MAR 2022
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BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS
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Golf Blueprint is changing the way golfers practice.
On the drive home, he heard an interview with eK vin Moore (below, right), a University of Georgia professor specializing in applied mathematics, analytics, education, and psychology. Darras emailed him right away, hoping to apply Moore’s theories to improving his performance on the golf course.
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“I’ll admit that I didn’t read Nico’s email right away, but when I did I thought I’d be able to help him,” said Moore skill set and we got some great analytics and strategy improve his wedge game.” During that time, Darras said he was working on the assigned reading for his doctoral program and a line in one of those books hit him. “It was about criterion referenced instruction, the idea of having an end goal in mind and working backwards. I brought it up to eK vin and we started using ourselves as guinea pigs for developing practice plans.” It may sound like things came together seamlessly, both Moore and Darras said that was hardly the case. Up’s Chris “Soly” Solomon. He shared it with his podcast audience and soon more than 02 people were lining up to learn how to practice. Moore described the response as eye-opening. e“W realized it was bigger than the two of us. eW spent 40 days ek eping up with demand, eventually getting the website up and zooming with clients. eW found they almost all wanted structure, practice plans built around data and research. So that’s what we did.”
pair had a large database of drills and plans, and an algorithm to apply to golfers. Golf Blueprint is now the largest online instruction service available with clients in 45 states. 04
