Premium: Keeping Your Golf Swing Simple with Jim Samsing

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Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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570: Jim Samsing of the Bird Golf Academy career as a golf teaching professional spans more than three decades. A competitive player since 1970, and the winner of the 1973 Montbello Open Pro-Am, Jim also recorded top 10 finishes in several state opens. Jim was also the Head Professional at Mission Hills C.C. in the mid 70’s. His teaching philosophy is to keep the swing as simple as possible, developing strong fundamentals and swing skills, and using the brain as the major tool in the development of these skills. He is the foremost expert in the theory of the “Double Connexion”, a mental discipline used on the PGA tour. Jim is a true master and student of the game, who’s style is successful with players of all abilities. Jim is also an accomplished club fitting specialist. We are proud to have Jim as our West Coast Director of Instruction.For Premium subscribers, here’s a link https://youtu.be/_fjVwY_IY28> to a bonus video of the Golf Smarter Podcast published December 13, 2016. Podcast host Fred Greene sits down with Rocio Robles, General Manager of El Manglar Campo de Golf (Golf Course) Riviera Maya, Mexico. Operated by Vidanta Golf, El Manglar is a Jack Nicklaus Design 18 hole - Par 54 course. Even though each hole is a par 3, holes from the black tees (2923yds) range in length from 103-276 yards, with 10 of the holes being over 150 yards and 11 having water in play. The four longest holes, #4 (223yds), #13 (276yds), #14 (195yds), and #18 (195yds), all require you to carry either streams or lakes. We wouldn't be surprised if the slope from the back tees are over 133, but no rating or slope is offered. Inserted throughout the interview with Rocio, Fred provides commentary, photos, and video from his round and a time-lapse of the sunrise from the beach. This is an incredible property on the Caribbean coast of Mexico, south of Cancun, north of Playa del Carmen, that boasts 5 hotels,For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Golf Smarter Premium, number 570, published on December 13, 2016.
0:10.0	Keeping your golf swing simple with Jim Samson.
0:14.9	This is Golf Smarter Premium.
0:18.2	Here's your host, Fred Green.
0:20.8	Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Jim.
0:23.5	Fred, how are you doing today?
0:24.6	I'm doing well.
0:25.4	Thank you for joining us.
0:26.8	It's my pleasure.
0:28.0	You were on the PGA tour.
0:29.8	Is that correct?
0:30.9	Basically not.
0:32.0	I was playing a little bit on the satellite tours and many tours and that type of thing.
0:37.8	I tried a few Mondayay morning qualifiers and
0:40.5	uh... that was about the extent of it yes and how successful were you
0:44.6	uh... that's why i'm teaching golf today
0:47.1	it's not an easy life though is it
0:50.5	no it really wasn't and and back in those days in the early 70s, the financial rewards were quite as good as they are today.
0:59.4	Especially at that second, third level.
1:02.4	Exactly. And then even when a tour, even when you made a cut back then, a lot of times you didn't get a check,
1:08.2	you just got the opportunity to play in the falling week's tournament, and that was it.
1:12.8	What made you think you could play competitively at that level?
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