golf SMARTER

By Fred Greene

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The fastest way to lower golf scores is by having a strong mental/emotional game! Golf Smarter is the longest running golf podcast that's helped thousands of amateur golfers worldwide since 2005. Host Fred Greene, a former radio personality and passionate golfer, has dropped his handicap from the high teens to a single digit by learning weekly from PGA Teaching Pros, mental coaches, fitness experts, course architects, and more. All the Pros agree; to raise your golf IQ and lower your scores, you need to Golf Smarter!

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01.24.2023 Weedon’s Way: A Pain Free Golf Swing for Golfers with Bad Backs \| #879 879: Reeves Weedon was a golf phenom as a young English player, hailed as the next Peter Oosterhuis, but lower back pain ended his promising career. This led to decades of research and writing of three books to develop a ...
01.17.2023 Never Let “Hitting The Wall” Ruin Your Round by Keeping Your Blood Sugar Levels In Check \| #878 878: Brinson Paolini played professionally in 43 countries after being a collegiate All-American golfer at Duke. One thing he always noticed on the course with pros and amateurs is that when they don’t hydrate or keep their blood sugar levels ...
01.10.2023 Manuel de la Torre's Disciple on The Definition of a "Swing" with Gary Sowinski, PGA \| #877 877: Gary Sowinski spent more than 6 years working with and learning from Manuel de la Torre, author of Understanding The Golf Swing, and one of golf’s greatest instructors ever to instruct Tour Pros and recreational golfers. In this conversation ...
01.04.2023 Little Goals Can Be Huge When Winterizing Your Game featuring Joe Hallett \| #876 876: PGA Master Professional Joe Hallett joins us once again to get the insights and advice that can only come from the teacher who instructs PGA Professionals. This time we discuss little tips and tricks on how to winterize your ...
12.27.2022 Information Overload: How to Dissect & Use What Applies to Your Game \| #875 875: Josh Zander, one of America’s Top 100 Teachers, returns for another wide ranging conversation about how players of all skill levels can become better, smarter golfers. This week we focus on the tools we need to analyze the information ...
12.20.2022 Unleash Your Creativity Using Pitching and Chipping with The Wedge Guy \| #874 874: Short game! The best way to lower scores is by practicing and fine tuning your shots from inside 100yds, and around the green. This week, Terry “The Wedge Guy” Koehler returns for his 17th appearance on Golf Smarter. We ...
12.13.2022 Now Anyone Can Have A Sponsor Like The Pros by Playing ODIN Golf Balls! \| #873 873: Losing an expensive tour quality ball can be maddening. ODIN Golf has developed an affordable tour quality ball, and they’ll sponsor any player, no matter your skill level! Our guest is Jordan Lunetta, an ex-pat living in Berlin who, ...
12.06.2022 FlightPath Golf tees: Has the Perfect Golf Tee finally Been Invented? \| #872 872: There was something about the unique design and explanation of the FlightPath Golf Tee on Instagram that caught my eye, and I thought what the heck I’ll give it a try. During the first round, I noticed that my ...
11.29.2022 Golf is All About Finding What Works, Losing It, & Finding It Again! \| #871 871: Tyler Ferrell is a golf instructor, biomechanics fitness pro, and author of “The Stock Tour Swing”. His website, no relation, is GolfSmartAcademy.com. We talk about his years of learning to become an instructor, playing competitively in college, and what ...
11.21.2022 Winning Golf: The Mental Game with author Dr. Saul Miller \| #870 870: “Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought” is a David Leadbetter quote that you’ll find in the book “Winning Golf: The Mental Game - Creating the Focus, Feeling, and Confidence ...
11.15.2022 What Catches A Teaching Pro’s Attention When Working with a New Student \| #869 869: Jim Waldron of Balance Point Golf is quizzed as if we’re a first time student to his school. What does he look for? What is he helping us to focus on? Is it more practical and less theoretical, or ...
