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Golf's most popular podcast in iTunes and Google since 2005! Weekly in-depth interviews provide regular "ah-ha" insights for beginning to expert golfers, including weekend hackers like the show's host, Fred Greene. Entertaining conversations with experts on the mental game, course management, putting, mechanics, equipment, fitness and more. Enjoy these free episodes, but these are not the full interviews! Don't miss a minute! You can only hear the complete conversations when you join PREMIUM Access. Our global community of subscribers get even more valuable advice with exclusive entry to the complete library of more than 500 weekly episodes. All the experts agree, you play better and enjoy it more when you GOLF SMARTER. Join PREMIUM Access at GolfSmarter.com

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05.11.2021 The Consistent Golf Summit Returns with an Impressive Lineup for 2021 792: The Consistent Golf Summit was such a hit last year that it returns for 2021 with an even more impressive stable of coaches including Sean Foley! This week on Golf Smarter, host Fred Greene is joined by Bo Watson, ...
05.04.2021 How Understanding the Yips Can Help Your Mental Game with the Yoda of Yips, Jim Waldron 791: Our Yoda of Yips, Jim Waldron joins us to discuss how the yips can impact your mental game, and teach us some of the causes, cures, and myths of yips. Jim has probably been featured on Golf Smarter more ...
04.27.2021 The Business of Covid Golf - Where The Industry has Been and Where It’s Going with Tom Cox, CEO of GolfBalls.com 790: If you receive emails from any golf company at all, chances are GolfBalls.com is one of them. For nearly twenty years GolfBalls.com has focused on customization of balls, hats, towels, and a variety of golf products. They’re also the ...
04.20.2021 The Fluid Motion Golf Factor and Reading Your Fluid Cues with Steven Yellin 789: Steven Yellin, creator, author, and teacher of the Fluid Motion Factor, listed a testimonial on his website from David Leadbetter that sums it up, “It’s pretty simple. The Fluid Motion Factor Program will make you more consistent. End of ...
04.13.2021 Simple Tricks Amateur Golfers Can Use to Play Like the Pros with Tiffany Faucette 788: Tiffany Faucette picked up a golf club for the first time as a teenager, and like most of us has been on a quest ever since. But for Tiffany, it included a successful college career, #1 ranking by Titleist ...
04.06.2021 The Brilliance of Carey Mumford (RIP) and the Art of Custom Clubfitting with Tony Wright 787: Anthony “Tony” Wright is a custom club fitter, putting guru, and disciple of the the founding father of golf sports psychology, the late Dr. Carey Mumford. In this conversation that covers the benefits of being fitted for clubs, especially ...
03.30.2021 The 4 Primary Skills for Putting from The Putter Book with author Brandon Stooksbury PGA 786: Brandon Stooksbury’s first book The Wedge Book is an Amazon Best Seller. His newest, the Putter Book is simple, direct, and really helpful. In this week’s conversation host Fred Greene challenges Brandon to give us a putting lesson by ...
03.23.2021 President Ford Collapsed In My Arms on the Golf Course! And more Caddy Stories from JJ Resnick 785: JJ Resnick’s best friend was urging him to come to play golf at College of the Desert, then tragically lost his life. Grieving, and being a typically confused 20 yr old with no direction in life, JJ left Oregon ...
03.17.2021 Barney Adams on the State of the Game, Equipment, The Wow Factor, and Breakthrough Golf Tech 784: When Barney Adams introduced the Adams Golf Tight Lies Fairway “Woods” (was the first to use metal instead of wood) in 1988 he changed the golf equipment industry forever. The last time we spoke to him in 2012 he ...
03.10.2021 Your Wedges Were Designed for Pros, Not You! with Terry "The Wedge Guy" Koehler 783: Wedges are critically important to get the ball close to the flagstick. The Wedge Guy, Terry Koehler returns as this week's featured guest. If you’ve heard him on Golf Smarter over the years, or read his blogs, you know ...
