So Long Fred....Hello Josh!!

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Sports, Society & Culture, Golf

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

GS1029 April 14, 2026 Our 'guest' is journalist, author and producer, Josh Karp, who, in 2010, wrote “Straight Down The Middle” about his non-traditional golf instruction journey, largely based on people he heard on Golf Smarter. Recently, Josh wrote to Fred about coming on the show again to promote a golf podcast he was about to launch. After a couple conversations, it was decided that if Golf Smarter was to continue, based on his journalistic curiosity and sense of humor, Josh was the perfect person to take over. In this first of two episodes together, we meet Josh, find out what's he's been up to, and learn about why he wants to take the reins on our show.
Next week, we'll both interview Jim Waldron, and then Josh will be the host moving forward.
So as not to shake things up too much, Golf Smarter will continue twice each week. Tuesday's will be new episodes with Josh. On Fridays we’ll continue to rerun Fred's archived Mulligans episodes.
I hope you’ll check him out and continue to listen. Thanks so much for your support and friendship over the years. As Fred moves into his retirement, his focus will be on playing and practicing a lot more golf.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Andre Otto. I'm from Henderson, Nevada, and I play at Revere Golf Club, and this is Golf Smarter.
0:10.7	Golf Smarter, number 1029.
0:13.9	I want to continue your work. We're different people, but a lot of commonality.
0:18.5	But we both like to talk about golf, and the people I have talked to for episodes that I've recorded, a lot of it is about different approaches to how to swing the club. But what's interesting to me is how to improve your game. But what's also interesting to me is the stories of the people behind what they did and how they came to doing that. And that is really fascinating to me. And I love the different viewpoints people bring to it. It's like anything. If it's movies, if it's baseball, if it's politics, everybody's got their unique take on it. And so the point isn't the technical stuff, because I'm not qualified to be a technical golf person. But I'm so frustrated by the world of, you've got to be in a right position,
0:54.7	you got to do this, you got to do that, where you get caught up in trying to be perfect and trying
0:59.9	to consciously do things. And so that's a lot of what the show is going to be about, is people
1:04.6	talking about practical advice about, here's a couple drills that you don't need to take lessons.
1:17.5	So long, Fred.
1:19.6	Hello, Josh.
1:22.1	Ah, there's a chain to coming.
1:24.4	This is Golf Smarter.
1:28.7	Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score
1:30.4	and raise your golf IQ.
1:33.0	Here's your host, Fred Green.
1:35.5	Welcome back to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Josh.
1:38.5	Hey, Fred.
1:39.0	Thanks for having me.
1:41.1	Well, you know, it's a little bit more than that.
1:43.8	It is, but thank you for having me on regardless.
1:47.6	Yes.
1:48.1	Well, you know, you reached out to me recently saying,
1:50.9	I don't know if you remember me.
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