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Don Cooper

Don Cooper

American baseball coach

Sep 1, 2026

3:49
When you set things that people aren't aware of, you touch speed agrees, but what are the things you're talking about?
3:54
I'm talking about missing the green intentionally, because if you're too over forefront, we know your trajectory won't meet the reception of the green and the ball can't stick the green, watch right.
4:07
Hit it short, we can chip it up there.
4:09
You can chip it, work on your chip.
4:12
You know, like I think I've talked about it before when I'm Most memorable back to Augusta Caddy Grounds was a woman that was like 70 years old because she was aware of what she could do.
4:25
So she didn't try to do anything that she couldn't do.
4:28
So she shot a little bit of a par and, you know, it was a great day.
5:48
Right.
Jim DigbyMODERATOR
11:44
Don, why don't you introduce yourself and share your journey?
11:49
Good morning, everyone.
11:51
I'm Don Cooper, the former executive director of the ESA for 10 or 11 years or so.
11:58
I was in the UK teaching mountain rescue of all things.
12:02
And one of my colleagues there, a retired police officer, was going into the insurance industry and mentioned a gentleman by the name of Jim Chippendale in Texas.
12:13
He said that is spinning up something that might interest me.
12:18
It had to do with something secondary to what had recently occurred.
Jim DigbyMODERATOR
17:00
Yeah.
21:45
[laughs]
21:46
And you're only gonna be there once during the week.
21:49
Don't work on that a bunch.
21:51
Just go to the spot that's safe.
21:53
Putt from there, and I think the brain kind of takes that in to where when you do go to play, there's not a whole lot of, "Do I go at this pin?" It's kind of already wired in there.
22:02
Right.
22:02
11 at Augusta, don't putt three-footers around that back left pin.

8 MINS LATER

30:31
You changed a person's game." I was likeWell, I, you know, but like you think about it, and it goes back to what you were saying, like how few people take that into account.

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