03.03.2021 The Science of Rethinking, Relearning, & Revamping Your Golf Swing with James Ragonnet, PhD 782: James Ragonnet, PhD, has a compelling new book called Your Inner Golf Guru: Developing the Golf Instructor Within, which contends that to improve your golf swing you need to take a systemic vs analytical approach. The Systemic method means ...
02.23.2021 Mastering Those Scary Golf Shots That make You Question Your Skills & Buckle Your Knees 781: Josh Zander teaches golf at the Stanford University Golf Course and has been on Golf Smarter many times because his intrinsic understanding of how amateur golfers struggle with so many elements of the game. In this episode we talk ...
02.16.2021 To Draw or To Fade: That Is The Question…Or Is It? 780: PGA Master Professional Joe Hallett returns to Golf Smarter because he wants to help all of us be better golfers. Being a PGA Master Professional means that he’s one of only 200 PGA Members that are the teachers for ...
02.10.2021 If You Could Get 10 More Yards with Your Driver, What’s the Impact on the Rest of Your Clubs? 779: Roger Gunn, PGA returns to Golf Smarter to respond to host Fred Greene’s concern that increased yardage is a double edged sword. Of course we all want to hit the ball consistently, but we often speak of how much ...
02.02.2021 2020 Was a Nightmare - But Not For Golf!! What About 2021? Let's Ask MattyB 778: For the last decade, we kicked off the new year with a sarcastic and silly look at the previous year’s PGA Tour season with comedian/TV personality/golf junkie Matty Blake presenting his annual “MattyB Awards”. But because the passed year ...
01.27.2021 Your Eyes May be the Secret Weapon That Puts You in the Winner's Circle featuring Dr. Ryan Caserta 777: When it comes to golf improvement, all too often we discuss and dissect various parts of our swings, our bodies, our mental state, our equipment, etc. Our guest today is Dr Ryan Caserta who has studied eye movement patterns ...
01.19.2021 Imagine How Being 1% Better Each Round Could Turn Your Doubt Inside Out featuring Cary Valentine 776: Cary Valentine usually joins us to share interviews he’s done while the PGA Tour is in Hawaii, but because of COVID restrictions, he couldn’t get on the courses, even as a volunteer. So this year, we get an hour ...
01.12.2021 Golf Goal for 2021: BORING Golf! with Jamie Zimron, Our Golf Sensei 775: Jamie Zimron, our golf sensei, returns to explain why she loves to play boring golf and what we can do to get there. What’s boring golf? Fairway. Green. Fairway. Green. etc. When we play stress-less, we prosper more. That’s ...
01.06.2021 Welcome to Season 16! I got nothin’ 774: As we start a new year and our 16th year of golf SMARTER, we open the mailbag to hear a couple suggestions from listeners of how host Fred Greene can get out of his pathetic attitude of not enjoying ...
12.29.2020 The Moment You Change Your Mindset is the Moment You Change Your Golf Game! Featured guest: Dr. Robert K Winters 773: Dr. Robert K Winters is the Resident Sports Psychologist at the David Leadbetter World Teaching Headquarters in Florida. It’s been twelve years since we had our last conversation with Dr. Bob, but his return to discuss confidence, the Yips, ...
12.23.2020 More with Chip Beck on the PerfectMotion App, along with CEO Rich Kosowsky 772: 4x PGA Tour winner, Chip Beck returns for part 2 of our conversation. We cut him off early last week because he started talking about the new app-based expert system for training the motion of activities in performance called ...
12.16.2020 Four Time PGA Winner Chip Beck Shares Lessons from Life on Tour in 80s & 90s 771: Chip Beck was only the second player in PGA Tour history ever to card a 59 in a sanctioned PGA event. He’s also only one of two that posted that score in the 90s (1991 Las Vegas Invitational) along ...
12.08.2020 “Muni”: Documentary of a Public Golf Course in the Deep South with a Historic Story featuring Filmmaker Paul Bonesteel 770: “Muni” a new documentary available for free on YouTube is a love letter to golf and a personal telling of how African-American caddies, despite Jim Crow laws and the lasting effects of racism, built a rich and vibrant golf ...
12.01.2020 Let’s Shatter Some Myths and Misunderstandings About Single Length Golf Clubs 769: Bryson DeChambeau’s recent success on the PGA Tour has made single length golf clubs relevant. But are they for everyone? This week’s guest on Golf Smarter is Matt Lake of 1IronGolf.com. Matt claims that the major manufacturers focus on ...
