President Ford Collapsed In My Arms on the Golf Course! And more Caddy Stories from JJ Resnick

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Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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785: JJ Resnick’s best friend was urging him to come to play golf at College of the Desert, then tragically lost his life. Grieving, and being a typically confused 20 yr old with no direction in life, JJ left Oregon for Palm Desert and after meeting the coach, Tony Manzoni his life changed forever. Today JJ is a successful businessman with amazing stories that include golf, billionaires, and Presidents. In this episode JJ sits down with host Fred Greene to share his emotional memories. Make sure to check out our blog post from this episode at GolfSmarter.com to see photos of JJ with President Ford, Arnold Palmer, Freddy Couples, and Oscar de la Hoya!Now after hearing wonderful stories about Tony from JJ, don't miss Golf Smarter Mulligans #101 this week as it's our our fourth of nine episodes featuring the late, great instructor Tony Manzoni. We continue our conversation about Getting To The Next Level, One Club at a Time. Mulligans is published each Friday to help with your weekend round.Tony’s book “The Lost Fundamental: One Simple Move. Better Golf Forever.” is available once again in either paperback or kindle formats. Find it at https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Fundamental-Simple-Better-Forever-ebook/dp/B07MZFSPBW/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=tony+manzoni&qid=1583280371&sr=8-1. The Lost Fundamental video is also available online! If you’re interested, please send your request to host Fred Greene at golfsmarterpodcast@gmail.com This episode is brought to you by GetMr.com. GetMr. Is the first dermatologist-developed skin health brand helping men build their healthiest skin without the hassle of multi-stop routines. The Daily is the first FDA-registered, 3-in-1 moisturizer, aftershave and safe 30SPF sunscreen that is formulated for men. GetMr. makes it as easy as possible to protect & refresh your skin #EVERYDAMNDAY. Visit GetMr.com and use our exclusive code ‘golfsmarter’ to unlock 25% off your first purchase. This is a limited time discount, so act now.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	A quick story on President Ford, it was like 105, and he was like, what, 91 or 92?
0:09.0	And I mean, everyone's telling him, like, I don't know if you should be playing out here, it's a little hot.
0:14.0	He's like, nope, nope, I'm playing.
0:16.0	So we're on number five, and he hits his five iron.
0:20.0	I'm standing there. He looks back at me like usual
0:23.4	and he's going like this, hand me the club and I just see his knees buckle and he's falling right
0:30.2	at me. I look back like this and I see Secret Service flying up and we lift him up, put them into the cart, and they race
0:41.6	them back off to their fleet of Suburban's.
0:44.7	30 minutes later, it's on CNN.
0:48.2	President Ford collapses on golf course and sent to Eisenhower.
0:53.6	My heart's racing right now just thinking about that
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1:04.5	dermatologist developed health brand helping men build their healthiest skin without the hassle of
1:10.3	multi-step routines.
1:12.3	Visit getmister.com, G-E-T-M-R, getmister.com, and use Golf Smarter to unlock their
1:19.9	limited time exclusive offer of 25% off your first purchase. More on GetMister coming up.
1:28.0	And a little setup on today's interview because even though the tease and the title of
1:33.3	this show is really good clickbait, it's just part of the story.
1:38.0	During April and May of this year on Golf Smarter Mulligans, you're aware that we're
1:42.1	featuring our past interviews with Tony Manzoni.
1:45.7	Well, today, I'm really excited to introduce you to someone whose life was changed by playing
1:52.2	golf at College of the Desert for Tony. People regularly ask me what my favorite interview was
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