Finally Reach Your Potential with the Decade Course Management System

You hit hundreds of balls and spend hours on the putting green. But you’re still not getting the results you want. You probably need to play smarter.

Not all new equipment items are launched with the benefit of sophisticated marketing techniques – they don’t all come with a press release edited and checked by legal departments, highly stylized videos, hi-res images taken in a specially-built studio, and big money launch events in 5,000-seat auditoriums.
Forgive us then for getting wind of this particular product three years after it was first put to the test. Truly though, this is a case of better late than never.

Some readers may already be familiar with Decade – Scott Fawcett’s course management system that has slowly been gaining momentum since he used it to help one lucky young golfer rise over 3,000 places in the junior world rankings. If you haven’t heard of it yet, read on as it may be the final piece of your jigsaw.
Fawcett is a former pro who played various mini-tours and competed in a US Open (1999, MC). In 2001, all the tournament checks he made bounced and the tour’s organizer went to jail. But he kept at it, mixing golf with professional poker and, in 2002, an actual job when he became an electricity broker. Taking advantage of his resolute personality and mathematics skills, Fawcett made good money supplementing his meager earnings from the golf course.  

It’s not clear when exactly Fawcett finally did quit playing pro golf, but even when he did, the left side of his brain wouldn’t allow him to retreat peacefully. The numbers just didn’t make sense to him; never did. And with the ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions nagging at him constantly, he went to work, analyzing the stats and eventually devising a course management system based on probability.

The basic premise was that golfers – good golfers, weren’t playing the percentages. Their aim was just too specific. Indeed, Fawcett states quite categorically that Harvey Penick’s time-honored adage ‘Take dead aim’ is actually quite harmful. “Take dead aim is just wrong,” he says.

In 2014, Fawcett planned on entering the Texas State Amateur at Brook Hollow, but tendonitis in his elbow prevented him from playing and putting his new game management theories to the test. There was, however, a 17-year-old at his club – Bent Tree CC, 15 miles north of Dallas – named Will Zalatoris who was in the field.

Fawcett reached out, offering to caddie for the youngster and making him a promise. “Will is a great kid and obviously had a lot of talent,” says Fawcett. “He played junior golf with Jordan Spieth who is a little older, and he had a beautiful swing. But he made too many unnecessary mistakes because he aimed at every pin. I told him that if he did everything I asked him to he would win.”

We probably wouldn’t be publishing this story if Zalatoris hadn’t finished the 72 holes with a ten-under-par total of 274, and won by three. And what if he hadn’t then won the similarly prestigious Trans-Mississippi Amateur and, to cap it all, the US Junior Amateur Championship? Zalatoris rose as high as third in the junior world rankings, and in 2015 won a collegiate qualifying event to play in the Northern Trust Open (now Genesis Open) at Riviera CC. He shot 76 in the opening round – his only over-par round of the year according to Fawcett – before following up with a level-par 71 to miss the cut by two. He is currently finishing up his junior year at Wake Forest.

Bryson DeChambeau, a numbers guy like Fawcett, also owes a lot of his success as an amateur to Decade having attended a seminar at Southern Methodist University in 2014 and immediately making it part of his preparation. The system is now being used by dozens of professionals, elite amateurs, and college coaches, and is available in two forms – the standard Decade which includes introductory content designed specifically for high handicappers; peer group comparative analysis; custom content based on the user’s stats profile; and discounted live seminar and camp rates, and Decade Elite which, as the name suggests, is for serious competitors looking to win tournaments or earn a college scholarship.

If you spend a lot of time on the range hoping to improve your ball-striking, but aren’t seeing your efforts reflected in better scores, you could be making a lot of bad decisions on the golf course. Decade will most certainly help you put that right.

Standard – $50 for six months
Elite – $200 for six months, then $20 a month
Available in iOS and Android App Store
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