We dedicate this episode to the unheralded teammates that help pro golfers find sucess.

We share many caddy stories on this episode, from ones submitted via our social media channels, to audio clips from pro caddies who have been part of wins on the PGA and the LPGA Tour.

Joining us for a lengthy feature interview is Scott Martin. The Montreal native spent 23 years caddying, mostly on the PGA TOUR but starting on the Canadian Tour and finishing on the PGA TOUR Champions. He shares the high and lows of looping and the emotional curve balls along the way. From being deep in debt, to winning, to confrontations with players who disrespected him. And he tells us why the life hooked him in even when many would call it quits. It's honest, entertaining, and a deep inside look at the career few endure for so long.

Birdie vs Bogey is chock full of caddy questions and, as always, your MailBag questions make us put on our thinking caps as we formulate opinions on the matters you care about.

Past Caddy Episode Links
Episode 1: Ryan Desveaux (Ryann O'Toole)
Episode 14: Peters, Blasko, Desveaux
Episode 22: Nate Blasko (Hannah Green)
Episode 25: Kyle Peters (IOpen Championship)
Episode 27: Aaron Crawford (Martin Trainer)
Episode 32: Nate Blasko (Hannah Green)
Episode 51: Kyle Peters (Corey Conners)
Episode 56: Ryan Desveaux (Mel Reid)
Episode 61: Corey Conners & Kyle Peters
Episode 76: Aaron Crawford (Marton Trainer)
Episode 87: Mel Reid & Ryan Desveaux

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In this week's episode of 'Under the Strap,' host T.J. Auclair welcomed longtime friend Scott Martin -- a caddie on the PGA Tour for over two decades before retiring last March. Martin left looping for a job in the film industry back in his home of Montreal. In this pod, he shared some incredible stories about his life as a caddie -- the highs and the lows, including an intense dust up with Vijay Singh during a tournament -- a firing that was a blessing in disguise, his love of photography, continuing to chase a dream despite racking up serious debt, being on a couple of winning bags and a lot more. You don't want to miss this one!

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Darrin and Chad share why they love backcountry snowboarding and splitboarding, how they got started and why they created the Dark Starts podcast. Interview hosted by Scott Martin of Groundswell Marketing Podcast. Scott has been a marketer for 25 years across branding, strategy, advertising, and execution. After working with various high-profile national brands, he shifted his passion to working with businesses that are focused on purpose and making more impact on the planet. Scott also created Heliskiing Canada and Catskiing Canada to help market those industries and to experiment with producing content through blogging, social media and film.

Learn more about Scott:

Podcast :https://www.groundswell.FM

Website: https://www.groundswell.marketing/

https://www.scottmartin.org

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Parks! Outdoors! Quality of place!  A community is often defined by the quality of its public spaces, and Scott Martin chats about how Louisville can become an even greater, healthier, and more equitable community by working on our park systems. Here are more show notes:
 Book recommendation: The Nature Fix by Florence Williams http://www.florencewilliams.com/the-nature-fix 

www.riverheritageconservancy.org (also on social media)

Scott's Recommendations for local things to do/see

Hays Kennedy Park (one of our park named for a prominent African-American leaders – a great story by itself that is undertold).   Add the Garvin Brown Preserve next door and it is a wonderful waterfront complex.  https://louisvilleky.gov/government/parks/park-list/hays-kennedy-park

Mammoth Cave Cedar Sink Trail (great day trip for families).  To see the spot where entire creeks vanish underground and how the caves shape the land above them is like stepping into a landscape crafted for Narnia or Lord of the Rings. https://www.nps.gov/maca/planyourvisit/trails.htm

Big South Fork Recreation Area (off the beaten path, but a massive memory maker of a uniquely Appalachian landscape and zone that makes you feel worlds away from Louisville) https://www.nps.gov/biso/index.htm

And O’Bannon State Park – just a fascinating state park with an ecology that seems like a piece of the Smokies that snuck away and hid in Southern Indiana.  The perfect day trip for Louisville folks that want to get off the grid.  I just learned about this site a few years ago and I find it more and more interesting each time I visit.  The blue river is right there, too.  Great paddling when everything else in the area dries up.  https://www.in.gov/dnr/parklake/2976.htm

And in the podcast we talk about the Knobstone Trail, and here is some info about that https://www.in.gov/dnr/forestry/4224.htm

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Scott has been a marketer for 25+ years as a metrics-focused agency owner, content producer, and serial entrepreneur and has worked with international brands to new and local social enterprises. His mission is to empower growth-minded entrepreneurs to command their marketing strategy and spend, instead of being controlled by tools and platforms. 

Scott works with entrepreneurs & executives launching sustainable growth marketing ecosystems. With 25 years in digital, direct ,social, content production and marketing in roles from an agency owner to a strategist.  Recently he launched "The Groundswell Marketing Podcast" sharing insights from the top industry leaders helping marketers and entrepreneurs navigate the future, and build sustainable programs that are positively impacting the world. Scott has owned several businesses and sold his agency after 10 years in a role as CEO & managing partner of a marketing firm. He worked with national brands and was a co-founder / board member in a proprietary loyalty marketing platform.

Work-life balance is important to Scott, he loves the outdoors, especially being in the ocean and backcountry. He applies his creative and marketing background in sharing his passion for surfing and snowboarding using non-traditional channels such as blogging, social media, and visual content marketing.

Business "growth hacker" or ambitiously lazy? He simply sees his role as finding ways to work smarter.

Listen to Scott's backstory and how you can leverage Sustainable Growth Marketing on iTunes: www.Groundswell.fm

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Books:
Awaken the Giant Within - Tony Robbins

Tony Robbins COVID recording:
watch here

In today's podcast, I have on Macoy Fisher, who is the current brains behind the camera and computer for Scott Martin and the Scott Martin Challenge. Macoy talks about how he got into his role and the things he does while working for Scott! Enjoy!

Macoy's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thereelmacoy/

Scott's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/scottmartinbass

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Aloha.   I finally decided to do my first solocast episode.  This is the season 2 opener. 

I’m Scott and have been a marketer for 25 years across branding, strategy, and advertising, and execution. After working with tons of high-profile national brands, I was tired of businesses without soul and that continued to throw money at advertising without measurable impact on the bottom line. I learned all the behind-the-scenes detailed execution and power of content for building attention and trust with an audience.

In 2016, I launched Groundswell Marketing to support entrepreneurs with strategic marketing: the foundational, forward-thinking, and sustainable parts of their business

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Facebook: @ScottMartin.org

This was a dynamic interview whereby Scott highlighted his recent article on LinkedIn “Adaptive Ideation during a Crisis” and how isolation will foster innovation. Scott expressed his views on how many people will “shift to trust” after the crisis. He shared his experience attending the Gary Vaynerchuk “Inside 4D’s” seminar in New York. Finally, Scott is writing a book which will likely feature a compilation of ideas from his 25+ years in business. 

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Link to the Groundswell Marketing Podcast | https://apple.co/2JP4K9c

Scott Martin can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottadammartin/