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How to Identify & Eliminate Pressure on the Golf Course with Garrett Jenkinson

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Sports, Golf

4.3577 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

GS#481 March 24, 2015 Garett Jenkinson, 2014 Alberta Teacher of the Year was suggested by a previous Golf Smarter guest who says that Garett was an inspiration in teaching him a new way to look at teaching and golf. In this episode we identify what kinds of pressure presents itself on the golf course and how to best handle it.    For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Former GolfSmarter host, Fred Greene has been nominated for the 2025 Audiocaster of the Year by the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame Vote now at BARHOF.org. Voting is open through July 1. Please welcome our new host of Golf Smarter, Josh Karp! Fred has retired and will be working on his game with more intention than ever. You can stay up-to-date with Josh on all the GolfSmarter social accounts or by reaching out at karpj2323@mac.com. To stay connected with Fred reach out at golfsmarterpodcast@gmail.com.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Stuart Morgois from Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, and I play golf at the highly

0:08.9

rated Glenn Mills golf course. Welcome to Golf Smarter Number.

0:14.0

481 published on March 24, 2015. Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans. Your second chance to gain insight and advice from the best

0:25.4

instructors featured on the Golf Smarter podcast. Great golf instruction never gets old. Our

0:32.9

interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations like this that are no longer

0:39.4

available in any podcast app.

0:41.4

If you can handle being a little bit uncomfortable at the start because we had to change

0:45.8

the way you were standing or the way you were holding the golf club in order to get you

0:49.4

to swing differently, then you can handle a lesson with me.

0:52.9

But it's amazing how much you can change

0:55.6

where someone's golf club goes or how it moves around their body just simply by changing how

1:01.3

they hold the club and set up to the ball. Isn't that the easiest thing to correct for you, I would

1:06.7

think, is just your setup. Yeah. And that's not easy. A lot of people just get the alignment part

1:11.1

wrong all the time. Tough to know where you're going if you can't get lined up to it. Their focus is hitting the ball, not where the ball's going. Yeah, well, we have a challenge with all my students. This is the first thing to hear on the teaching tea. If we took a picture of you from the side and from the back and then you go home and then you come back today and you set up again to hit a golf

1:29.4

ball a day later you get a hundred dollars from the side and from the back. And then you go home and then you come back today

1:27.5

and you set up again to hit a golf ball.

1:30.0

A day later, you get $100,000 if you set up exactly the same way

1:34.8

two days in a row.

1:35.9

How would you do it?

1:36.8

What would you measure yourself off of?

1:38.6

They all start figuring out that the target's pretty important

1:41.2

after that and lining up square to it

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