I'm Brad Maynard, PGA. Twenty-plus years coaching golfers, and now a public journal of how I run the same process in my own trading account: one priority, decided before the swing, written on an honest scorecard.
Brad Maynard, PGA · Swing reviews from $19 · The Notebook is free
Golf and the market punish the same habits: chasing every problem at once, deciding in the middle of the action, and remembering only the good shots. Three principles run through everything I teach and everything I trade.
On the course
Most swings have one cause and five symptoms. Fix the cause and the rest follow. That's why a review from me gives you a single change to work on, not a list of ten.
In the market
I run one strategy, the wheel, on companies I'd be glad to own. One setup run patiently beats five chased badly, and it keeps me from trading things I don't understand.
On the course
The shot is decided at club selection. Pick the target where a slight miss still leaves a putt, then commit. Doubt over the ball is a decision you should have made already.
In the market
The trade is decided at strike selection. I pick a price I'd genuinely be happy to pay, so a move against me leaves me owning something I wanted rather than scrambling.
On the course
Video doesn't flatter anyone. Seeing your swing next to your last one is how you know a change is real and not just a good feeling on the range.
In the market
The Notebook is my scorecard, published every Sunday: each trade, the reasoning, and how it turned out. The losers get written up the same as the winners.
Part one
Send two videos from your phone. Get one priority fix, two drills, and the feel to look for, from a PGA professional, within 48 hours.
No lesson to schedule and no range fees. You swing when it suits you, and the feedback comes to your phone.
Pick a single review or the three-review pack and check out securely.
After checkout, fill out a short form and you'll get an invite to your own private space in the free CoachNow app. Upload one face-on and one down-the-line video there.
Within 48 hours of your upload, your voice-over breakdown with your priority fix and two drills arrives in the app.
Launch pricing is open to the first 15 golfers. After that, reviews go to the regular price.
One-time payment
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One-time payment, about $16 per review
Not happy with your first review? Tell me within 7 days and I'll refund you.
Most golfers get a list of ten things to fix. You'll get one, explained clearly enough to take to the range tomorrow.
The single change that will make the biggest difference to your ball flight, found by looking at cause, not symptoms.
Simple drills you can do at the range or at home, chosen for your swing and demonstrated on video.
What the change should feel like, so you can tell when you've got it without a camera.
A phone is all you need. Good video makes for a better review, so take a minute to set it up.
Stand the phone about 10 feet away, square to your chest, at hip height.
Move behind you, on a line with your hands and the target, at hip height.
For both: use a 7-iron or similar, film in good light with your whole body and club in frame, and send a normal full swing, not your best practice one.
Part two
I trade options, mostly the wheel: selling puts on companies I'd be glad to own, then selling calls once I own them. I'm under two years in, and I run it the way I'd tell any golfer to run their game.
Free · every Sunday
A short weekly journal of the real trades in my own account. Not tips, not alerts. Just what I did, why I did it, and what I'd do differently.
See what a cash-secured put or covered call really pays before you place it.
For education only. Figures exclude commissions, fees, and taxes, and annualized returns assume you could repeat the trade all year, which is never guaranteed.
Log every put, call, and assignment in one place. See your adjusted cost per share, premium by month and by ticker, win rate, and capital at work. Google Sheets or Excel, yours to keep, with free updates.
Get the trackerA Golf Pro's Guide to Selling Options
The whole strategy in plain English, taught through golf: choosing stocks and strikes, handling assignment, rolling a trade that's going against you, position sizing, and keeping an honest scorecard. 18 chapters, PDF and EPUB.
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Both together: the book in PDF and EPUB, and the Wheel Tracker in Google Sheets and Excel. The strategy and the scorecard that goes with it.
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Good golf and good trading come from the same place: a clear process you can trust under pressure. Brad Maynard, PGA
Brad Maynard is a PGA Member who has spent more than 20 years coaching golfers of every level, from juniors picking up a club for the first time to competitive players chasing their best scores.
His coaching starts with one question: what is the ball telling you? Instead of piling on swing thoughts, he finds the one cause behind your miss and gives you a clear way to fix it.
Off the course, Brad trades options, mostly the wheel strategy. He's newer to the market than to the game, so he treats it the same way he'd tell any golfer to: stick to a process, keep an honest scorecard, and review it every week. The Notebook is that review, published in public.
Because they take the same discipline. I spend my working life teaching people to pick one priority, commit before they swing, and be honest about the scorecard. When I started trading, I found the people who struggle there break exactly those rules. The Notebook is me holding myself to my own coaching.
No. It's a journal of my own trades and my reasoning, written for education. It isn't tailored to anyone's situation, and nothing in it is a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Options carry real risk, including losing money, so do your own research and consider talking with a licensed professional.
Yes, the free CoachNow app for iPhone or Android. It's what many PGA coaches use for online lessons. After checkout I'll invite you to a private space that only you and I can see. You upload your videos there, and your review comes back there too.
If an angle is hard to see, I'll let you know what to change and review the new video at no extra cost.
Yes. A mid-iron is the best place to start, but tell me in the form if something else is giving you trouble and I'll look at that.
Yes, same process and same turnaround.
Your voice-over breakdown shows up in your CoachNow space, and you'll get a notification when it's ready. You can watch it as many times as you like, on your phone or computer.
After two to three weeks of working on your drills. Upload them to the same CoachNow space so we can compare them side by side. There's no deadline, so send them when you're ready.
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