In this episode of Inside The Room, host Kyle Morris delves into the inspiring journey of Mitch Farrer, a professional golfer and a founding member of TGR. Against the backdrop of passion, dedication, and unwavering commitment, the episode illuminates Mitch’s extraordinary experiences, from his childhood in England to his remarkable career in the U.S.
Mitch shares his love for golf, tracing the roots of his unyielding passion back to his childhood in England. He vividly recalls his journey to the U.S., where he ventured to compete against top junior players, marking the beginning of his indomitable pursuit of the sport.
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00:00 Introduction of Mitch Farrer
05:13 Nova Southeastern Scholarship
08:12 Being mentored by David Ledbetter
12:02 Kyle admires Mitch’s unique story, passion for coaching
15:28 Psychologists must understand and motivate golfers
16:45 How does The Golf Room lessons impact player transformation?
21:59 Amateur golfers should not forget coaching.
22:52 What sets successful amateur golfers apart?
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The answer welcome to inside the room on stockshot Secrets all right everybody uh we are here at what we’re going to call I think we should call this the stock shot Studio as you can tell the quality of this is better because I figured I probably shouldn’t be doing podcasts in
My car because that’s probably not safe but we have a really great series that we’re going to start this is going to be called inside the room where we’re going to kind of take a deep dive into tgr just the people that make up tgr the instructors like maybe operations
Marketing sales um and today we basically have almost you could almost say like you’re a founder of tgr like one of the founding principles cuz you’ve been with me forever from Co to us having to deal with covid which might have ended with too many bottles of
Elijah Craig um to try or not enough to try to get through that whole situation which was miserable but it’s with my uh great pleasure to basically introduce you to Mitch farer one of my best budes teammates in crime amazing player Mitch um just to give a quick back story which
He can kind of go into but um Mitch was a cadon tour for maybe about a year or so played professional golf won a national championship at Nova Southeastern an incredible golfer in himself probably the best short game this side of the Mississippi um and just the dude can
Basically talk to a cat so cuz there’s I don’t know if there’s anybody in the world that doesn’t love Mitch far so Mitch thanks for being here buddy pleasure to be here Kyle thanks for having me yeah so let’s talk a little bit just to kind of give a little
Backstory just on you I mean obviously growing up in England right golf is way different so like just tell us a little bit about your backstory with starting golf in England and why not soccer and like why not rugby or maybe that was part of the jury it was for sure um you
Know I played every sport growing up as every kid does and um my best friend when I was about 12 years of age he just uh was an amazing player he played with Rory and Tommy Fleetwood and I would go over to his house and instead of playing
Video games it was like hey I’ve got to practice so then as a non-golfer I’m like oh can I come so I did and he like helped me you know learn to start and I was actually very good at the other sports according to my mom obviously I I
Think I was too but um golf was the one that just really like lit the fire inside of me I was obsessed with the details and the lifestyle the traveling the courses and the people you could meet and more importantly the game and just there’s no surprise I’m teaching
Now cuz I’m just obsessed with learning about golf even now uh after all those years so um yeah that’s really the backstory and just you know kept playing the other you play with Fleetwood a lot when you were a kid right I played with him once I think I mean I was probably
12 it was one of my first rounds um so I don’t know him but he’s still friendly with my friend who I haven’t caught up with in a while just because it’s been so long but um yeah and that’s one of the tough things about living in the
States obviously you grow out with people you don’t see them for 15 years it’s tough to stay in contact but if it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t be here and uh definitely wouldn’t have had the life that I’ve had so so then you so then you come across the pond right you start
Going to college first time in America was at College was like basically the time you started you stepped on campus the first time you had been over here no I I visited with parents and then also got picked for this um this trip which was like the best uh School golfers in
England you had to win a tournament and then you got selected and there was 12 guys and we started in Savannah and played 22 rounds in 23 days against other kids that were going to go to college like Arkansas or Maryland or not top top players but very high level
Compared to what I was used to and I like before the Walker cup kind of but but a simar kind of well it was it’s a traditional trip it’s not ENT it’s not like you’re playing for England it was like the trip had been going for a
Hundred years and it was kind of whoever had been on the trip prior they were members at Pine Valley we played there congression um Bolter rooll and just got to play of all like the best juniors in in that East Coast Area and it was awesome because it just made me realize like
