PGA Show 2023 - Day 1 Demo & Fitting Day with Multiple Guests featured | #880

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Josh Karp

Sports, Golf

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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880: Join me for my first experience at the 70th annual PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando Florida. Day One is called DEMO & Fitting Day. Each year this is where nearly 30,000 PGA Professionals, golf leaders, industry executives and retailers from more than 86 countries come together to meet with more than 800 golf companies to get hands-on experience and a first look at their newest products. In this episode, we’ll head out to Orange County National Golf Center featuring the largest driving range in the world and meet a variety of companies who have interesting and unique products. Each of these interviews are also available as separate videos at YouTube.com/@golfsmarter. Next week we’ll go indoors to the show floor and meet other interesting products. Here are links to the people we meet in this episode: Orange Whip https://orangewhipgolf.com/ Perfect Hands https://www.perfecthandsgolf.com/ (use ACCELERATE20 for 20% off your order) Makefield Putters https://makefieldputters.com/ US Kids Club https://www.uskidsgolf.com/ Lagshot https://lagshotgolf.com/ Sqairz https://sqairz.com/ This episode is brought to you by Shopify. Sign up for a $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com/golfsmarter to take your business to the next level today. This episode is also brought to you by Sharp Focus Nutrition. Visit sharpfocusnutrition.com and use promo code SF10 for 10% off your first Sharp Focus Nutrition pack. Hear the full story about Sharp Focus Nutrition on episode 878. This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans #196, is well timed with the PGA Show as we talk to the unofficial spokesperson for professional custom club fitting, design, research and technology, Tom Wishon, in an episode we call How Custom Fit Clubs will Improve Your Game. Golf Smarter has been named by golfspan.com as one of the 10 Best Golf Podcasts for 2023, including being named the BEST GOLF PODCAST FOR YOUR MENTAL GAME. Check it out at https://www.golfspan.com/best-golf-podcasts. Become a Golf Smarter Ambassador by introducing our next episode! For your effort you’ll receive a choice of prizes including: A box of ODIN balls of your choice with the Golf Smarter logo. ODIN Golf is the only golf brand that sponsors and pays everyday golfers! See our custom page at odin-golf.com/pages/golfsmarter. A Glove + Glove Compartment from RedRoosterGolf.com where you can choose from a large variety of styles of gloves in 26 sizes! A private link to Tony Manzoni’s video “The Lost Fundamental”. Write to GolfSmarterPodcast@gmail.com and we’ll send you simple instructions and a brief script to record for the intro of the show. In addition to sharing your home course, you now have the opportunity to offer your favorite Golf Smarter lesson, episode, insight or teacher.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I want to thank you too because without people like you, guys like us, don't ever get out there.
0:09.9	People don't hear our story.
0:12.0	Nobody knows about us, so thanks for what you do.
0:14.2	Appreciate it.
0:14.9	Hi, this is Paul Dundas.
0:16.5	In addition to being a golf smarter listener since the beginning, I'm from Vosanar and in Netherlands,
0:24.8	and I play at the Vosanarsa Golf Club, Rosentzarin. This is Gossomiter number 880. Day one of the 2023 PGA merchandise show in Orlando, Florida, demo and fitting day.
0:34.0	This is Golf Smarter. Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help
0:41.1	you lower your score and raise your golf IQ. Here's your host, Fred Green. So over the next few
0:49.0	episodes, I invite you to join me from my first experience at the 70th annual PGA merchandise show in Orlando,
0:56.1	Florida. Day one is called Demo and Fitting Day. And once I secured my credentials at the Orlando
1:03.6	Convention Center, I got in a long line to board a bus for a 30-minute ride out to the Orange County National Golf Center,
1:12.6	home of the nation's largest driving range, which is so big that it's a full circle with everyone hitting balls towards the center of the circle.
1:23.7	Each year, the PGA merchandise show is where nearly 30,000 PGA professionals, golf leaders, industry executives, and retailers from more than 86 countries come together to meet with more than 800 golf companies to get hands-on experience and a first look at their newest products.
1:43.5	What I discovered over the three days is
1:45.9	the job number one of this show is retail. So even though I had media credentials, it became
1:52.4	pretty clear to each person I spoke to that I was not interested in buying hundreds of
1:57.8	each product for my store. I was just a content creator looking for stories.
2:02.8	As excited as they were for the exposure on a podcast, I can tell they were looking over my
2:08.0	shoulder for the next sale. So please join me as I meet and talk to a variety of people
2:13.7	about what their companies have to offer. Now, as a regular golf smarter listener,
2:18.3	you're probably aware that I tend to gravitate to the little guys with grand ideas. My feeling
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