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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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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. ...

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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. ...
05.18.2021 If You're Not Practicing Golf with Feedback...DON'T Practice! with Erik Schjolberg 793: Erik Schjolberg is a PGA Instructor in Arizona who learned early in his career that the best way to learn about teaching golf is by listening to, and watching other instructors apply their trade. With that mindset, he found ...
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 ...

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golf SMARTER episodes:

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

If You're Not Practicing Golf with Feedback...DON'T Practice! with Erik Schjolberg

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

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