golf SMARTER

By Fred Greene

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FREE golf lessons! Since 2005 Golf SMARTER has been offering weekly insights and valuable information from PGA Teaching Pros on how to be a better, smarter golfer. Like you, host Fred Greene is searching for ways to improve and has learned that all the Pros agree; to raise your golf IQ and lower your scores, you need to Golf Smarter!

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Need to Fix Your Golf Swing...

05.18.2022

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 ...

golf SMARTER episodes:

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 ...
02.09.2022 Getting Your Child Started with Golf, Then Getting a College Degree in PGA Golf Management 829: Henry Stetina is a PGA Teaching Professional who, in 2019-20, was named the #1 Golf Instructor in New Mexico by Golf Digest. He’s also the Program Coordinator for the New Mexico State University’s PGA Golf Management Program, responsible for ...
02.02.2022 Stop Fighting Your Putter! Featured Guest: Sam Hahn CEO of LAB Golf 828: LAB Golf, the putter company disrupter, has released a new putter called the MEZZ1 that won’t generate the teasing that their DF2.1 putter does, but as a Lie Angle Balanced putter, it will make your playing partners jealous with ...
01.12.2022 2021 PGA Tour In Review and Game Show:”Major or Major Motion Picture” featuring Matty Blake 827: MattyB returns for his hilarious review of the 2021 PGA Tour Season and challenges host Fred Greene to a game he’s created called “Major - or - Major Motion Picture” Play along and share your score on Twitter @golfsmarter. ...
01.04.2022 My Personal History with John Madden as His Recording Engineer from 1982-1986 826: With the passing of John Madden at the end of 2021, host Fred Greene digs into his personal archives to share stories, recordings, and his history with Coach Madden. From 1982-1986, Fred was Madden’s recording engineer for a nationally ...
12.28.2021 Your Workout Routine And Diet May Not Be Helping Your Golf Game featuring Jeff Pelizzaro of 18Strong 825: Jeff Pelizzaro is a fitness instructor, golfer, and host of the 18Strong podcast. In our quest to find out how to become a better golfer through more information than just swing mechanics, we talk to Jeff about how some ...
12.21.2021 After a Career in Manufacturing Jeff Perez Bought a Golf Course. Then Asked, Now What? 824: Jeff Perez lives in the small town in Parsons, Kansas. Ninety-five years ago, the MKT Railroad built a 9 hole course that is still around today. It’s open mainly because after his career in manufacturing, Jeff quit his job ...
12.14.2021 What PGA Instructors Discuss About Teaching Golf When They're Together 823: PGA Master Professional Joe Hallett returns to share insights from the recent Golf Magazine’s Top 100 PGA Teaching Summit and what it is that PGA Teaching Professionals discuss when they get together. We also learn why the classic “Ben ...
12.07.2021 Improve How You Move & Slow Your Aging Process Through High Intensity Workouts with Pete McCall 822: Pete McCall is a fitness expert who is resource for accurate, in-depth insight on how to get results from exercise. He is often quoted in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Men’s Fitness, and Shape Magazine. His ...
12.01.2021 Every Good Golf Shot Should Add Up to100 from Backswing to Follow Through 821: After a round of golf together at Foxtail North in Northern California, Jamie Zimron, the Golf Sensei and host Fred Greene sat down outside the Pro-Shop to record an episode that featured tips on being centered, tempo & rhythm, ...
11.23.2021 An Innovative Course in England Is Growing the Game By Challenging Golf's Traditions. Guest: Paul Cunningham of Hartford Golf Club 820: This week our guest is Paul Cunningham from Hartford Golf Club in Cheshire, near the Liverpool-Manchester metropolitan area of England. This semi-private 9 hole course has a lot of competition in the area, but they’re pushing the boundaries of ...