11.24.2020 Why Putter Fitting has a Greater Impact Than You Might Believe 768: Cody Hale, Director of Tour/Player Development and the SeeMore Putter Institute at SeeMore putters joins us once again to give us another perspective of Lie Angle Balanced putters that we’ve recently discussed. Does Seemore offer that too? It’s called ...
11.18.2020 Club Face is King! Plus 2020 Masters Recap with Danny Maude 767: YouTube sensation Danny Maude returns to share his thoughts on The Masters being played in November and commentary on the PGA Tour players who shined and struggled. We also discuss what is a "shank" and why it happens, and ...
11.11.2020 Peaceful Golf: A Journey Into the Unknown with Author Noah Pilipski 766: Noah Pilipski is at peace with golf because he is a Peaceful Golfer. If you’re chasing mechanics and fretting over ball flight and distance, then let Peaceful Golf allow you to PLAY golf (remember that it's a game!) and ...
11.03.2020 Play the Greatest Courses in the World While Giving to Charity with Member For A Day! 765: We live in unprecedented times that demand seeing the world in different ways. This week we speak to Eric Sedransk, a golfer, tech entrepreneur, and serial volunteer who came up with a unique idea to raise money in NYC ...
10.27.2020 Inventor of Lie Angle Balanced Putter on Why These Will Work for You 764: Bill Presse is the inventor of the Lie Angle Balanced putters that are now part of the LABgolf company. In this episode he discusses why putter torque is such an overlooked aspect to putting and how it works against ...
10.20.2020 Introducing ShotScope V3: GPS & Performance Tracking ON YOUR WRIST with Gavin Dear 763: GPS has become a critical tool in our golf bag. Never again do we have to guess the distance to the flag. Now let's take it a step further and track each club’s performance…and make it a wearable!! That’s ...
10.13.2020 The Quieter Your Mind, The More Fluid Your Movement with Jayne Storey 762: Thanks to a great suggestion, this week’s guest is Jayne Storey, author of “Breathe Golf: The Missing Link to a Winning Performance” In addition to writing, Jayne is also a coach and speaker helping golfers for more than three ...
10.06.2020 It’s the Club’s Fault! You’re A Better Putter Than You Think with Sam Hahn of LAB Golf 761: One thing that contributes to a lousy day on the golf course is missing short putts, or multiple 3 putts. But your confidence in lining up your putt, your ability to read the greens, even your skill at lag ...
09.29.2020 Increase Your Self Awareness to Decrease Your Golf Scores featuring Thane Marcus 760: Thane Marcus played professional golf but his failures on Tour ending up being incredible lessons in his own personal development. In this episode we hear about how his journey has enabled him to write a book and online courses ...
09.22.2020 How Keeping Score of Your Mental Game Will Lower Your Stroke Scores with PGA Tour Veteran Richard Zokol 759: Richard Zokol’s PGA Tour career spanned over 20-years, winning twice while competing in 412 PGA Tour events. As he treats us to great stories about his career, he also shares the Ah-Ha moment in the final round of the ...
09.15.2020 Off the Rack or Getting Fitted for New Clubs. THAT is the Question with Club Fitter Shea Satterfield 758: Shea Satterfield is an expert club fitter at both Temecula Creek Golf Club and also for Cobra. He works with golfers of all abilities and knows how to best fit a players club to their game based on style ...
09.09.2020 Your Golf Mind Wants More Power & Distance, But Is Your Body Up to the Task? Chris Finn returns to discuss how your body can be the biggest problem to improving your golf game. His group of TPI Instructors at Par4Success.com have developed on online assessment that will allow them to get a distanced look at ...
09.01.2020 It's Not How Good You Hit the Golf Ball, It's How Good You Miss It! with Randy Chang, PGA 756: Randy Chang, PGA, is the Director of Instruction at the Journey at Pechanga Golf Course in Temecula, CA. He’s currently being featured on CBS TV in the Los Angeles area. He also runs the Randy Chang Golf Academy specializing ...
