Episodes

869: Jim Waldron of Balance Point Golf is quizzed as if we’re a first time student to his school. What does he look for? What is he helping us to focus on? Is it more practical and less theoretical, or the other way around. This conversation isn’t on...

868: Chris Finn of Par4Success.com returns to discuss the key to longevity in golf, which includes no pain, hitting the ball further, and playing golf as long as possible. In this conversation we go over the 4 main rotational mobility tests. Golf...

867: Kelvin Kelley is one of those hot young golf instructors who delivers the entire package of mechanics, course management, and mental game improvement. In this conversation, Kelvin and host Fred Greene sit down together outside the driving range...

866: Justin Tang is a golf instructor in Singapore who has been mentioned multiple times on Golf Smarter by other instructors and writers, so our curiosity lead us to feature him on the podcast. He says that golf is neither simple nor complex, and...

865: Host Fred Greene has just returned from a 2 week - 5 city, vacation/adventure in Japan. During their time in Kyoto, the group met and meditated with Zen Buddhist Monk Obayashi at Temple Senkoji. When the topic of sitting vs moving/walking...

864: Imagine Golf is the #1 app for the mental game. Our guest is the CEO Malcolm Scovil. There’s never been an app that is so closely aligned with what we try to achieve on Golf Smarter. Imagine Golf didn’t pay to be featured on this episode, but...

863: Dr. Rick Sessinghaus, best known as the coach for PGA Tour 2x Major winner, Collin Morikowa since he was a young boy. Rick is an excellent golf coach, focusing on the totality of a player’s game from tee to green, not just swing mechanics. He’s...

862: John Erickson of AdvancedBallStriking.com is a former Tour player turned coach who has great advice and incredible stories from inside the ropes. From his days competing in college to playing against the best on the PGA Tour, John was always...

861: Jon Sherman of PracticalGolf.com joins us to talk about his second book, “The Four Foundations of Golf: How to Build a Game That Lasts a Lifetime”. Unlike many golf books that are bathroom reads that give quick tips and drills, this book is...

860: Gary Nicol is the Co-Founder and Coaching Director at TPEGS (Tour Pro Experience Golf Schools). Since the 80s, he’s helped thousands of golfers around the world including over 30 European Tour Professionals and numerous Ryder Cup players,...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....