Golf Industry Veteran Chris McGinley on HONMA Golf and Swing Align training tool

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Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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744: A great golf training aid is one that enhances consistency on multiple levels, not just increasing distance. Swing Align grooves your swing, and fine tunes your alignment, rotation, swing plane, and connection. Connection doesn’t get discussed much, but once you realize what it is and how it works, practically everything in your swing improves. Our guest this week is golf industry veteran Chris McGinley, Global VP of Product at Honma Golf and has developed the Swing Align training aid on his own. And this is after 21 years working at Titleist. Check out swingtrainer.com to see videos and pick up a Swing Align for yourself. Use “golfsmarter” at checkout for 15% the full device bundle. Our next giveaway is for a Swing Align training aid courtesy of Chris and the kind folks at SwingTrainer.com. Deadline to enter is Sunday, June 21 at Midnight PDT/3a EDT. Enter at GolfSmarter.com/giveaway2020. Listen for details.Congratulations to to TC Moore of Kansas City, MO, winner of a one year GOLFLOGIX PLUS membership and a Green Book & Yardage Guide of any course he chooses from GolfLogix.com.Check out our YouTube channel, GolfSmarterTV for a report on host Fred Greene’s lowest score ever this past week after working on the position of his tees using driver.This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans #60, David Edel of edelgolf.com talks about putters and putter fitting.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	In terms of having an emotional connection with your golf clubs, it really depends on the golfer.
0:05.0	Some players just want the fitter to put what's going to perform best in their hands.
0:09.0	They don't really care about anything else.
0:10.0	And I understand that.
0:12.0	Other golfers, you know, they do care about look, sound, and feel.
0:16.0	That is important to them.
0:17.0	And I think as you're fitting someone, doing the mechanical things is right in terms of getting the length and lie and loft, things like that are measured, is important.
0:26.6	But you can really surprise and delight a golfer when you can tick off all the boxes like, okay, yeah, it helps me hit the ball better, it looks better, it feels better, it sounds better.
0:36.6	Oh man, I really have a lot of confidence when I put that down.
0:40.3	I really like the way the face looks.
0:42.3	Hey, I just like the way it looks sitting in my bag.
0:45.3	The more of those boxes you can check, the more satisfied that golfer is going to be when he walks away.
0:50.3	So to me, that's the emotional connection.
0:52.3	If you can hit that box too, then you're really doing things right. Golf Smarter number 744 is brought to you by Draft Kings. The PGA Tour is back,
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1:29.3	Golf industry veteran Chris McGinley from Honma Golf has created the swing-aligned training tool.
1:36.3	This is Golf Smarter.
1:39.3	Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your
1:45.5	golf IQ.
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