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Be Careful in Your Setup • Be Carefree with Your Swing! featuring Josh Zander

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3577 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

917: Josh Zander of https://zandergolf.com/ returns for a free flowing conversation about improving your game that we call “Be Careful in Your Setup: Be Carefree with Your Swing!” Josh has made some incredible offers to Golf Smarter listeners. Use checkout code “GolfSmarter” at both of these links to learn more: This one gets you 50% off your first year of access to his complete video library https://www.xip.co/josh-zander/content-library-sign-up. And for a free video consultation, along with $100 off a year of instruction, go to www.xip.co/josh-zander Lastly, Josh wants you to watch this great segment from an interview between Flaherty and Phil Mickelson https://youtu.be/nAeHaOIIx6Y?si=3VQqxvaqqyCQnO3y This week’s episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Please visit https://BetterHelp.com/golfsmarter to receive 10% off your first month! This week’s episode is also sponsored by CalderaLab. Get 20% OFF with code GOLFSMARTER at calderalab.com to make unforgettable first impressions with the best gift this holiday season.This week’s episode is also sponsored by Indeed. Claim your $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post at Indeed.com/golfsmarter. Offer’s good for a limited time. Need to hire? You need Indeed!Follow @golfsmarter on Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube for daily highlights and helpful insights from our interviews on the podcast. We also post articles and video shorts on LinkedIn @FredGreene (from Novato, CA).This week Golf Smarter Mulligans episode #233, we're joined by WSJ weekly golf columnist, John Paul Newport who reported each year on the four majors. He shares his feelings about covering various players he's interviewed including Tiger, Phil, Rory and others. This is part 1 of 2 from 2012.Golf Smarter has been awarded the #1 spot in their list of Top 10 Golf Psychology Podcasts by feedspot.com Check it out at https://blog.feedspot.com/golf_psychology_podcasts/.Golf Smarter has also been named by golfspan.com as one of the 10 Best Golf Podcasts for 2023, including being named the BEST GOLF PODCAST FOR YOUR MENTAL GAME. Check it out at https://www.golfspan.com/best-golf-podcasts. Two ways to become a Golf Smarter Ambassador and receive a choice of one of these great prizes including:• A box of ODIN balls of your choice with the Golf Smarter logo. ODIN Golf is the only golf brand that sponsors and pays everyday golfers! See our custom page at odin-golf.com/pages/golfsmarter.• A Glove + Glove Compartment from RedRoosterGolf.com http://i.refs.cc/PpGqbWgd where you can choose from a large variety of styles of gloves in 26 sizes!• A private link to Tony Manzoni’s video “The Lost Fundamental”. To win, either introduce an upcoming episode, or write a review from your podcast source, then... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Quick note before we begin, there was a small glitch in our online recording that makes it sound like my audio skips every so often.

0:10.0

If you're old enough like me to remember records, you know what I mean by skips. Not sure what it was or why it happened, but it does resolve itself as we get deeper into the episode.

0:21.5

Generally, my online recording platform is really reliable, so we'll cut them a little slack this time.

0:27.7

Thanks for your understanding.

0:29.2

Now let's get to it.

0:32.5

I was doing a putting lesson with Bruce Rierke.

0:35.9

So we do a lot of putting lessons together by students.

0:38.3

It's just fantastic. And he goes, Josh, what was that? He said the other day that was just like

0:42.9

so insightful. I'm like, well, I said something insightful. With Bruce, it's like so much of it is

0:48.2

getting your setup correct. Because if you get your setup correct, a lot of good things happen

0:52.9

during the motions. I said, my quote was, be careful in your setup and be carefree in your swing. Ooh. Yeah, I know you get an, I get an o from you. I'm writing that one down. Write it down. You can quote me on that one. I don't think I've had too many quotes through the years that people actually quote me. I think what happens is we kind of get the opposite, where people aren't really precise enough with their setups.

1:16.0

So now they're destined to failure, and now they have to be super careful or restricted or compensate for a poor setup.

1:25.0

Hi, this is Steve Hahn from Huntington Beach, California, and I play at Metal Arc Golf Club.

1:30.1

This is Golf Smarter number 917.

1:34.0

Be careful in your setup and be carefree with your swing with Josh Zander.

1:40.8

This is Golf Smarter.

1:43.6

Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ.

1:51.1

Here's your host, Fred Green.

1:53.5

Welcome back to the Golf Smarter podcast, Josh.

1:56.0

Thanks for having me back, Fred. It's always a pleasure.

1:58.9

Always a pleasure to talk to you. We always have so much fun,

2:01.9

just talking random golf topics, which is the way I love to do. It's almost like we're walking

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