May 8, 2026

TLink GPS | Mulligans

TLink GPS | Mulligans
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This week on the Mulligans episode, Fred Greene sits down with Derek Rucki to talk about the TLink GPS.

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Hey, It's Josh Carp and it's Friday, which means that

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we are airing a Golf Smarter Mulligans episode from the archives.

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This week's rerun is episode five h two with Derek Ruky.

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We also have new interviews every Tuesday. Next week I'll

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be speaking to Bradley Hughes, the former player and a

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top flight instructor who will be joining us to talk

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about his approach to the golf swing.

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Golf Smarter Premium number five hundred two published on August eighteen,

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twenty fifteen. Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast.

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Derek.

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Hey, Fred, how are you? I am great. How are

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you doing today?

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I'm doing very well.

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Thank you very much, and thank you for turning me

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on to the newest GPS product to hit the market,

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t link. I'm very excited about this because you've seemed

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to accomplish something very important in the GPS market and

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that is a great price point.

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Yeah. Thanks it.

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It's been quite a treny that gets where we are now,

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and we had to do a few things very differently

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in the markets to get to a price point. But yeah,

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we're just going and I'm excited to get it in

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your hands and get your feedback and yeah, and kind

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of just chat about it here on the podcast, and.

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That is what we'll do, is chat about it for

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a while. But I need to know.

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I mean, you look like you know, we we've had

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ads ads for Harry's razors on the show multiple times.

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You don't even look like you shave man. You are

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awfully young to be the sometimes you shave.

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Yeah, but.

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How is it that you young entrepreneur yourself got into

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a golf product.

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Tell me, tell me the story on that.

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Yeah. Sure, So.

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Golf kind of became my passion when I was twelve

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years old. I I feel like people that kind of

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latch onto the sport have that you know, that aha

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moment where they're on the golf course and they you know,

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all of a sudden, the potts start dropping and they

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start like hearing the birds chirping, and they start seeing

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the divots flying. And I just kind of fell in

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love with it when I was twelve years old, And

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you know, I just decided, like one day, like there's

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no other way I would rather spend every single waking

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second than spend it on a golf course. So I

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basically did just that. From the age twelve to twenty,

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and I became pretty good. I started playing in like

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junior golf events. By the time I was eighteen, I

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was a top ten junior golfer in Canada, and then

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that landed me a golf scholarship to go play for

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a university in Texas, which was, you know, kind of

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the main goal that I wanted to you know, achieve

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out of starting golf competitively. And when I got to university,

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I started to kind of recognize that the skills that

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you have to develop in to become a great competitive golfer,

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we're also very advantageous to an educating setting or even

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just business. And that's like having a good work ethic, determination,

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and just really being able to dedicate yourself to something

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for an extended period of time. And so I kind

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of started moving away from you know, competitive golf being

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like everything I focused on, you know, fourteen hours a

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day on the range, to wanting to put that kind

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of work ethic into something else that could potentially just

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put me ahead a little bit. And so when I

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was in university in Texas, I was I started like

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day treating the stock market full time. When I was

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in my dorm room. I started an eBay business where

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I was like importing goods out of China into my

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dorm room and selling them moneybay, and I built that up.

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It was actually became pretty big, and I was making

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some good money out out of my dorm room. So

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I decided, like, look, I'm just going to enjoy golf

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for what it is and not continue to invest all

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this time into it. And so I went home, and

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that eBay business was actually ended up failing for me.

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It was a big failure.

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And I learned a ton from kind of doing these

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little tiny ventures on the side and you know, going

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through a few successes and a few failures. And then

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I ended up finishing or enrolling to finish my degree

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here in Calgary, Alberta at Mount Royal University in their

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship program. And in the first class that

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you take for the entre program, you basically just come

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up with an idea around something that you're passionate about.

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And so for me, you know, the whole Malcolm Gladwell thing,

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what have you invested your ten thousand hours in? What

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do you you know, really know? And so for me,

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that was golf. And I saw these GPS watches, you know,

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becoming really popular along with this wearable tech. And it

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was pretty obvious why they were becoming so popular, Like

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as a golfer, it's you know, especially an average golfer,

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you just want to be able to enjoy your game

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and not have to think about too much. So being

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able to just look at your wrist and have a

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yardage really quickly, you know, it became popular. And so

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I tried these watches on, and you know, long story short,

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I just decided these watches were great, but they were

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far too distracting. They were bulky heavy, really cumbersome, and

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they were expensive. So I just wanted to find a

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way to you know, create that same kind of convenience,

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but put it into something that was much more affordable

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and much more comfortable to wear, kind of more like

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wearing a bracelet, like one of those balanced bracelets that

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you see golfers wearing. And so that was the original

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vision for it, and you know, along the way, I

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just picked up a bunch of mentors. I met the

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right investors. I brought on my co founder and CTO

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who had the technical background behind this, to kind of

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develop software behind it. And then I consider myself just

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to be kind of a hustle and the vision of

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the company, and it definitely takes a lot of hustle

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to get something like this off the ground, especially being

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you know, twenty one years old.

