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Getting Back to Golf Basics We Tend To Forget From Round to Round | golf SMARTER #838

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3577 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

838: Height of the Tee. Hovering the club vs laying it on the ground before takeaway. These are just two of the little things we tend to forget when we play golf that actually do have an impact on our success. This week Jim Waldron of BalancePointGolf returns to discuss a lot of simple yet effective tips that will get you hitting the ball farther and straighter…like you believe you can!This episode is brought to you by DynamicGolfers.com/golfsmarter. Golf Smarter listeners get a 7 day free trial and 15% off your membership with coupon code ‘GolfSmarter’. Why spend thousands on a gym membership that doesn’t focus on the best exercises for golfers? Join the thousands of golfers worldwide who do the 15-20 minute dynamic stretching workouts that are completely focused on improving your flexibility and mobility for golf. Host Fred Greene, went from a 11hcp to a 9hcp in just 3 months doing DynamicGolfers workouts each morning. They have hundreds of workout sessions so you’ll never get bored doing the same routine. Try it free for 7 days and see some immediate results. https://DynamicGolfers.com/golfsmarter.Spring Forwards into Golf Season this week on Golf Smarter Mulligans with our seventh of nine episodes featuring the late Tony Manzoni. Tony taught a very effective method of the golf swing that he learned from his years of intense studying what made Ben Hogan great. Tony’s book, The Lost Fundamental, One Simple Move, Better Golf Forever, which was out of print when he passed away, is once again available on Amazon including Kindle format https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Fundamental-Simple-Better-Forever-ebook/dp/B07MZFSPBW/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Tony+Manzoni&qid=1614728823&sr=8-1 . Tony’s video of the same name was also out of circulation, but can now be seen online. If you’d like to gain access please write to us directly via email GolfSmarterPodcast@Gmail.com. Lastly, after he passed, we created a Tony Manzoni Memorial Golf Smarter Fund to benefit the First Tee of Coachella Valley. Your tax deductible contributions are greatly appreciated. Find out more at https://GolfSmarter.com/tony . We have a year long membership to Dynamic Golfers to give to the first three listeners who request one! First come. First served. Just write to GolfSmarterPodcast@gmail.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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The rule is the top line of the driver should be halfway between the equator and the South Pole of the golf ball.

0:08.0

And almost everybody who comes to me who's amid the high handicap tease it way higher than that.

0:13.0

They have it at the South Pole or even below the South Pole, which is way, way too high.

0:18.0

If you have the top line of your driver at the equator, you're not

0:21.1

going to hit the ball as far as you're capable. It's going to launch too low and probably have

0:25.7

too much spin, so you'll lose ground roll as well.

0:29.5

Brought to you by Dynamic Golfers, this is Golf Smarter Number 838.

0:37.5

Getting back to basics of the little things that we tend to forget from round to round

0:42.0

with Jim Waldron.

0:43.2

This is Golf Smarter.

0:46.0

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

0:51.2

and raise your golf IQ.

0:53.9

Here's your host, Fred Green.

0:56.3

Welcome back to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Jimmy.

0:59.6

Thank you, Fred.

1:00.9

I always love being on this show with you.

1:03.4

We always have fun together.

1:04.7

We really do.

1:05.5

I mean, we have these conversations before we start recording about,

1:09.0

how about we discuss this?

1:10.1

How about we discuss it? It's like we don't have to do that or you know we could just get the

1:14.8

conversation started and it'll flow and we'll have fun and I'll learn a lot

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