11.09.2022 Play Golf Pain Free Forever With These Keys to Longevity \| #868 868: Chris Finn of Par4Success.com returns to discuss the key to longevity in golf, which includes no pain, hitting the ball further, and playing golf as long as possible. In this conversation we go over the 4 main rotational mobility ...
11.01.2022 How to Become A Ball Flight Detective on the Golf Course \| #867 867: Kelvin Kelley is one of those hot young golf instructors who delivers the entire package of mechanics, course management, and mental game improvement. In this conversation, Kelvin and host Fred Greene sit down together outside the driving range at ...
10.26.2022 Golf is a Problem Solving Endeavor As Analyzed by Justin Tang from Singapore \| #866 866: Justin Tang is a golf instructor in Singapore who has been mentioned multiple times on Golf Smarter by other instructors and writers, so our curiosity lead us to feature him on the podcast. He says that golf is neither ...
10.19.2022 Dr Joe Parent of Zen Golf on Walking Meditation & Fred’s Adventure to Japan 865: Host Fred Greene has just returned from a 2 week - 5 city, vacation/adventure in Japan. During their time in Kyoto, the group met and meditated with Zen Buddhist Monk Obayashi at Temple Senkoji. When the topic of sitting ...
10.11.2022 Imagine Golf: The #1 App for Golf’s Mental Game with CEO Malcolm Scovil \| golf SMARTER #864 864: Imagine Golf is the #1 app for the mental game. Our guest is the CEO Malcolm Scovil. There’s never been an app that is so closely aligned with what we try to achieve on Golf Smarter. Imagine Golf didn’t ...
10.04.2022 Time To Ask Yourself: What Does A Good Shot of Mine Look Like? featuring Rick Sessinghaus \| golf SMARTER #863 863: Dr. Rick Sessinghaus, best known as the coach for PGA Tour 2x Major winner, Collin Morikowa since he was a young boy. Rick is an excellent golf coach, focusing on the totality of a player’s game from tee to ...
09.27.2022 Great Ball Striking Is Only Effective if You Understand How To Play A Golf Course \| golf SMARTER #862 862: John Erickson of AdvancedBallStriking.com is a former Tour player turned coach who has great advice and incredible stories from inside the ropes. From his days competing in college to playing against the best on the PGA Tour, John was ...
09.20.2022 The Four Foundations of Golf: How to Build a Game That Lasts a Lifetime \| golf SMARTER #861 861: Jon Sherman of PracticalGolf.com joins us to talk about his second book, “The Four Foundations of Golf: How to Build a Game That Lasts a Lifetime”. Unlike many golf books that are bathroom reads that give quick tips and ...
09.14.2022 The Art of Recognizing That Every Golf Shot Is Unique featuring Gary Nicol \| golf SMARTER #860 860: Gary Nicol is the Co-Founder and Coaching Director at TPEGS (Tour Pro Experience Golf Schools). Since the 80s, he’s helped thousands of golfers around the world including over 30 European Tour Professionals and numerous Ryder Cup players, amassing 10 ...
09.06.2022 You HAVE the Skill To Swing As Freely & Fluidly as Great Golfers! featuring Ron Sisson \| golf SMARTER #859 859: Ron Sisson of RealSwingGolf.com joins us to discuss the problem with today’s golf instruction. His passion, knowledge of science’s influence on the golf swing, and his teaching philosophy make this conversation quite compelling and entertaining. Ron came to Golf ...
08.30.2022 My 3 Favorite Insights to Teach Golfers with Todd Kolb of USGolfTV \| golf SMARTER #858 858: Todd Kolb is golf entrepreneur specializing in helping you play better golf, yet he also helps companies build their golf business. His YouTube channel at USGolfTV is a wealth of easy to understand and execute videos directed at golfers ...
08.23.2022 Collecting Historical Golf Artifacts, A Different Kind of Golf Obsession \| golf SMARTER #857 857: The Golf Heritage Society, founded in 1970, promotes an appreciation for the history of golf artifacts and memorabilia among their worldwide membership that includes golfers, writers, historians and collectors. Our guest is their Immediate Past President, Jim Jeselnick. Their ...
08.16.2022 Always Entertaining. Very Opinionated. Now a Hall-of-Famer! It’s Time For Another Chat with Barney Adams \| golf SMARTER #856 856: Barney Adams is a legend in the golf industry for his introduction of the Adams Golf Tight Lies fairway wood, the Stability putter shafts, author of The WOW Factor, and his unique efforts to grow the game. Recently he ...