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Tell me the moment that Tell me about the moment

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that you just you you came to that realization that, yeah,

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maybe the tour golf is not going to work for me.

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Tell me what that what that epiphany was like. And

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it's like, no, I think if I'm going to make

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a lot of money, it's going to be in business

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and not in golf.

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Yeah, it's funny. It was a very specific moment actually,

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when I was playing a qualify around. So it's like

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university golf, like all of the entire team gets out

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of the course and they do qualifier rounds to see

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who's going to go to play at the next tournament.

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And the next tournament was in Vegas, and I just

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really wanted to go to Vegas. So I put a

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lot of pressure on myself for this tournament. And while

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I was in my qualify round, I was playing, you know,

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I was having a bad time, Like I just really

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wasn't enjoying the game as much as I used to

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I I kind of put too much pressure on myself

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for it. And during that round, I had some open

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trades in the stock market and I ended up making

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like three thousand dollars in a matter of hours. And

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I'm just like, look, I I think I would rather

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dedicate my time to something that's really working and I'm

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actually getting some enjoyment out of then, you know, something

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that's kind of started to become more of a chore.

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And I felt like I had milk golf for all

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that it could give me, and you know, just realizing

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that it wasn't It didn't feel like quitting to me

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because it felt like the lessons learned and the skills

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I gained out of trying to become a very highly

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competitive golfer or the reason why I could make money

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in the stock market in the first place, So why

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not apply that to something else?

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And what skills and lessons were those that you learned?

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And you know, I mean, like you talked about how

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you failed miserably on eBay and that probably was a

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huge lesson too. I mean, what do we learn from

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doing things right? We just keep repeating it, not knowing

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why it was right. It just happened, but here you

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are getting experience at a young age to teach you

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something on how to move forward totally.

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I Yeah, golf is a microcosm of life. I definitely

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believe that. And I feel like a little bit of

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an old soul just because of everything that I've had

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to go through on the golf course, which is strange

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to say, but one of the big things that I've

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learned that's really helped with getting a startup off the

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ground is when you're running a startup and you're getting

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something like t Link, it seems like on a daily basis,

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what is the best thing of your entire life happens

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to you, and on the exact same day, the worst

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thing of your entire life happens to you.

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There's constantly new things.

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Up in the air that are happening that you know,

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one second you get a five thousand unit order and

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the next second your manufacturing breaks down and you can't

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even get those five thousand units off the ground or

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something like that. And what golf has really taught me

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is it's not so much about how you perceive something

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is good or bad on a golf course, whether that's

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a miss three foot putt or you know, a chip in.

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It's more about how you actually deal with that situation

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and react to it. So what golf taught me is

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in between that I guess that stimulus of something good

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or bad happening to you and your reaction to it.

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In between those two things is really opportunity that almost

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nobody recognizes to pro assess it, to think about it,

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and to react in a way that someone else might

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just kind.

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Of pull the trigger on an emotional response.

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And when you get emotional on the golf course, things

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can go bad very quickly.

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You did learn a lot that's awesome.

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To the Golf Smarter podcast audience. We are also broadcasting

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this live on Periscope, and to those of you who

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are watching on periscope right now, if you have any

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questions for Derek about his lessons learned or about t Link,

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which we're going to talk a lot about, please go

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ahead and submit them on your phone right there and

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let us know what you're thinking about and if you

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can hear properly, Derek, growing up when you got hooked

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on golf and then all of a sudden you realize,

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you know, you took it as far as you could

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that you felt when you made that decision that it's

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not going to golf is not going to be your

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life as far as being on the course, was that

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a relief? Was that depressing? Were you happy?

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How? How did that make you feel.

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At the time of making that decision? It was it

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was a little tough, just because I know how much

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time I had invested into one singular thing, which is

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learning how to hit a ball into a hole in

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as few strokes as possible, you know, So that kind

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of went through my head of how many thousands of

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hours have I invested into this one thing that you know,

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I might not really use anymore to you know, try

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and further a career in it. But I quickly kind of,

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you know, I was able to recognize that those hours

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weren't just going into, like I said, hitting a ball

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into a hole, but more so into just kind of developing,

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uh as a person, you know, developing that work ethic,

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which is something that I feel is always separated me,

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you know, being always being the first on the range

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and then the last off at the end of the

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day of the golf course. So now that's just translated

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into you know, the first into the office and the

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last out or whatever it might be. And I was

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actually when I realized that it was actually a feeling

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of excitement to realize that, like, holy, I have all

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these extra hours that I used to invest into golf

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that I can invest into other things, you know, and

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that kind of it kind of excited me to have

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this free time to just put into something that you know,

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might actually leverage that time investment into something much bigger.