08.25.2020 How to Get IN THE ZONE at the Flip of a Switch with Bo Watson and Shannon Shuskey 755: Bo Watson of SchoolOfLifetimeLowRounds.com and founder of the Consistent Golf Summit (episode #735 April 7,2020) is joined by Shannon Shuskey, a world class Speed Skating coach to share his methods of how to get IN THE ZONE at the ...
08.18.2020 Golf's Global Pandemic: The Yips... and We've Got Your Mask - The Yips Whisperer 754: The Yips causes more golfers to quit the game than slow play. Jim Waldron, “The Yips Whisperer”, our “Yoda of Yips”, works with golfers around the world helping to cure their yips in a few short sessions. In this ...
08.11.2020 2020 PGA Championship - A Golf Major Like Nothing We’ve Ever Witnessed 754: Last week’s 2020 PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park was special in so many ways that we needed an expert who not only played PGA Tour golf, but grew up in San Francisco playing Harding Park. He’s also been ...
08.04.2020 Your Hands are the Devils. Learn How to Turn Them Into Golf Angels! featuring Dan Martin, PGA 752: Dan Martin, PGA is the Director of Instruction at Rustic Canyon GC in Moorpark, CA, a GolfTips Top 30 instructor, and a U.S. Kids Golf Top 50 Master Kids Teacher. Host Fred Greene is scheduling a trip to Southern ...
07.28.2020 Introducing Quick Caddie: A Bag Tag Reference Guide for Challenging Golf Situations 751: Karen Perlman is a recreational golfer and marketer who saw a need and filled it. She created Quick Caddie, a durable bag tag that provides golfers with pro tips for tough situations on the course. Simply rotate the wheel ...
07.21.2020 The Wedge Guy's Commitment to Building the Best Wedge Ever featuring Terry Koehler of Edison Wedges 750: Terry “The Wedge Guy” Koehler returns to talk about his decades long quest to create the greatest wedge ever made that benefits the average recreational player. According to Terry, Chairman and Director of Innovation for Edison Wedges, wedge technology ...
07.15.2020 From Caddyshack to Corner Office : How Being A Caddie has Influenced Some of the World’s Top Executives 749: Kai Sato is an entrepreneur who learned just as many valuable lessons about business from being a caddie as he did from his Business degree from USC. He now has a website called CaddyshackToCornerOffice.com where he interviews some of ...
07.07.2020 The Four Pillars of Clutch Golf from "The Clutch Golfer Formula" by Dr. Glen Albaugh 748: Dr. Glen Albaugh, co-author with Eric Jones, PGA (episode 725) of “The Clutch Golfer Formula: How to Hit the Exact Shot You Want at Precisely When You Need It” joins us for his fifth appearance on Golf Smarter since ...
06.30.2020 If You Cut Off Your Head, You’d Probably Play Better Golf! featuring Bill Beausay 747: Bill Beausay, PhD, is a golfer, writer, speaker, creator of MindRev Labs, and former Director of R&D; at the Academy of Sports Psychology. To be elite at anything in life you need to play a different game than the ...
06.23.2020 Tips & Tricks to Get the Most From Your Online Video Golf Lessons with Brant Kasbohm 746: Brant Kasbohm of FixYourGame.com is a golf instructor who only works with students online. He’s viewed thousands of videos sent to him by golfers and has insights on what works, what doesn’t, how to get the most from your ...
06.17.2020 Former Tour Pro Shares Stories and Intros “Golphin” to Get Kids Hooked on Golf with Alan Tait 745: Alan Tait is best known for being the first player to shoot 64 at The Championship Carnoustie Course in Scotland, a record that stood for more than 23 years. In this conversation he shares stories on playing a round ...
06.09.2020 Golf Industry Veteran Chris McGinley on HONMA Golf and Swing Align training tool 744: A great golf training aid is one that enhances consistency on multiple levels, not just increasing distance. Swing Align grooves your swing, and fine tunes your alignment, rotation, swing plane, and connection. Connection doesn’t get discussed much, but once ...
06.03.2020 GolfLogix: The Best Golf App Adds a Twist - Individual Green Maps in a Yardage Book featuring Pete Charleston 743: You’ve noticed how PGA Tour players review a yardage book as they prepare for each shot. Now you can have one that’s custom designed for you. GolfLogix, the most robust GPS and scoring app for iOS and Android take ...