08.09.2022 Golf Instruction Can Be Fixed If We Ask The Right Question with Karl Morris \| golf SMARTER #855 855: Karl Morris at TheMindFactor.com is a well respected Mental Game coach for many PGA Touring players and the co-author with Gary Nicol of a trio of golf improvement books. Their latest is “The Lost Art of the Short Game”. ...
08.02.2022 Clear Key Golf with Our Grand Dad of the Mental Game, Carey Mumford (RIP) \| golf SMARTER #854 Mental Coach Carey Mumford, creator of the Clear Key System, spends nearly an hour in this entertaining and provocative episode that was originally published privately as a Members Only episode. This was my last conversation with Carey before he passed ...
07.26.2022 Their Research Shows That Thinking About The Mechanics During Your Golf Swing Is Counter Productive \| golf SMARTER #853 853: This week we feature two Professors of Kinesiology and their 30 year study of athletic movement. Dr Gabriele Wulf from UNLV and Dr Rebecca Lewthwaite of USC share their research that confirms what many golf instructors and mental coaches ...
07.19.2022 Swing Thoughts Create Chaos in Your Mind, Which Results In Poor Golf Shots \| golf SMARTER #852 852: Jim Waldron of BalancePointGolf.com returns to discuss his Focus 5-Point System which turns your focus away from swing thoughts to external targets. This will prevent you from creating chaos in your mind which inhibits free swinging of the club. ...
07.13.2022 Rapsodo Mobile Launch Monitor: Pro Level Data. Every Golfer’s Price \| golf SMARTER #851 851: If you’ve taken a golf lesson in the last 15 years, your instructor may have used a Trackman launch monitor to gather shot data. But Trackman is a huge investment which can exceed $25,000. When you watch golf on ...
07.05.2022 Most Golfers Don’t Know What They’re Thinking About When Swinging a Golf Club \| golf SMARTER #850 850: Erik Schjolberg returns for a discussion on golf fallacies, what we’re thinking about when swinging a club and why it’s important to know, and a fascinating teaching aid he uses that can turn any slow motion video into 3D ...
06.28.2022 Connected Golf: Bridging The Gap Between Practice & Performance \| golf SMARTER #849 849: Jayne Storey returns to discuss her latest book “Connected Golf: Bridging the Gap Between Practice & Performance”. https://amzn.to/3xU8jTS Jayne, Founder and Head Coach at Chi-Performance.com has a unique form of expertise based on more than three decades of practicing ...
06.21.2022 Become the Best of Your Younger Self with Regenerative Medicine with Dr Drew Taylor \| golf SMARTER #848 848: Dr Drew Taylor is a former MLB pitcher who is also the CEO of Acorn.me. We’re at the beginning of an anti-aging revolution and this Canadian company is unlocking the potential injury recovery, disease treatment, and more. Powered by ...
06.14.2022 A US Open History Lesson That Will Surprise You Despite What You’ve Seen in the Movies \| golf SMARTER #847 847: John McDermott was the first native born American golfer to win the US Open in 1911, when he was only 19 years old. But he’s been forgotten by history because he was not only a cocky young man who ...
06.07.2022 A Tour Journeyman Who Partnered with an Old Friend to Fill A Need for Golfers \| golf SMARTER #846 846: Brad Fritsch is a one of those golfers who’s really good, just not good enough. He played in the 2015 US Open, won on the Korn Ferry Tour, and has European Tour experience, but as you’ll hear in this ...
05.31.2022 Short Game Tips from the 18th Green Practice Round of the Women’s US Open \| golf SMARTER #845 845: Joe Hallett is a PGA Master Professional who has five women, including Stacy Lewis, he’s working with at the upcoming Women’s US Open in North Carolina this week. Joe takes us inside the ropes to share the difference between ...
05.24.2022 GYRA Golf: A Neuroscience Approach to Golf’s Mental Game \| golf SMARTER #844 844: Dr Izzy Justice is a sports neuroscientist and inventor of the ground-breaking technology The Brain Trackman™ and the GYRA Golf App who has authored 8 books over the course of 30 years on the topic of Emotional Intelligence. In ...
05.18.2022 Need to Fix Your Golf Swing…It Depends! \| golf SMARTER #843 843 Top 100 Instructor Josh Zander returns for another great conversation on game improvement insights including getting a fitting for your swing, playing at Stanford with Tiger, and whether or not making changes to your swing is the right thing ...