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I have to ask all the hours that you had

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invested in playing, in learning about yourself and learning about

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the game and what it taught you about how to

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conduct yourself. You've been vague in our emails, and I

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need to ask for myself, what did Golf Smarter have

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to do with any of that?

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on this for me because so I was so like

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all I wanted to do was get better at golf.

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So when I practiced when I was younger, like I

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don't know, probably from fourteen and up, I'd be on

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the range for four or five hours at a time,

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and I thought it was extremely inefficient. This is the

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way that I thought it was extremely inefficient for me

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to be listening to music while I was playing, when

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I could instead be listening something that was actually building out,

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you know, my mental game, or maybe a new tip

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that I could be using on the range while I

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was practicing. So I would just be practicing away in

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a way, and I would just listen to Golf Smarter

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while I was playing, and I felt like, you know,

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even if the guy beside me was practicing just as

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hard as I was, I had like an extra edge

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on that guy just because, you know, I was picking

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up this tip that maybe he would never learn and

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being able to apply it. So that was It's kind

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of cool to actually be on this now.

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Well, it's very cool to have you on.

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I'm flattered that you would use that as a way

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to improve your game.

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Thank you.

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It's very cool to have you on the show too.

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So now let's talk about te Link. I'm really impressed.

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You know, you talked about the other products out there

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being bulky, heavy and expensive.

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What what did you want to address.

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Immediately on UH and and for those again watching on periscope,

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I'm holding up the box right now for the t Link, GPS,

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golf Watch, convenience, comfort and style. What were the things

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that you felt you needed to address immediately in improving

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on what was already in the marketplace.

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So the key thing right off the bat for me

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was just the overall size and style of the watch.

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When I tried on the original, you know, like the

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Garment s one, I think was the first watch that

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was really started blowing up in the market. I tried

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it on and it was so uncomfortable and distracting that

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I could hardly even hit the ball straight just because

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I wasn't I'm not used to wearing a watch when

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I play golf, Like I just wear one of those

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balanced bracelets, and that's that's pretty much it. And I

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know a lot of I just knew by nature of

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playing a lot of golf with amateur golfers. I just

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know that a lot of people don't like to wear

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watches when they play because of that exact reason, big

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and bulky. So the first thing was, is there a

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way to kind of scale down, you know, this technology

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into something that's much more smaller, kind of rolls with

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your wrist nicely, it's light and feels more like a

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fitness tracker than you know, a big, bulky watch. And so,

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you know, that was the first big thing, and then

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I just kind of recognized that, like the golf GPS

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retail market is kind of like this small pond with

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big fish in it. You know, you got guys like

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Garmented Bushno and Skycaddy and names that everyone knows. So

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I needed to find a way to get a price

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down to that ninety nine dollars level just to kind

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of make it more of an impulse buy for people.

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And so yeah, really the first two months of having

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the idea was just validating it in my network that

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people really would value having a lightweight, small device that

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could be worn like so teelink can be worn both

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as a watch and as a belt clip. The unit

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pops out, and so I wanted to make sure that

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that was something people would value over potentially having more features,

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and the response was overwhelmingly yes.

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So that kind of gave the go ahead.

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Smart move, very good. I'm for those who again are

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on periscope. This is this is what my t link

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looks like on my wrist. It is very lightweight, it's

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very comfortable. There you go, he's got one too. Of

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course he's got one. Now I've got one too. It's

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very lightweight, it's very comfortable, it's not distracting. And but

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you know, how is it that you were able to

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get away from the two hundred and ninety nine three

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hundred ninety nine four fifty, you know, five hundred dollars

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price point with something that is so lightweight, comfortable, small.

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How does it work? And why is the price so

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different than what the big boys have to offer.

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So the big thing that we had to do.

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Was we're trying to make sure that the focus on

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the device side is strictly on providing that comfortable experience

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and yet having that really accurate data a low cost.

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So the way that we were able to do that

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is by utilizing a piece of technology that pretty much

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everyone in North America uses on a daily basis, and

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it's really the most powerful thing that any of us

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own right now, and that's your smartphone. So we figured that,

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you know, in order to cut down on costs on

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the device side, some of those big costs include like

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having enough memory and having a built on GPS onto

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the device that's constantly pulling GPS, which requires a larger

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battery as well to handle that GPS signal. And so

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what we decided to do was why not utilize a

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GPS battery and memory platform that everyone carries with them

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at all times. So t Link just uses Bluetooth to

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connect with your phone and then run off the GPS

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that's built right into your phone. So we're able to

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kind of keep the hardware and the core technology onto

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something that you already own. And that also allowed us

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to differentiate ourselves kind of from an updating perspective as well,

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because one of the big problems that these GPS watches

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have is golf courses are constantly being updated and you

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have to plug your watch into your computer, go to

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Garmin dot com or whatever it is and download a

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new database, as opposed to with us, since it's on

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the app, everything's just being pulled from the cloud, so

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anytime a course is updated, you never have to update

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the app do anything. You're constantly getting the freshest database

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and you know that you're getting the most accurate yardage

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as possible.

