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Podcast: Drop Zone - GOLF Podcast
Episode: Dave Pelz
Description: The Dave Pelz you see in 2017 isn’t all that different from the Dave Pelz you would have seen in 1957.
The golf fanatic was then playing on scholarship at Indiana University, and competing against Jack Nicklaus, no less, so to see where he is today—as a world renowned short game instructor—comes without surprise. The astonishing part is how he got there, because shortly after enrolling at Indiana, and losing to Nicklaus on a number of occasions, he realized he wasn’t Tour ready.
His ascension to the top of the short game world—which includes advising Phil Mickelson, one of the...