482Premium: Greg Liberto calls himself The HEAD Coach because of the work he's doing to help golfers with their mental approach to better golf. His "18 Holes Book" covers a variety of helpful topics that cut right to the core issues that hurts so many pro and amateur players. He claims that in less than 10 minutes, you can learn what is holding you back from playing your best golf ever. Obviously, we take a little longer to discuss it. He's also looking for volunteers to help develop his upcomin...
Mar 31, 2015•47 min
481: Garett Jenkinson, 2014 Alberta Teacher of the Year was suggested by a previous Golf Smarter guest (and PREMIUM ACCESS member) who says that Garett was an inspiration in teaching him a new way to look at teaching and golf. In the free episode we identify what kinds of pressure presents itself on the golf course and how to best handle it. The only way to hear the PREMIUM shows is to download our new FREE Golf Smarter App for Apple and Android. You won't find the PREMIUM episodes in iTunes or ...
Mar 24, 2015•43 min
480 PREMIUM: The Pukalani Country Club in Maui, Hawaii is a hidden gem of a golf course. Unlike the expensive resort courses, Pukalani is where the locals go for a great round on a mature course at muni rates. Situated on the North Side of the island, and nestled on the slopes of Haleakela, the largest dormant volcano in the world. At 1,100 feet above sea level Pukalani provides panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean on both sides of the valley isle. This week, we speak to Ron Huffman, PGA, Genera...
Mar 18, 2015•36 min
479: Roger Fredericks is one of the most important and prominent golf fitness experts in the world. His clients (and friends) include Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, and Jack Nicklaus. In this episode he shares details about his relationship with the Big3 of Arnie, Gary & Jack, stretching exercises, and the effects of poor posture on the future of your game, and the 27 setups for any kind of shot, which boils down to 3 stances, 3 ball positions, and 3 swing paths. Combine them all and you can fo...
Mar 10, 2015•56 min
478: Jeff Ritter returns to provide us with helpful tips on how to lower the amount of putts per round. Jeff has built a reputation as a great golf instructor because he incorporates every aspect of game improvement from mental, physical, mechanics, fitness, and nutrition. His Make The Turn Challenge, introduced on Golf Smarter, has become a huge sensation for Golf Digest TV and he'll soon be appearing regularly on the Golf Channel. The free Golf Smarter App is now available for iPhone!Download ...
Mar 04, 2015•47 min
477: We conclude our three episode review of interesting items found at this year’s PGA Merchandise Show with Matt Zarilla, an independent Product Representative that focuses on accessories. You may buy anywhere between three to six sets of clubs in your golf lifetime, but what about bags, push/pull carts, balls, training aides, clothes? These items are the lifeblood of someone like Matt who recognized where the demand for repeatable consumer purchases and has made a career of fulfilling that ne...
Feb 24, 2015•54 min
476P: Just because most Touring Pros use them and their huge marketing budget, is the Titleist ProV1 and ProV1x the best ball for the amateur golfer? TJ Gillen of Titleist introduces us to the all new ProV1 and ProV1x and makes some pretty compelling arguments on how these balls can make you a better player tee to green. Even to host Fred Greene, a skeptic trying to dismiss the marketing, the value of playing the same ball all the time makes sense. After years of asking, Fred finally learns why ...
Feb 18, 2015•31 min
475: Too often we come up short of the green because of poor club selection. It’s not just mechanics, it’s not knowing how far we hit each club. This week, Terry Koehler, CEO of the all new Ben Hogan Golf Equipment Company joins us to discuss how to improve our long iron play. We also hear from him how the re-introduction of this new line of clubs was received at this year’s PGA Merchandise Show. Great news for Golf Smarter Members! By next episode you will be a PREMIUM ACCESS subscriber....and ...
Feb 11, 2015•52 min
474: Class A Australia #PGA Professional Josh Willard joins us to discuss simple ways to reach new success in your #golf game. As close as we sometimes get to reaching our lowest score, cracking the barrier to break 100 - 90 - or 80 eludes us all too often. Free total time: 11:51 Premium time: 38:08 WOW, Fred has been nominated for the 2025 Audiocaster of the Year by the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame. Please vote for our founder as often as you'd like as the more you vote, the better his chances o...
Feb 04, 2015•39 min
473: Jim Waldron of the Balance Point Golf Schools returns to remind us of the absolute basics that are critical for a great golf swing. Jim also ends the episode with a great tip on alignment. We'll now end each episode with a helpful tip from our guest. Free total time: 16:51 Premium time: 66:51 Download our newest wallpaper for your phone! This is an image from San Geronimo Golf Course in San Geronimo, CA. Get our new Golf Smarter App and never sync to your computer again. Each episode now pl...