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So yeah, by.

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Utilizing the phone, we're able to dramatically reduce all of

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our costs and be able to have some you know,

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some good margins at a low price point.

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For a while, I've been using the Bushnell Hybrid, which

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I rarely see people use, and I think it's really

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one of the better ones that are out there because

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not only does it have the GPS, but it has

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the range finder on it as well.

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I picked mine up on eBay.

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And so you get front, middle, back, but you can

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also you know, scope out the pin so you have

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better understanding of how deep, you know how much room

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you have to play. But I have been enjoying this

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for the quick glance, you know, it's like or when

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somebody else says, can you give me a read boom?

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I don't have to go nuts over it. But I

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live in an area that is spotty on cell service.

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There's a lot of hills, a lot of mountains here.

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The San Francisco area is notorious for having bad cell

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service on all of the major carriers and minor ones

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as well. There's been one time where I went out

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and played using my te link where when I was

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on the first tee it wasn't connecting. But then once

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I started walking the course, I looked down and I

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had signal, so I was finding the rest of the

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way once it did connect. But there was one time

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that I just couldn't connect.

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How do we get around? Do you have you figured

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anything out?

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That if you're having spotty cell service that you still

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can use the te link.

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Yeah, so that's probably the biggest big factor have right now.

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You do need a cell service for it to be

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the most accurate heritage as possible. We did happen to

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develop an algorithm that helps with that a little bit.

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So the way that GPS works.

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Is it's constantly pulling from you know, the satellites that

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are nearby and requesting your location to just coordinate with

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them and do all the math to determine exactly where

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you are and when you don't have, you know, when

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you're not above one of those satellites. One of the

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things that we found we could kind of hack into

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it to get slightly less accurate, but at least give

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you yard just you know that are reasonable by tapping

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into the cell towers that around you and triangulating your

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position based on that. It's very confusing. I did develop it.

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My business partner who's kind of like the computer genius,

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did that. But yeah, in all honesty, you need to

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have decent cell service. You know, at least two bars

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I would say to, you know, have it work, And

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that's kind of you know, if you've ever used one

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of the GPS apps on the golf course that you know,

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I think millions of people use. If one of those works,

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then ours, ours will work, and it actually it'll work

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better because of that triangulating kind of algorithm that we

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developed and kind of just to add on to that,

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because it's using your phone, it's it's using data on

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your phone as well, but we actually found a way

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to make that extremely efficient and it'll only use about

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two hundred and fifty kilobytes of data throughout an entire round.

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So I mean if you compare that to like a

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roaming package when you're traveling, I think it equates to

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like like ten cents on your on your roaming packet

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or something like that for a round of golf. So

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it's it's pretty efficient in that regard.

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Very efficient, and we're talking kilobytes not megabytes. So it's

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really small. Talk to me about one of the things

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that everybody when I talk to about this thing and

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say that you're you know, you're tapped into your phone.

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There's an app and the first question that always comes

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up is battery life. What kind of impact is it

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going to have on battery life?

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Yeah, so the tea link itself, the battery is pretty good.

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I mean, if you're you're playing five days in a row,

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it'll definitely last, you know, like all five days. And

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we've actually, like even if it's dead, we've really worked

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hard on because I know a lot of people when

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they're you know, going to golf, they'll just kind of

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grab things at the last minute and run to their

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tea time. So you if you charge it for like

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even if it sorry, if it's dead, then you charge

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it for like a minute, it'll last you eighteen holes,

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no problem. And then on the phone side, the this

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is kind of a cool selling point for us for

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anybody that's not made the switch from just using a

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GPS app on their phone to you know, using a

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wearable or a hard GPS. And that's that when you

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use these apps, they're using almost one hundred percent of

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your phone battery. And that's because you're constantly taking out

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your phone. You the screen is on. The screen kills

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your battery and you're constantly having to look at the

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screen in order to get your yardages. So because te

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link allows you to kind of keep your phone away

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in your bag or in your pocket and keep that

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phone off it'll only use about twenty percent of your

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phone battery on a typical eighteen whole round, which is

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I think pretty reasonable for you know, the majority of

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people that try and have their phones charged at all times.

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That's interesting that you said twenty percent of the phone

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battery life. I guess it would depend on the phone.

