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Play Golf Pain Free Forever With These Keys to Longevity | #868

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Sports, Golf

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

868: Chris Finn of Par4Success.com returns to discuss the key to longevity in golf, which includes no pain, hitting the ball further, and playing golf as long as possible. In this conversation we go over the 4 main rotational mobility tests. Golf Smarter listeners can do the tests themselves and get access to their assessment and a free call to discuss the results and a plan with one of their experts at par4success.com/golfsmarter. Watch this complete interview at https://youtu.be/lp4i8weIvZs . To see more of our videos of interviews, golf tips from pros, travel stories, tech reviews, and more, visit YouTube.com/@golfsmarter .This episode is brought to you by Imagine Golf, the #1 app for Golf’s Mental Game. Download the Imagine Golf app now from the Apple App Store or Google Play to start your free 7-day trial.This episode is also brought to you by Athletic Greens from AG1. Sign up at athleticgreens.com/golfsmarter and get a FREE one year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND five FREE travel packs with your first purchase. This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans #183 features a conversation first published in 2011 with Stan Utley!Become a Golf Smarter Ambassador by introducing our next episode! For your effort you’ll receive a choice of prizes including a Glove + Glove Compartment from RedRoosterGolf.com. where you can choose from 11 styles of gloves in 26 sizes! Write to GolfSmarterPodcast@gmail.com and we’ll assign you an episode number 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. Thanks to RedRoosterGolf.com for giving a new glove to every Golf Smarter Ambassador who introduces an upcoming episode!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

If somebody's willing to actually deal with it, so they take the home assessment and they're like, oh my gosh, I filled my hips in my shoulders, let's say. Literally in four to six weeks, we generally will have it to the point where like, hey, you pass those tests. Let's say you had a six month off season. Now you still have four to five months left. Now you can work on your golf stuff with good mobility

0:21.3

and doing it the right way. And I don't know if this is true, but I've heard that practicing

0:25.2

correctly actually is better for you than practicing incorrectly. Does that lead to better

0:29.8

results? I don't know. And overpracticing incorrectly. It really kill you. Exactly. So, you know, getting your body to the point where you can get to these positions and get to where you want to be,

0:41.1

now all of a sudden now your practice in the off season becomes that much more effective.

0:44.5

Hey, this is Lou Lafano from Newport Beach, California, and I play at Costa Mesa Country Club.

0:50.6

This is Golf Smarter, number 868.

0:54.2

Play golf pain-free forever with these keys to longevity with Chris Finn of parfor-success.com.

1:01.5

This is Golf Smarter. Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you

1:08.6

lower your score and raise your golf IQ. Here's your host, Fred Green.

1:14.4

Welcome back to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Chris. Thanks so much, Fred. It's good to be here.

1:19.1

It's good to have you back on. Love talking about how we can make sure, how we can ensure that we're

1:26.4

going to be playing golf the rest of our lives.

1:28.7

And, you know, it's one thing to work on your swing mechanics.

1:31.6

It's another thing to work on your mental game.

1:33.5

But the most important tool in your bag, as we've said over and over again, is your body.

1:41.3

And probably the most neglected tool in your bag, too, right? It's the most used and the most neglected tool in your bag too, right?

1:45.8

It's the most used and the most neglected 100%.

1:48.7

It really is.

1:50.6

I mean, it's like we'll spend 500 bucks on a club that you hit 10 times during around,

1:58.9

hopefully 12, right?

2:04.2

But you spend 500 bucks to go get your body assessed?

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