537 Premium: A Professional Baseball Player Takes Up Golf After Retiring and Can’t Believe How Hard

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Sports, Golf, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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537: ConorJackson played Major League Baseball for seven seasons withArizona, Oakland, and Boston. But he didn’t take up golf untilafter he retired from the Big Leagues. He was lured in by charitytournaments, discovered how challenging it was and, like many ofus, fell in love. Even with a career .271 batting average, golfhasn’t come easy for him.Here's a videoexcerpt of today's episode when I asked Conor if it's easy forbaseball players to pick up golfNOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN for the People’s Choice Podcast Awards.Please nominate GOLF SMARTERas your favorite Sports Podcast to get us into the finals. You canonly nominate us one time. Deadline is April 30, 2016. Please visit the all new GolfSmarter.com and click on the Surveyicon next to the Hey Fred button, to take our brief multiple choicesurvey so that we can learn more about you, what you like, and whatyou 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 Premium number 537, published on April 26, 2016.
0:06.8	A major leaguer takes up golf after retiring and can't believe how hard it is with Connor Jackson.
0:14.7	This is Golf Smarter Premium.
0:17.9	Here's your host, Fred Green.
0:20.8	Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast, Connor. host, Fred Green.
0:22.9	Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Connor.
0:24.7	Thanks, Fred. How you doing?
0:26.2	I'm doing well. How are you, man?
0:27.7	I'm hanging in there, bud.
0:31.9	So a couple weeks ago, you and I got a chance to not only meet, but we got to play golf together with a whole big group of guys.
0:36.1	And so this is how we know each other.
0:38.5	And it was a lot of fun.
0:40.1	We were in the same fivesome together.
0:42.7	So we're going to talk about that round of golf.
0:45.5	But we're also going to talk.
0:46.8	We're going to talk about baseball a little bit, you know, what your career was like
0:50.4	and how golf influenced or other way around baseball influenced your golf um so i'm really
0:58.4	how has your golf game been since that first day out uh it's it is uh it is dipped quite a bit
1:06.7	after that i'm not going to lie but uh but so is how this game goes. And which is why I love it so much.
1:14.2	You know, I mean, it really is one of the hardest games I think I've ever played. You know, I've said
1:20.0	that so many times that I played a lot of sports as a kid and picked this up late in life. And it is
1:25.1	the hardest game I've ever played. There's no doubt.
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