Golf Is A Mental Game?! The Return of Our Golf Sensei Jamie Zimron

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Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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GS#467 December 16, 2014 This was Jamie Zimron’s fifth appearance on Golf Smarter. Incorporating Aikido and Golf, Jamie talks about the critical value of balance, whether strength or flexibility is more important, and the importance of relaxation through the swing.This episode is brought to you by Warby Parker with over 300+ locations to help you find your next pair of glasses. You can also head over to warbypaker.com/golfsmarter right now to try on any pair virtually! This episode is sponsored by Indeed.Please visit indeed.com/GOLFSMARTER and get a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT. Terms and conditions apply.This episode is sponsored by HIMS. Start your free online visit today HIMS.com/golfsmarter and received personalized ED treatment options.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	Hi, this is Larry Fleck from Indianapolis, Indiana, and I play golf at Winding River Golf Course.
0:09.8	This is Golf Smarter.
0:12.1	Golf Smarter, number 467, published on December 16, 2014.
0:17.7	Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans.
0:20.5	Your second chance to gain insight and advice from the best
0:25.0	instructors featured on the Golf Smarter podcast. Great golf instruction never gets old. Our interview
0:33.0	library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations like this
0:38.3	that are no longer available in any podcast app.
0:41.3	To me, if you look on TV or you go to a tournament, you watch the pros or tour pros,
0:45.3	probably the biggest difference between the professionals and the amateurs is their balance.
0:50.3	And balance is what contains the energy so that you can deliver it all into the golf ball, so that the golf ball gets maximum balance. And balance is what contains the energy so that you can deliver it all into the golf
0:56.1	ball so that the golf ball gets maximum distance and optimal accuracy. Balance is critical to that.
1:04.1	When people are like lifting off the ball, you know, swaying off the ball and lifting up through
1:08.8	it and falling back after they try to muscle it and
1:11.3	they recoil and it kicks them back and their ball's not going that's because they don't have
1:16.3	that musculature and that awareness and that ability to be so balanced and one of the most beautiful
1:21.8	things about the touring pros male and female is their balance.
1:31.6	Golf is a mental game?
1:34.4	The return of our golf sense, Jamie Zimmeron.
1:36.3	This is Golf Smarter.
1:42.3	Sharing tips and insights from golfers and golf professionals to help lower your score.
1:45.0	It's worked for your host, Fred Green.
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