GOLF SMARTER

By Fred Greene

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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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724: Joel Pelland is a Peak Performer. What else can he be with 5 kids under 5yrs?!?? Actually Joel is a Peak Performance coach, high school teacher / coach, and former D1 Baseball player. In this conversation we tap into ...

GOLF SMARTER episodes:

01.21.2020 The Advantages of Peak Performance Training for Student Athletes and You! featuring Joel Pelland 724: Joel Pelland is a Peak Performer. What else can he be with 5 kids under 5yrs?!?? Actually Joel is a Peak Performance coach, high school teacher / coach, and former D1 Baseball player. In this conversation we tap into ...
01.15.2020 The Flaws with the New World Handicap System from “The Pope of Slope” Dean Knuth 723: On January 1, 2020 the World Handicap System went into effect in the US along with several other countries around the world. In the US, this new system replaces the old USGA GHIN. Our guest is Dean Knuth, who ...
01.08.2020 The 2019 PGA Tour MattyB Awards: 10th Annual Irreverent Commentary of the Best 722: We kick off the 15th year of Golf Smarter with our annual MattyB Awards featuring comedian, writer, radio personality, golf nut, and host of “The Curse of Oak Island”, Matty Blake @TheMattyBlake. MattyB takes a light hearted and completely ...
12.24.2019 The Critical Elements that Separate a Super Golfer from the Rest of Us featuring Pia Nilsson 721: Super Golfers have a strong sense of their technical and emotional elements of their game to achieve consistently low scores. Pia Nilsson, co-founder of Vision54 and lifelong coach for Annika Sorenstam joins us to share the secrets that can ...
12.17.2019 Drop 3 Putts & More with Complete Confidence Using Rifle Scope Technology 720: Our guest, Jim Grundberg, is the gracious and generous CEO of Seemore putters . For our last giveaway of 2019 we’re giving away a brand new, customized Seemore Putter from either their Classic Series or their latest Mini Giant ...
12.11.2019 The Lost Art of Playing Golf featuring co-author Karl Morris 719: “Golf is meant to be chaotic!” Once we understand that inconsistency is built into golf, then maybe we wouldn’t be so hard on ourselves. This week we speak once again to Karl Morris. Karl and his co-author, Gary Nicol ...
12.03.2019 Golf Yips Can Be Cured with Psycho Sensory Therapy by James Hymers 718: James Hymers is a “fast change” therapist based in Windsor Berkshire, UK. He understands that in today’s fast paced world we prefer therapy that works fast too. By utilizing Psycho Sensory Therapy, James claims that his average client only ...
11.27.2019 Golf Consistency is Achieved on the Course, Not the Range! Featuring Lynn Marriott of Vision54 717: This week we speak to Lynn Marriott co-founder of VISION54, a breakthrough program and golf school based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Lynn and and her partner Pia Nilsson are internationally recognized as two of the highest ranked female instructors in ...
11.19.2019 The Eureka Golf Swing May Be Your “Ah-Ha” Moment to Consistency featuring Steve Johnston, PGA 716: By request, we speak with Steve Johnston, PGA from Scotland about his “Eureka Golf Swing”. If learning to keep your left wrist flat, finding the low point of your swing, or improving contact to get straighter ball flight, then ...
11.12.2019 GolfLogix Continues to Lead the Digital Revolution in Golf Technology featuring President Pete Charleston 715: The GolfLogix app has an incredible new feature that reads the slope and breaks of greens. It’s pushing the limits of what’s been done before that is why GolfLogix continues to be the most popular, and most copied of ...
11.05.2019 Playing 18 with a Blind Golfer is Both an Inspiration and a Great Lesson in Gratitude 714: When was the last time you hit balls at range with your eyes closed? It’s an amazing opportunity to learn more about what some coaches call “awareness”, being able to truly feel your body as you swing the golf ...
10.29.2019 If You Aim at Nothing, You’ll Hit It Every Time featuring Co-Author of “The Lost Art of Playing Golf”, Gary Nicol 713: The last time we met Gary Nicol (ep699 published on 7/23/19), we discussed the first book he co-authored with Karl Morris, “The Lost Art of Putting”. They’ve just released a new book called “The Lost Art of Playing Golf” ...
