Golf Smarter

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 spawned a society of golfers around the world who share a passion for the game. The current Executive Director of the Shivas Irons Society , Ben Kline is our guest.

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This episode is brought to you by DynamicGolfers.com/golfsmarter. Golf Smarter listeners get a 7 day free trial and 15% off your membership with coupon code ‘GolfSmarter’. Why spend thousands on a gym membership that doesn’t focus on the best exercises for golfers? Join the thousands of golfers worldwide who do the 15-20 minute dynamic stretching workouts that are completely focused on improving your flexibility and mobility for golf. Our host, Fred Greene, went from a 11hcp to a 9hcp in just 3 months doing DynamicGolfers workouts each morning. In less than a year of doing it multiple times each week, he’s worked his way down to an 8! They have hundreds of workout sessions so you’ll never get bored doing the same routine. Try it free for 7 days and see immediate impact. https://DynamicGolfers.com/golfsmarter.

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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 the world can connect with one another, but it also provides up to 40% off on specialty golf brands so that you can find the best and the coolest gear all in one place. But there’s more! They even have golf trainings and video tips, golf lessons, and prize giveaways. Find them at CatcusGolfClub.com

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This episode is brought to you by DynamicGolfers.com/golfsmarter. Golf Smarter listeners get a 7 day free trial and 15% off your membership with coupon code ‘GolfSmarter’. Why spend thousands on a gym membership that doesn’t focus on the best exercises for golfers? Join the thousands of golfers worldwide who do the 15-20 minute dynamic stretching workouts that are completely focused on improving your flexibility and mobility for golf. Our host, Fred Greene, went from a 11hcp to a 9hcp in just 3 months doing DynamicGolfers workouts each morning. In less than a year of doing it multiple times each week, he’s worked his way down to an 8! They have hundreds of workout sessions so you’ll never get bored doing the same routine. Try it free for 7 days and see immediate impact. https://DynamicGolfers.com/golfsmarter.

This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans 146 we speak with golf course architect Chuck Ermisch about golf course development and design as it gets more difficult to take advantage of limited opportunities to create new courses.

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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 Player and Instructor Development. In addition to that, he is the Founder and Executive Director of the Las Cruces Jr. Golf Assoc dedicated to serving the community, and introducing children to golf. On this episode of Golf Smarter, Henry talks about growing up in a state not known for golf, the NMSU Golf Management Program, and getting your child interested in playing golf. And if that’s not enough of a resume, he is also the host of the Straight Shooter podcast.

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This episode is brought to you by DynamicGolfers.com/golfsmarter. Golf Smarter listeners get a 7 day free trial and 15% off your membership with coupon code ‘GolfSmarter’. Why spend thousands on a gym membership that doesn’t focus on the best exercises for golfers? Join the thousands of golfers worldwide who do the 15-20 minute dynamic stretching workouts that are completely focused on improving your flexibility and mobility for golf. Our host, Fred Greene, went from a 11hcp to a 9hcp in just 3 months doing DynamicGolfers workouts each morning. In less than a year of doing it multiple times each week, he’s worked his way down to an 8! They have hundreds of workout sessions so you’ll never get bored doing the same routine. Try it free for 7 days and see immediate impact. https://DynamicGolfers.com/golfsmarter.

This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans 145 is pt2 of our conversation with Rick Koscher, The Golf Better Coach, from 2010, where we discuss the value of playing a practice round vs focusing on range practice.

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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 envy once they witness how much better you’re putting. Our guest is LAB Golf CEO Sam Hahn introducing us to their latest putter and explaining why this style putter is a smart play.

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This episode is brought to you by DynamicGolfers.com/golfsmarter. Why spend thousands on a gym membership that doesn’t focus on the best exercises for golfers? Join the thousands of golfers worldwide who do the 15-20 minute dynamic stretching workouts that are completely focused on improving your flexibility and mobility for golf. Our host, Fred Greene, went from a 11hcp to a 9hcp in just 3 months doing DynamicGolfers workouts each morning. In less than a year of doing it multiple times each week, he’s worked his way down to an 8! They have hundreds of workout sessions so you’ll never get bored doing the same routine. Try it free for 7 days and see immediate impact. Https://DynamicGolfers.com/golfsmarter.

This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans 144 is a conversation with Rick Koscher, The Golf Better Coach, from 2010 where he discusses game improvement and answers a listener question about a struggling golfer whose game has dumped out. This is part1 of 2 episodes with Rick.

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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.

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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 syndicated program that Madden provided to the RKO Radio Network. Even though they only recorded for about 15-25 minutes multiple times each week, they would spend hours talking, laughing, and brainstorming business ideas. Our guest for the conversation is TV personality, radio host, and New England sports junkie, Matty Blake.

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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 workout routines, like swimming, yoga, running, TRX, and others may not be the best way to help your golf game.

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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 and bought the course. He was in for a big surprise that just keeping the doors open was not enough to keep it running. In this episode we meet Jeff and hear what it takes to operate your own golf business when you know nothing about the business or the industry.

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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 Hogan’s Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf” is still relevant sixty-four years after it first hit the shelves.

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This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans 139 is a conversation with Scott Seifferlein who claims that he can cure your slice in 5 swings or less. He also offers "Rules for New Golfers" that makes golf more fun for newbies and those around them. Check him out at GrandRapidsGolfLessons.com This episode was recorded the week after the 2010 US Open, so there may be some historic references that puts perspective on how the game and it’s players have evolved.

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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 books, “Ageless Intensity” and “Smarter Workouts” are the topic of this week’s episode. Pete’s also the host of the All About Fitness podcast. PeteMcCallFitness.com

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This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans 138 from 2010, we sit down in the exercise studio of TPI Certified Instructor Ann Grassel to learn how to get more power and have less pain on your golf swing.

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