11.17.2021 Don’t Expect Many Golf Holiday Shopping Deals This Year...with Tom Cox 819: Tom Cox, CEO of GolfBalls.com is not alone in his concern that the holiday shopping season for 2021 won’t allow retailers to showcase the usual sales promotions that we’ve all grown accustomed to seeing. Because supply chain issues have ...
11.09.2021 To Truly Enjoy Golf, You Must Embrace the Suffering! With Yips Whisperer, Jim Waldron 818: Jim Waldron, "The Yips Whisperer" from BalancePointGolf.com returns to provide his expertise on the Yips. So many golfers think they have it, but most probably don’t. If you’re a high handicapper, then your problem is probably your swing mechanics! ...
11.02.2021 Barney Adams has Just Been Named Golf’s New Commissioner”…by me! Here’s How He’s Gonna Fix The Game 817: Barney Adams has never been shy about sharing his opinion on what’s wrong with golf and how to grow the game. In this episode, we appoint him Commissioner and challenge him to make the game easier and more accessible ...
10.26.2021 The Father of Golf Simulator Software Wants to Help Set Up Yours…for FREE! Featuring Bill Bales 816: Golf Simulators started out as a computer game but as the software became more sophisticated quickly became a critical tool for golf instructors and players of all skill levels. Bill Bales has been a force in golf simulator industry ...
10.20.2021 A Father & Daughter Golf Outing That Turned into a Parent’s Nightmare 815: Steve Ryan and his middle daughter Kaitlin played golf together multiple times each week, whether for 18 holes, or just working on their game at the range. But on April 19, 2020 while working on their short game, Kaitlin ...
10.12.2021 Sir Nick Faldo, John Daly, Rick Smith, Jim McLean All Wear SQAIRZ Golf Shoes Because of Results. 814. Sir Nick Faldo. John Daly. Jim McLean. Rick Smith. All wear SQAIRZ golf shoes because they improve their golf game. A wild statement that usually means a paid endorsement. But that’s not the case. Each of these high profile ...
10.05.2021 STIX Golf Clubs Deliver Style, Performance, and Results at an Unbelievable Price 813: Shopping for new golf clubs is never easy. Price. Performance. Style. Those are all important considerations, but not always in sync. Until now. Where else can you purchase a full set of well made, great looking clubs, with a ...
09.29.2021 If You’ve Seen a Wedge Used on Tour - It Doesn’t Belong In Your Bag! with Terry Koehler 812: Terry “The Wedge Guy” Koehler has spent his life in pursuit of creating the best wedge for amateur players. In this episode you’ll hear how the average golfer is getting fooled by purchasing wedges that we see on the ...
09.22.2021 Life’s Too Short to Play Bad Golf with YouTube Instructor Tom Saguto 811: Tom Saguto is a young golf instructor who has really caught the eye of a lot of golfers on YouTube. SagutoGolf has a lot of simple, but effective tips and drills that incorporate the Stack’n’Tilt method of ball striking. ...
09.14.2021 The Trackman Killer Might Be a Smart Golf Ball from Graff.Golf 810: Graff.Golf is working on a smart golf ball for your home/backyard practice sessions that will deliver the same helpful stats provided by incredibly expensive hardware used by teaching Professionals. In this episode we chat with a team from Graff ...
09.07.2021 You Don’t Need to Be a PGA Tour Level Talent To Hit Effective Chip Shots with Brandon Stooksbury 809: Brandon Stooksbury returns to discuss his first and Amazon Best Selling book The Wedge Book. Brandon is currently the Head Golf Professional at Metairie Country Club just outside of New Orleans, which has just been slammed from Hurricane Ida. ...
09.01.2021 What the Fastest Golfer In History Can Teach Us About Playing Slow Golf with Christopher Smith, PGA 808: Christopher Smith is an award winning PGA Teaching Professional, and accomplished golfer, and since 2005 (according to the Guinness Book of World Records), the Fastest Golfer in History! Chris holds the Speed Golf record by shooting a 65 over ...
08.24.2021 Simple Advice on How to Score Lower By Playing Golf Smarter with Erik Schjolberg 807: Golf instructor Erik Schjolberg returns to further his emphasis on practicing with feedback to learn how to correct your mistakes. We also talk about Tony Manzoni’s methods, the myths of lag putting into the “3 foot circle”, hitting from ...
