GOLF SMARTER
Weekly interviews with experts on how to lower scores through strategy and course management tips.
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The Anxious Golfer's Experience with Mindfulness Meditation
There are so many times during a round of golf that creates anxiety for us and hinders great play. Have you ever identified your anxiety while on the golf course? How 'bout a 3 foot putt for par? Hitting out of a greenside bunker? First up on the first tee...without warming up? Now compare those sho …
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Top 100 Golf Course blogger reviews 2008
Top100Golf.blogspot.com is where we can read the journals of a blogger who has spent the last few years trying to play the Top 100 Golf Courses in the world. For our third year, he shares his accomplishments and reviews of the nine courses he played in 2008. Thanks to a GOLF SMARTER listener, he was …
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"Fluff" Cowan, PGA Tour Caddie for Tiger, Furyk and Jacobsen
Mike "Fluff" Cowan, PGA Tour caddie is stepping up to the tee as a competitive golfer at this year's ADT Golf Skills Challenge, broadcast on NBC December 27 & 28. Being a playing partner alongside Peter Jacobsen is out of his comfort zone since he carried Jacobsen's bag on the tour for many years be …
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PGA Tour Instructor Sean Hogan, from The David Leadbetter Golf Academy
Imagine you are tired from 17 holes of unrelenting frustration. At the last hole, on your last legs, you tee up and swing. Somehow, your driver, which until now was only two heartbeats from a watery grave, doesn't merely strike the golf ball, but goes through it in such a way that the tee hardly bud …
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Swing Smarter, Better, and More Powerfully with Shawn Clement
With over 130 videos on YouTube, Shawn Clement who has worked with Moe Norman, the greatest ball-striker of all-time has been teaching "common sense golf" for 21 years. On episode #156 of GOLF SMARTER, Shawn talks about the swing, working with Moe Norman, and much more. Enter to win The Perfect …
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Putting & The Perfect Putting Machine Inventor Dean Thompson
There are a lot of companies spending a ton of money to help you perfect that peculiar quirk of the golf course, putting. Taking a somewhat different approach, PGA Tour Instructor Dean Thompson came up with an incredible putting aide that made the top 5 on the Golf Channel's Fore Inventor's Only rea …
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Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor, Christopher Smith
Even though to some it may feel like an unattainable goal to shoot a 65 on the golf course, how about doing it in 44 minutes? Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor and Speed Golfer Christopher Smith has not only done that, but he did it with only six clubs. On episode #154 of GOLF SMARTER, Christopher, w …
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Lynn Anderson - TPI Certified Golf Fitness Instructor
Lynn Anderson of TotallyDriven.com is a certified fitness instructor from the Titleist Performance Institute. On episode #153 of the Golf Smarter podcast she discusses what TPI certification is about, great fitness and nutrition tips, and off-season conditioning advice. Enter to win The Golf Ring. …
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Joe Plecker: Head Instructor of the Baltimore Country Club
Joe Plecker is the kind of golf instructor who makes every golfer better. One of his students, who is also a PGA Professional and GOLF SMARTER listener, says that Joe is one of the best in the business and wanted us to speak to him on episode #152 of GOLF SMARTER. Enter to win a Golf Ring. Just cl …
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Mental Coach for the David Leadbetter Golf Academy, Dr. Bob Winters
There are a lot of factors that golfers need to think about grip, stance, wind, clubs but the golf ball just sits there ... staring at you ... mocking you ... waiting. In fact, the only thing that golf ball cares about is the pulse that sends it on its way. And that pulse is your problem. Menta …
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PGA Champion Tour Players Loren Roberts & Jim Thorpe
PGA Champion Tour Pros Jim Thorpe who basically grew up on an eighth hole near Raleigh, NC and Loren Roberts who, if he wasn't a PGA Pro would be teaching golf share stories, comments on their love of the game, and much more on episode #150 of GOLF SMARTER. Enter to win one of three copies …
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PGA Champion Players Loren Roberts & Jim Thorpe
PGA Champion Tour Pros Jim Thorpe who basically grew up on an eighth hole near Raleigh, NC and Loren Roberts who, if he wasn't a PGA Pro would be teaching golf share stories, comments on their love of the game, and much more on episode #150 of GOLF SMARTER. Enter to win one of three copies …
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Legendary Golf Writer and Journalist Al Barkow
In many ways, blogging represents a leveling of the field however, no blogger can rival Al Barkow's prolific body of work, spanning books, biographies, articles, magazines, and television. On episode #149 of GOLF SMARTER, Al discusses the state of the game, the state of golf writing, stories, and …
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'15 Minute Golf,' with Lance McWilliams
For a different way to learn how to swing a golf club, Lance McWilliams may have the answer. Taking a radical approach, Lance considers that everyone is unique from height to weight to proportions and therefore, everyone has a unique swing. On episode #148 of GOLF SMARTER Lance discusses his met …
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One Hundred Million Variations on Putter Fittings, with David Edel
"Each golfer relies on his or her eyes." That couplet accurately sums up David Edel's philosophy for fitting putters with people. On episode #147 of GOLF SMARTER, David discusses his approach that you shouldn't have to adapt to anything, but have clubs that mold specifically to you, and that visual …
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Master Club Maker Tom Wishon
Sometimes, to call golf a "game" cheapens its legacy. Arguably, golf could have many superlatives assigned to it, and like anything that has stood the test of time, myths regarding players, courses, superstitions, and, yes, even equipment become the fabric that cloaks that rich history. Keeping thos …
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Putting Zone Certified Instructor Andy Thompson, of Totally Driven
Putting sometimes it's your closest ally, other times it can frustrate you to no end. Like everything that's worth doing, putting is a complex process, with at least 28 separate movements comprising the stroke. Putting Zone Certified Instructor Andy Thompson, of TotallyDriven.com understands like …
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Achieving Peak Performance, with Dr. Michael Lardon
In those moments where everything seems right where your swings, your chips, and your putts seem to come from someplace greater it's important not to dwell on it. Once golfers who are "in the moment," or "in the groove" realize it, they fall out. Dr. Michael Lardon, a sports psychologist who has …
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Fitness For Golf, with Susan Hill
Your most important instrument in all sports, is not the myriad equipment; it is not the type of ball you play; it is not the court you play on; it is you. Your body is a highly tuned reflection of your lifestyle You get out what you put in. Susan Hill, president of FitnessForGolf.com, discusses t …
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The Torpedo Putter Part II, with Timothy Winey
If form always follows function, then Timothy Winey's Torpedo Putters raise the level of play to a symphony on the green. In Part II of his discussion, Timothy talks about the unique design of putters, his thoughts about putting in general, and much more on episode #142 of GOLF SMARTER. Congratulat …
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