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Ben Hogan's Secret Letter and The Lost Fundamental Short Game with Tony Manzoni (RIP)

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

438 & 439: Tony Manzoni, one of the most sought after coaches on the GolfSmarter podcast shares his life long pursuit of Ben Hogan’s secret to his golf swing. Years ago Tony received a letter written in Hogan’s hand that explains his secret to becoming a great ball striker. This is the complete hour long conversation that also covers a detailed discussion on the short game swing and how it differs than the full swing that is discussed in The Lost Fundamental.He also responds to letters asking how the full Lost Fundamental swing is affected by the short game swing.Two ways to become a Golf Smarter Ambassador and receive a choice of one of these great prizes including:        • A private link to Tony Manzoni’s video “The Lost Fundamental”.        • A pack of 8 Flightpath Golf Tees. A Tee Above All. Learn more at https://flightpathgolf.com.        • A Glove + Glove Compartment from RedRoosterGolf.com where you can now choose from a  large variety of styles of gloves in 34 sizes!To win, either introduce an upcoming episode, or write a review from your podcast source, then send us what you wrote and where! Send your posted review or request to introduce an episode to GolfSmarterPodcast@gmail.com.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's episode is brought to you by PXG! Game changer has been thrown around so much, it’s lost its meaning. I was impressed with the results of my fitting and think the P X G Driver will be a game changer for me. Check it out for yourself. Learn more and get free shipping on all equipment at PXG.com/smarter and use code golfsmarter at checkout. That’s PXG.com/smarter, code golfsmarter for free shipping on all equipment.This week’s episode is sponsored by PutterCup! Go to puttercupgolf.com and use code GOLFSMARTER to get 20% off your order.  And combined with the discount you get with the Pressure Putt Combo, you’ll really save! Go to puttercupgolf.com and use code GOLFSMARTER to get 20% off.This week’s episode is sponsored by Indeed. Please visit indeed.com/GOLFSMARTER and get a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT. Terms and conditions apply.This week’s episode is also brought to you by Modern Mammals. Go to modernmammals.com and use code GOLFSMARTER (*one word) for 10% off.This week’s episode is also brought to you by Graybar Electric. Graybar is a trusted and leading North American distributor of electrical, communications, data networking, and industrial products that supports projects of ANY industry … construction, hospitals, industrial plants, schooling, and more. To view more information on their services head to graybar.com. Yep, Graybar does that. 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

Hey, this is Fred Green of Golf Smarter with our seventh installment of Spring Back into

0:07.0

Golf Season with the late Tony Manzoni. This episode was published in 2014, and podcasting

0:13.9

still really hadn't caught on yet, so there wasn't a lot of competition between distributors

0:19.4

at the time or know how to work the system.

0:24.0

I'm pretty sure that was before I could schedule an episode to publish while I was on vacation.

0:30.3

Now I can make sure that you never miss a week without a new episode, even when I'm away.

0:35.6

So this episode was two weeks with Tony in one show,

0:41.2

episode 438 and 439. So we packed a lot of information and a lot of topics into one long

0:49.9

show. And it's a long one. It's over an hour. Now, Tony's book, The Lost Fundamental, is available

0:56.1

on Amazon and his DVD, which we converted to a private link online, is also available when

1:03.0

you write to me. And for the most comprehensive information ever collected about Tony Manzoni,

1:08.9

please go to gulfsmarter.com slash Tony, and Tony is all lowercase.

1:15.3

If you'd like to access that video, please write to me directly.

1:19.0

GolfSmartre podcast at gmail.com or click on the hey fred button.

1:24.1

When you visit gulfsmarter.com.

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Four members only. Golf smarter numbers 438 and 439 published on May 27, 2014.

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This is two weeks worth of episodes delivered it once.

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It's an hour-long conversation, but luckily it's a podcast and you can listen as much

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or as little as you want, starting right now.

1:46.0

Ben Hogan's Secret Letter and the Lost Fundamental Short Game with Tony Manzoni.

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This is Golf Smarter.

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Welcome back to the Golf Smarter podcast, Tony.

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