Mastering Golf's Mental Game with Dr. Michael T. Lardon

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Josh Karp

Sports, Golf

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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GS#460 October 28, 2014 Sports Psychiatrist Dr. Michael T. Lardon returns to discuss his latest book Mastering Golf’s Mental Game - Your Ultimate Guide to Better On-Course Performance and Lower Scores - In this helpful book, Dr. Lardon shows us how to organize our thoughts and use them for maximum performance. Not just an associate clinical professor of medicine at UC San Diego, Michael was a world ranked table tennis player. So he understands how the mental game can bring us down. But he also knows how to get into the zone and stay focused on what works. Since this is two episodes combined from our Members Only period, in part 2 Dr. Lardon discusses his work with PGA Tour players including how he developed a close relationship with Phil Mickleson.This episode is brought to you by Warby Parker with over 300+ locations to help you find your next pair of glasses. You can also head over to warbypaker.com/golfsmarter right now to try on any pair virtually!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. 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, I'm Sam Wutchinstein from Fort Worth, Texas, and I play at Mirro Vista Country Club.
0:05.7	This is Golf Smarter.
0:07.1	Number 460.
0:08.7	Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans.
0:11.7	Your second chance to gain insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the
0:17.4	Golf Smarter podcast.
0:19.9	Great golf instruction never gets old. Our interview
0:23.9	library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations like this that are no
0:29.7	longer available in any podcast app. If in that shot, you took the second or two or five seconds
0:35.7	to figure out, I'm really going to hit a seven iron and you're not ambivalent, you make your best choice. You have met the first criteria of the shot. The next criteria is to make sure you sort of feel the shot, how's it gonna feel if you put, right? You know how when we put, we kind of walk halfway and this is the feel of it. And then you get in and hit it.
0:55.0	And it's that simple.
0:56.0	And if you do those three things, regardless of the result, because we're only concerned
1:01.0	with everything that happens before the ball leaves the club face.
1:05.0	Because after it leaves the club face, there's not a lot we can do.
1:08.0	But if you do those three things, that shot's a one for one.
1:11.9	If you don't do all of those three things, you do not get the point, and it's a zero for one.
1:17.4	And again, that's independent of the result. You got 100 shots. Only 50 of them did you do it?
1:23.2	The other 50 you were smoking cigars chatting. If you apply this very simple concept, it's hard not to
1:31.1	increase your percentage to 60 or even more maybe, and that really will have a huge impact in the
1:37.6	average golfer.
1:43.4	Mastering Golf's Mental Game with author Dr. Michael T. Larden.
1:47.3	This is Golf Smarter.
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