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I've got an iPhone six plus and I'm it's not

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using twenty I mean, I'm I'm ten to fifteen percent

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on mine.

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Beautiful.

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Yeah, I like to kind of give an overestimation so

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people don't freak out if it's using like more twenty

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percent than I say ten.

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But that's great to hear.

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Yeah, that is good to hear.

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Now, the other thing that's so cool about I love

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that concept of you just don't have to take the

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phone out of your pocket anymore.

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It's not gonna.

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Because that's what really is a big drain, is turning

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it on, turning it off, turning it on, turning it off.

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But there are other services that really, for me was

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a huge selling point and put it over the top

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of how excited I was of other services that are

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provided on the t link in the app.

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Tell me about that.

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Yeah, so I really liked the When I was at

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one of my first PGA shows, before this was even

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an idea, I saw everyone, like probably thirty percent of

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the people at this PGA show walking around with like

477
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fitbits or like Nike fuels, activity trackers, and golf is

478
00:26:02.039 --> 00:26:05.440
quickly becoming this more of a you know, an active sport.

479
00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:08.119
People like, you know, they're looking at guys like Roy

480
00:26:08.200 --> 00:26:10.920
McElroy that are just getting ripped, and you know, they're

481
00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:12.960
starting to want to track their fitness on the course.

482
00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:17.279
So we wanted to build in an accelerometer into t

483
00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:21.200
link that allows you to track your steps, your distance walked,

484
00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:24.119
and your calories burned, both on and off the course.

485
00:26:24.759 --> 00:26:28.319
And so when you go into our app, all of

486
00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:30.880
that information is just kind of loaded up, and you know,

487
00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:32.680
you can at the end of your round, you'll get

488
00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:35.240
an update and you'll say, you know, you burned however

489
00:26:35.319 --> 00:26:38.880
many calories, two thousand calories, you took eleven thousand steps,

490
00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:41.839
this is how far you walked. And we're even further

491
00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:45.720
building that out right now. That'll give some more stats

492
00:26:46.160 --> 00:26:49.039
and I'm I'm running a beta of it right now,

493
00:26:49.519 --> 00:26:52.839
which if anyone's on periscope, this is like a super

494
00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:56.039
sneak peak, but it'll tell you like you're accumulated. I

495
00:26:56.079 --> 00:27:00.160
don't know if that'll show up. It'll focus there of

496
00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:05.359
like all your all your stats throughout all your rounds

497
00:27:05.359 --> 00:27:08.279
of golf. It'll even or even building out like a

498
00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:10.839
beer simulator, so it'll tell you how many beers you

499
00:27:10.920 --> 00:27:13.960
burned while you're on the course and good things like that.

500
00:27:16.480 --> 00:27:19.759
So now it's starting to save data because I've noticed

501
00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:21.920
that if I, you know, as soon as the round

502
00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:25.319
to conserve battery life, as soon as my round was over.

503
00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:27.720
On the first one or two times that I tried it,

504
00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:33.079
I would turn turn the the little unit off, and

505
00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:35.119
then when I would go to the app and look

506
00:27:35.200 --> 00:27:37.799
for you know, how much because I love to walk

507
00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:40.240
golf courses, but I also like to know how much

508
00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:42.759
I'm walking, I would check and it's like, oh, but

509
00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:45.160
I turned it off, so that data wasn't there anymore.

510
00:27:45.160 --> 00:27:47.359
It kind of disappeared. So are you going to be

511
00:27:47.359 --> 00:27:49.759
able to save the data now? And that's why you

512
00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:51.640
can accumulate over the multiple courses.

513
00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:55.200
So the way that this one's working is when you

514
00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:57.279
hit end round in the app. So when you're done,

515
00:27:57.319 --> 00:27:59.079
there's a little red button that just makes you on

516
00:27:59.119 --> 00:28:02.759
the round, and then that's what triggers, you know, the

517
00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:06.359
end of your round also from a pedometer perspective, so

518
00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:09.000
that takes all the information that you walked from the

519
00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:10.839
start of your round to when you just hit that

520
00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:13.039
button and loads it into the app, and then it's

521
00:28:13.079 --> 00:28:17.119
stored there forever for you to go back and look on. Now.

522
00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:22.119
We are working on an update where this limited kind

523
00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:25.319
of just the steps, distance, walk calories burned will be

524
00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:28.519
available to see on the on the watch face as

525
00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:32.759
well of the t link that'll come. It's something we're

526
00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:37.039
building out. It's just when we started the phone is

527
00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:41.559
just a much better way of displaying detailed information and

528
00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:44.640
targeted information for what a you know, what a user wants,

529
00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:46.759
as opposed to just kind of you know, we wanted

530
00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:49.400
to keep this display really thin and small, and it's

531
00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:52.039
it's not really enough real estate to do what we

532
00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:55.279
wanted with, you know, giving golfers as much kind of

533
00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:58.880
health information as we possibly could, uh while they're you know,

534
00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:00.480
while they're playing in tracking in their health.

