Those Weekend Golf Guys

Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and look forward to a Happy New Year. We are celebrating with the Best (that we could find) of Those Weekend Golf Guys for the year. We will be replaying the top 3 episodes from this past year that you, by virtue of the number of listens, liked best, This week we feature the third most popular episode from back in the fall entitled, Writing Checks Our Game Can’t Cash.

Friends don’t let friends give golf advice. That is the best advice you will ever get. How many times have we heard “…keep your head down…” or “…you can get over that tree…”? And how many times is it good advice? Almost never. Jeff Smith, the #1 Golf Instructor in Indiana according to Golf Digest Magazine, will run down all the bad advice you’ve been given and fix it with the right advice. Jeff will also tell you where to go for good advice on improving your golf game. Hint: It’s NOT your friends! Another stellar installment of the award winning golf podcast, Those Weekend Golf Guys.

Lots of groups use golf to raise money. But how does a golf specific organization raise money? Well, The First Tee of Louisville is doing it with Bourbon. We talk to Kelsey Thomas of The First Tee to get the details on their Eagle Rare Bourbon raffle. Just a hint: if you’d like a chance to win over 220 bottles of Eagle Rare Bourbon, and that’s a whole barrel full, Listen to this episode for all the details. And then we talk about Uther stuff, pronounce other stuff. Uther supply in Canada has some really unique golf towel and golf ball icon designs that would make some terrific gifts. And this is the time of year for that, right? We talk to Dan Erdman, the creative genius behind Uther Golf. And then Jeff Smith explains how to tell what advice will help your game and what advice will hurt your game and how to tell, with a simple question, how to assure you are getting the right advice to improve your game.

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This week John Ashton and Jeff Smith spend time with two of golf's current movers and shakers: Mark Sweeney, creator of the Aim Point System and Augustin Piza, the golf architect that is creating some of the best courses ever in Latin America and beyond. You probably saw DJ's brother, Austin Johnson using the Aim Point System at the Master's. Listen as Mark explains not only how, but WHY the system works so well. And once you spend some time listening to Augustin Piza talk about golf, golf courses, nature and how they all work together you will be dashing out to the nearest course from Piza Golf. If that course happens to be in Cabo... all the better! Another fun, funny, entertaining hour of Award winning Golf Talk with Those Weekend Golf Guys Golf Podcast.

Chipping. Pitching. Doing it wrong leads to bitching! What you want to do is land your ball onto the green like a butterfly with sore feet! And in this week’s episode of Those Weekend Golf Guys, Jeff Smith, the #1 Golf Instructor in the state of Indiana tells you how to do that first time every time. And we also celebrate Master’s Sunday by spending some time with Linda Hartough. She is one of the best golf art creators in the world. She started her career of capturing the beauty of golf on canvas at the Master’s in 1985 with her now famous landscape of the 13th hole at Augusta National. She has painted courses all over the world and we are proud to have her with us on this Master’s Sunday. Another fun, funny, and extremely entertaining edition of the award winning golf podcast, Those Weekend Golf Guys.

Whether hitting into the wind or flying into the wind, the resistance of the wind has a great effect on the flight. In fact, without that resistance, flight would be impossible. Are we talking golf or are we talking life? We are talking both, and a lot more too and we're talking with Lt. Col. Dan Rooney, the founder of Folds Of Honor and author of the new book. Fly Into The Wind. Dan has some great advice on living, on competing, on surviving. He also has some great stories. Jeff has a great story too. Listen and find out what happens when a golf instructor is stopped for speeding by a cop with a bad slice! It's funny. It's an episode you won't want to miss

Even golfers fly south for the winter. At least, golf instructors do. Jeff Smith checks in from the Landings Club on Skidmore Island, Georgia. Since the weather is still warm there Jeff can adapt a more laid back attitude and explain so we all can understand just how the "force plates" that he uses in his instruction work. He talks about fast greens and straight putts. A few new practice techniques and all the reasons you, too may want to head south for the winter. Another fun, funny, and truly entertaining episode of Those weekend Golf Guys.

Some folks seem to be surprised that Golf has flourished so well during this Covid-19 quarantine period. We really shouldn't be surprised. It seems that golf and golfers have adapted and flourished during much more serious emergencies, like WWII. We have a hilarious collection of temporary rules used at a course in England in 1940. Anyone want to hazard a guess the penalty for landing a ball to close to unexploded ordinance?

We also share the labeling code for ProV1 balls so you can tell just hpw old that one you just found is and should it be thrown int the shag bag or can you really use it?

And finally, are you in good enough shape to play? Can you get into shape quickly? Of course you can. We talk with Bob Forman from Gofitcarolina.com about how to train physically for golf no matter how old you are or what shape you are in now. Bob is TPI certified. All in all just another hilarious, fun, entertaining hour of golf talk podcast from Those Weekend Golf Guys.

Don't write any checks your abilities cannot cash! We all know the guy who hits a decent drive to start a par 5. He strikes it 210, right down the middle. Now he stands there taking multiple practice swings with his 3 wood because he's 240 from the green and he's waiting for the group ahead to clear. They finally move off the green. He addresses the ball and takes one of those swings. The ball goes about 50 yards, never getting more than 10 feet off the ground. "We waited for that?" you all complain. Yeah, let's not be that guy. Jeff gives many examples and techniques when you find yourself in 2 shot situations. Another fun, funny, and entertaining hour of Golf Talk.