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438-39: Ben Hogan's Secret Letter and The Lost Fundamental Short Game with Tony Manzoni

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2014

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

438 & 439: Tony Manzoni, one of the most sought after coaches on the GolfSmarter podcast shares his life long pursuit of Ben Hogan’s golf swing secret. Years ago Tony received a letter written in Hogan’s hand that explains his secret to becoming a great ball striker. Since then Tony has taught thousands of students and has coached the College Of The Desert golf team to 27 consecutive Conference Championships. Tony has taken his learnings and has written about it in The Lost Fundamental. It's now a book and DVD, but only available in our Golfers'Mart at GolfSmarter.com. This is the complete hour long conversation that also covers a detailed discussion on the short game swing and how it differs than the full swing that is discussed in The Lost Fundamental. This week we also have an additional bonus for Golf Smarter Members. In this blog post, there's a GREAT green side chipping video tip from Tony that is only found on The Lost Fundamental DVD.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Four members only. Golf Smarter numbers 438 and 439 published on May 27, 2014.

0:08.2

This is two weeks worth of episodes delivered it once. It's an hour-long conversation, but luckily it's a podcast, and you can listen as much or as little as you want, starting right now.

0:18.5

SmarterPodcasts.com dot com delivering sound advice then hogan secret letter and the

0:27.8

lost fundamental short game with tony manzoni this is golf smarter welcome back to the golf smarter

0:34.7

podcast tony hey great to be back, Fred.

0:39.1

It's great to talk to you.

0:40.5

Have you been?

0:42.2

Well, I had a little bit of a mishap.

0:46.7

It's kind of funny in a way.

0:48.0

I broke three bones of my right foot ankle by falling from a hill.

0:55.5

I hit a wet spot and slid downhill and body weight went forward and right leg didn't

1:01.0

want to go forward and it snapped like a twig.

1:03.7

So that's been a little setback.

1:06.7

But other than that, life is really good.

1:10.0

My golf team did well.

1:11.4

Again, we won the 27th conference championship in a row, which is kind of crazy.

1:17.6

Each year I just shake my head.

1:19.0

I don't know why it keeps happening, but it does.

1:21.5

Do you recruit these kids?

1:23.4

Or do they find you?

1:25.0

I mean, you keep winning and winning and winning.

1:46.0

Yeah, we get them from all over. This year we had a bunch of boys out of the country. Really? And some of them, yeah, some of them are really good players, and they're all coming back next year. But I always say to them, how did you find the college of the desert from Belgium? but they they go on the website and if you look at the website you know our record really is uh it really is sensational uh and then

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