This is what I want to do so we would stay in some dorms some host families you know how that goes and they would there some of them are friends to this day so as soon as I did that trip I was like I’ve got to get out of England and
Go there as much as I love it at home right right so then you go to so then you go to Nova Southeastern so tell us a little bit about that that Journey like going over here to school probably kind of hard to choose a college cuz I mean
If I was trying to choose a university in Europe to go to I was like um yeah gridge that’s the only one I know yeah I mean so so yeah so how did how did how was the whole journey with Nova South Eastern yeah I mean I was getting
Recruited by some other schools and you know let’s say bigger names ones I’d heard of um but you know when you’re from England they don’t know how tried and tested you are on courses over here um you know it’s tough to get a bigger scholarship unless you’re one of the top
Five players in the country or top 10 let’s say so a friend of mine went to Nova Southeastern member at my club and he had improved so much he came home and won every tournament and then I visited him like one December and I was like
This place is awesome so then the coach started to follow me watch me play and then I found out my best friend now Ben Taylor was going too and I was like now there’s three of us like really close friends on the same team in South
Florida uh what could be better and we had this trip lined up with my mom to go visit all these schools and uh the first trip was to Nova and I just didn’t even bother going to the other schools I just was like yeah I’m going here absolutely
So so you come over here you go to Nova Southeastern you win a National Championship which is probably worth a bunch of stories in itself um and then you after you do that so then you kind of you was that was it that when you went over to Asia yeah yeah I was
Looking to go and and play over there for a long period of time and do some coaching just so I could kind of support myself and were you going to coach or were you going to play play play uh and do some coaching just to like make a
Living cuz I had I had some money and um you know obviously runs out quick as you know so um and just living over there can go can go can go south in a hurry when they’re $1,500 entry fees and not making enough BR I mean I don’t want to
Go into China too much but if if you hook a ball in the trees like you’re looking at let alone finding your ball you’re looking at seeing a king cobra so it’s not the best place to live and um everyone that was playing over there was um commuting like from the states and
From England I’m like how the hell do you guys do this it’s like a $22,000 flight every time so I was living over there and it was short it wasn’t that long but it was it was a good experience I was just immature and then uh um yeah
It was it was one of those things where I don’t regret it but at the same time it wasn’t easy so sure and then from there is that when you went to Switzerland or was that when you came back to and kind of yeah I was waiting
On I was still playing a bit in England and just kind of decid when did you when did you you’re cuz one of your mentors is David Leed better and for those that don’t know David Leed better I mean David’s probably I would say that David you could probably say um the reason
That I’m here doing a podcast is because David Leed better put teaching Pros or golf instructors like on the map as a I don’t know what the word would be but like a profession where it’s there is a I guess a personality behind it right like he’s kind of the the the founding
Principle of making golf instruction a business in a sense rather than just a you know chubs and Happy Gilmore with his arms crossed saying it’s all on your hips yeah I mean David was I mean I met him when I was 15 so he ran a tournament
In England um that I won a couple years in a row and he just took me under his wing I don’t I don’t really know why he didn’t need to he’s just such a giving great human being that loves to give back and literally wouldn’t be any where
Where I am in life now without him so you know when I was stopped playing he he’d felt not sorry for me but he was like hey what do you want to do with your life and I said well I’d love to keep playing but obviously the money
Side is tough like you just unless you’ve got uh backers and you know that lifestyle even after caddying is brutal as you know great fun as well at the same time but um he was like listen I want to I want to bring you over and
Work uh for me but had to wait to get my us uh work visa so at the time I was just living in Switzerland working for uh TPT golf which the company’s done fantastic now with the shafts y uh that was probably for 6 months and then got
My Visa in about uh August or September and started to work for him and and what was insane about that was most coaches I mean they start at the bottom like you given beginners you’re given anyone and I was going straight to the PGA Tour like on the ranges filming shadowing
Working with billionaires like people that were famous so kind would your lesson with Mitch or with uh David be he would be working with say you know Charles how or something and or maybe it’s a golf school and it’s David working and then he would work with the
