How To Pick Your Perfect Putter with Kenny Giannini

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Sports, Golf

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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GS#411 November19, 2013 Kenny Giannini has created putters for Arnold Palmer, Greg Norman, Mark O’Meara and “pretty much everyone”. In this conversation, World class putter designer Kenny Giannini discusses putter components that go into creating a great putter. From this episode, you'll become more informed on each element of a putter, why it works, and what works best for you.Get more when your visit the refreshed golfsmarter.com! Introduce an Upcoming Episode: Receive free gifts for recording a show opening by clicking on "Record Your Show Open Here!" tab on the right side of golfsmarter.com. Watch Daily Video Highlights from Our Interviews: Follow @golfsmarter on Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube daily to see our highlights and helpful insights from our interviews on the podcast. Post a Review: you'll receive three free gifts when you post an honest review about Golf Smarter the podcast. Fill Out a Listener Survey: It only takes a few minutes to fill out our survey, which helps us to better serve your interests in the podcast. You'll receive a free link to Tony Manzoni's video and Justin Tang’s summary of Tony’s Lost Fundamental on pdf! This episode is brought to you by BreakfastBalls.Golf. Visit BreakfastBalls.Golf for the best quality and pricing on premium used golf balls. Find your favorite brand at half the price of new balls! Use GOLFSMARTER at checkout for 20% off your order!This episode is brought to you by the Tour Striker Golf Academy. Visit tourstriker.com/TSGA and use the code GOLFSMARTER to get your first month of the Tour Striker GolfAcademy Online free, plus instant access to two bonus courses—'The Recipe for Better Golf' and 'Bombs: How to Consistently Smash the Driver”: a $194 value for free.This episode is brought to you by 5Hour Energy. 5-hour ENERGY Transfusion flavor is available online or in stores. Head to 5hourENERGY.com and order yours today!Check out "Invested in the Game", a new original podcast from Charles Schwab. This podcast is their way of sharing the incredible stories behind the game. Listen now at schwab.com/TheGame or wherever you get your podcasts.This episode is sponsored by Indeed. Please visit indeed.com/GOLFSMARTER and get a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT. Terms and conditions apply. 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	Golf Smarter number 411 published on November 19, 2013.
0:05.0	Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans.
0:08.0	Your second chance to gain insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the Golf Smarter podcast.
0:16.0	Great golf instruction never gets old.
0:20.0	Our interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations like this
0:25.6	that are no longer available in any podcast app.
0:28.6	My biggest deal is I never want a three cuts.
0:32.6	If I can hit the ball within 20 feet of the hole, I can two foot most of them.
0:36.6	I'm going to make three or four.
0:37.8	All of a sudden I'm shooting three under. You know, and that's what I strive to do. I never want a three putt in the consistency with my putter. If you cast the putter, if you heat a piece of material up and let it cool off, there's going to be hot spots in that putter. There'll be places on that face or the wall will jump off faster than others and places that are dead.
0:56.7	When it's heated up, you know, hot spots in that putter. There will be places on that face where the wall will jump off faster
0:54.6	than others and places that are dead. When it sheeted up, you know, those molecules will run and
1:00.2	they'll stay there and when it cools will stay out there too. Machineing the putters, it's the same
1:05.0	all the way across that face. So it's always going to feel the same. That's why I don't do any
1:09.3	putters with inserts now. Because inserts, number one, they will move. Number two, if the temperature changes five or ten degrees, the fuel of that insert will change. So it's like you're putting with a different putter. I want this butter to feel the same. If you're playing in 120-degree heater, you're playing at 40 degrees, so it's a 30-mile-mower win and having it rain.
1:28.5	It's going to feel the same every time you stroke it.
1:31.8	That's what I want.
1:32.7	It's confidence and repeatability.
1:39.3	How to pick your perfect putter with Kenny Janini.
1:43.1	This is Golf Smarter.
1:46.1	Welcome to Golf Smarter for members only, Kenny.
1:48.8	Well, thank you very much for having to be here.
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