05.11.2022 A Hole By Hole Game Plan For Smarter Golf by Dr. Joe Parent of Zen Golf 842: Zen Golf, the best selling golf mental game book in history, is now 20 years old and still incredibly relevant. Author Dr Joe Parent, our very first guest on Golf Smarter in 2005 returns again to provide insights and ...
05.03.2022 Bad Golf Shots Happen - Don’t Try To Stop Them, Accept Them! featuring Danny Maude \|golf SMARTER #841 841: Danny Maude, a wildly successful YouTube Golf instructor from the UK returns to share his insights on why we hurt our own game by spending too much time ruminating over bad golf shots. They happen to all of us, ...
04.26.2022 What Winning Golf Teaches Us About Winning In Business \| golf SMARTER #840 840: Playing golf with colleagues, or talking about business on the course is widely accepted, but where do golf and business intersect? According to business consultant Kevin Stansfield, practically everywhere. His latest book “The Great Game: How Lessons from the ...
04.19.2022 Learn Which of the 70 New Golf Balls in 2022 is Right for You! \| golf SMARTER #839 839: There have been 70 new golf balls released by the major manufacturers already in 2022 and too many of us are still playing balls we find in the woods. But you may not realize that if you are looking ...
04.12.2022 Getting Back to Golf Basics We Tend To Forget From Round to Round \| golf SMARTER #838 838: Height of the Tee. Hovering the club vs laying it on the ground before takeaway. These are just two of the little things we tend to forget when we play golf that actually do have an impact on our ...
04.05.2022 The Masters: A Family’s Legacy. In Conversation with Bobby Jones' Grandson \| golf SMARTER #837 837: Being Masters Week it’s hard not to invoke the name and contribution from the great Bobby Jones. Our guest is Dr Bob Jones IV, who admits that there’s a burden to being the last person who will ever carry ...
03.29.2022 Being a Caddy Made Me a Much Better, Much Smarter Golfer with Entrepreneur Henry McGannon \| golf SMARTER #836 836: Henry McGannon has won a variety amateur tournaments including the 2014 NJCAA National Championship, and he’s caddied for years in South Carolina. Caddying has not only made him a much better golfer, but it’s taught him a tremendous amount ...
03.22.2022 The Essence of Mindfulness in Golf and in Life with Author of "No One Playing" Martin Wells \| golf SMARTER #835 835: Author Martin Wells’ book “No One Playing: The Essence of Mindfulness in Golf And In Life” is an enchanting story of a strange encounter on a golf course with someone who knows nothing about the game but ends up ...
03.15.2022 Now You Can Have a Golf Simulator Even with Limited Space \| golf SMARTER #834 834: Last we heard from Bill Bales he teased us with a new product that will allow anyone with limited space to have their own home golf simulator. Bill, is the father of golf simulator technology and his company, Clarity.Golf ...
03.09.2022 Golf+NFTs=A New Era In Golf! Introducing LinksDAO \| golf SMARTER #833 833: Golf is generally not in the same conversation as Crypto Currency. And a lot of golfers may never have even heard of, or understand NFTs, or nonfungible tokens. But at the end of 2021 Mike Dudas had the idea ...
03.02.2022 EXCLUSIVE: 6 PGA Tour Pros Provide Insights to Their Mental Game & Winning \| golf SMARTER #832 832: EXCLUSIVE interviews with 6 PGA Tour Pros by Golf Mental Game Coach, Cary Valentine. Since 2018, Cary visits the practice rounds at the Sony Open in Hawaii and talks to various PGA Tour Pros about their approach to the ...
02.23.2022 Golf In The Kingdom & The Shivas Irons Society with E.D. Ben Kline \| golf SMARTER #831 831: “Golf In The Kingdom” could be one of the greatest pieces of golf fiction ever written. The protagonist in the story, Shivas Irons, is a mystical character who elevates the game to new spiritual, and mindful levels that has ...
02.15.2022 Connecting Golfers To Golfers and Golfers to Brands with Cactus Golf Club 830: The Social Media landscape for golf is an enigma that has baffled many entrepreneurs. Matt Ericksen and his buddy think they’ve come up with a solution. Cactus Golf Club utilizes a private FaceBook group so that golfers from around ...

