Golf Smarter Number 424 published on February 18, 2014.

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Keep your swing. Lower your score with author Mike Pyle.

This is Golf Smarter.

Sharing tips and insights from golfers and golf professionals to help

lower your score. It's worked for your host, Fred Green. Welcome to the Golf Smarter

podcast, Mike. Thank you, Fred. It's a pleasure to be here. And welcome to the Man Cave.

I like the Man Cave. With a nice little view, you seem distracted. Hopefully I'll be able to keep you focused on me in the conversation. But, yeah, it is hard. There's a golf course right here. You've got your magnolias blooming. We've got some people striping it down. What's that, the 12th Fairway out there? Yeah, 12 and 13. We're in country club. Yeah. Yeah. Talked about it before. We'll talk about it again. Anyway, let's talk about your stuff. You have this adorable little book that looks like a score book, right? Yeah, yardage book. It looks like a yardage book called Keep Your Swing, Lower Your Score.

Now, if that's not a recipe for everybody's got to have this, nothing is. So what made you do this?

Well, Fred, it was, you know what? It was really enlightened self-interest i i really and truly love the game

of golf and and and you are bombarded and assaulted with all kinds of tips and tricks and lessons

on trying to improve and i when i've got to be able to distill this this this onslaught of information into

you know one two three or even four or five or six very very simple things that you can do

shot to shot round around um season to season to improve and so I thought if I told myself I could

write down these simple things that it would help me to improve. And so I thought if I told myself, I could write down these simple things

that it would help me to improve my game. And so that's what I set out to do. And as I was

writing them down, I said, gee, maybe other people could benefit from this as well. So the genesis

of this was something for yourself. You wanted to make this work because you had these ideas

of things you needed to remember.

Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. I see. And at what point did you share it with somebody? And they went,

oh, I want a copy of this. How did that? Or you just thought, I'm just going to. I, I, I, there's two

things I love. I love writing and I love the game of golf. And as I was writing these, I'm hesitant to call them tips, but more of these approaches to the game as I was writing them down and they started to expand. I started to evolve a little bit more about, geez, here's sort of my attitude, not just about playing golf, but about the state of the game and the game of golf in general and it just sort of evolved and expanded from there and i went boy maybe there's a book here and so the more i wrote the more i got into it the more i realized that hey there's a although it, although it is small, it is useful, and there's

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