Picking The Best Driver For Your Game - with Club Fitter Nick Manzano
golf SMARTER
Josh Karp
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🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Golf Smarter number 395, published on July 30, 2013. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans. |
| 0:08.0 | Your second chance to gain insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the Golf Smarter podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | Great golf instruction never gets old. |
| 0:20.0 | Our interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. |
| 0:29.1 | Most people's bags are all screwed up. Shafts don't match up. Most wedges have very stiff shafts. The average golfer in here plays a regular flex lightweight steel shaft or graphite. |
| 0:52.6 | Even if you're 20 index, a 30 index, you can pick up an eight iron or a wedge. Not every shot, but you can stick it in the grate. And when you make that shot, you'd like to see the same results you see on TV. When it looks pretty and everything works right, but if the shaft is too stiff on the wedge or some spec, the loft, the lie is |
| 0:54.8 | off, and it doesn't seem to match |
| 0:56.7 | your irons, it's going to be harder to make shaft is two steps on the wedge, or some spec, the loft, the lie is off, and it doesn't seem to |
| 0:56.5 | match your irons, it's going to be harder to make that shot in the first place and then you're not |
| 0:59.8 | to get the desired results. So wedge fitting is probably more important than the iron fitting |
| 1:04.8 | because at the end of the day, that's how you're going to score. That's how you're going to save your par. |
| 1:09.1 | That's how you're going to stick that club and give yourself that birdie putt picking the best driver for your game |
| 1:19.9 | with club fitter nick monsano this is golf smarter welcome back to golf smarter for members only nick |
| 1:27.0 | thank you good to have you here we're in your offices at the golf mart here in Welcome back to Golf Smarter for members only, Nick. Thank you. |
| 1:28.3 | Good to have you here. |
| 1:29.3 | We're in your offices at the Golf Mart here in San Rafael, California. |
| 1:32.9 | If you want to know more about where you can go to one of the sister's stores, go to worldwide golf shops, Google that, and you'll find something near you, somewhere in the United States. |
| 1:43.6 | It seems like they |
| 1:44.4 | are growing and it's a quality organization. I've been dealing with them for a long time and I'm |
| 1:48.9 | really glad to spend some time with you talking about custom club fitting and why there's |
| 1:56.3 | advantages for the average golfer, for all golfers, to be fitted from a local retailer or, as you called, a pro shop on steroids, versus... |
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