Older episodes

01.24.2023 Weedon’s Way: A Pain Free Golf Swing for Golfers with Bad Backs \| #879 879: Reeves Weedon was a golf phenom as a young English player, hailed as the next Peter Oosterhuis, but lower back pain ended his promising career. This led to decades of research and writing of three books to develop a ...
01.17.2023 Never Let “Hitting The Wall” Ruin Your Round by Keeping Your Blood Sugar Levels In Check \| #878 878: Brinson Paolini played professionally in 43 countries after being a collegiate All-American golfer at Duke. One thing he always noticed on the course with pros and amateurs is that when they don’t hydrate or keep their blood sugar levels ...
01.10.2023 Manuel de la Torre's Disciple on The Definition of a "Swing" with Gary Sowinski, PGA \| #877 877: Gary Sowinski spent more than 6 years working with and learning from Manuel de la Torre, author of Understanding The Golf Swing, and one of golf’s greatest instructors ever to instruct Tour Pros and recreational golfers. In this conversation ...
01.04.2023 Little Goals Can Be Huge When Winterizing Your Game featuring Joe Hallett \| #876 876: PGA Master Professional Joe Hallett joins us once again to get the insights and advice that can only come from the teacher who instructs PGA Professionals. This time we discuss little tips and tricks on how to winterize your ...
12.27.2022 Information Overload: How to Dissect & Use What Applies to Your Game \| #875 875: Josh Zander, one of America’s Top 100 Teachers, returns for another wide ranging conversation about how players of all skill levels can become better, smarter golfers. This week we focus on the tools we need to analyze the information ...
12.20.2022 Unleash Your Creativity Using Pitching and Chipping with The Wedge Guy \| #874 874: Short game! The best way to lower scores is by practicing and fine tuning your shots from inside 100yds, and around the green. This week, Terry “The Wedge Guy” Koehler returns for his 17th appearance on Golf Smarter. We ...
12.13.2022 Now Anyone Can Have A Sponsor Like The Pros by Playing ODIN Golf Balls! \| #873 873: Losing an expensive tour quality ball can be maddening. ODIN Golf has developed an affordable tour quality ball, and they’ll sponsor any player, no matter your skill level! Our guest is Jordan Lunetta, an ex-pat living in Berlin who, ...
12.06.2022 FlightPath Golf tees: Has the Perfect Golf Tee finally Been Invented? \| #872 872: There was something about the unique design and explanation of the FlightPath Golf Tee on Instagram that caught my eye, and I thought what the heck I’ll give it a try. During the first round, I noticed that my ...
11.29.2022 Golf is All About Finding What Works, Losing It, & Finding It Again! \| #871 871: Tyler Ferrell is a golf instructor, biomechanics fitness pro, and author of “The Stock Tour Swing”. His website, no relation, is GolfSmartAcademy.com. We talk about his years of learning to become an instructor, playing competitively in college, and what ...
11.21.2022 Winning Golf: The Mental Game with author Dr. Saul Miller \| #870 870: “Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought” is a David Leadbetter quote that you’ll find in the book “Winning Golf: The Mental Game - Creating the Focus, Feeling, and Confidence ...
11.15.2022 What Catches A Teaching Pro’s Attention When Working with a New Student \| #869 869: Jim Waldron of Balance Point Golf is quizzed as if we’re a first time student to his school. What does he look for? What is he helping us to focus on? Is it more practical and less theoretical, or ...
11.09.2022 Play Golf Pain Free Forever With These Keys to Longevity \| #868 868: Chris Finn of Par4Success.com returns to discuss the key to longevity in golf, which includes no pain, hitting the ball further, and playing golf as long as possible. In this conversation we go over the 4 main rotational mobility ...
11.01.2022 How to Become A Ball Flight Detective on the Golf Course \| #867 867: Kelvin Kelley is one of those hot young golf instructors who delivers the entire package of mechanics, course management, and mental game improvement. In this conversation, Kelvin and host Fred Greene sit down together outside the driving range at ...
10.26.2022 Golf is a Problem Solving Endeavor As Analyzed by Justin Tang from Singapore \| #866 866: Justin Tang is a golf instructor in Singapore who has been mentioned multiple times on Golf Smarter by other instructors and writers, so our curiosity lead us to feature him on the podcast. He says that golf is neither ...
10.19.2022 Dr Joe Parent of Zen Golf on Walking Meditation & Fred’s Adventure to Japan 865: Host Fred Greene has just returned from a 2 week - 5 city, vacation/adventure in Japan. During their time in Kyoto, the group met and meditated with Zen Buddhist Monk Obayashi at Temple Senkoji. When the topic of sitting ...
10.11.2022 Imagine Golf: The #1 App for Golf’s Mental Game with CEO Malcolm Scovil \| golf SMARTER #864 864: Imagine Golf is the #1 app for the mental game. Our guest is the CEO Malcolm Scovil. There’s never been an app that is so closely aligned with what we try to achieve on Golf Smarter. Imagine Golf didn’t ...
10.04.2022 Time To Ask Yourself: What Does A Good Shot of Mine Look Like? featuring Rick Sessinghaus \| golf SMARTER #863 863: Dr. Rick Sessinghaus, best known as the coach for PGA Tour 2x Major winner, Collin Morikowa since he was a young boy. Rick is an excellent golf coach, focusing on the totality of a player’s game from tee to ...