Player and then essentially kind of pass him off and say okay Mitch like make sure that they stay on thing and then he works with the next guy and then you’re you’re kind of his we’ll call it a lead assistant of just making sure that the student stays on on task exactly so
You’re doing all the filming all the tech um if there’s any data capture and then if it’s a clinic it’s you uh David’s leading obviously but I’m just making sure they’re doing uh exactly what we who are some of those you know it’s always fun to kind of work with PJ
Tour players like who were some of those people that you were around with early working with earlier in your career yeah I mean uh Lydia Co was a big one she was world number one at the time which was pretty awesome um Michelle Wei uh she
Was coming a little bit like uh her career was slowly uh slowing down I would say um travor man Ian poter uh olle Wilson who’s on the European tour um God I can’t even remember half of them but there was a lot of guys and some guys it’s interesting like some
Guys would just come in once a year for an opinion and he would you know whether he would say I’m working with that person or not I mean he would but it was just a uh getting a second second yeah kind of that or just hey some players
Just wanted once a year and that was it and then he would do videos and text them back and stuff so you know when that sort of December rolled around around we really picked up with a lot of guys coming in for offseason and it was
It was very cool to learn like how he um you know assessed I mean for the first if we did a three-day session with like say Lydia after a season you know it was like Hey like the three hours of talking you know what’s going on like I need to
Know everything um and just analyzing her game like crazy and um it was really cool to see I think he gets definitely misconstrued half the time but when you’ve been given like the blessing I have to actually see what goes on behind closed door pretty cool so now so you’ve
Gone to Nova Southeastern you’ve been in China and Asia you’ve been in Switzerland building shafts the tvt and helping design those things then you come back you’re working for the number one instructor in the world being his first assistant for what seven years or so probably four or five but four or
Five years I shadowed when I was playing and visiting him like for Christmas I stayed with him and stuff so I was always around him teaching I just still had a goal to play obviously and then I think you so then when when you had applied to TG I remember seeing your
Resume and saying okay like this is a really really unique story like you know I’m I’m pretty passionate in the fact of like I want players that teachers that know how to play and like you know what you know nothing against PGA of America but if it’s a PGA guy great but it’s
More of like hey can you coach what’s your history how much of a playing you do so I remember when when I called Mitch when I called you we essentially I think your interview was well the interview questions might have been 15 minutes but we just basically sat on the
Phone for an hour and just you know shot the breeze for an hour I was like oh my gosh I love this guy I got to get him up here so then he comes up your interview your interview there’s I think there’s like that might have been the most snow
We’ve ever had lived here for sure yeah so he comes up from Florida um thinking why am I moving to Columbus Ohio there’s 18 Ines of snow but that night you stayed over till like I don’t know like 2 in the morning right and we were just
Hanging out at the house which was great hey guys I hope you are enjoying this episode of the stock shot Secrets podcast if you are enjoying it be sure to like this episode be sure to subscribe so you can always see when they’re coming out and most importantly
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There’s obviously a lot of stuff happening in tgr since we grew but now kind of circling back to this whole PGA Tour thing one of your best buddies is Ben Taylor so you’re with Ben at Nova Southeastern y um and you know since basically you caded for Ben in what
Major was it uh the British Open right so how was that how was catting for him as a because obviously he’s your best buddy and you’re going out and you’re looping him for looping for him for a year or half a year or whatever but was there any cool stories with the British
Open and C catting there um yeah what was it like where was that what what Andre Bliss honestly um he didn’t play that well but the the draw he got he teed off at 400 p.m. it was uh I went and walked the course in the morning and
On 12 uh Dustin Johnson drove the 440 yard par 4 which I just laughed it was downwind and then Ben hit four ironing in the later night so I was just like hm that’s a different course so you know when like the guys complain about the
Draw like I get it because it does play so different right so especially links you want you want that so it it like switches midday yeah and it gets cold you know Scotland in July I mean it was 39° we’ve got a picture of us with like eight waterproofs on it’s hilarious and
It’s like nice summer but that’s Links Golf it was so fun I mean Phil we met Phil Michelson did a practice round um with I think Stenson and web Simpson which was cool and we were 22 at the time so i’ had caded for him loads he
CAD for me in a couple of events uh and it just was hilarious cuz I’m like this guy could win the tournament you know I got him on my bag so yeah and Ben is like you know I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Ben a bunch and he’s like one of
