🚨 BREAKTHROUGH EPISODE: Chris Shoots His Lowest Ever Round (67) — Is the Podcast Actually Making Us Better?

🚨 Chris just shot the lowest round of his life… and we had to hit record immediately.

After months of documenting every lesson, every setback and every breakthrough on the podcast, Chris has finally done it: a career-best 67 (-3).

In this special emergency episode, we unpack exactly what happened and, more importantly, why it happened.

Was it better strategy? A stronger mental game? More commitment over the ball? Or are the lessons from some of the world’s best golf coaches finally starting to click?

We dive into the key moments from Chris’ round and explore how advice from guests including Jon Sherman, Dr. Raymond Prior, Scott Fawcett and Alex Huang showed up when it mattered most.

In this episode we discuss:

• Chris’ lowest ever round: 67 (-3)
• How he stayed calm after getting into red numbers
• The difference between playing in pursuit mode versus a threat response
• Why better course management led to better golf
• The mindset shift that stopped him protecting his score
• Lessons every amateur golfer can apply to shoot lower scores

If you’re trying to lower your handicap, improve your golf mindset, play smarter golf or finally break through to your own best scores, this episode is packed with practical takeaways you can use in your next round.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 1:48

I would tell people like Yeah, you're gonna have to blow it. You're gonna have to choke. You're gonna have to have opportunities to do it and have it not work out. Okay, welcome back everyone to Hilo. Can you go? This is an emergency episode that we're Emergency. We had to call an emergency meeting because we have some big news, or rather, I should say Chris has some big news. Why don't you tell everyone what's your big news, Chris? Go on.

SPEAKER_01 2:27

So I shot my personal best today, Dave. I shot a 67, three under. Yes. Boy is doing good things. I'm on cloud nine. I am buzzing. I have shot my personal best.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

67, 300 par. How many birdies did you manage today, Chris?

SPEAKER_01 2:49

I had uh six birdies today. Six six birdies. Six birdies and three bogeys. And to be fair, I left some of them. I left some out there as well. On the 18th, I had about a seven-footer for birdie. There was a little slider downhill, but I just thought to myself, do not do this game where you go for it, then you hit it past, and then your knees are knocking to try and make par.

SPEAKER_00 3:17

Which I think is perfectly fair. Out of everything that you've heard on this kind of podcast journey, what was in your mind? Like, because you've talked a bit recently, we've been on the podcast with a few of our guests recently, and you've mentioned, particularly with some of the more like kind of performance psychology experts, you've mentioned how you know there was one round not that long ago where you were three under through nine, and then you know, it all came tumbling down and collapsed around you. How did you keep it? Because I was with you, obviously. I'm delighted that I was able to witness it. It was some really, really good golf, obviously. But you just seem to keep this steady quality of play going throughout. At no point, Chris, did you ever seem to be like trying to defend a good score or like being a bit fearful that you were gonna ruin a good score? What was going through your mind?

SPEAKER_01 4:12

Well, over the the weekend when I was playing up at Nairn, I was playing, I was executing my shots, like I was hitting really good shots, but I just wasn't scoring. So I knew it was coming, like I knew that like a good round was coming, and it's been bubbling over the last three weeks. And one of the things that I really took with me on that round today was when I went two under in the front nine, and it was just John Sherman saying, like, you've been there before, like just you've like say it was just the learning of when I was three under through nine, it was almost that toughened me to when I kind of imploded on the back nine when I was at Forest. And this time I just felt I could just hear him saying, Hit one shot at a time, that's all that matters. Hit one shot at a time, focus on the shot at hand, and don't get too carried away with yourself and don't think about the past. And that's what I'd done, and I just focused on every single shot, one shot at a time. I feel so happy and so proud of myself that I was able to carry that out and do it successfully because I I wasn't in a threat response either, I was in pursuit. You can either be in a threat response or you can be in pursuit mode, and I was in pursuit. I didn't shake at any point, and it felt honestly. See, when I tapped in that par for the three under, I like kind of let out this kind of like hands in the air moment. It was like Rory McElroy at the 18th at Augusta when finally all of the weight had dropped off of his shoulders. That's literally how I felt, and I'm still on cloud nine right now as we are speaking.

SPEAKER_00 6:02

And so you said you were not feeling threat response, you were feeling in pursuit mode, and certainly Dr. Raymond Pryor talked a lot about that with us. Like, describe that. Like, what do you mean? Do you mean like you were taking on like really aggressive shots in pursuit of a good score, or or what were you doing that kept you in pursuit mode?

SPEAKER_01 6:26

I think it was just knowing I felt like I was like uh I was really locked into the point where, say, for example, I knew what my yardages were, and in my head I was just like, well, play away from the danger. And that wasn't like a threat response of like, oh, there's a bunker to the right. It was just like you've got 105 yards, right, the front of the green's about 95 yards, hit your 95 yard shot and commit to it. It was just commitment the whole way through, and I'd done that with every shot, and it was just playing smart, and I guess it was the strategy of Scott Fawcett basically saying know your shot pattern, and I felt like I really leaned into that.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

Yeah. And in terms of pursuit, I think what you're saying there, Chris, is it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to take on tucked pins or take on these hero shots. And interestingly, whenever we released something from Scott Fawcett uh with comments from like Chase Cooper, who's on the Golf Beneath the Surface podcast with Dr. Raymond Pryor, and he was pretty clear. Chase was saying, Look, we absolutely recommend that you go after the scores and the shots that you want, but that you do it within a game plan, you do it within the confines of a good game plan, and it sounds like you had a good game plan going on today.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

I knew like I've just felt so confident with each shot that I'd played because I'd played a lot of golf, I'd played three rounds at Nairn at the weekend, and as I say, like I was striking it really well, I just wasn't scoring. I was giving myself the opportunity, and it just wasn't like the the putts weren't dropping. And Alex Huang has talked about before, where sometimes it's just not your day now, and I knew that coming down the road on the Sunday, and I just knew that this was basically preparing me for something greater essentially. In the yeah, um and today was that day, and I'm just so happy. And I think that if I'm ever in that situation again, I'll feel comfortable, and it's just built that kind of like strength in me to go low.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

You were red hot with the putter today, I must say, as well. And I think that's as I watch players at your level, I get the feeling that that's kind of the way it works in some ways, is if you keep on setting up those quality birdie looks to use the term that Alex Huang from Decade used when he spoke to us, uh is keep setting those up, and then at your level, you'll get days where you feel like I've holed nothing today. Yeah, but you'll also get days, yeah, but you get days like today where you hold a lot of long pots for birdie, which must have been very, very satisfying.

SPEAKER_01 9:25

Oh, it was it was very satisfying, and uh hopefully long may it continue and the handicap keeps lowering because yeah, now I'm from a 2.7 down to a 2.2, so it's going in the right direction, mate. It's going in the right direction.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

It certainly is, and let's keep trending in that direction. Last point I will make is because you mentioned John Sherman earlier, and one of the great quotes I think that came out of our podcast with him is that he said you need to blow it a few times, you're gonna have to blow it a few times, you're gonna have to get close to where you want to be and then blow it, and then you learn from that, and then you feel like what you said earlier, you feel like you've been here before, and so you had that experience recently. It was pretty raw that you talked about where you'd been three under, uh, and then you'd kind of ended up I don't know, two, three overpower by the end of the round, a very disappointing back nine by your standards. But this is why today we celebrate, Chris, because you you have relatively speaking at your level, you've blown it a couple of times, but then comes the moment like today, whenever you break through, and how sweet does that feel uh based on what's come before?

SPEAKER_01 10:41

It feels it honestly feels amazing, it feels like uh an accomplishment that um I'm gonna take with me up, sit put the ball away, got the scorecard for it. Um, and it makes me think of when we were speaking to Dr. Raymond Pryor about you can't go low if you're afraid to go high.

SPEAKER_00 11:00

Amen to that. Absolutely. So we will leave it at that. The sweet is not as sweet without the sorrow, Chris. The sweet is never as sweet without the sorrow, and Lord knows there's a lot of sorrow moments that we endure in this great game, but then that maybe makes these wonderful moments all the better. Wouldn't you agree with that, Chris? I agree a hundred percent, Dave. Come on at 67. Yeah, we'll keep chasing lower scores. Hope springs eternal. We'll see you next time on how low can you go?

SPEAKER_01 11:42

How low can you go? Sixty seven. We'll get cancelled, we'll get cancelled for that, Chris. Right, I'll speak to you later on, brother.