09.27.2022 Great Ball Striking Is Only Effective if You Understand How To Play A Golf Course \| golf SMARTER #862 862: John Erickson of AdvancedBallStriking.com is a former Tour player turned coach who has great advice and incredible stories from inside the ropes. From his days competing in college to playing against the best on the PGA Tour, John was ...
09.20.2022 The Four Foundations of Golf: How to Build a Game That Lasts a Lifetime \| golf SMARTER #861 861: Jon Sherman of PracticalGolf.com joins us to talk about his second book, “The Four Foundations of Golf: How to Build a Game That Lasts a Lifetime”. Unlike many golf books that are bathroom reads that give quick tips and ...
09.14.2022 The Art of Recognizing That Every Golf Shot Is Unique featuring Gary Nicol \| golf SMARTER #860 860: Gary Nicol is the Co-Founder and Coaching Director at TPEGS (Tour Pro Experience Golf Schools). Since the 80s, he’s helped thousands of golfers around the world including over 30 European Tour Professionals and numerous Ryder Cup players, amassing 10 ...
09.06.2022 You HAVE the Skill To Swing As Freely & Fluidly as Great Golfers! featuring Ron Sisson \| golf SMARTER #859 859: Ron Sisson of RealSwingGolf.com joins us to discuss the problem with today’s golf instruction. His passion, knowledge of science’s influence on the golf swing, and his teaching philosophy make this conversation quite compelling and entertaining. Ron came to Golf ...
08.30.2022 My 3 Favorite Insights to Teach Golfers with Todd Kolb of USGolfTV \| golf SMARTER #858 858: Todd Kolb is golf entrepreneur specializing in helping you play better golf, yet he also helps companies build their golf business. His YouTube channel at USGolfTV is a wealth of easy to understand and execute videos directed at golfers ...
08.23.2022 Collecting Historical Golf Artifacts, A Different Kind of Golf Obsession \| golf SMARTER #857 857: The Golf Heritage Society, founded in 1970, promotes an appreciation for the history of golf artifacts and memorabilia among their worldwide membership that includes golfers, writers, historians and collectors. Our guest is their Immediate Past President, Jim Jeselnick. Their ...
08.16.2022 Always Entertaining. Very Opinionated. Now a Hall-of-Famer! It’s Time For Another Chat with Barney Adams \| golf SMARTER #856 856: Barney Adams is a legend in the golf industry for his introduction of the Adams Golf Tight Lies fairway wood, the Stability putter shafts, author of The WOW Factor, and his unique efforts to grow the game. Recently he ...
08.09.2022 Golf Instruction Can Be Fixed If We Ask The Right Question with Karl Morris \| golf SMARTER #855 855: Karl Morris at TheMindFactor.com is a well respected Mental Game coach for many PGA Touring players and the co-author with Gary Nicol of a trio of golf improvement books. Their latest is “The Lost Art of the Short Game”. ...
08.02.2022 Clear Key Golf with Our Grand Dad of the Mental Game, Carey Mumford (RIP) \| golf SMARTER #854 Mental Coach Carey Mumford, creator of the Clear Key System, spends nearly an hour in this entertaining and provocative episode that was originally published privately as a Members Only episode. This was my last conversation with Carey before he passed ...
07.26.2022 Their Research Shows That Thinking About The Mechanics During Your Golf Swing Is Counter Productive \| golf SMARTER #853 853: This week we feature two Professors of Kinesiology and their 30 year study of athletic movement. Dr Gabriele Wulf from UNLV and Dr Rebecca Lewthwaite of USC share their research that confirms what many golf instructors and mental coaches ...
07.19.2022 Swing Thoughts Create Chaos in Your Mind, Which Results In Poor Golf Shots \| golf SMARTER #852 852: Jim Waldron of BalancePointGolf.com returns to discuss his Focus 5-Point System which turns your focus away from swing thoughts to external targets. This will prevent you from creating chaos in your mind which inhibits free swinging of the club. ...
07.13.2022 Rapsodo Mobile Launch Monitor: Pro Level Data. Every Golfer’s Price \| golf SMARTER #851 851: If you’ve taken a golf lesson in the last 15 years, your instructor may have used a Trackman launch monitor to gather shot data. But Trackman is a huge investment which can exceed $25,000. When you watch golf on ...
07.05.2022 Most Golfers Don’t Know What They’re Thinking About When Swinging a Golf Club \| golf SMARTER #850 850: Erik Schjolberg returns for a discussion on golf fallacies, what we’re thinking about when swinging a club and why it’s important to know, and a fascinating teaching aid he uses that can turn any slow motion video into 3D ...
06.28.2022 Connected Golf: Bridging The Gap Between Practice & Performance \| golf SMARTER #849 849: Jayne Storey returns to discuss her latest book “Connected Golf: Bridging the Gap Between Practice & Performance”. https://amzn.to/3xU8jTS Jayne, Founder and Head Coach at Chi-Performance.com has a unique form of expertise based on more than three decades of practicing ...
06.21.2022 Become the Best of Your Younger Self with Regenerative Medicine with Dr Drew Taylor \| golf SMARTER #848 848: Dr Drew Taylor is a former MLB pitcher who is also the CEO of Acorn.me. We’re at the beginning of an anti-aging revolution and this Canadian company is unlocking the potential injury recovery, disease treatment, and more. Powered by ...
06.14.2022 A US Open History Lesson That Will Surprise You Despite What You’ve Seen in the Movies \| golf SMARTER #847 847: John McDermott was the first native born American golfer to win the US Open in 1911, when he was only 19 years old. But he’s been forgotten by history because he was not only a cocky young man who ...
