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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 to find a challenging shot you’re facing, and find answers on how to play it. This is a great gift idea for your playing partners, and Golf Smarter listeners get a discount with coupon code “golfsmarter”.

Our next giveaway is for a custom fit Edison Wedge of your choice courtesy of Terry and EdisonWedges.com. Deadline to enter is Sunday, August 9, 2020 at Midnight PDT/3a EDT. Enter at GolfSmarter.com/giveaway2020. Listen for details.

This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans #67, our guest is PGA Tour Instructor Dean Thompson, who provides helpful putting tips and is also the inventor of The Perfect Putting Machine

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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 has not kept up with balls, drivers and irons. Hybrids and fairway metals are relatively new categories of clubs. Yet, today’s wedges look exactly like they did in the 1950s, but the demands are greater than ever. https://youtu.be/9eBXdHkX61I

Our next giveaway is for a custom fit Edison Wedge of your choice courtesy of Terry and EdisonWedges.com. Deadline to enter is Sunday, August 9, 2020 at Midnight PDT/3a EDT. Enter at GolfSmarter.com/giveaway2020. Listen for details.

Congratulations to Chris Goble of Elkhorn, NE, winner of a dozen Eagle quality, premium used balls of his choice courtesy of TwoGuysWithGolfBalls.com.

This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans #66, we offer a rare combination of compelling teacher who also boasts a great story. Christopher Smith set a Speed Golf record in 2005 that he still holds today. He shot 65 in 44 minutes with only 6 clubs! Chris is featured in what was originally episode 154 called “Pick Up The Pace to Pick Up Your Game”

How would you like a free copy of Tony Manzoni’s video “The Lost Fundamental”? All you have to do is write a review for Golf Smarter in Apple Podcasts (or where ever you subscribe to Golf Smarter) and forward your comments to @golfsmarter on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, or via email to [email protected].

As this week is the opening of the 2020 MLB season, it’s also the start of the fourth season of the Radio Baseball Cards podcast. If you’re a fan of baseball, history, and great stories, you’ll love Radio Baseball Cards. Originally a radio pre-game show in 1987, these 2 minute episodes hosted by Hall of Fame Pitcher Don Drysdale feature the greatest players of the 20th Century sharing moments of their lives in and around the game. We kick off 2020 with Don Baylor talking about the pressure he faced in the 1960s as the first black student in a Texas all-white Jr. High School.

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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 the world’s top executives about their experiences and inspiration from looping as a young person.

Our next giveaway is for a dozen eagle quality, hand inspected, sanitized premium used balls of your choice from TwoGuysWithGolfBalls.com. Deadline to enter is Sunday, July 19, 2020 at Midnight PDT/3a EDT. Enter at GolfSmarter.com/giveaway2020. Listen for details.

This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans #65, we meet Titleist Performance Institute instructor Lynn Anderson and talk about “In and Off Season Workouts to Improve Performance”.

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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 2006. His first book, “Winning The Battle Within” is a great, and classic mental game book as Dr. Albaugh is highly regarded in the sports psychology coaching circles for many, many years. Throughout our conversations on the podcast, like a great swing, his message is consistent “…the perfect swing is the one you trust”. You can pick up the book on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/CLUTCH-GOLFER-FORMULA-Exactly-Precisely/dp/0984417133/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2WKXKU6LMUI96&keywords=the+clutch+golfer+formula&qid=1579305881&sprefix=the+Clutch+Golfer+For%2Caps%2C189&sr=8-1

Our next giveaway is for a dozen eagle quality, hand inspected, sanitized premium used balls of your choice from TwoGuysWithGolfBalls.com. Deadline to enter is Sunday, July 19, 2020 at Midnight PDT/3a EDT. Enter at GolfSmarter.com/giveaway2020. Listen for details.

Congratulations to Lou Ryan of Dayton, OH, winner of a custom fit Seemore Putter from Seemore.com.

This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans #64, based on the suggestion from a PGA Teaching Professional who is also a Golf Smarter listener, we talk to Joe Plecker, a Golf Digest Top 100 Instructor in an episode we call “How to Incorporate Course Management to Remove the Pressure of Par”.

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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 one everyone else is playing. And when you have the courage to question everything and rebuild your approach from the ground up with new thinking, anything becomes possible. Physical skills can make you an excellent golfer, but to beat the competition and put your over the top, you need a finely tuned mental game.

Our next giveaway is for a brand new, custom fit Seemore Putter from seemore.com. Deadline to enter is Sunday, July 5, 2020 at Midnight PDT/3a EDT. Enter at GolfSmarter.com/giveaway2020. Listen for details.

This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans #63, we continue this week’s conversation on improving your mental game with Dr. Robert K. Winters, Resident Sports Psychologist at the David Leadbetter Golf Academy World Teaching Headquarters. Our focus this week is to open the mailbag to answer listener questions about mental game issues.

