At The Turn - Golf Podcast · Joe Simons & Nick Heidelberger

Learn From Our Mistakes: How Not to Finish a Round

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Nick says 14 great holes still turned into an 84 after double-bogey, bogey, triple, and double finishes.

1. At The Turn focuses on “how not to finish off a round of golf,” with Nick Heidelberger and Joe Simons using their own late-round mistakes as the main example. 2. Nick Heidelberger and Joe Simons are the hosts, and their handicaps — Joe at 8.1 and Nick at 20.1 — make the episode’s golf talk personal and current. 3. The episode asks what changes when a player can see a good score, a reduced handicap, or a “freebie” round near the finish. 4. Joe describes an 84-84 stretch, a playing-condition correction that moved one score to an 82, and a handicap stuck in “purgatory.” 5. Nick talks through a match-play weekend, a 90, and a rules question about which scores should count toward his handicap. 6. The conversation turns to food and golf-course preparation, including a pizza delivered to the 10th tee box and a bucket of KFC ordered to Glendivere Golf Course. 7. Nick says he ate a chicken thigh on the 10th tee box after the group found the delivery on a table. 8. The Friday round at Langdon Farms becomes the main case study, starting with a 75-degree day and a tee setup that played the tips plus one. 9. Nick’s round includes a five-wood on a short par four, a cart-path bounce, and an out-of-bounds result that leads to a triple bogey. 10. He later explains that he reached the 18th tee needing par for an 81, then finished with another big miss and an 84. 11. Nick says the last holes exposed “poor course management” more than bad luck, because he brought trouble into play on shots where he could have used less club. 12. Joe compares the problem to aiming layups too close to water, using a coaching example from Bill and a par-five on the front nine at the University of Idaho. 13. Nick argues that he was trying not to make a big mistake instead of simply making the shot he had been hitting well all day. 14. Joe points to a friend who uses Bob Rotella and says a hot streak can be “a glimpse of your potential,” not just luck. 15. The hosts return to the idea that the best rounds come when a player stops tracking the score and starts executing one shot at a time. 16. Nick says he has had rounds where he felt “clear about golf” and knew he was going to make birdies, but the finish still shifted quickly. 17. The style is conversational, self-critical, and loose, with the hosts moving between handicap talk, food stories, and swing decisions. 18. The format is mostly two hosts talking, with one long reflective stretch and a small mailbag-style segment from the mad golfer of the week. 19. Players who track handicaps and finish rounds nervously will get the most from this. 20. Listeners wanting polished instruction or technical instruction-heavy swing analysis may skip it.

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