Learning to read Practice greens gives you a HUGE advantage with Geoff Mangum

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Josh Karp

Sports, Golf

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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GS #349 September 19, 2012 PuttingZone.com guru Geoff Mangum goes into explicit detail on how to read the practice greens so that you can have a putting advantage on each round. Terry Koehler, The Wedge Guy, returns for our ScorZone Short Game Academy. He gives a clear explanation on "Bounce" as asked by GOLF SMARTER listener Randy Starbuck.Become a Golf Smarter Ambassador by introducing a new upcoming episode and receive a choice from these 3 great gifts, including: • A private link to Tony Manzoni’s video “The Lost Fundamental”. • *A pack of 8 Flightpath Golf Tees. A Tee Above All. Learn more at https://flightpathgolf.com. • *A Glove + Glove Compartment from RedRoosterGolf.com where you can now choose from a large variety of styles of gloves in 34 sizes! *US residents only. Request to introduce an episode to GolfSmarterPodcast@gmail.com. Follow @golfsmarter on Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube for daily highlights and helpful insights from our interviews on the podcast. We also post articles and video shorts on LinkedIn @FredGreene (from Novato, CA). This episode is sponsored by Indeed. Please visit indeed.com/GOLFSMARTER and get a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT.Terms and conditions apply. This episode is brought to you by Mint Mobile. For a limited time all Mint Mobile wireless plans are $15 a month when you purchase a 3-month plan.To get this new customer offer and your new 3-month unlimited wireless plan for just $15 bucks a month, go to MINTMOBILE.com/GOLFSMARTER.This episode is brought to you by Timeline Nutrition. Timeline is offering 10% off your first order of Mitopure. Go to timeline.com/GOLFSMARTER.This episode is brought to you by ONE Bar. Find all ONE bars at a retailer near you or on Amazon.comFor 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 349 published on September 19, 2012.
0:07.1	Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans.
0:09.9	Your second chance to gain insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the
0:15.9	Golf Smarter podcast.
0:18.3	Great golf instruction never gets old. Our interview library features hundreds of hours
0:24.7	of game improvement conversations like this that are no longer available in any podcast app.
0:30.7	The faster the green, the less slope you can have before that point is reached.
0:35.5	The slower the green, or you've got to tilt it, then you'll
0:38.0	reach the point with a greater tilt, but it's always the combination of the green speed and the slope
0:42.6	steepness. And so if you say everybody mows their greens today to about step nine, that limit is
0:48.6	reached around a 6% slope. And all golf course architects know this one too. If they make 7% slope, the golf course
0:58.4	is going to stump 10. You're not going to have holes there. He's just luxuriating and spending
1:03.5	somebody else's money by designing that sort of green because the person that owns the golf course
1:08.8	is not really going to be able to use 7% slope
1:11.6	unless they get really slow grass.
1:14.6	And their members don't like slow grass.
1:15.6	They're always steep for nines or whatever.
1:18.6	If you inform yourself about golf course architecture,
1:21.6	you will know that the range of steepness of slope kind of maxes out around 6%.
1:28.0	Learning to read the practice greens gives you a huge advantage with Jeff
1:36.1	Mangum.
1:36.6	This is Golf Smarter.
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