10.22.2019 It’s The Takeaway That Dictates Your Downswing. More on the 2-6 Golfer with Terry Bradley 712: Terry Bradley, the 2-6 Golfer returns for more discussion on his unique swing method that has transformed the confidence and swing of many golfers. . Congratulations to Eric W of Columbus, OH! Eric has been selected at random to ...
10.15.2019 Preparing TPC Harding Park for the 2020 PGA Championship with Course GM Tom Smith 711: Tom Smith is our featured guest and the General Manager of the TPC operated, San Francisco owned Harding Park GC. We talk to Tom about what what’s involved a year in advance to prepare for a Major that happens ...
10.08.2019 The New Golf Novel "18 Holes" is More Than Just a Round of Golf with author J. Wesley Frost 710: J Wesley Frost plays golf to get away from thinking about his work as a small town police officer. So does the main character of his first self published book, “18 Holes” available on Amazon. But that’s where the ...
10.01.2019 More on Gravity Golf with the Founder and Former PGA Tour Pro, David Lee 707: When Jack Nicklaus, Chi Chi Rodriquez, and Lee Trevino endorse your swing method, you have to be doing something special. Gravity Golf is special! After two conversations with his son, this time we speak to the creator and founder ...
09.24.2019 Inside the Nuts & Bolts of Gravity Golf with Daniel Lee: Part2 (Listen for a Special Offer!) 708: This is part 2 of our conversation on Gravity Golf with Daniel Lee. As last week was our introduction to how Gravity Golf came into existence and how it works, this week we get into the nuts and bolts ...
09.17.2019 Endorsed by Jack, Chi Chi, & Lee Trevino, Gravity Golf Could Work for You! Featuring Daniel Lee 707: Gravity Golf could be the most logical golf swing methods ever introduced, which is why it’s praises have been sung by some of the greatest golfers in the modern era. In part 1 of a surprising 2 part conversation, ...
09.10.2019 Getting Consistent at Golf is about Making Your Swing Work, Not Trying to Imitate a Tour Player's 706: Jeff Ritter (MTTgolf on Twitter/Instagram. MakeTheTurn on Facebook and YouTube) of Make the Turn Golf (app and mttperformance.com website) is one of our favorite instructors not because he’s the son of a golf instructor or that he’s been teaching ...
09.03.2019 Bent. Poa. Bermuda. Rye. Hybrid. Why You Don’t Need to Care About the Different Grasses on Golf Courses with George Kelly. 705: George Kelly is the CEO of Greenway Golf, a company that specializes in golf course maintenance, management, restoration, and construction. In this conversation we talk about the variety of grasses used on courses and why. We also learn about ...
08.27.2019 Don’t Keep Your Head Down?! Don’t Keep Your Lead Arm Straight! More on Easiest Swing with Bob Van Dusen 704: Bob Van Dusen is the only golf instructor in the United States who is teaching the methods we heard about last episode from Brian Sparks called the Easiest Golf Swing that is especially effective for golfers 50 and older. ...
08.20.2019 60% of All Golfers Are Over 50, Yet The “Easiest Swing”Can Help All Golfers! 703: Surveys show that 60% of all golfers are over 50, yet golf instruction focuses on the power and flexibility of young people. Brian Sparks like Bobby Jones believes that “the whole body is involved” in the golf swing, not ...
08.13.2019 The 2/6 Golfer is All About the Takeaway: A Simple and Effective Swing Process with Terry Bradley 702: Terry Bradley comes to Golf Smarter by request from a listener who says he went from a 16hcp to 6.9 using he used Terry’s 2-6 Golf Process. Our listener was ready to quit the game altogether when he discovered ...
08.06.2019 "The Optimal Performance Swing” or TOPS that is 100% Biomechanically & Anatomically Valid with Kiran Kanwar 701: Kiran Kanwar has spent 25 years researching the movement of the body during a golf swing and has determined that the most effective and efficient swing is actually 95% set-up and 5% backswing. In 1989 she became the 1st ...
