Episodes
Sept. 6, 2022
You HAVE the Skill To Swing As Freely & Fluidly as Great Golfers! featuring Ron Sisson | golf SMARTER #859
859: Ron Sisson of RealSwingGolf.com joins us to discuss the problem with today’s golf instruction. His passion, knowledge of science’s influence on the golf swing, and his teaching philosophy make this conversation quite compelling and entertaining....
Aug. 30, 2022
My 3 Favorite Insights to Teach Golfers with Todd Kolb of USGolfTV | golf SMARTER #858
858: Todd Kolb is golf entrepreneur specializing in helping you play better golf, yet he also helps companies build their golf business. His YouTube channel at USGolfTV is a wealth of easy to understand and execute videos directed at golfers of all...
Aug. 23, 2022
Collecting Historical Golf Artifacts, A Different Kind of Golf Obsession | golf SMARTER #857
857: The Golf Heritage Society, founded in 1970, promotes an appreciation for the history of golf artifacts and memorabilia among their worldwide membership that includes golfers, writers, historians and collectors. Our guest is their Immediate Past...
Aug. 16, 2022
Always Entertaining. Very Opinionated. Now a Hall-of-Famer! It’s Time For Another Chat with Barney Adams | golf SMARTER #856
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 was also inducted into the...
Aug. 9, 2022
Golf Instruction Can Be Fixed If We Ask The Right Question with Karl Morris | golf SMARTER #855
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”. In this week’s...
Aug. 3, 2022
Clear Key Golf with Our Grand Dad of the Mental Game, Carey Mumford (RIP) | golf SMARTER #854
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...
July 26, 2022
Their Research Shows That Thinking About The Mechanics During Your Golf Swing Is Counter Productive | golf SMARTER #853
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 have...
July 20, 2022
Swing Thoughts Create Chaos in Your Mind, Which Results In Poor Golf Shots | golf SMARTER #852
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....
July 13, 2022
Rapsodo Mobile Launch Monitor: Pro Level Data. Every Golfer’s Price | golf SMARTER #851
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 TV, TrackMan data is regularly...
July 5, 2022
Most Golfers Don’t Know What They’re Thinking About When Swinging a Golf Club | golf SMARTER #850
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 imaging of your swing...
June 29, 2022
Connected Golf: Bridging The Gap Between Practice & Performance | golf SMARTER #849
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...
June 21, 2022
Become the Best of Your Younger Self with Regenerative Medicine with Dr Drew Taylor | golf SMARTER #848
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 your own...
June 14, 2022
A US Open History Lesson That Will Surprise You Despite What You’ve Seen in the Movies | golf SMARTER #847
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 worked his way up from being a caddy to a...
June 8, 2022
A Tour Journeyman Who Partnered with an Old Friend to Fill A Need for Golfers | golf SMARTER #846
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 episode he just couldn’t get over the hump....
May 31, 2022
Short Game Tips from the 18th Green Practice Round of the Women’s US Open | golf SMARTER #845
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 how instructors...
May 24, 2022
GYRA Golf: A Neuroscience Approach to Golf’s Mental Game | golf SMARTER #844
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 this episode we...
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 to...
May 11, 2022
A Hole By Hole Game Plan For Smarter Golf by Dr. Joe Parent of Zen Golf
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 advice that helps golfers of...
May 3, 2022
Bad Golf Shots Happen - Don’t Try To Stop Them, Accept Them! featuring Danny Maude |golf SMARTER #841
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, even the best on the planet, but...
April 26, 2022
What Winning Golf Teaches Us About Winning In Business | golf SMARTER #840
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...
April 20, 2022
Learn Which of the 70 New Golf Balls in 2022 is Right for You! | golf SMARTER #839
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 for consistency, you’ll never find it playing...
April 12, 2022
Getting Back to Golf Basics We Tend To Forget From Round to Round | golf SMARTER #838
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 success. This week Jim Waldron of BalancePointGolf...
April 5, 2022
The Masters: A Family’s Legacy. In Conversation with Bobby Jones' Grandson | golf SMARTER #837
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 his name. There was a period in his life...
March 29, 2022
Being a Caddy Made Me a Much Better, Much Smarter Golfer with Entrepreneur Henry McGannon | golf SMARTER #836
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 on...