5 Fundamentals of How To Make A Golf Swing with Joe Park

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Josh Karp

Sports, Golf

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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GS#1007 Summary: In this episode we meet golf professional Joe Park and hear about his journey in the golf world, the importance of influential instructors, and the nuances of the golf swing. Joe emphasizes the significance of weight shift, the role of arms and hands in generating club head speed, and the balance between consistency and distance in golf. He introduces his five fundamentals of golf, which include grip, posture, backswing, downswing, and impact, and discusses how these principles can help golfers of all levels improve their game. Joe also emphasizes the importance of grip adjustments to influence ball flight, the significance of maintaining the right posture for an effective swing, and introduces the JPX drill as a method to integrate these techniques. Joe also reflects on his career highlights, including building a golf facility and nurturing young golfers. Joe does share some specifics about the golf swing that are really valuable to watch and you can see the entire episode on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/xrATF47fGo0. Please check out this article about Fred's golf and podcast journey called "A Lifetime On The Air" that was published in the NCGA Magazine (Northern California Golf Association) recently! Get more when your visit the refreshed golfsmarter.com! Introduce an Upcoming Episode: Receive free gifts for recording a show opening by clicking on "Record Your Show Open Here!" tab on the right side of golfsmarter.com. Watch Daily Video Highlights from Our Interviews: Follow @golfsmarter on Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube daily to see our highlights and helpful insights from our interviews on the podcast. Post a Review: you'll receive three free gifts when you post an honest review about Golf Smarter the podcast. Fill Out a Listener Survey: It only takes a few minutes to fill out our survey, which helps us to better serve your interests in the podcast. You'll receive a free link to Tony Manzoni's video and Justin Tang’s summary of Tony’s Lost Fundamental on pdf! This episode is brought to you by BreakfastBalls.Golf. Visit BreakfastBalls.Golf for the best quality and pricing on premium used golf balls. Find your favorite brand at half the price of new balls! Use GOLFSMARTER at checkout for 20% off your order!This episode is brought to you by the Tour Striker Golf Academy. Visit tourstriker.com/TSGA and use the code GOLFSMARTER to get your first month of the Tour Striker GolfAcademy Online free, plus instant access to two bonus courses—'The Recipe for Better Golf' and 'Bombs: How to Consistently Smash the Driver”: a $194 value for free.This episode is brought to you by 5Hour Energy. 5-hour ENERGY Transfusion flavor is available online or in stores. Head to 5hourENERGY.com and order yours today!Check out "Invested in the Game", a new original podcast from Charles Schwab. This podcast is their way of sharing the incredible stories behind the game. Listen now at schwab.com/TheGame or wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Dick Fitzmores from Lincoln, California, and I play at Sun City, Lincoln Hills
0:08.7	Golf Course. This is Golf Smarter, number 1007.
0:13.2	I can't thank you enough for mentioning this because the posture is probably the most overlooked
0:18.2	fundamental. I'm a big fan of the swing plane to make your golf swing
0:22.1	much easier. And how far you stand away from the golf ball is going to have a huge effect again on the
0:28.3	swing plane. And so that's why we're getting into a specific posture for the golf swing. We're not
0:35.0	getting into a posture to get comfortable. We're not getting into a posture to have someone tackle us. So there's none of this sitting in a bar stool. We're basically taking a golf swing that close around our body and the ball's on the ground. So what we need to do is to tilt forward from our hips and make the whole swing circle angle down at a 45.
0:56.0	So now we can go ahead and hit that.
0:58.0	So the best way to work on your posture is making sure that you don't sit like you're in a bar stool.
1:05.0	What you want to do is you want to bend from the hips and you want to bend forward until the club touches the ground.
1:11.6	And so now what I've done is I've taken my shoulder plane, I've taken my hip plane,
1:16.6	and I've got a much better chance of getting the swing on plane.
1:24.6	Presenting the five fundamentals on how to make a golf swing with instructor Joe Park.
1:32.8	This is Golf Smarter.
1:35.3	Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ.
1:43.4	Here's your host, Fred Green.
1:45.8	Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Joe.
1:48.7	Well, thanks, Fred, for having me on your show today.
1:51.9	I've been a long-time listener of all of your guests
1:54.8	and have learned quite a bit from everybody.
1:58.1	So it's a great place to get a lot of golf information for sure.
2:01.4	Well, thank you. That's really kind of you. But when you say I'm a long-time listener,
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