07.30.2019 The Key to Reducing 3 Putts, Spend More Time Practicing Pace; Pt2 of The Lost Art of Putting with the other Co-Author Karl Morris 700: Why is it that we teach beginning golfers the importance of pace vs direction in putting, but then as we continue to play better get hung up on the line? This is part two on the book “The Lost ...
07.23.2019 The Lost Art of Putting (part1) with Co-Author Gary Nicol 699: Putting is an art form that is too often gets lost amidst science. This is the first of two episodes with two different guests who co-authored a book called “The Lost Art of Putting - Introducing the Six Putting ...
07.16.2019 Swing Like a Pro in 10 Minutes using S.U.R.F.! with Randy Chang 698: Randy Chang is a PGA Professional who grew up playing golf in Hawaii, but like most kids growing up on these islands, the primary sport is surfing. Randy’s developed a method to improve your game that he calls S.U.R.F. ...
07.09.2019 Hit Longer Golf Shots Consistently by Tweaking Your Wrist Positions During Your Swing with Zach Allen 697: Zach Allen, PGA learned while playing D1 College Golf at USC that trying to make the perfect golf swing was a disaster for his game and competitive edge. Then he fell in love with teaching, and lately has been ...
07.02.2019 Getting Into the Mindset & Pre-Shot Routine of Great Golfers with Roger Gunn 696: Roger Gunn returns to dig deep into the mindset and pre-shot routine of great golfers and explains how the rest of us are not that far from accomplishing more on the golf course. He also touches on the consequences ...
06.25.2019 Mailbag: Your Golf Ball Questions Answered by Sam Hogan 695: Sam Hogan of TwoGuysWithGolfBalls.com returns so that we can open the mailbag and answer your questions and concerns about golf balls, performance, comparisons, best ball for different level of players, used ball quality, and more. Make sure to register ...
06.18.2019 YouTube Sensation Christo Garcia on the Story of MySwingEvolution, and Teaching the Classic Golf Swing 694: Christo Garcia’s YouTube channel, MySwingEvolution, has nearly 40K subscribers because he’s studied Ben Hogan’s book and is now teaching “The Classic Golf Swing”. Christo comes us by listener request and you’ll hear why he’s been so successful as he ...
06.11.2019 A Great Golf Pre-Round Warmup, and FINALLY a way to Practice Uphill/Downhill Lies 693: Karen Palacios-Jansen of CardioGolf.com is a LPGA Master Instructor who has finally addressed one of the hardest shots to practice at home or on the range, and that’s the Uphill/Downhill lie. In this episode she talks to host Fred ...
06.04.2019 Taking Care of Ol' Mr. 3-Wiggle to Become a Better Putter with Cody Hale of Seemore Putters 692: Cody Hale of Seemore Putters returns to discuss why getting fit for a putter can be as effective as fitting for a driver or full set of clubs. He also provides tips and insights to warming up on the ...
05.28.2019 You're Making Golf Harder Than It Needs To Be. Prepping For Your Next Round with Josh Zander 691: Josh Zander at ZanderGolf.com believes that there are 3 things you should understand to become a better golfer. Once you understand those, then you can go into your warmup and practice rounds knowing what to work on to improve. ...
05.21.2019 Swinging a Golf Club Shouldn’t Hurt! DJ Watts Can Fix That with His Mechanically Correct Swing 690: DJ Watts hits the ball very long, at his intended target, and does it pain free! That’s because he has mastered and teaches what he calls “MCS” or a Mechanically-Correct Swing. He’s studied the swing for years and even ...
05.14.2019 Want to Hit a Better Golf Shot? Remember that Your Self Worth is Not On The Line! featuring Jim Waldron 689: Jim Waldron from Balance Point Golf School returns to go beyond the curing your yips to discuss how our egos get in the way to preventing us from achieving lower scores. His mental game approach will have you thinking ...
05.07.2019 More Pars Makes Golf More Fun. But Is It Possible For You? YES! with Christina Ricci 688: Christina Ricci started playing golf in 2000, and remarkably achieved a 5hcp in only five years. Since then she’s become a dedicated LPGA Certified Teaching professional, has written multiple books , developed numerous training products, contributes to GolfTips Magazine, ...
