Master Golf Like It’s Presented On TV — One Shot At A Time! featuring Josh Zander

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Sports, Golf

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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GS#996 Summary This week we welcome back Josh Zander to discuss various aspects of improving golf performance, including the importance of decision-making on the course, the balance between eliminating doubles and making birdies, and the role of physical fitness in achieving greater distance and consistency. The conversation also delves into practice strategies, focusing on lag putting versus chipping, understanding lies around the green, and the significance of club selection based on conditions. Throughout the discussion, Zander emphasizes the need for golfers to be better decision-makers and to manage their emotions effectively while playing. Josh also shares the intricacies of making smart decisions in golf, the importance of leveraging technology for improvement, and the critical role of finding the right coach. He emphasizes the need for continuous adjustment in one's game and the definition of a beautiful swing as one that produces the desired ball flight.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 Bank of America, who supports everyone determined to find out what's possible, in golf and in life. Meet game-changing golfers at bankofamerica.com/mastersgolf.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 sponsored by HIMS. Start your free online visit today HIMS.com/golfsmarter and received personalized ED treatment options.This episode is also sponsored by SelectQuote. Make sure you get the right life insurance for YOU, for LESS, at selectquote.com/golfsmarter today and get started.This episode is brought to you by PXG. Schedule your fitting today and for a limited time you could save up to 20% on your ENTIRE order! Head over to PXG.com/smarter. Restrictions apply, see site for details.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... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Aloha. This is Richie Peckner, Maui resident. Just finished three rounds with Fred Green here on the island.
0:10.8	This is Golf Smarter, episode 996. When you ask me, what's more important, where should I spend my time chipping or putting?
0:17.5	There's a lot more variability in chipping because you have different lies. On the putting green, you have a pretty good lie. But there's so much when a ball is not on a green that you have to understand. How your club interacts with the ground. What kind of bounce you have on your wedges? Is it into the grain? Is the down grain? The other day I was giving a chipping lesson. And I said, you have a couple options here. First look at the grass on the green. And part of it was kind of this pale, shiny look to it. The other one was deep green. I said,
0:41.5	well, the deep green is into the grain, and then you have down green. So where are you going to land it? Because if you landed in, the grain's going to kill it. If you land it down green, it's going a skid on you, how are you going to manage this shot? And so a big variability to just get
0:52.0	where the ball is going to land on the green. And the person was like, well, never even thought
0:55.6	about that. And sure enough, he hits his first one
0:57.6	into the down grain area, skids and goes about 15 feet past, hits his next shot a little shorter,
1:02.9	lands into the grain, ends about 10 feet short. And he didn't miss it either one of them,
1:06.5	but he's not going to make a two. He's going to make a three. So how are we going to manage that?
1:23.4	Master your game like it's presented on TV. One shot at a time. And their old friend Josh Zander.
1:33.4	This is Golf Smarter. Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ.
1:35.9	Here's your host, Fred Green.
1:39.0	Welcome back to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Josh.
1:41.8	Oh, thank you for having me again, Fred. It's always a pleasure.
1:45.0	Oh, it sounds so good. You got a real microphone. Yeah, I'm all teched up, baby. Let's go.
1:48.0	Just in time for episode 1000.
1:51.0	Just for you, Fred.
1:52.0	Listen, I made a list, not a long list. I made a short list of the people I want to have come back leading up to episode 1,000 or hovering around
2:02.9	episode 1,000, and you are very high on the list, my friend, because every time you're on,
2:09.0	my game improves for at least two months.
2:13.4	Well, then maybe I just need to be on every two months.
2:17.3	Okay. I think we can follow. It on every two months. Well, okay.
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