Jan 28, 2015•1 hr 7 min
472: There’s nothing worse to kill a good round of golf when it starts to downward spiral out of control. Tom Good, PGA returns for part 2 of our conversation, this time we talk about how to minimize the damage when your game starts to go wrong and then gets worse. We also discuss his teaching philosophy of “swinging the club head”. This is one of the final Members Only episode before we launch Golf Smarter Premium Access. Premium Access will allow you to stream this complete interviews, directl...
Jan 20, 2015•41 min
471: Bad results happen to all golfers. One of the hardest things to do is not to beat yourself up for a bad shot, poor result, or three putt. Tom Good is a PGA "Class A" Professional at Cinnabar Hills in San Jose, CA. This is the first time we've ever met Tom and he has a lot of valuable insight on ways to keep your mind clear of negative thoughts and keep yourself on track for a good round. Tom shares his experiences playing professionally, why he loves to teach, and what we can do to improve ...
Jan 13, 2015•39 min
469: Each year comedian Matty Blake joins us for his outrageously cynical and hilarious hits & misses of the previous year's PGA Tour season, which we call the MattyB Awards. In part 1 of this 2 part awards show, we get an update about Matty's new nightly TV show "Off-Par" on the Back9Network (Direct TV channel 262). Matty also hands out the awards for Player to Watch and Best & Worst Dressed. Golf Smarter host, Fred Greene has been a guest on Matty's TV show a couple times now and you c...
Dec 30, 2014•32 min
468: Jamie "The Golf Sensei" Zimron returns for part 2 of our conversation. As we start the 10th year of weekly Golf Smarter episodes, we change this week’s topic from the mental aspect of improvement to the physical. The lower body is critical to success in so many sports, but amateur golfers focus more on their upper body and arms, and forget (or don't know) the importance of keeping the lower body quiet, but using your legs to generate power. What's more important to a successful golf swing, ...
Dec 23, 2014•37 min
467: Jamie Zimron is probably one of the most fascinating certified LPGA instructors I've ever encountered. A National Junior Golf Champion, Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford undergraduate, a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology, an accomplished Aikido instructor, a motivational speaker, a peace activist in the Middle East, the founder of the KiAi Way®, and has put it all together for a leading-edge integrative body-based peak performance method. In her fifth appearance on Golf Smarter, we talk abo...
Dec 16, 2014•33 min
466: After hearing about the impact, success, and closing down of SCORGolf, CEO Terry “The Wedge Guy” Koehler returns to give us a complete rundown of what his team has learned and how that will influence the design of the all new Ben Hogan Golf irons that will be introduced next month. This episode is brought to you by Harrys.com. Get $5 off your first purchase with the coupon code "GolfSmarter". Thanks to Harry's for being a supporter of Golf Smarter and Movember. Check out my Movember journey...
Dec 09, 2014•35 min
465: Terry "The Wedge Guy" Koehler returns to announce the final liquidation of his line of SCORGolf scoring clubs (wedges) before the launch of the all new Ben Hogan Brand of irons. Graciously, his "Friends & Family" special pricing has been extended to Golf Smarter listeners. While supplies lasts, you can get up to 5 clubs at $99 each, reduced from their normal price of $129US. Terry also gives a history of how the SCORGolf line has faired during the three years on the market. It's the onl...
Nov 26, 2014•27 min
464: This isn't a very long episode, but you don't want to miss it. Host Fred Greene introduces Jason Faircloth, a determined and brave young man who doesn't allow his battle with Cerebral Palsy get in the way of his love for golf. After being the first and only American to play in the British Disabled Open, he became the founder of the US Disabled Golf Association. He announces that the first US Disabled Open is in July of 2015, and he'd like you to spread the word, volunteer, and/or donate at ...
Nov 25, 2014•4 min
463: Darren Garrett works nights cleaning a local McDonalds in Perth, Australia so that he can fine tune his game during the day so that he can advance through Q-School and make the tour. In this episode, we talk to Darren about what it takes, his goals, and his chances. WOW, Fred has been nominated for the 2025 Audiocaster of the Year by the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame. Please vote for our founder as often as you'd like as the more you vote, the better his chances of recognition. Voting is open...
Nov 18, 2014•44 min
462: Golf rules are fluid. Depending on whom you're playing with, they can change from round to round. But walk on someone's line, talk when your partner is up, or make phone calls, that can really cause a problem. This week we speak to Golf Smarter listener and author Richard Todd about his newest book "The Golf Rules: Etiquette". This is less then half of the full conversation. You can listen to it commercial free for $1.99. Now available in the Individual Episode section of our Golfers'Mart a...
