Keeping Your Golf Swing Simple with Jim Samsing

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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570: Jim Samsing of the Bird Golf Academy career as a golf teaching professional spans more than three decades. A competitive player since 1970, and the winner of the 1973 Montbello Open Pro-Am, Jim also recorded top 10 finishes in several state opens. Jim was also the Head Professional at Mission Hills C.C. in the mid 70’s. His teaching philosophy is to keep the swing as simple as possible, developing strong fundamentals and swing skills, and using the brain as the major tool in the development of these skills. He is the foremost expert in the theory of the “Double Connexion”, a mental discipline used on the PGA tour. Jim is a true master and student of the game, who’s style is successful with players of all abilities. Jim is also an accomplished club fitting specialist. We are proud to have Jim as our West Coast Director of Instruction.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	Golf Smarter number 570 published on December 13, 2016.
0:07.3	Keeping your golf swing simple with Jim Samson.
0:12.7	This is Golf Smarter, sharing tips and insights to lower your score and raise your golf IQ.
0:23.1	To hear the full interview and access hundreds of Golf Smarter episodes, sign up for premium access at gulfsmarter.libson.com.
0:31.3	Here's your host, Fred Green. Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast, Jim.
0:36.9	Fred, how are you doing today?
0:38.0	I'm doing well. Thank you for joining us.
0:40.1	It's my pleasure.
0:41.4	You were on the PGA tour. Is that correct?
0:44.2	Basically not playing a little bit on the satellite tours and many tours and that type of thing.
0:51.2	Tried a few Monday morning qualifiers, and that was about the extent of it, yes.
0:56.0	And how successful were you?
0:58.2	That's why I'm teaching golf today.
1:01.5	It's not an easy life, though, is it?
1:03.6	No, it really wasn't.
1:04.9	And back in those days in the early 70s, the financial rewards were quite as good as they are today.
1:12.6	Especially at that second, third level.
1:15.6	Exactly.
1:16.6	And then even when the tour, even when you made a cut back then, a lot of times you didn't
1:20.6	get a check, you just got the opportunity to play in the falling week's tournament.
1:25.6	That was it.
1:26.6	What made you think you could play competitively at that level?
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