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543 Premium: 70% of All Golfers Play The Wrong Ball! AND Kicking It with Soul Kix.

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Sports, Golf, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

543 Premium: On any given round, there’s only one piece of golf equipment that is used on every shot…the ball. What most amateur players don’t realize is that 70% of all golfers are using the wrong ball, according to this week’s guest Dominic Selfa of Bridgestone Golf who sits down with host Fred Greene. Getting fitted for a golf ball is as important as getting fitted for clubs. So may players play a Titleist ProV1 because that’s what’s on the tour or is the most expensive. But that doesn’t mean it will help your game. The reality is that if you don’t have a swing speed over 100mph or can compress the ball to get a good amount of backspin, that is the wrong ball for you. Learn more about the new line of Bridgestone balls and how they are leading the way for every golfer to get properly fitted for the correct ball. http://BridgestoneGolf.comWatch the video interview with Dominic https://youtu.be/sz5on1IeV6MFor this Premium Episode, we also have another conversation from the ING Conference  with Terry McEwen of SoulKix, an innovative shoe team that encourages the quirky/weird/artistic/different/inspired/ and “off-beaten” soul to create the own path of shoes. It’s actually a really fascinating story of a father helping his son find a mission and path in life after the young man, at 19, was homeless living in a makeshift tent on top of a skyscraper in San Francisco. With Father’s Day coming, it’s a beautiful story of love and success.http://Soulkix.comFor 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 543 published on June 7, 2016.

0:07.2

70% of all golfers are using the wrong ball.

0:11.4

And we have the story of soul kicks.

0:13.8

This is Golf Smarter Premium.

0:17.0

Here's your host, Fred Green.

0:19.7

Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast, Dominic. Thank you for having me. This is great. It's great to see you, man. It was good. Thank you for being one of the first people I got to meet and going, a friendly face. Absolutely. Thank you so much. You're a Bridgestone golf. And Bridgestone is a lot of different products, balls, bags, clubs, the whole, right?

0:39.7

Yeah.

0:40.2

I want to focus on balls in this conversation if you don't mind.

0:43.2

Sure.

0:44.4

Because you guys claim that seven out of ten, if I get this right, seven out of ten golfers play the wrong golf ball.

0:53.9

Correct.

0:55.8

Please expand on that.

0:58.2

All right.

0:58.6

So, Bridgestone Golf, or the number one ball fitter in golf, essentially we have a program that has 26 teams that go all across the United States and basically fit people for the right golf ball.

1:10.2

And what I mean by that is we actually test whatever product your plane.

1:13.3

So it could be another manufacturer.

1:15.6

We put you through our system and we actually test your ball speed, your launch angle, your

1:19.7

backspin, your side spin.

1:21.5

And we figure out exactly what element of the product is either helping or hurting your

1:25.5

game.

1:26.3

So maybe the compression's too hard.

1:27.8

Maybe you don't need a year thing cover for spin around the greens. So essentially we pinpoint.

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