How Keeping Score of Your Mental Game Will Lower Your Stroke Scores with PGA Tour Veteran Richard Zokol

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Josh Karp

Sports, Golf, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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759: Richard Zokol’s PGA Tour career spanned over 20-years, winning twice while competing in 412 PGA Tour events. As he treats us to great stories about his career, he also shares the Ah-Ha moment in the final round of the 2000 US Open when, after shooting a 30 on the front nine, he was no longer emotionally tied to his score. The result is a fabulous free (iOS only so far) app called MindTrakGolf that shifts your focus away from stroke scoring and offers simple tracking of your shot assessments and shot executions. Listen for details. Congratulations to Joye M-S of Essex Ontario Canada, winner of a Golf Fitness Assessment and Customized Fitness Exercise Program courtesy of Par4Success.com Our next giveaway is for a High Heat 257+ Fairway metal from KnuthGolf.com. Deadline to enter is Sunday, October 4, 2020 at Midnight PDT/3a EDT. Enter at GolfSmarter.com/giveaway2020. Listen for details.We recently congratulated Gwen C of Rossland, BC, Canada who won the Full Access Pass to the Consistent Golf Summit courtesy of SchoolOfLifetimeLowRounds.com but she informed us that she’d already purchased the Full Access Pass and wanted to release her prize to another Golf Smarter listener. So CONGRATULATIONS to Cynthia C of Chandler, AZ who was selected for this prize. This is a unique week for Golf Smarter and Golf Smarter Mulligans in that both episodes feature conversations with former PGA Tour players. In episode #75 of Mulligans, we sit down with Aaron Oberholser at a press event for the 2009 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am to talk about life on the Tour and that Pros are working when they play, but amateurs need to remember that golf is a game and is supposed to be fun.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	You make an excellent golf swing and that ball is flying and this happened to me.
0:05.0	And it looks like it's going to go in the hole and we're on an island green.
0:09.0	I remember standing there posing on this shot, Fred, at TPC 17th hole at Sawgrass.
0:15.0	And I'm going, oh my god, this is beautiful. It's going to go in the hole and then it goes douche and it lands in the water
0:21.9	short and I go oh exactly just with your expression right there couldn't hit the shot any better
0:29.0	but I had the wrong club or the wrong shot so my assessment to my standard was an excellent
0:35.7	execution but an unsatisfactory assessment.
0:38.7	Did you fire your caddy? No, it wasn't his fault. It was my fault. Good for you for taking
0:44.2	responsibility, but didn't he say, are you sure that's the clip you are? Well, the player has veto power.
0:49.3	The buck stops with the player. Golf Smarter, number 759.
0:55.0	How keeping score of your mental game will lower your stroke score with PGA
1:01.0	Tour veteran Richard Zokel.
1:03.0	This is Golf Smarter, sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you
1:10.0	lower your score and raise your golf IQ.
1:13.4	Here's your host, Fred Green.
1:16.3	Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Dick.
1:19.1	How are you, Fred?
1:21.0	I'm doing well, and I'm happy to have on.
1:24.3	It's rare for me to talk to people who've played on the PGA tour, so it's a real honor to talk to Richard Zockel.
1:31.7	If yeah, that name, please call me Dick.
1:35.1	I will do so, but I just wanted to make sure that anybody whoever, who's done any PGA history will know the name Richard Zockel.
1:44.0	So let's start out. We have a lot to talk about
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