional. To help further his knowledge of the golf swing, Nick has been mentored by Top 100 Golf Instructor John Dunigan for over a decade.In this conversation, we discuss his journey to his role as lead instructor at the prestigious Merion Golf Club to digging into how he uses technology and the importance of screening your players to make sure that you understand how they move. We also cover a few case studies of recent lessons and how he approaches a new student and much more. So I hope you enjoy this wide ranging conversation with Nick Iacono....enjoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am so excited to have my next guest on the show as it is Performance Consultant, Dr. Raymond Prior. Raymond Prior, Ph.D. is one of the most sought-after names in performance psychology by the world’s best performers. His clients include Major Champions, World Champions, Olympic Gold Medalists, individual and team National Champions, National Coach of the Year Award winners, individual and team Conference Champions, and countless NCAA All-Americans. Dr. Prior also works with corporate executives and other non-sport performers including Grammy winners, Oscar winners, Tony winners, and Emmy winners performing on stage and screen.Dr. Prior is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant by the Association of Applied Sport Psychology. As an author and researcher, Dr. Prior has authored books, contributed chapters to several performance psychology textbooks, and published research in the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology.I have followed Dr. Priors work for a few years, read his book and have listened to his podcast that he co-hosts with Chase Cooper and his information just spoke to me in a way that made sense to me as a coach which is why I was so thrilled to get to talk to him. Dr. Prior works with a bunch of PGA and LPGA tour players so I selfishly wanted to pick his brain on a few case studies so I could help my players and I know it will help you. In this conversation we cover many topics which include how to build stable confidence to some of the pitfalls that players run into while trying to perform their best. He also gives some great advice to junior golfers and their parents that you don't want to miss as well as some daily habits like mindfulness meditation training and cold plunging and more importantly the science and research behind it that will give you some tools to do what he calls "play freely. So without further delay, I bring you the brilliant Dr. Raymond Prior...enjoy! Dr. Priors website http://www.btsmindset.com Thank you to our sponsor http://www.istruzi.com Love y'all Guru Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest on this episode needs no introduction as he is a legend in the game and one of my childhood heroes. He is 14 time PGA Tour winner, including the 1983 PGA Champion where he beat Jack Nicklaus buy 1 and the 1983 and 2000 Players champion where he held off Tiger Woods and you guessed it, the owner of one of the most famous golf lines after hitting his second shot into the 18th green....."Be the right club. Be the right club today" He was the 1983 leading money winner and player of the year and also the comback player of the year in 1994. He played on 4 Ryder Cups and was the captain of the 2004 American squad.... You guessed it I am talking about Mr. Hal Sutton. Its also worth mentioning that he was the recipient of the 2007 Payne Stewart award. So I thought as the Ryder cup approaches, who better to talk to than someone who lived it. We had an amazing discussion that included his father's influence on his life and some of the decisions that he made to how he dealt with the low points and adversity in his career to much more. This is one of the few times that I have been nervous before going into an interview because I have so much respect for Hal, his career and how lives his life and his contributions to the game so give me some grace on this one. We didn't get to half of the topics and questions that I had prepared so hopefully there will be a part 2 but It was an honor to sit down with the legend. This conversation is filled with so many great stories and life lessons that you can apply to your life and golf. So without further delay, here is Hal Sutton...enjoy! Thank you to our sponsor http;//www.trueswing.com Use the discount code GURU10 for a 10% discount We also mentioned Makefield Putters http://www.makefieldgolf.com Go check them out Love y'all Guru Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Erika Larkin is a Golf Magazine Top 100 and Golf Digest Top 50 Coach. Go to https://www.trueswing.com/ to sign up! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the last 25 minutes of the original podcast that I thought I lost but was able to recover. It is is very different than the part 2 which was re-recorded and thought it was worth posting. Go check out www.theskilledcoachingalliance.com and use the code JD30 for a 30% discount. I love y'all Guru Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Dunigan is a Golf Magazine Top 100 and Golf Digest Top 50 Coach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Dunigan is a Golf Magazine Top 100 and Top 50 Golf Digest Instructor that is an expert in Motor Learning Science and How people learn. This is the first part of our conversation where we talk about everything from how we teach our kids to his journey of taking his knowledge of everything to using his strategies with his business partner, Dr. Will Wu and helping his players. Stay tuned for part 2 coming soon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ryan Smith is the National Elite Junior Coach at Sea Island Golf Academy . You can follow him @ryansmithgolf on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Stickney is a Top 100 Coach and the Director Of Instruction at Jonathans Landing CC in Jupiter, Fla. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices