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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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March 2, 2022

EXCLUSIVE: 6 PGA Tour Pros Provide Insights to Their Mental Game & Wi…

832: EXCLUSIVE interviews with 6 PGA Tour Pros by Golf Mental Game Coach, Cary Valentine. Since 2018, Cary visits the practice rounds at the Sony Open in Hawaii and talks to various PGA Tour Pros about their approach to the …

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Feb. 23, 2022

Golf In The Kingdom & The Shivas Irons Society with E.D. Ben Kline |…

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 …

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Feb. 15, 2022

Connecting Golfers To Golfers and Golfers to Brands with Cactus Golf …

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 …

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Feb. 9, 2022

Getting Your Child Started with Golf, Then Getting a College Degree i…

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...

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Feb. 2, 2022

Stop Fighting Your Putter! Featured Guest: Sam Hahn CEO of LAB Golf

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 …

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Jan. 12, 2022

2021 PGA Tour In Review and Game Show:”Major or Major Motion Picture”…

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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Jan. 4, 2022

My Personal History with John Madden as His Recording Engineer from 1…

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 …

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Dec. 28, 2021

Your Workout Routine And Diet May Not Be Helping Your Golf Game featu…

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 …

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Dec. 21, 2021

After a Career in Manufacturing Jeff Perez Bought a Golf Course. Then…

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 …

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Dec. 14, 2021

What PGA Instructors Discuss About Teaching Golf When They're Together

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 …

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Dec. 7, 2021

Improve How You Move & Slow Your Aging Process Through High Intensity…

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 …

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Dec. 1, 2021

Every Good Golf Shot Should Add Up to100 from Backswing to Follow Thr…

821: After a round of golf together at Foxtail North in Northern California, Jamie Zimron, the Golf Sensei and host Fred Greene sat down outside the Pro-Shop to record an episode that featured tips on being centered, tempo & rhythm, …

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