06.07.2022 A Tour Journeyman Who Partnered with an Old Friend to Fill A Need for Golfers \| golf SMARTER #846 846: Brad Fritsch is a one of those golfers who’s really good, just not good enough. He played in the 2015 US Open, won on the Korn Ferry Tour, and has European Tour experience, but as you’ll hear in this ...
05.31.2022 Short Game Tips from the 18th Green Practice Round of the Women’s US Open \| golf SMARTER #845 845: Joe Hallett is a PGA Master Professional who has five women, including Stacy Lewis, he’s working with at the upcoming Women’s US Open in North Carolina this week. Joe takes us inside the ropes to share the difference between ...
05.24.2022 GYRA Golf: A Neuroscience Approach to Golf’s Mental Game \| golf SMARTER #844 844: Dr Izzy Justice is a sports neuroscientist and inventor of the ground-breaking technology The Brain Trackman™ and the GYRA Golf App who has authored 8 books over the course of 30 years on the topic of Emotional Intelligence. In ...
05.18.2022 Need to Fix Your Golf Swing…It Depends! \| golf SMARTER #843 843 Top 100 Instructor Josh Zander returns for another great conversation on game improvement insights including getting a fitting for your swing, playing at Stanford with Tiger, and whether or not making changes to your swing is the right thing ...
05.11.2022 A Hole By Hole Game Plan For Smarter Golf by Dr. Joe Parent of Zen Golf 842: Zen Golf, the best selling golf mental game book in history, is now 20 years old and still incredibly relevant. Author Dr Joe Parent, our very first guest on Golf Smarter in 2005 returns again to provide insights and ...
05.03.2022 Bad Golf Shots Happen - Don’t Try To Stop Them, Accept Them! featuring Danny Maude \|golf SMARTER #841 841: Danny Maude, a wildly successful YouTube Golf instructor from the UK returns to share his insights on why we hurt our own game by spending too much time ruminating over bad golf shots. They happen to all of us, ...
04.26.2022 What Winning Golf Teaches Us About Winning In Business \| golf SMARTER #840 840: Playing golf with colleagues, or talking about business on the course is widely accepted, but where do golf and business intersect? According to business consultant Kevin Stansfield, practically everywhere. His latest book “The Great Game: How Lessons from the ...
04.19.2022 Learn Which of the 70 New Golf Balls in 2022 is Right for You! \| golf SMARTER #839 839: There have been 70 new golf balls released by the major manufacturers already in 2022 and too many of us are still playing balls we find in the woods. But you may not realize that if you are looking ...
04.12.2022 Getting Back to Golf Basics We Tend To Forget From Round to Round \| golf SMARTER #838 838: Height of the Tee. Hovering the club vs laying it on the ground before takeaway. These are just two of the little things we tend to forget when we play golf that actually do have an impact on our ...
04.05.2022 The Masters: A Family’s Legacy. In Conversation with Bobby Jones' Grandson \| golf SMARTER #837 837: Being Masters Week it’s hard not to invoke the name and contribution from the great Bobby Jones. Our guest is Dr Bob Jones IV, who admits that there’s a burden to being the last person who will ever carry ...
03.29.2022 Being a Caddy Made Me a Much Better, Much Smarter Golfer with Entrepreneur Henry McGannon \| golf SMARTER #836 836: Henry McGannon has won a variety amateur tournaments including the 2014 NJCAA National Championship, and he’s caddied for years in South Carolina. Caddying has not only made him a much better golfer, but it’s taught him a tremendous amount ...
03.22.2022 The Essence of Mindfulness in Golf and in Life with Author of "No One Playing" Martin Wells \| golf SMARTER #835 835: Author Martin Wells’ book “No One Playing: The Essence of Mindfulness in Golf And In Life” is an enchanting story of a strange encounter on a golf course with someone who knows nothing about the game but ends up ...
03.15.2022 Now You Can Have a Golf Simulator Even with Limited Space \| golf SMARTER #834 834: Last we heard from Bill Bales he teased us with a new product that will allow anyone with limited space to have their own home golf simulator. Bill, is the father of golf simulator technology and his company, Clarity.Golf ...
03.09.2022 Golf+NFTs=A New Era In Golf! Introducing LinksDAO \| golf SMARTER #833 833: Golf is generally not in the same conversation as Crypto Currency. And a lot of golfers may never have even heard of, or understand NFTs, or nonfungible tokens. But at the end of 2021 Mike Dudas had the idea ...
03.02.2022 EXCLUSIVE: 6 PGA Tour Pros Provide Insights to Their Mental Game & Winning \| golf SMARTER #832 832: EXCLUSIVE interviews with 6 PGA Tour Pros by Golf Mental Game Coach, Cary Valentine. Since 2018, Cary visits the practice rounds at the Sony Open in Hawaii and talks to various PGA Tour Pros about their approach to the ...
02.23.2022 Golf In The Kingdom & The Shivas Irons Society with E.D. Ben Kline \| golf SMARTER #831 831: “Golf In The Kingdom” could be one of the greatest pieces of golf fiction ever written. The protagonist in the story, Shivas Irons, is a mystical character who elevates the game to new spiritual, and mindful levels that has ...
02.15.2022 Connecting Golfers To Golfers and Golfers to Brands with Cactus Golf Club 830: The Social Media landscape for golf is an enigma that has baffled many entrepreneurs. Matt Ericksen and his buddy think they’ve come up with a solution. Cactus Golf Club utilizes a private FaceBook group so that golfers from around ...