535
00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:04.119
Well, I get the updates when you get those out

536
00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:07.519
on this unit itself, not just my phone, or will

537
00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:09.400
I have to update my unit later as well.

538
00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:14.400
Yeah, so we've built this in a in a cool way.

539
00:29:14.440 --> 00:29:18.000
This is another reason why I just love a smartphone

540
00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:21.240
being your kind of platform for operation of te link.

541
00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:25.480
And that's when we can update both like the app

542
00:29:25.559 --> 00:29:28.720
software like so just you know, when you're downloading a

543
00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:31.200
new app or something changes to an app, we can

544
00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:33.920
update that. But the cool thing is is that through

545
00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:37.559
the tee link app, you can also update any kind

546
00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:40.000
of the software and the firmware of how the tee

547
00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:44.720
link itself works. So, for example, we're working on we're

548
00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:48.480
going to be releasing an update that will allow stat

549
00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:53.920
tracking in end of August early September here, and so

550
00:29:54.680 --> 00:29:58.480
that's completely changing all of the kind of functionality of

551
00:29:58.519 --> 00:30:00.680
the way that te link works that you right now.

552
00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:03.000
And so all you'll have to do is go into

553
00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:05.000
the app. You won't have to change anything. You'll just

554
00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:07.960
have to hit the update button that will send over

555
00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:10.920
and update everything on te link. And then when it

556
00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:13.680
turns back on, all of a sudden, it functions like

557
00:30:13.759 --> 00:30:16.920
a totally new device. You'll be able to track your scores,

558
00:30:17.559 --> 00:30:21.359
your greens and regulation, your fairways, hit your putts per

559
00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:26.440
round and that's an exciting kind of addition that we're

560
00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:28.440
going to be adding to this pretty quickly.

561
00:30:28.200 --> 00:30:32.079
Here exciting is not descriptive enough.

562
00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:34.839
That was jaw dropping to hear that information that you're

563
00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:35.960
going to have that as well.

564
00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:37.519
Do you have a time frame?

565
00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:40.279
It's really cool the way that we're going to build

566
00:30:40.279 --> 00:30:44.400
it out. So the way that it'll work is when

567
00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:47.519
you get onto the green. What it does now is

568
00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:50.119
it automatically changes holes for you if you have that enabled.

569
00:30:50.519 --> 00:30:52.839
But now if you have stat tracking, what it'll do

570
00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:55.039
is on te link, it'll just bring up a series

571
00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:58.000
of screens that will allow you to one select your

572
00:30:58.000 --> 00:30:59.759
score and then the next screen will be able to

573
00:30:59.799 --> 00:31:03.039
se did you hit the fairway left, right, or center?

574
00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:06.039
And then the third will just be putts. And so

575
00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:08.920
when you enter that information just quickly from your wrist,

576
00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:12.519
it takes less than ten seconds. What will happen is

577
00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:16.119
on the app on your phone, a scorecard will be

578
00:31:16.200 --> 00:31:20.200
totally filled out with all your information of your entire round,

579
00:31:20.480 --> 00:31:23.799
and then we'll be able to kind of graph what

580
00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:25.759
your round look like in terms of what was your

581
00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:29.799
percentage of fairways hit, your percentage of greens hit, how

582
00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:32.319
many puts, what your performance was like on part three's

583
00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:35.279
versus Part fours, and you'll be able to open up

584
00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:39.119
your phone and have all this detailed information that can

585
00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:42.000
kind of outline your game without you know, having to

586
00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:44.480
put in too much effort. You're just really pressing a

587
00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:46.759
few buttons at the end of each hole and you're done.

588
00:31:46.799 --> 00:31:49.160
You have all this infro in your phone and you

589
00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:50.640
can kind of you know, we're going to build it

590
00:31:50.680 --> 00:31:53.200
out so you can share that with people. We're going

591
00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:58.640
to eventually throw in like tips so and handicapping different things.

592
00:31:58.680 --> 00:32:01.000
So one of the things that when I was a junior,

593
00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:04.480
I started using one of those stat tracking softwarees that

594
00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:07.839
got you to kind of detail your entire round and

595
00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:11.839
it gave you a handicap based on your short game,

596
00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:15.720
your long game, your irons, all that. And it wasn't

597
00:32:15.839 --> 00:32:18.960
until I used that software that I realized I'm a

598
00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:22.000
way worse short game player than I thought I was.

