Golf Smarter Premium, number 483, published on April 7, 2015.

Never let a bad golf swing get in the way of a good round with PGA certified instructor, John Grund.

This is Golf Smarter Premium. Here's your host, Fred Green.

Welcome back to the Golf Smarter podcast, John. Thanks, Fred. Good to be here. It's great to see you again. Tell me what's going on in your life. I appreciate you coming here today because I know that you're leaving town first thing in the morning, right? Yep. Where are you going? I'm going to a golf tournament. And you're playing. You're not watching. I'm playing, yeah. The first time I've played in about seven months, since September, first golf tournament for me. I got a little accident, little injury, so I'm coming back from that and trying to go play. And what is the, what's the tournament? It's the senior PGA, Northern Cal senior PGA match play championship. Okay. So members of

the PGA of Northern California, who also happen to be members of the national PGA, club professionals,

it's our senior section championship. And it's match play. Okay. So there's a match play right now and then later

the summer there'll be a stroke play version of it. And you've played in this tournament? Yes.

In the past? And how have you done? I lost two years ago, I think, in the semi-finals. Played

okay. The year before that I lost in the quarterfinals. So then last year I didn't play for

some reason. I don't know what it was.

But you have experience in PGA Tour tournament plays. Yes, yeah, it's been a while, but I've played a lot of tournament golf. The last seven or eight years has been a little bit less than probably than I thought I would. Because you're focusing on teaching. Yeah, and I had another business too, as we've talked about before in the golf industry, and I sold that. Now I'm back

to focusing on teaching and coaching full time. So, you know, it's hard to ride two horses, but I'm

trying to, it's a challenge to keep it in perspective, but it's actually good for me, I think, in the sense that I'm kind of getting in the zone where my students kind of come from, and that's probably a healthy thing.

Yeah, very much so. Tell me, no, but you have some PGA tour experience.

Yeah, yeah, no, I played full time after leaving UCLA.

I thought I'd go into the insurance business, and that was laughable.

So that lasted for a couple years.

And I kept playing amateur events and kept playing better.

Just as a footnote to that, you know, it's every guy from my golf team basically is still

playing golf.

I mean, you know, so it's like I was like the fifth man on a college golf team,

and I thought surely a fifth man has to go work for a living, not play golf.

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