04.30.2019 From Adversity to Inspiration to the World Golf Hall of Fame. The Incredible Life of Dennis Walters 687: The World Golf Hall of Fame is inducting seven incredible golfers in 2019, but only one is being honored for high marks of inspiration, not low scores. This week’s guest, Dennis Walters, was paralyzed from the waist-down at the ...
04.23.2019 Teaching Golf To Women is Different, And It Affects Men... with Jamie Zimron 686: Jamie Zimron, our golf sensei, returns to discuss the difference of teaching women to play golf vs teaching men. Their likes, dislikes, what resonates, and why it’s different then teaching men. And since Jamie is an activist/feminist/licensed psychotherapist/LPGA Certified ...
04.16.2019 Golf Balls 2019! What's New & What's the Best for You featuring Sam Hogan 685: Sam Hogan of TwoGuysWithGolfBalls.com returns to update us on what’s new and different about the latest release of the Titleist ProV1 and ProV1x. Also what is the Titleist AVX and who should play that? Costco has finally released their ...
04.10.2019 Combine the Best of Your Mental Game & Your Short Game, then Breakthrough to Lower Golf Scores 684: Dr Joseph Parent, author of golf’s best selling mental game book, “Zen Golf” returns to explain how combining your mental game with a fine tuned short game can deliver lower scores than you thought possible. Golf Smarter Mulligans launches ...
04.02.2019 Home of the Valero Texas Open, TPC San Antonio with Dir. of Instruction Greg Hiller 683: Greg Hiller is the Director of Instruction at TPC San Antonio. We meet Greg on the eve of the Valero Texas Open that’s played at TPC San Antonio. For the first time, this event has moved up to the ...
03.26.2019 A Golf Destination that May Surprise You: The Alamo City Golf Trail in San Antonio 682: Andrew Peterson; President of the Alamo City Golf Trail in San Antonio, TX, joins us to talk about all the great and affordable options of places to play golf in San Antonio. The Alamo City Golf Trail is a ...
03.19.2019 Handcrafted Customized Putters that Work with Artisan/Engineer Bradley Converse 681: Bradley Putters do more than consistently put the ball in the hole, they tell an intimate story of its owner. Think of a Bradley putter as a fine tuned instrument customized to your exact specs, combined with an heirloom ...
03.12.2019 Our New Golf Mindset: Expect The World. Accept The Results. 680: Jeff Ritter is always a wealth of fabulous information when it comes to the complete package of golf instruction, from mechanics, to nutrition, to the mind-body connection. This week on the Golf Smarter podcast, he returns to provide insights ...
03.05.2019 The Secret Hazard to Golf Course Closings: Crashing Home Prices with WSJ Reporter Candace Taylor 679: A recent article in the Wall Street Journal shed light on home prices falling 25-50% after a Country Club or Golf Community course closes. Our guest this week is Wall Street Journal reporter Candace Taylor who wrote this investigative ...
02.26.2019 Take Ownership Of Your Swing. Now Repeat It! with Tony Manzoni (RIP) 678: Tony Manzoni (RIP) was a great instructor, a great coach, extremely articulate, funny, warm, and a great friend of Golf Smarter. To announce the re-release of his book “The Lost Fundamental: One Simple Move, Better Golf Forever” we’re bringing ...
02.19.2019 One Simple Move, Better Golf Forever. The Lost Fundamental with Tony Manzoni (RIP) 677: After hearing one of our conversations with Tony Manzoni (RIP) Golf Smarter listeners have searched everywhere on the web to purchase his book “The Lost Fundamental: One Simple Move, Better Golf Forever” only to come up empty. Previously there ...
02.12.2019 The Lost Fundamental Author on Tony Manzoni and His Newest Golf Historical Fiction Novel 676 Paul Cervantes is the co-author of the late Tony Manzoni’s book “The Lost Fundamental: One Simple Move, Better Golf Forever”. Paul joins us to announce that the book is once again available! This time you have a choice of ...
02.06.2019 In the Recording Studio Where Golf & Rock’n’Roll Collide with 5 time Grammy Winner Val Garay 675: Val Garay is the Grammy-winning music producer behind hits like, “Bette Davis Eyes” with Kim Carnes and “Handy Man,” with James Taylor. Val’s 100 gold and platinum records, nine Grammy nominations with five Grammy wins is only part of ...