Nov 11, 2014•51 min
461: In this episode, we pick up right where we left off from last time to discuss author and Sports Psychiatrist Dr. Michael T. Lardon’s work with PGA Tour players including how he developed a close relationship with Phil Mickleson. Both of Michael's books, the newest being "Mastering Golf's Mental Game - Your Ultimate Guide to Better On-Course Performance and Lower Scores" and his first, "Finding Your Zone" are both available in our Golfers'Mart at GolfSmarter.com WOW, Fred has been nominated ...
Nov 04, 2014•20 min
460: Sports Psychiatrist Dr. Michael T. Lardon returns to discuss his latest book Mastering Golf’s Mental Game - Your Ultimate Guide to Better On-Course Performance and Lower Scores - In this helpful book, Dr. Lardon shows us how to organize our thoughts and use them for maximum performance. Not just an associate clinical professor of medicine at UC San Diego, Michael was a world ranked table tennis player. So he understands how the mental game can bring us down. But he also knows how to get int...
Oct 28, 2014•26 min
459: In this Members Only episode, Indian Valley GC Head Professional Steven Snyder joins us for part 2. This time we talk about uphill, downhill, sidehill lies, playing an uphill par3 into the wind, and more. Are you aware that the Golf Channel, the PGA of America, Lee Westwood, Jim Furyk, and Graham McDowell have all given their endorsement to Game Golf by becoming investors? How many golf aids can you say that about?! But this isn't just a training aid, this is a GAME IMPROVEMENT tool. Golf S...
Oct 21, 2014•26 min
458: Do you think you're struggling to lower your scores because of your swing? Putting? Short Game? Indian Valley Golf Course Head Professional Steven Snyder may surprise you with his answer, but after teaching for over 30 years, he's seen it all and knows why we are so frustrated. The full hour long conversation with Steven is available in 2 parts to our Members, or you can purchase the entire episode right now for only $1.99 in our Individual Episode section of our Golfers'Mart at http://Golf...
Oct 14, 2014•13 min
458: Do you think you're struggling to lower your scores because of your swing? Putting? Short Game? Indian Valley Golf Course Head Professional Steven Snyder may surprise you with his answer, but after teaching for over 30 years, he's seen it all and knows why we are so frustrated. This is Part1. Up next Members will get to pick it up right where this episode ends. This episode is brought to you by Harry’s! For guys like us who want a great shave experience for a fraction of what we’re paying n...
Oct 14, 2014•37 min
457: Tony Manzoni, author of The Lost Fundamental, discusses what's ailing Tiger and what advice he'd give if Tiger called. Both the book and DVD by Tony called The Lost Fundamental are available in our Golfers'Mart at http://GolfSmarter.com . We are the only outlet where you can purchase either or both of these products. The Game Golf (#450 & #451) 10% discount only offered to Golf Smarter Members has been extended to November 1. Use the checkout code “golfsmarter”. You must click on the Ga...
Oct 07, 2014•29 min
456: Tony Manzoni, author of The Lost Fundamental, and one of the most requested instructors on Golf Smarter, answers whether we should position our head behind the ball or stand directly upright at address. This is just a taste of our hour long conversation with Tony that covers common swing mechanics issues experienced by most golfers, like hitting behind the ball, alignment, head position and more. Golf Smarter Members will receive this in 2 segments. Part 2 starts with Tony wondering what he...
Sep 30, 2014•8 min
456: Tony Manzoni, author of The Lost Fundamental, and one of the most requested instructors on Golf Smarter, joins us for part 1 of an hour long conversation. In this episode we cover common swing mechanics issues experienced by most golfers, like hitting behind the ball, alignment, head position and more. Part 2 starts with Tony wondering what he would say if Tiger called for advice. Both the book and DVD by Tony called The Lost Fundamental are available in our Golfers'Mart at http://GolfSmart...
Sep 30, 2014•28 min
455: In 1969, The Ryder Cup teetered on the brink of irrelevancy, and perhaps being discontinued. But the historic "Concession" offered by Jack Nicklaus to Tony Jacklin on the final hole at Royal Birkdale changed everything. Author Neil Sagebiel returns (#353 & #354) to discuss at length his latest book "Draw In The Dunes: The 1969 Ryder Cup and the Finish That Shocked the World". This is less than half of the complete interview with Neil. Get the full episode by joining Golf Smarter for Mem...
Sep 23, 2014•41 min
455: In 1969, The Ryder Cup teetered on the brink of irrelevancy, and perhaps being discontinued. But the historic "Concession" offered by Jack Nicklaus to Tony Jacklin on the final hole at Royal Birkdale changed everything. Author Neil Sagebiel returns (#353 & #354) to discuss at length his latest book "Draw In The Dunes: The 1969 Ryder Cup and the Finish That Shocked the World". This book is now available for purchase or download in our Golfers'Mart at http://smarterpodcasts.com/golfsmarte...
Sep 23, 2014•1 hr 15 min