08.17.2021 2x Major Winner Collin Morikawa’s Lifelong Golf Coach, Rick Sessinghaus on Growing a Champion 806: Rick Sessinghaus first met Collin Morikawa when he was 8 years old. After watching him swing the club just a couple times, he agreed to work with him and has been doing so ever since. In only his second ...
08.10.2021 John Rahm’s Fitness Instructor Spencer Tatum Has Helpful Insights for Amateur Golfers! 805: John Rahm was a standout golfer in college and currently holds the 2021 US Open Championship. Part of his transformation that lead him to the top spot is due to his fitness training developed by today’s guest, Spencer Tatum. ...
08.03.2021 Arnold Palmer’s 15+yr Playing Partner, Bruce Rearick, Shares Incredible Stories 804: Bruce Rearick is a globally renowned putting instructor and is considered a pioneer in putting instruction, putter fitting and putting design. For more than 15 years he was a golf professional in the Arnold Palmer organization and Head Professional ...
07.27.2021 How to Hit That Great Second Tee Shot FIRST! with Josh Zander 803: Josh Zander, a fabulous PGA Instructor who can help any golfer be a better ball striker returns to dig into the mental game of playing golf and playing a golf course. Collin Morikawa has just won the 2021 Open ...
07.21.2021 Bobby Jones’ Grandson Dr Bob Jones IV on The Responsibility of Being Golf Royalty 802: Bobby Jones legend looms large on golf, but it’s even larger for his heirs. In this week’s honest and revealing conversation, we meet Dr. Bob Jones IV, grandson of Bobby Jones. Dr. Bob is a Clinical and Sports Psychologist, ...
07.14.2021 How to Get More Power From Your Golf Swing By NOT Swinging Hard with Jim Venetos 801: Jim Venetos is a unique golf instructor because he doesn’t buy into traditional golf instruction. But that doesn’t make him any less effective. Between his informative online presence and dedicated students, Jim has a huge following. We haven't spoken ...
07.06.2021 Getting To Know Your Host at The 19th Hole 800: In celebration of our 800th episode, we flip things around and host Fred Greene is put in the guest’s chair and interviewed by longtime guest and friend, Jim Waldron. We learn how Fred started the podcast in 2005, stories ...
06.30.2021 The Challenge of Dancing With the Golf Course: It’s New Every Time You Play with Dr. Joe Parent 799: Dr. Joe Parent, author of Zen Golf, the greatest mental game book in golf history, returns for a lively conversation about managing expectations, pressure putts, mindfulness as it relates to golf, and the mental keys to repeating great golf ...
06.23.2021 Don’t Let Equipment Failure Prevent Better Putting with Raymond McMahon 798: Raymond McMahon from the UK is a retired engineer who was frustrated watching his grandson missing putts he should’ve made. So he did something about it. He created a carbon fiber putter shaft that is now being used by ...
06.16.2021 Stix Golf Clubs are Determined to be an Industry Disruptor with CEO Gabe Coyne 797: Gabe Coyne has played golf for years and wanted a new set of clubs but wasn’t in a position to pay $2500 for a full set and bag, nor was he interested in a starter’s set for $250. As ...
06.08.2021 Increase Your Golf Clubhead Speed: Focus on Flexibility & Mobility with Bobby Aldridge 796: Bobby Aldridge of Bam-Metrics has spent decades as an athlete, student, and educator of physical movement who understands the aches and pains that come from the repetitive motions associated with golf. He has developed BAMmetrics [Bobby Aldridge Method], a ...
06.01.2021 The Struggle and Journey to Make the Symetra and LPGA Tour with Elizabeth Schultz 795: Elizabeth Schultz started playing golf at 13…and played in the Women’s US Open at 16! She was also a successful player in college. But today, Elizabeth is grinding it out to make the Symetra Tour and fill her potential ...
05.26.2021 The Ten Essential Keys to Mastering Pressure with author Jayne Storey 794: Phil Mickleson has just become the oldest golfer in history to win a Major by beating a deep field at the 2021 PGA Championship. He claimed that his keys to success were a change in diet, yoga, and meditation. ...