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Weedon’s Way: A Pain Free Golf Swing for Golfers with Bad Backs | #879

Never Let “Hitting The Wall” Ruin Your Round by Keeping Your Blood Sugar Levels In Check | #878

Manuel de la Torre's Disciple on The Definition of a "Swing" with Gary Sowinski, PGA | #877

Little Goals Can Be Huge When Winterizing Your Game featuring Joe Hallett | #876

Information Overload: How to Dissect & Use What Applies to Your Game | #875

Unleash Your Creativity Using Pitching and Chipping with The Wedge Guy | #874

Now Anyone Can Have A Sponsor Like The Pros by Playing ODIN Golf Balls! | #873

FlightPath Golf tees: Has the Perfect Golf Tee finally Been Invented? | #872

Golf is All About Finding What Works, Losing It, & Finding It Again! | #871

Winning Golf: The Mental Game with author Dr. Saul Miller | #870

What Catches A Teaching Pro’s Attention When Working with a New Student | #869

Play Golf Pain Free Forever With These Keys to Longevity | #868

How to Become A Ball Flight Detective on the Golf Course | #867

Golf is a Problem Solving Endeavor As Analyzed by Justin Tang from Singapore | #866

Dr Joe Parent of Zen Golf on Walking Meditation & Fred’s Adventure to Japan

Imagine Golf: The #1 App for Golf’s Mental Game with CEO Malcolm Scovil | golf SMARTER #864

Time To Ask Yourself: What Does A Good Shot of Mine Look Like? featuring Rick Sessinghaus | golf SMARTER #863

Great Ball Striking Is Only Effective if You Understand How To Play A Golf Course | golf SMARTER #862

The Four Foundations of Golf: How to Build a Game That Lasts a Lifetime | golf SMARTER #861

The Art of Recognizing That Every Golf Shot Is Unique featuring Gary Nicol | golf SMARTER #860

You HAVE the Skill To Swing As Freely & Fluidly as Great Golfers! featuring Ron Sisson | golf SMARTER #859

My 3 Favorite Insights to Teach Golfers with Todd Kolb of USGolfTV | golf SMARTER #858

Collecting Historical Golf Artifacts, A Different Kind of Golf Obsession | golf SMARTER #857

Always Entertaining. Very Opinionated. Now a Hall-of-Famer! It’s Time For Another Chat with Barney Adams | golf SMARTER #856

Golf Instruction Can Be Fixed If We Ask The Right Question with Karl Morris | golf SMARTER #855

Clear Key Golf with Our Grand Dad of the Mental Game, Carey Mumford (RIP) | golf SMARTER #854

Their Research Shows That Thinking About The Mechanics During Your Golf Swing Is Counter Productive | golf SMARTER #853

Swing Thoughts Create Chaos in Your Mind, Which Results In Poor Golf Shots | golf SMARTER #852

Rapsodo Mobile Launch Monitor: Pro Level Data. Every Golfer’s Price | golf SMARTER #851

Most Golfers Don’t Know What They’re Thinking About When Swinging a Golf Club | golf SMARTER #850

Connected Golf: Bridging The Gap Between Practice & Performance | golf SMARTER #849

Become the Best of Your Younger Self with Regenerative Medicine with Dr Drew Taylor | golf SMARTER #848

A US Open History Lesson That Will Surprise You Despite What You’ve Seen in the Movies | golf SMARTER #847

A Tour Journeyman Who Partnered with an Old Friend to Fill A Need for Golfers | golf SMARTER #846

Short Game Tips from the 18th Green Practice Round of the Women’s US Open | golf SMARTER #845

GYRA Golf: A Neuroscience Approach to Golf’s Mental Game | golf SMARTER #844

Need to Fix Your Golf Swing…It Depends! | golf SMARTER #843

A Hole By Hole Game Plan For Smarter Golf by Dr. Joe Parent of Zen Golf

Bad Golf Shots Happen - Don’t Try To Stop Them, Accept Them! featuring Danny Maude |golf SMARTER #841

What Winning Golf Teaches Us About Winning In Business | golf SMARTER #840

Learn Which of the 70 New Golf Balls in 2022 is Right for You! | golf SMARTER #839

Getting Back to Golf Basics We Tend To Forget From Round to Round | golf SMARTER #838

The Masters: A Family’s Legacy. In Conversation with Bobby Jones' Grandson | golf SMARTER #837

Being a Caddy Made Me a Much Better, Much Smarter Golfer with Entrepreneur Henry McGannon | golf SMARTER #836

The Essence of Mindfulness in Golf and in Life with Author of "No One Playing" Martin Wells | golf SMARTER #835

Now You Can Have a Golf Simulator Even with Limited Space | golf SMARTER #834

Golf+NFTs=A New Era In Golf! Introducing LinksDAO | golf SMARTER #833

EXCLUSIVE: 6 PGA Tour Pros Provide Insights to Their Mental Game & Winning | golf SMARTER #832

Golf In The Kingdom & The Shivas Irons Society with E.D. Ben Kline | golf SMARTER #831

Connecting Golfers To Golfers and Golfers to Brands with Cactus Golf Club

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