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CHAPTERS
00:00 How many of your 14 clubs did you actually hit
01:19 The hybrid Isaak loved and had to take out
02:15 The Arccos study nobody talks about
03:37 This happens at every handicap level
04:04 The 5 most abandoned clubs in golf
05:18 Why the 3 wood is a security blanket
06:30 You carry it so you are not the guy without one
08:18 The free stats guide
09:28 You did not pick 14 clubs, you inherited a slot
10:47 The 1935 US Open and the guy with 32 clubs
12:00 Lawson Little and his 7 wedges
13:03 Why the USGA actually made the rule
14:20 The man who invented 14 said 14 was too many
16:56 Francis Ouimet won a US Open with 7 clubs
17:27 A limit is not a quota
18:20 Your 7 iron has the loft of a 1990s 5 iron
19:21 Isaak on 8 years in club fitting
20:24 The gap wedge exists to patch a hole
20:57 The case for owning more than 14 clubs
22:22 Hayden's qualifier, 14 holes, zero drivers
25:20 Why leaving a gap on purpose works
26:22 Rule 1: every club needs a job you can say out loud
28:01 Rule 2: two clubs cannot share a job
29:30 Rule 3: the receipt rule
30:46 Hybrid versus long iron, the Shot Scope numbers
31:58 Why long irons fail, and it is not your swing
33:05 What being the outlier actually costs you
36:00 Rule 4: replace it, do not just remove it
37:03 Driver versus 3 wood
39:09 Humility with a receipt
39:39 Arguing against our own episode
40:49 The USGA study on what golfers do not know
42:37 Where this data comes from and its limits
42:50 What to take with you
44:59 Hayden on discipline and the Ohio Open
SOURCES NAMED IN THIS EPISODE
Lou Stagner, analysis of the Arccos database, March 2023
Shot Scope, long iron versus hybrid greens in regulation
Arccos, driver versus 3 wood accuracy and distance
USGA TrackMan study, December 2023, 627 recreational golfers
Robert Harris, Sixty Years of Golf, 1953
Rand Jerris, USGA, on the origin of the 14 club rule
World Golf Hall of Fame on Lawson Little
Golf Digest and Ralph Maltby on iron loft changes