The greatest human beings there is like super down to earth and amazing so now fast forward fast forward I guess almost a decade right and um it really he kind of pulls you in to say hey can you actually be my mentor not Mentor but my
Coach and really lead me to where he was cuz he was kind of struggling a little bit on the corn fairy tour and in the last year or two he’s had some amazing progress so what’s it I guess first off what are the main differences you find
With working with players like on like Ben Taylor who’s on the PJ tour and you’re going to PGA Tour events and then working with you know the amateur golfers that are in you know in in Columbus Ohio or flying in or like how is the how is because I feel like
Working with them it’s it’s it’s a different thing yeah right how do you find that you have to be a psychologist to some extent because you got to know like when they’re open to hear like um some information or they need a a pickme up or a motivational talk or what the
Hell was you doing on that hole like and sometimes you know players are very egotistical and confident in themselves which they should be but you need to read the room and read the situation to know when you can input that stuff and I think amate golfers are coming to us
Paying us and they’re almost like okay tell me what I need to do and hopefully they do it but um it’s different and um I think coaching elite players is um you just got to find that uh those little 1% gains that they can make because obviously you’re really trying to save
Like a 70.2 and that’s a bad year like it’s crazy so um you know with the swing stuff obviously I’ve known Ben for so long I’ve known when he’s played his best golf some of his bad golf and I’ve always been there so I know I think I’ve
Been able to over the years be part of the team and translate it in let’s call it Ben language which is you know I think valuable skill as a coach um and some teachers who are so good are really smart but sometimes like that might not
Suit the individual so um you got to really know like what someone wants and and then what they need you know yeah and how do you kind of take that so like in that same mindset taking that onto the lesson T of tgr right like what are some of um I
Guess it’d be cool like as a coach you know do is there anybody that comes to mind that’s like hey there was this student and like here’s some of the transformation that they’ve taken taken from you know joining and kind of jumping and cuz a lot of times you know
Some players have lessons sometimes they don’t have lessons you know sometimes lessons are terrifying cuz they’re like it’s going to feel different it’s like we want you to feel different the more different the better right so any any students come to mind of like hey here’s
A really cool success story kind of like Ben because Ben’s Ben’s I mean he’s just came off for the year you know the last year and a half or so he’s been playing the best golf of his life really thanks not thanks to you but I mean in large
Part to what you’ve been doing with them so what about just on the amateur te yeah I think since moving here and this is not like wow look at this story I think my stories have changed because you’ve gone from one area of the game to now um like almost nurturing people so
Like a cool story for me the other day was like I taught Bri how to hold a club and she’s getting calls from college coaches and obviously she’s been part of our Academy but when I worked at the Leb better like people flew in for lessons
You know they came to see us once or twice a year you gave them three days they left you stayed in touch a little bit but you never got to create a personal connection like with their family or their brother or whatever it may be and and although that’s not like
A oh wow like I’ve taken loads of guys from 18 to like below five like that doesn’t really make me that happy I’m happy for them but seeing someone that’s young and like doesn’t have a ton of confidence and now like believes in themselves walks around differently that
For me is like more I think is I think for what you’re echoing which is so amazing is that’s really the essence as to what why I do like what I’m what I’m doing and what tgr is about is I actually got in a in a dialogue with my
Um online instructors at the golf room everywhere the other like this about two weeks ago and I go hey poll question do you guys think that what first off what do you think is the difference between instructors and a coach and they kind of go back and forth and I’m like we are
Not in the business of being instructors in my opinion an Inu a swing instructor is a guy who looks at your swing and is like hey the Sha shallow and blah blah blah and it’s like yeah like that’s fun and I listen I love nerding out on golf
Swings more than anybody right just like you do but I think it’s for me it’s really golf has called us into um it’s the vessel in which or the conduit in which we’re investing into their lives to help them become like them their best version like really
Fulfill their unique self so to the students like bri when you see the transformation of these people like year after year to where they come in for example and they’ve got shy shoulders and they can’t really ever say anything positive about themselves in the realm