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GOLF SMARTER episodes:

The Advantages of Peak Performance Training for Student Athletes and You! featuring Joel Pelland

The Flaws with the New World Handicap System from “The Pope of Slope” Dean Knuth

The 2019 PGA Tour MattyB Awards: 10th Annual Irreverent Commentary of the Best

The Critical Elements that Separate a Super Golfer from the Rest of Us featuring Pia Nilsson

Drop 3 Putts & More with Complete Confidence Using Rifle Scope Technology

The Lost Art of Playing Golf featuring co-author Karl Morris

Golf Yips Can Be Cured with Psycho Sensory Therapy by James Hymers

Golf Consistency is Achieved on the Course, Not the Range! Featuring Lynn Marriott of Vision54

The Eureka Golf Swing May Be Your “Ah-Ha” Moment to Consistency featuring Steve Johnston, PGA

GolfLogix Continues to Lead the Digital Revolution in Golf Technology featuring President Pete Charleston

Playing 18 with a Blind Golfer is Both an Inspiration and a Great Lesson in Gratitude

If You Aim at Nothing, You’ll Hit It Every Time featuring Co-Author of “The Lost Art of Playing Golf”, Gary Nicol

It’s The Takeaway That Dictates Your Downswing. More on the 2-6 Golfer with Terry Bradley

Preparing TPC Harding Park for the 2020 PGA Championship with Course GM Tom Smith

The New Golf Novel "18 Holes" is More Than Just a Round of Golf with author J. Wesley Frost

More on Gravity Golf with the Founder and Former PGA Tour Pro, David Lee

Inside the Nuts & Bolts of Gravity Golf with Daniel Lee: Part2 (Listen for a Special Offer!)

Endorsed by Jack, Chi Chi, & Lee Trevino, Gravity Golf Could Work for You! Featuring Daniel Lee

Getting Consistent at Golf is about Making Your Swing Work, Not Trying to Imitate a Tour Player's

Bent. Poa. Bermuda. Rye. Hybrid. Why You Don’t Need to Care About the Different Grasses on Golf Courses with George Kelly.

Don’t Keep Your Head Down?! Don’t Keep Your Lead Arm Straight! More on Easiest Swing with Bob Van Dusen

60% of All Golfers Are Over 50, Yet The “Easiest Swing”Can Help All Golfers!

The 2/6 Golfer is All About the Takeaway: A Simple and Effective Swing Process with Terry Bradley

"The Optimal Performance Swing” or TOPS that is 100% Biomechanically & Anatomically Valid with Kiran Kanwar

The Key to Reducing 3 Putts, Spend More Time Practicing Pace; Pt2 of The Lost Art of Putting with the other Co-Author Karl Morris

The Lost Art of Putting (part1) with Co-Author Gary Nicol

Swing Like a Pro in 10 Minutes using S.U.R.F.! with Randy Chang

Hit Longer Golf Shots Consistently by Tweaking Your Wrist Positions During Your Swing with Zach Allen

Getting Into the Mindset & Pre-Shot Routine of Great Golfers with Roger Gunn

Mailbag: Your Golf Ball Questions Answered by Sam Hogan

YouTube Sensation Christo Garcia on the Story of MySwingEvolution, and Teaching the Classic Golf Swing

A Great Golf Pre-Round Warmup, and FINALLY a way to Practice Uphill/Downhill Lies

Taking Care of Ol' Mr. 3-Wiggle to Become a Better Putter with Cody Hale of Seemore Putters

You're Making Golf Harder Than It Needs To Be. Prepping For Your Next Round with Josh Zander

Swinging a Golf Club Shouldn’t Hurt! DJ Watts Can Fix That with His Mechanically Correct Swing

Want to Hit a Better Golf Shot? Remember that Your Self Worth is Not On The Line! featuring Jim Waldron

More Pars Makes Golf More Fun. But Is It Possible For You? YES! with Christina Ricci

From Adversity to Inspiration to the World Golf Hall of Fame. The Incredible Life of Dennis Walters

Teaching Golf To Women is Different, And It Affects Men... with Jamie Zimron

Golf Balls 2019! What's New & What's the Best for You featuring Sam Hogan

Combine the Best of Your Mental Game & Your Short Game, then Breakthrough to Lower Golf Scores

Home of the Valero Texas Open, TPC San Antonio with Dir. of Instruction Greg Hiller

A Golf Destination that May Surprise You: The Alamo City Golf Trail in San Antonio

Handcrafted Customized Putters that Work with Artisan/Engineer Bradley Converse

Our New Golf Mindset: Expect The World. Accept The Results.

The Secret Hazard to Golf Course Closings: Crashing Home Prices with WSJ Reporter Candace Taylor

Take Ownership Of Your Swing. Now Repeat It! with Tony Manzoni (RIP)

One Simple Move, Better Golf Forever. The Lost Fundamental with Tony Manzoni (RIP)

The Lost Fundamental Author on Tony Manzoni and His Newest Golf Historical Fiction Novel

In the Recording Studio Where Golf & Rock’n’Roll Collide with 5 time Grammy Winner Val Garay

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