472 PREMIUM: How to Minimize the Damage

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Sports, Golf

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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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, directly to the all new Golf Smarter App for your phone or mobile device. You’ll be able to sign up for Premium Access for 1-6-or 12 month intervals. It’s all coming very soon, so please stay tuned for the announcement.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Former GolfSmarter host, Fred Greene has been nominated for the 2025 Audiocaster of the Year by the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame Vote now at BARHOF.org. Voting is open through July 1. Please welcome our new host of Golf Smarter, Josh Karp! Fred has retired and will be working on his game with more intention than ever. You can stay up-to-date with Josh on all the GolfSmarter social accounts or by reaching out at karpj2323@mac.com. To stay connected with Fred reach out at golfsmarterpodcast@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	For members only, Golf Smarter number 472, published on January 20, 2015.
0:07.0	SmarterPodcasts.com delivering sound advice.
0:13.6	How to Minimize the Damage, Part 2 with Tom Good.
0:17.9	This is Golf Smarter.
0:20.8	Welcome back to the Golf Smarter podcast, Tom.
0:23.6	Hey, Fred, how you doing? I'm doing fine. Thank you so much for continuing this conversation,
0:29.6	because I have a lot more to ask. Awesome. I love it. I've got, I think, a lot more that I can
0:37.3	contribute and try to help some people.
0:39.2	Oh, that would be fun. Okay. So what I really wanted to find out from you to start is tell me,
0:45.3	what is your method or your teaching philosophy? Swing the clubhead.
0:58.7	And if anybody goes and tries to find out what that means, Ernest Jones.
1:07.3	Ernest Jones was a proponent of swing the clubhead, and Ernest taught in the late 1920s, 30s, and 40s.
1:13.2	And his whole philosophy was on that freedom of motion and feeling the golf club and feeling the clubhead swing. And I think for the average golfer, it's just a, it's a great
1:19.7	way to feel the body getting involved in the golf swing, feeling everything work together.
1:25.2	And it's based around perfect motion, which is a pendulum.
1:28.2	If the club head swings back and forth at the same speed, it's in perfect motion.
1:32.6	And if we try to interfere with it by trying to make it go faster, try to guide it where
1:36.4	it's going, we're going to destroy that natural motion.
1:39.0	So I try to use that as my base.
1:41.6	And then depending on the individual I'm working with and the experience level
1:45.7	and where they are, I kind of can branch out from that and expand on what that individual
1:52.0	can do.
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