Brian Mull

you ain't gonna learn
what you don't wanna know

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

After two decades as a reporter, I learned this quickly: the truth inside a program rarely reaches the head coach.

My new venture, @selfscout_ conducts confidential interviews inside programs to uncover that truth and show coaches how they’re actually experienced.

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[SelfScout @selfscout_]

Introducing SelfScout.

Find out what your position won’t let you hear.

We conduct confidential interviews inside a coach's program and deliver the truth—good and bad—about how you lead.

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

@Jimguy732214 Lets play it straight up for a hundred.

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

The fifth hole at Muirfield Village is another reminder there's nothing wrong with a par-71, Jack.

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

@AdamSchupak I love Greenville and BMW throws a fine party but that tournament is a circus at that level, navigating multiple courses with minimal resources and bare bones volunteers on the non host courses. Dude on a morning walk w/ his lab might just pick up a shiny Pro V 300 yds from tee

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

@RobertLusetich @atrupar Always wondered why nobody has asked a serial pronoun abuser just who "they" are

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

Curt also paid me well below the PGA Tour standard after a high finish once but it was only a one week gig and I always enjoyed my trips to Endicott that time of year.

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

For example, Scottie would have been better off missing over the top of the flag not long in the middle back bunker

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

Sorry, Curt. But being aggressive on 12 at MVGC, even a little long is the play. Nicklaus rewards those who take on the risk. Helps to have a caddie who knows how long its playing and how far the clubs tend to go

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

The golfer from UCLA is lugging around a 40 ounce water bottle. Are there not water bottles and coolers on every hole? or did the NCAA folks have to take the kitty to DC today to grease the lawmakers?

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

@JosephLaMagna Probably not.

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

I love everybody from everywhere but just like Barton Hall 5-8-77 is not even the best show of that week or tour much less the best Grateful Dead show ever, the New York Knicks are about to get smoked by The Great Wemby. Yes I know where many people live and yap shows are born

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

Every good college golf coach knows how much they learn about their players on a 53 degree day in a 20 mph wind.

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

36 hours ago if you had told me Ben Kern was a utility infielder for the White Sox I would not have thought twice or doubted. He has now made nine birdies on this golf course in 30some holes and I am certain the cats in his regular weekly games are so grateful Mr. Kern is the shadow of that famous metro this week rather than getting deep inside their wallets once again.

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

Ol Donny is watching. His spirit sippin' scotch, chucklin' maybe cacklin' at all the 20 under nonsense we swallowed on Tuesday. Greens, wind and a ball that moves after it lands make a course nasty at any length.

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

@KendoVT By one shot over P Reed.

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

Scott Scheffler, best in the world, amid a 3 plus year run of consistent sustained success on par with any golfer in time, has little to no control of his golf ball in the Philly burbs. Less than 24 hrs. after an absolute stripe show display of full command.

So, Mr Weekend Warrior out there, maybe give yourself a break. If you must react to the bad shots - and they will surely come - do so through laughter, which will release tension. Or get mad, more tense, play worse, have no fun and be a miserable playing companion. It's a choice only you can make.

No one can think for you, you'll have to decide. The storyteller makes no choice. His job is to shed light, not to master.

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

My 80-year old mother rose from her chair and exited the room where she had watched the PGA Championship for many hours.

"They're too bunched up," she said. "And no one seems happy."

[Brian Mull @BGMull]

In the late 90s, David Duval and John Maginnes were on a short (4? 5?) list of PGA Tour golfers who could - and actually would- read a book from start-to-finish. So not surprised to hear them deliver such excellent commentary at @PGAChampionship all these years later.