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golf SMARTER episodes:

The Consistent Golf Summit Returns with an Impressive Lineup for 2021

How Understanding the Yips Can Help Your Mental Game with the Yoda of Yips, Jim Waldron

The Business of Covid Golf - Where The Industry has Been and Where It’s Going with Tom Cox, CEO of GolfBalls.com

The Fluid Motion Golf Factor and Reading Your Fluid Cues with Steven Yellin

Simple Tricks Amateur Golfers Can Use to Play Like the Pros with Tiffany Faucette

The Brilliance of Carey Mumford (RIP) and the Art of Custom Clubfitting with Tony Wright

The 4 Primary Skills for Putting from The Putter Book with author Brandon Stooksbury PGA

President Ford Collapsed In My Arms on the Golf Course! And more Caddy Stories from JJ Resnick

Barney Adams on the State of the Game, Equipment, The Wow Factor, and Breakthrough Golf Tech

Your Wedges Were Designed for Pros, Not You! with Terry "The Wedge Guy" Koehler

The Science of Rethinking, Relearning, & Revamping Your Golf Swing with James Ragonnet, PhD

Mastering Those Scary Golf Shots That make You Question Your Skills & Buckle Your Knees

To Draw or To Fade: That Is The Question…Or Is It?

If You Could Get 10 More Yards with Your Driver, What’s the Impact on the Rest of Your Clubs?

2020 Was a Nightmare - But Not For Golf!! What About 2021? Let's Ask MattyB

Your Eyes May be the Secret Weapon That Puts You in the Winner's Circle featuring Dr. Ryan Caserta

Imagine How Being 1% Better Each Round Could Turn Your Doubt Inside Out featuring Cary Valentine

Golf Goal for 2021: BORING Golf! with Jamie Zimron, Our Golf Sensei

Welcome to Season 16! I got nothin’

The Moment You Change Your Mindset is the Moment You Change Your Golf Game! Featured guest: Dr. Robert K Winters

More with Chip Beck on the PerfectMotion App, along with CEO Rich Kosowsky

Four Time PGA Winner Chip Beck Shares Lessons from Life on Tour in 80s & 90s

“Muni”: Documentary of a Public Golf Course in the Deep South with a Historic Story featuring Filmmaker Paul Bonesteel

Let’s Shatter Some Myths and Misunderstandings About Single Length Golf Clubs

Why Putter Fitting has a Greater Impact Than You Might Believe

Club Face is King! Plus 2020 Masters Recap with Danny Maude

Peaceful Golf: A Journey Into the Unknown with Author Noah Pilipski

Play the Greatest Courses in the World While Giving to Charity with Member For A Day!

Inventor of Lie Angle Balanced Putter on Why These Will Work for You

Introducing ShotScope V3: GPS & Performance Tracking ON YOUR WRIST with Gavin Dear

The Quieter Your Mind, The More Fluid Your Movement with Jayne Storey

It’s the Club’s Fault! You’re A Better Putter Than You Think with Sam Hahn of LAB Golf

Increase Your Self Awareness to Decrease Your Golf Scores featuring Thane Marcus

How Keeping Score of Your Mental Game Will Lower Your Stroke Scores with PGA Tour Veteran Richard Zokol

Off the Rack or Getting Fitted for New Clubs. THAT is the Question with Club Fitter Shea Satterfield

Your Golf Mind Wants More Power & Distance, But Is Your Body Up to the Task?

It's Not How Good You Hit the Golf Ball, It's How Good You Miss It! with Randy Chang, PGA

How to Get IN THE ZONE at the Flip of a Switch with Bo Watson and Shannon Shuskey

Golf's Global Pandemic: The Yips... and We've Got Your Mask - The Yips Whisperer

2020 PGA Championship - A Golf Major Like Nothing We’ve Ever Witnessed

Your Hands are the Devils. Learn How to Turn Them Into Golf Angels! featuring Dan Martin, PGA

Introducing Quick Caddie: A Bag Tag Reference Guide for Challenging Golf Situations

The Wedge Guy's Commitment to Building the Best Wedge Ever featuring Terry Koehler of Edison Wedges

From Caddyshack to Corner Office : How Being A Caddie has Influenced Some of the World’s Top Executives

The Four Pillars of Clutch Golf from "The Clutch Golfer Formula" by Dr. Glen Albaugh

If You Cut Off Your Head, You’d Probably Play Better Golf! featuring Bill Beausay

Tips & Tricks to Get the Most From Your Online Video Golf Lessons with Brant Kasbohm

Former Tour Pro Shares Stories and Intros “Golphin” to Get Kids Hooked on Golf with Alan Tait

Golf Industry Veteran Chris McGinley on HONMA Golf and Swing Align training tool

GolfLogix: The Best Golf App Adds a Twist - Individual Green Maps in a Yardage Book featuring Pete Charleston

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