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Aug. 16, 2022

Always Entertaining. Very Opinionated. Now a Hall-of-Famer! It’s Time…

856: Barney Adams is a legend in the golf industry for his introduction of the Adams Golf Tight Lies fairway wood, the Stability putter shafts, author of The WOW Factor, and his unique efforts to grow the game. Recently he …

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Aug. 9, 2022

Golf Instruction Can Be Fixed If We Ask The Right Question with Karl …

855: Karl Morris at TheMindFactor.com is a well respected Mental Game coach for many PGA Touring players and the co-author with Gary Nicol of a trio of golf improvement books. Their latest is “The Lost Art of the Short Game”. …

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Aug. 3, 2022

Clear Key Golf with Our Grand Dad of the Mental Game, Carey Mumford (…

Mental Coach Carey Mumford, creator of the Clear Key System, spends nearly an hour in this entertaining and provocative episode that was originally published privately as a Members Only episode. This was my last conversation with Carey before he...

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July 26, 2022

Their Research Shows That Thinking About The Mechanics During Your Go…

853: This week we feature two Professors of Kinesiology and their 30 year study of athletic movement. Dr Gabriele Wulf from UNLV and Dr Rebecca Lewthwaite of USC share their research that confirms what many golf instructors and mental coaches …

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July 20, 2022

Swing Thoughts Create Chaos in Your Mind, Which Results In Poor Golf …

852: Jim Waldron of BalancePointGolf.com returns to discuss his Focus 5-Point System which turns your focus away from swing thoughts to external targets. This will prevent you from creating chaos in your mind which inhibits free swinging of the club....

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July 13, 2022

Rapsodo Mobile Launch Monitor: Pro Level Data. Every Golfer’s Price |…

851: If you’ve taken a golf lesson in the last 15 years, your instructor may have used a Trackman launch monitor to gather shot data. But Trackman is a huge investment which can exceed $25,000. When you watch golf on …

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July 5, 2022

Most Golfers Don’t Know What They’re Thinking About When Swinging a G…

850: Erik Schjolberg returns for a discussion on golf fallacies, what we’re thinking about when swinging a club and why it’s important to know, and a fascinating teaching aid he uses that can turn any slow motion video into 3D …

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June 29, 2022

Connected Golf: Bridging The Gap Between Practice & Performance | gol…

849: Jayne Storey returns to discuss her latest book “Connected Golf: Bridging the Gap Between Practice & Performance”. https://amzn.to/3xU8jTS Jayne, Founder and Head Coach at Chi-Performance.com has a unique form of expertise based on more than...

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June 21, 2022

Become the Best of Your Younger Self with Regenerative Medicine with …

848: Dr Drew Taylor is a former MLB pitcher who is also the CEO of Acorn.me. We’re at the beginning of an anti-aging revolution and this Canadian company is unlocking the potential injury recovery, disease treatment, and more. Powered by …

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June 14, 2022

A US Open History Lesson That Will Surprise You Despite What You’ve S…

847: John McDermott was the first native born American golfer to win the US Open in 1911, when he was only 19 years old. But he’s been forgotten by history because he was not only a cocky young man who …

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June 8, 2022

A Tour Journeyman Who Partnered with an Old Friend to Fill A Need for…

846: Brad Fritsch is a one of those golfers who’s really good, just not good enough. He played in the 2015 US Open, won on the Korn Ferry Tour, and has European Tour experience, but as you’ll hear in this …

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May 31, 2022

Short Game Tips from the 18th Green Practice Round of the Women’s US …

845: Joe Hallett is a PGA Master Professional who has five women, including Stacy Lewis, he’s working with at the upcoming Women’s US Open in North Carolina this week. Joe takes us inside the ropes to share the difference between …

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May 24, 2022

GYRA Golf: A Neuroscience Approach to Golf’s Mental Game | golf SMART…

844: Dr Izzy Justice is a sports neuroscientist and inventor of the ground-breaking technology The Brain Trackman™ and the GYRA Golf App who has authored 8 books over the course of 30 years on the topic of Emotional Intelligence. In …

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May 18, 2022

Need to Fix Your Golf Swing…It Depends! | golf SMARTER #843

843 Top 100 Instructor Josh Zander returns for another great conversation on game improvement insights including getting a fitting for your swing, playing at Stanford with Tiger, and whether or not making changes to your swing is the right thing …

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May 11, 2022

A Hole By Hole Game Plan For Smarter Golf by Dr. Joe Parent of Zen Go…

842: Zen Golf, the best selling golf mental game book in history, is now 20 years old and still incredibly relevant. Author Dr Joe Parent, our very first guest on Golf Smarter in 2005 returns again to provide insights and …

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May 3, 2022

Bad Golf Shots Happen - Don’t Try To Stop Them, Accept Them! featurin…

841: Danny Maude, a wildly successful YouTube Golf instructor from the UK returns to share his insights on why we hurt our own game by spending too much time ruminating over bad golf shots. They happen to all of us, …

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April 26, 2022

What Winning Golf Teaches Us About Winning In Business | golf SMARTER…

840: Playing golf with colleagues, or talking about business on the course is widely accepted, but where do golf and business intersect? According to business consultant Kevin Stansfield, practically everywhere. His latest book “The Great Game: How...

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April 20, 2022

Learn Which of the 70 New Golf Balls in 2022 is Right for You! | golf…

839: There have been 70 new golf balls released by the major manufacturers already in 2022 and too many of us are still playing balls we find in the woods. But you may not realize that if you are looking …

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April 12, 2022

Getting Back to Golf Basics We Tend To Forget From Round to Round | g…

838: Height of the Tee. Hovering the club vs laying it on the ground before takeaway. These are just two of the little things we tend to forget when we play golf that actually do have an impact on our …

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April 5, 2022

The Masters: A Family’s Legacy. In Conversation with Bobby Jones' Gra…

837: Being Masters Week it’s hard not to invoke the name and contribution from the great Bobby Jones. Our guest is Dr Bob Jones IV, who admits that there’s a burden to being the last person who will ever carry …

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March 29, 2022

Being a Caddy Made Me a Much Better, Much Smarter Golfer with Entrepr…

836: Henry McGannon has won a variety amateur tournaments including the 2014 NJCAA National Championship, and he’s caddied for years in South Carolina. Caddying has not only made him a much better golfer, but it’s taught him a tremendous amount …

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March 23, 2022

The Essence of Mindfulness in Golf and in Life with Author of "No One…

835: Author Martin Wells’ book “No One Playing: The Essence of Mindfulness in Golf And In Life” is an enchanting story of a strange encounter on a golf course with someone who knows nothing about the game but ends up …

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March 15, 2022

Now You Can Have a Golf Simulator Even with Limited Space | golf SMAR…

834: Last we heard from Bill Bales he teased us with a new product that will allow anyone with limited space to have their own home golf simulator. Bill, is the father of golf simulator technology and his company, Clarity.Golf …

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March 9, 2022

Golf+NFTs=A New Era In Golf! Introducing LinksDAO | golf SMARTER #833

833: Golf is generally not in the same conversation as Crypto Currency. And a lot of golfers may never have even heard of, or understand NFTs, or nonfungible tokens. But at the end of 2021 Mike Dudas had the idea …

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