599
00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:25.519
I was like a fourteen handicap short game player and

600
00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:30.000
like a plus three iron and driving player. So I

601
00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:32.319
needed to focus more on the short game, and it

602
00:32:32.599 --> 00:32:34.880
took the software for me to actually realize that. So

603
00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:38.000
that's that's something that I want to really focus on

604
00:32:38.039 --> 00:32:40.519
building out on t link as well.

605
00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:43.599
I game golf was I don't know if that was

606
00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:45.839
the one you were using, but game Golf for me

607
00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:48.839
opened my eyes to that and changed my game as

608
00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:50.839
well totally.

609
00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:53.880
Yeah, it's a big battle of that is just recognizing,

610
00:32:54.519 --> 00:32:57.440
you know, through stats and data where you need to

611
00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:59.960
be improving. And it's incredible how quickly you can improve

612
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:02.400
when you recognize, Oh, if I just you know, work

613
00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:06.319
on my five footers, I could save myself potentially six

614
00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:07.119
strokes around.

615
00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:09.200
That's pretty powerful.

616
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:10.640
It's very powerful.

617
00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:16.160
So in addition to the wristband that the unit pops

618
00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:18.359
in and out of, so you can just pop it

619
00:33:18.359 --> 00:33:19.759
out and just have it in your pocket if you

620
00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:21.640
don't want to wear something on your wrist, but you

621
00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:26.480
also included a clip that works both on your I

622
00:33:26.480 --> 00:33:29.160
guess on your cap, but it mainly for belt loop

623
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:31.319
or you're putting on your belt.

624
00:33:31.559 --> 00:33:34.839
This is this is a clip right here, and yeah,

625
00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:36.720
you clip it on your belt. We've had a few

626
00:33:36.759 --> 00:33:39.960
people clip it onto like their shirt or their collar

627
00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:43.799
as well, or onto their hat. Yeah, and that just

628
00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:46.440
kind of gives an option for the people that you know,

629
00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:48.039
just don't want anything.

630
00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:48.599
On the risk period.

631
00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:52.920
And you know, I actually use the belt clip probably

632
00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:54.079
more than I use the wristband.

633
00:33:56.200 --> 00:33:59.440
When you're using the belt clip, do you are you

634
00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:02.480
able to bend this thing? I mean, are you just

635
00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:05.200
turn your whole belt? I'm trying to figure out I

636
00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:07.400
can see how it comfortably fits in the belt loop.

637
00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:09.559
I guess, oh, I see, you would just kind of

638
00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:13.239
I'm trying to figure it out right now, stand up

639
00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:15.559
and give us a demonstration on video here while we're

640
00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:19.039
watching you on periscope how it works on your belt loop.

641
00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:20.599
Sure.

642
00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:24.960
Well, the way we designed it was it kind of

643
00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:28.000
like it kind of bends naturally. I'm not even wearing

644
00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:29.559
a belt right now, so this might not be the

645
00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:31.880
best demonstration.

646
00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:36.280
But when you put it on your belt clip or

647
00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:37.159
your belt, it.

648
00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:40.880
Kind of jars itself forward a little bit, just by

649
00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:42.760
nature of the thickness of any kind of belt, and

650
00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:45.119
so when you're looking down at it, the screen is

651
00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:48.039
slightly tilted towards you, and then it's really just a

652
00:34:48.079 --> 00:34:50.960
matter of kind of tilting the bell clip up a

653
00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:53.039
little bit. It's flexible, so you don't really have to

654
00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:56.280
ever take it off, and the screen is readable enough

655
00:34:56.320 --> 00:34:59.000
where you can really just leave it on there and

656
00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:01.639
see the numbers just fine.

657
00:35:02.280 --> 00:35:04.480
I'm glad that you mentioned that you can see the

658
00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:07.960
screen because obviously one of the issues with people pulling

659
00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:10.400
out their cell phone all the time, again not just

660
00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:13.360
battery life, but it's tough in the bright light to

661
00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:16.039
see a cell phone and a colored screen like that,

662
00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:19.320
and the screen that you're utilizing looks more like one

663
00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:23.000
of the original kindle paper white. I mean, the numbers

664
00:35:23.079 --> 00:35:24.840
just pop off the screen. They don't need to be

665
00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:27.559
in color. They're just numbers, right, So you're not looking

666
00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:29.639
at greens and things like that, You're just looking at

667
00:35:29.639 --> 00:35:30.159
the numbers.

668
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:32.400
So those numbers really do pop off the screen.

669
00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:36.400
Yeah, that was that was really important, and that like

670
00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:39.199
that caused us actually a lot of money to make

671
00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:42.679
sure that we have the right the right screen to

672
00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:45.559
make it super readable. It's actually the more sunlight that's

673
00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:49.039
on it, the more readable it is. So yeah, I'm

674
00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:51.239
pretty happy with that with that aspect of it. That's

675
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:53.480
obviously key for for something that's going to be on

676
00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:54.119
the golf course.