Of golf and then they get to a point after a year or two and you’re like they’re like yeah you’re like you’re good at golf and they’re like yeah I am good you’re like yeah you are right like that’s amazing because you’re seeing like their character and their heart
Change which is so impactful for you know us as like essentially creating disciples like so that they’re be they’re fulfilling their calling and they’re they’re um nurturing themselves which is a really really cool so um what about just you know in regards to the technology right really quick I want to
Kind of dive into this for a sec um in regards to the technology of tgr and just how it’s changed right because you and I are in a different generation to where the the coaches that are coming up now it’s kind of like they just know trackman when you look at like David
Leed better and my mentor of Mike Bender like there was no technology it was like a camera and before that it was just your eyeballs so how is it that you’re using technology nowadays as a coach to really see into what the players need to be doing whether it’s Ben or it’s just
You know maybe even better probably the recreational player quite frankly yeah I think it’s so important because you can get seduced by technology I would say and it’s so important for a teacher to use it for our analysis but then you have to put it across simply for the
Student and it’s different um you it depends on person to person you may have a tour player one of my great friends he won’t mind me saying this if if he ever hears it he’s so analytical so that guy is going to not listen to you unless you
Explain it he can tell 1% if you’re you know whatting you know so to him you have to give him the data and I was kind of like that I’m sure you were too like to some I need to know the why but then sometimes you’ve got people that do not
Need to hear it you know for instance I was teaching mini tiger last night Jackson we put his absolutely incredible I’ll post a video it’s incredible one of the most talented kids I’ve ever seen but he putts amazing so we put his um stuff on capto and I said to Pete like
Do not show him like I want to see this we’ll sit down maybe talk about it you just want it as like this is the standard of beauty and and to some extent it’s like what’s so nice about sports box is I’ll be at an event with
Ben and film him on the 12 at mfield Village and now I’ve got uh data when he was playing good and I know where his swing was on all the ranges and then when he’s bad and then as a coach it helps us kind of find that sometimes
Sometimes I think the amateur golfer kind of forgets that too of like what were you they’re like I’m going to get a lesson win when I’m hitting it bad it’s like actually sometimes when you’re like hitting it great you need to come in and have a coach or have your coach because
I really think that and we believe this right like everyone has a coach and I have like if someone said Kyle who’s your coach I go my coach is Mike Bender right like I might I’m going to go down to Florida in a month and a half I think
I’m going to go get a lesson like just cuz right because I haven’t you know it’s good to do once or twice a year if I’m going down there but it’s nice to have those baselines when you’re playing good to say oh like I know what I’m now
I know what I’m doing when I’m playing good these are the things where your numbers are where all that stuff listen I mean golf is a hobby right it’s it’s fun so don’t ever lose that passion for it CU it’s cool to learn what’s coming
Out and but also you have to analyze and like kind of sit back and go is this really making me better you know and just you know final question of just for the amateur golfers right that are listening or whoever is listening or just passionate players what do you find
Personally between your students the ones um that really make like what are the things that those players are doing that amateur player is doing that the other amateur players aren’t doing right like how are they getting the biggest return on investment for their time spent with you yeah what’s interesting I
Think we’ obviously got such a great facility the people that practice the most uh aren’t always the ones that succeed it’s the quality of practice I mean you must be bored of listening to me across the room you know do your slow motion swings that’s what like Ben Hogan
Did he’s decent swing you know um but just do those commit to it you don’t need 50 thoughts stop going online you know stick to your plan we’ve all been there where we’re like oh there must be an easier way let me like watch a video oh my impact’s wrong yeah there’s five
Things before that that are wrong so sticking to that plan and I play M know you probably did too my best gol when I worked on the same thing for a year y like you don’t it might come across in there’s a lot of Beauty in that because
It’s like man if I’m playing bad it’s like I just need to go back and do my thing and it’s peace of mind because SE mind is your stuff is your stuff right and you have your drill of drills so um well Mitch bro thanks so much for coming
I love you to death you’re the best thanks for part being a part of tgr yeah pleasure all right thanks guys thanks for tuning in we’ll see you next time hey guys thank you so much for listening to the latest episode of stock shot Secrets now as a listener of stock shot
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Another reason to go to TGR. Mitch is top drawer, and he has an English accent!