The Cut Line Dance — Why Chasing the Number Keeps You Stuck
In the debut episode of Expected Score, Brian Bailie is joined by Dr. Mike Grevlos and Chris George to unpack a phenomenon that quietly derails golfers at every level: the Cut Line Dance. What starts as a sensible goal—making the cut, breaking a number, staying in contention—often becomes a psychological and performance trap. Players hover just above and below the line, week after week, not because they lack skill, but because they’ve anchored their thinking to a moving target.
The conversation explores why hard-number goals like the cut line create compounding variance, how the brain shifts…
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