529: Legendary Instructor Harvey Penick's Important Basics with Jim Hopkins

Golf Smarter

Josh Karp

Sports, Golf, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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529: Harvey Penick was a legendary golf instructor who was instrumental to the success of both Tom Kite and Ben Crenshaw. Even though he passed away in the 90s, his Little Red Book is considered one of the more important golf instruction books ever published. The Harvey Penick Golf Academy has returned in his home town of Austin, TX and our guest this week is Director of the Academy Jim Hopkins. Jim was one of the first instructors at the original Academy and still considers Mr. Penick's teachings as the base for amateur golfers to improve. In the premium episode we get into depth on the grip and stance, plus we talk about Jim's relationship and lessons from Harvey.free episode length: 21:02premium episode: 50:09 Please visit the all new GolfSmarter.com and click on the Survey icon next to the Hey Fred button, to take our brief multiple choice survey so that we can learn more about you, what you like, and what you don't like about the Golf Smarter Podcast.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	Golf Smarter number 529 published on March 1, 2016.
0:06.6	Legendary golf instructor Harvey Pennick's Important Basics with Jim Hopkins of the Harvey Penick Golf Academy.
0:13.2	This is Golf Smarter.
0:15.9	Sharing tips and insights to lower your score and raise your golf IQ.
0:21.1	To hear the full interview and access hundreds of Golf Smarter episodes, sign up for
0:26.4	premium access at gulfsmarter.lipson.com.
0:31.4	Here's your host, Fred Green.
0:34.0	Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast, Jim.
0:36.6	Hey, Fred. How are you?
0:38.1	I'm doing well, sir. How you doing?
0:40.6	Very good. Another beautiful day in Austin, so, you know, how can I go wrong?
0:44.0	Yeah, right. You know, I just got back from Austin yesterday and had a phenomenal weekend.
0:49.3	First time I'd been to Austin, and I'm so glad I got to do it for golf.
0:54.0	It's really a fun, fun city.
0:56.6	I really had a great time.
0:58.5	That's true.
0:58.9	It's a lot of fun.
0:59.5	A lot to do, pretty much anything you want to do.
1:01.2	But especially someone who likes golf, it's just a wonderful place.
1:05.6	Yeah, it is.
1:06.6	And on Friday night, we went out to Top Golf.
1:12.1	I tell you, I've never witnessed anything like that before.
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