677
00:35:56.119 --> 00:36:00.519
Obviously, Uh you mentioned before that, and I've not been

678
00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:02.199
able to work get this to work right, so I'm

679
00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:04.880
gonna have you help me with this. Is you mentioned

680
00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:07.000
that you can use it as a watch. It'll tell

681
00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:12.480
the time. It's even though when I connect. So once

682
00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:18.760
I connect, the reconnect the phone to the unit, all

683
00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:20.880
of a sudden, now it's just showing me golf data.

684
00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:22.840
It's not showing me a clock. How do I get it?

685
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:24.400
If I just want it to be the watch?

686
00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:29.239
So the way that the time setting works on it

687
00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:32.800
is first when you connect what tee link is doing.

688
00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:34.559
When you first turn it on, it'll be showing an

689
00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:37.519
inaccurate time. It's when you connect to your phone that

690
00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:40.639
it just grabs whatever time is currently on your phone,

691
00:36:41.199 --> 00:36:43.400
puts it on the t link watch, and then you'll

692
00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:47.039
be able to view time when you're disconnected. So once

693
00:36:47.079 --> 00:36:49.159
you're connected, it grabs the time and then all you

694
00:36:49.159 --> 00:36:51.000
have to do is go in the app and disconnect

695
00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:54.119
or just turn off your Bluetooth and then it'll revert

696
00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:57.960
to like the regular time screen. Like so right now

697
00:36:57.960 --> 00:37:01.360
it's eleven, yeah for two where I am.

698
00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:07.000
So then as long as the unit has connected, but

699
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:10.280
then you you turn off the Bluetooth connection to it,

700
00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:12.119
then it just goes back to being a watch.

701
00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:13.679
Is that is that works?

702
00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:14.440
Yeah?

703
00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:16.800
So whenever you're not connected, it's just functioning as a

704
00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:21.079
watch right and we are actually I'm running a beta

705
00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:23.320
on this one right now where you will be able

706
00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:25.679
to switch between yardages and time while you're on the

707
00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:30.719
golf course just selecting the middle button. And that's like

708
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:33.039
I said, that's just like there's these little things like

709
00:37:33.519 --> 00:37:35.760
that that our users have started requesting, where you know,

710
00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:37.360
I would love to be able to see the time

711
00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:40.800
while I'm playing golf, which is a fair request. So

712
00:37:41.679 --> 00:37:44.039
I'm we're able to just quickly kind of pump out

713
00:37:44.039 --> 00:37:48.159
these updates within our team of you know, everyone that's

714
00:37:48.199 --> 00:37:50.440
on our team, where I'm just testing it all day

715
00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:53.239
just to make sure that there's no crashes, no bugs,

716
00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:55.719
and then once it's ready, we'll just send it out

717
00:37:55.719 --> 00:37:57.800
through the app. You'll hit update and then you'll be

718
00:37:57.800 --> 00:37:59.960
able to use that same feature yourself.

719
00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:02.639
Yeah, that's a that's a really good one.

720
00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:04.679
And actually one of the things that I learned when

721
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I was looking at the stat tracker as far as

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how much I walked, how many calories I burned, and stuff,

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it told me how long the round was, which is

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also something good to note, so that when you go

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to play a course on regular basis, you know what

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day a week you're playing whatever how long it takes

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to play that course.

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Yeah, yeah, for sure, So give us the.

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Let's talk about how to find it the U r

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L and talk about pricing again.

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Sure.

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Yeah, So if you guys are interested in taking a look,

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you just go to www. Dot golftelink dot com. That's

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just one where go O L F T L I

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n K and if you you can. Actually so, the

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way that it's working is you can buy either just

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this like our standard black or white tee link. It

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comes with both the wristband and the belt clip and

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the unit obviously, and then we also sell like riskband

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accessories for anyone who's watching them just pulling up like

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a pink a pink wristband, So we sell blue, pink

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and red wristband separately. We sell those for fourteen ninety five,

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and then we sell the te link unit itself for

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ninety nine dollars.

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And now Derek Rookie of golftee link dot Com has

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a quick tip on how to best use your tee

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link GPS system.

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Yeah.

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So when you're using te link and you're playing with it,

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one of the things that's really important to remember is

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that it uses Bluetooth to connect with your phone, and

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although you can leave your phone in your golf bag

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or in your golf cart, something that you need to

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remember is that the yardages themselves.

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And where you're getting your.

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Yardages from is from wherever your phone is, because it's

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using the GPS on your phone. So just to be

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kind of conscious that wherever you're leaving this is where

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your gardages are coming from. So if you are leaving

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it in your cart and you're walking one hundred yards

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away from it, yards are going.

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To be a little bit off.

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So most people try and keep it in their pocket

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or in their bag and it's close by them.