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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 online lessons, and why this type of instruction could be of greater benefit than in-person lessons.

Our next giveaway is for a brand new, custom fit Seemore Putter from seemore.com. Deadline to enter is Sunday, July 5, 2020 at Midnight PDT/3a EDT. Enter at GolfSmarter.com/giveaway2020. Listen for details.

Congratulations to to Ronald Simmons of Chesapeake, VA, winner of a Swing Align training aid from Chris McGinley and SwingTrainer.com Golf Smarter listeners get 15% off SwingAlign with checkout code ‘golfsmarter’.

This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans #62, we go to Sonoma Golf Club just before the PGA Champions Tour Charles Schwab Championships for conversations with PGA Tour & Champions Tour veterans Loren Roberts and Jim Thorpe.

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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 and having lunch with Tiger and Ben Crenshaw, how the global pandemic lockdown is affecting Scottish Golf, and his mission to help get kids hooked on golf in a program called ‘Golfphin’.

Our next giveaway is for a Swing Align training aid courtesy of Chris and the kind folks at SwingTrainer.com. Deadline to enter is Sunday, June 21 at Midnight PDT/3a EDT. Enter at GolfSmarter.com/giveaway2020. Listen for details.

In episode 736 we were introduced to SQAIRZ golf shoes. Today it was announced that Sir Nick Faldo has not only said that these shoes are the best golf shoes he’s ever worn, he’s invested in, and became a partner of the company! Take advantage of their Father’s Day promotion for $20 off a new pair with ‘DAD’ at checkout at sqairz.com. Sale ends June 21. After that use ‘golfsmarter’ at checkout for $10 off your purchase.

This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans #61, Lance McWilliams talks about his teaching method called “15 Minute Golf” that focuses less on why the ball’s flight path and more on how to hit the ball consistently.

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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 you realize what it is and how it works, practically everything in your swing improves. Our guest this week is golf industry veteran Chris McGinley, Global VP of Product at Honma Golf and has developed the Swing Align training aid on his own. And this is after 21 years working at Titleist. Check out swingtrainer.com to see videos and pick up a Swing Align for yourself. Use “golfsmarter” at checkout for 15% the full device bundle.

Our next giveaway is for a Swing Align training aid courtesy of Chris and the kind folks at SwingTrainer.com. Deadline to enter is Sunday, June 21 at Midnight PDT/3a EDT. Enter at GolfSmarter.com/giveaway2020. Listen for details.

Congratulations to to TC Moore of Kansas City, MO, winner of a one year GOLFLOGIX PLUS membership and a Green Book & Yardage Guide of any course he chooses from GolfLogix.com.

Check out our YouTube channel, GolfSmarterTV for a report on host Fred Greene’s lowest score ever this past week after working on the position of his tees using driver.

This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans #60, David Edel of edelgolf.com talks about putters and putter fitting.

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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 their data and will generate a hard copy Yardage Book & Green Map made for any course you want! Our guest is Co-Founder/President of GolfLogix, Pete Charleston and in this episode we review the features of the app and break down the new amazing green reading technology feature, plus we hear how they’ve put all that important data in a back-pocket book similar to what the Pros use on Tour.

WIN A ONE YEAR MEMBERSHIP TO GOLFLOGIX PLUS from GolfLogix.com! You also heard in today’s episode that our winner will also receive a Yardage Book & Green Map for any course they choose. Deadline to enter is Sunday, June 7 at Midnight PDT/3a EDT. Enter at GolfSmarter.com/giveaway2020. Listen for details.

This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans #59, Andy Thompson of AndyThompsonPuttingCoach.com discusses putting, putters, putter fitting and the misconceptions that most golfers have with each.

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742: Roger Gunn, @rogergunngolf and rogergunngolf.com, returns to share stories, provide insights, and talk about pet peeves that he has with new golf students.
The book Roger referenced during the conversation was “The Official Exceptions to the Rules of Golf” published in 1997. https://www.amazon.com/Official-Exceptions-Rules-Golf/dp/0679741232

WIN A ONE YEAR MEMBERSHIP TO GOLFLOGIX PLUS from GolfLogix.com! Deadline to win is Sunday, June 7 at Midnight PDT/3a EDT. Enter at GolfSmarter.com/giveaway2020. Listen for details.

Congratulations to Frank F of Centerville, OH, winner of a dozen Eagle quality golf balls of his choice courtesy of TwoGuysWithGolfBalls.com.

This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans, Jim Waldron of BalancePointGolf.com discusses “Being Paralyzed with Too Many Swing Thoughts”. Golf Smarter Mulligans is free and available each Friday wherever you get your favorite podcasts.

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