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golf SMARTER episodes:

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

Getting Your Child Started with Golf, Then Getting a College Degree in PGA Golf Management

Stop Fighting Your Putter! Featured Guest: Sam Hahn CEO of LAB Golf

2021 PGA Tour In Review and Game Show:”Major or Major Motion Picture” featuring Matty Blake

My Personal History with John Madden as His Recording Engineer from 1982-1986

Your Workout Routine And Diet May Not Be Helping Your Golf Game featuring Jeff Pelizzaro of 18Strong

After a Career in Manufacturing Jeff Perez Bought a Golf Course. Then Asked, Now What?

What PGA Instructors Discuss About Teaching Golf When They're Together

Improve How You Move & Slow Your Aging Process Through High Intensity Workouts with Pete McCall

Every Good Golf Shot Should Add Up to100 from Backswing to Follow Through

An Innovative Course in England Is Growing the Game By Challenging Golf's Traditions. Guest: Paul Cunningham of Hartford Golf Club

Don’t Expect Many Golf Holiday Shopping Deals This Year...with Tom Cox

To Truly Enjoy Golf, You Must Embrace the Suffering! With Yips Whisperer, Jim Waldron

Barney Adams has Just Been Named Golf’s New Commissioner”…by me! Here’s How He’s Gonna Fix The Game

The Father of Golf Simulator Software Wants to Help Set Up Yours…for FREE! Featuring Bill Bales

A Father & Daughter Golf Outing That Turned into a Parent’s Nightmare

Sir Nick Faldo, John Daly, Rick Smith, Jim McLean All Wear SQAIRZ Golf Shoes Because of Results.

STIX Golf Clubs Deliver Style, Performance, and Results at an Unbelievable Price

If You’ve Seen a Wedge Used on Tour - It Doesn’t Belong In Your Bag! with Terry Koehler

Life’s Too Short to Play Bad Golf with YouTube Instructor Tom Saguto

The Trackman Killer Might Be a Smart Golf Ball from Graff.Golf

You Don’t Need to Be a PGA Tour Level Talent To Hit Effective Chip Shots with Brandon Stooksbury

What the Fastest Golfer In History Can Teach Us About Playing Slow Golf with Christopher Smith, PGA

Simple Advice on How to Score Lower By Playing Golf Smarter with Erik Schjolberg

2x Major Winner Collin Morikawa’s Lifelong Golf Coach, Rick Sessinghaus on Growing a Champion

John Rahm’s Fitness Instructor Spencer Tatum Has Helpful Insights for Amateur Golfers!

Arnold Palmer’s 15+yr Playing Partner, Bruce Rearick, Shares Incredible Stories

How to Hit That Great Second Tee Shot FIRST! with Josh Zander

Bobby Jones’ Grandson Dr Bob Jones IV on The Responsibility of Being Golf Royalty

How to Get More Power From Your Golf Swing By NOT Swinging Hard with Jim Venetos

Getting To Know Your Host at The 19th Hole

The Challenge of Dancing With the Golf Course: It’s New Every Time You Play with Dr. Joe Parent

Don’t Let Equipment Failure Prevent Better Putting with Raymond McMahon

Stix Golf Clubs are Determined to be an Industry Disruptor with CEO Gabe Coyne

Increase Your Golf Clubhead Speed: Focus on Flexibility & Mobility with Bobby Aldridge

The Struggle and Journey to Make the Symetra and LPGA Tour with Elizabeth Schultz

The Ten Essential Keys to Mastering Pressure with author Jayne Storey

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