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The Secret Wisdom of George Gankas, Golf's Radical New Guru

One day this spring, George Gankas was telling me about his brief and not very illustrious career as a pro golfer. This was in the late '90s, after Gankas had graduated from college, at Cal State Northridge. The short version was his driver let him down—he was plenty long, but he had a tendency to block or hook the ball on tight courses—and so did his brain. It was only years later, after he got into teaching, that he got a handle on his own flaws as a player. “A lot of it was ego,” he said in retrospect. “Being afraid to either look stupid or play a bad round.”

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