Better Golf Academy: Strategy to Awesome Golf
Sep 17, 2026 · 10 min · 10 segments
There's one image from my childhood I keep coming back to while building this series, and it's not dramatic, it's a school van. Someone drove the van to away games every week, faithfully. But that was…
Hanju LeeHost
A third of those kids were considered high risk, growing up with real poverty, family instability, genuinely harsh circumstances.
And what Warner found was that even among those high risk kids, about a third of them turned out fine.
So the question became, what was the difference about that third? The answer wasn't money.
The single factor that followed up again and again in a kid after kid was that resilient ones almost always had at least one steady, caring adult who was reliably in their corner.
And here's a part that I think that matters most, that adult often wasn't a parent.
Sometimes it was a grandmother, a teacher, a neighbor, a coach, somebody who wasn't obligated to care but decided to anyway and who paid actual attention to that specific kid, not just their group, them specifically.
Showing up counts for something, but there's a real difference between showing up to perform a task, get us to the weigh games and back safely, and showing up to actually invest in a specific kid, noticing that one of them has a real spark, pulling them aside, asking real questions.
telling them that they should enter that tournament, connecting them to somebody who could actually teach them something.
The actual work, the work that matters is noticing who in front of you has that spark.
Whatever their age, in deciding to take a real interest, the kind that asks how they're really doing, tells them flat out that they can compete.
That becomes even a small version of that one steady adult Warner Research is describing.
These days, whether it's a golfer I'm working with directly or somebody listening to the show, I try to actually see them because I know exactly what it's like to have loved this game without anyone in my corner who saw it.
A third of those kids were considered high risk, growing up with real poverty, family instability, genuinely harsh circumstances.
And what Warner found was that even among those high risk kids, about a third of them turned out fine.
So the question became, what was the difference about that third? The answer wasn't money.
The single factor that followed up again and again in a kid after kid was that resilient ones almost always had at least one steady, caring adult who was reliably in their corner.
And here's a part that I think that matters most, that adult often wasn't a parent.
Sometimes it was a grandmother, a teacher, a neighbor, a coach, somebody who wasn't obligated to care but decided to anyway and who paid actual attention to that specific kid, not just their group, them specifically.
Showing up counts for something, but there's a real difference between showing up to perform a task, get us to the weigh games and back safely, and showing up to actually invest in a specific kid, noticing that one of them has a real spark, pulling them aside, asking real questions.
telling them that they should enter that tournament, connecting them to somebody who could actually teach them something.
The actual work, the work that matters is noticing who in front of you has that spark.
Whatever their age, in deciding to take a real interest, the kind that asks how they're really doing, tells them flat out that they can compete.
That becomes even a small version of that one steady adult Warner Research is describing.
These days, whether it's a golfer I'm working with directly or somebody listening to the show, I try to actually see them because I know exactly what it's like to have loved this game without anyone in my corner who saw it.
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