Home of the Valero Texas Open, TPC San Antonio with Dir. of Instruction Greg Hiller

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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683: Greg Hiller is the Director of Instruction at TPC San Antonio. We meet Greg on the eve of the Valero Texas Open that’s played at TPC San Antonio. For the first time, this event has moved up to the warmup spot for The Masters. Greg once qualified for the US Open and didn’t play as well as he hoped, but he shares what he learned from playing and competing at the highest level. This episode is brought to you by autoslash.com, a free service that finds the best price for your next rental car. Secure the best price for your next car rental at autoslash.com. They’re also the generous provider of a $100 Amazon Gift Cards given away to lucky listeners. Congratulations to this week’s winner, Donald Eldridge of Spencerport, NY. Keep your eyes (and ears) open for our two newest podcasts from SmarterPodcasts.com! Next week we launch Golf Smarter Mulligans. From the archives of Golf Smarter, Mulligans offers the best golf instruction from your favorite teachers. These episodes are no longer available, but still have a lot to offer your game improvement. The best selling golf instruction books were published in 1992 and 1957, so podcast instruction from 2005-2014 can assuredly help to improve your game. This week also launches season three of Radio Baseball Cards. Only about two minutes, these are amazing and entertaining stories as told by the greatest baseball players of the Twentieth Century hosted by the late Hall of Fame Pitcher and announcer, Don Drysdale. Tony Manzoni’s book “The Lost Fundamental: One Simple Move, Better Golf Forever” is available again in either Kindle or paperback format. Pick it up at Amazon https://amzn.to/2WMbYA7. If you’re interested in getting the video of the same name, click on the Hey Fred button at GolfSmarter.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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0:00.0	Golf Smarter number 683 is brought to you by autoslash.com.
0:07.3	Stay tuned to hear if you're a winner of a $100 Amazon gift card courtesy of
0:12.5	auto slash.com.
0:14.8	Auto slash is one word, A-U-T-O-S-L-A-S-H.
0:19.1	And next time you're planning to rent a car for business or pleasure, check out the free
0:23.3	service at otoslash.com.
0:27.6	Home with the Valero, Texas Open.
0:30.0	Let's talk about TPC San Antonio with their director of instruction, Greg Hiller.
0:34.8	This is Golf Smarter.
0:39.9	Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ. Here's your host, Fred Green.
0:48.0	Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Greg. Hi, Fred. How are you? I am good. How are you?
0:54.5	I'm excited about coming to San Antonio and to visit one of the courses that you work at and also play
1:03.1	the Alamo City Golf Trail. You used to work there as well, didn't you?
1:09.2	I did. I worked there for some time about eight years. I was in operations for about, oh, six, six and a half years,
1:17.1	and then I spent a couple of years as a director of instruction for them, and now I'm the
1:22.2	director of instruction out here at TPC San Antonio, and happy to be here and happy to be a part of your show.
1:28.7	Thank you so much.
1:30.1	TPC is really an interesting brand.
1:35.7	How many courses across the United States get to be labeled TPC?
1:42.1	Well, there is, there's kind of mostly the, most of the TPCs are connected to the network.
1:48.4	There was a time when a couple of TPCs were just using the name.
1:52.8	They weren't kind of under our umbrella, but I believe there's around 23 of them.
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