Breaking News: After a Big Year On the PGA Tour, LAB Golf CEO Announces Their Newest Putter!

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Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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927: PGA Tour’s Lucas Glover career exploded this year when he changed to a L.A.B. Golf putter. Adam Scott and now Will Zalatoris are also using L.A.B. Golf putters. And in this episode, L.A.B. Golf CEO Sam Hahn says that there hasn’t been a change in putters in 60 years, until now!! Learn why LAB Golf putters aren’t just different, they’re better. And after waiting a couple years through design and testing, Sam makes an exclusive announcement that their newest putter design, the DF3.0 will be released on January 23, 2024. Learn more at labgolf.comThis week’s episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Please visit https://BetterHelp.com/golfsmarter to receive 10% off your first month! 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 Friday on Golf Smarter Mulligans episode #243 features Jaacob Bowden joins us to discuss going longer and more consistently off the tee with the methods he learned from instructor Mike Austin. Austin entered the Guinness Book of Records for long drive at 64yrs! This conversation was originally published as a Members Only episode in June, 2012, so it’s the first time we’ve ever shared it publicly.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 goodpods as #5 in their Top 100 All Time Indie Golf podcasts!Two ways to become a Golf Smarter Ambassador and receive a choice of one of these great prizes including:• 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!• 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 send us what you wrote and where! Send your posted review or request to introduce an episode to GolfSmarterPodcast@gmail.com.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	Invariably, every single ad we have, half of the comments are, holy crap, that's way too expensive.
0:07.0	Then right under that holy crap is way too expensive is some guy saying,
0:10.0	how many times have you spent $600 on a driver in the last five years,
0:13.0	and you use that 10 to 12 times around.
0:16.0	In your putter, you're using between 28 and 36 times.
0:19.0	Why wouldn't you invest the money?
0:20.0	To the consumer's credit, the reason is because for the last 60 years, you're not buying better. You're just buying different. And with drivers, that wasn't the case. For a very long time with drivers, you were buying better. With putting, I don't care how many putter fittings you've been to, how many different suggestions you've made, how many different things you've tried, how many different grips, how many different everythings.
0:41.3	Ultimately, torque is the thing that has made it difficult for us to put, and so it's very hard for the consumer to accept that in the realm of putting, with this specific instrument, that they're actually buying better.
0:51.3	And I just want to say that in this particular case,
0:55.4	you really are. Hi, this is Paul Blotti from Millsboro, Delaware, and I play at Plantation Lakes
1:03.4	Golf Course. This is Golf Smarter number 927. Breaking news. After a big year on the PGA tour, Lab Golf CEO announces their newest putter.
1:16.7	This is Golf Smarter.
1:19.5	Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise
1:25.4	your golf IQ.
1:27.3	Here's your host, Fred Green.
1:30.3	Welcome back to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Sam.
1:33.3	Thank you so much for having me. It's so good to be back. It's been a saga trying to get back on here, but you're a couple times we've done this.
1:41.7	It's been some of my favorites. You're a hell of a host.
1:44.8	Thank you very much.
1:45.7	I really appreciate that.
1:46.9	Well, I'm still an evangelist for the lab golf putters.
1:54.2	I love the comments that I get when I pull it out of the bag.
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