Taking Your A+ Game from the Range to the Course with Ken Doherty

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Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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GS#443 July 1, 2014 Ever wonder why you’re a scratch golfer on the range and a bum on the course? Ken Doherty returns to discuss some technical issues, but the biggest factor is mental. Once you understand the difference, you'll see a change in your scoring.This episode is sponsored by Indeed. Please visit indeed.com/GOLFSMARTER and get a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT. Terms and conditions apply.This episode is sponsored by HIMS. Start your free online visit today HIMS.com/golfsmarter and received personalized ED treatment options. 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 number 443, originally published on July 1st, 2014.
0:06.3	Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the Golf Smarter podcast.
0:17.5	Great golf instruction never gets old. Our interview library features hundreds of hours of game
0:24.4	improvement conversations like this that are no longer available in any podcast app.
0:29.6	It's not just the club head. To me, it's their hands. Very often when they're swinging,
0:33.3	their hands are stopping at the ball and that snaps that clubhead ahead. You'll hit behind the ball.
0:38.0	You can hook the ball.
0:38.9	There's many unfortunate things that can happen when your hand stops. So I want somebody to take their hands as they're hitting the ball and to swing their hands out to the target. So that ensures that their hands stay forward. We don't want to hit at the ball. Like you said, you want to hit through the ball. So you try to think of either hitting through the ball, swinging your hands to the target.
0:54.8	I like to have people pick a spot beyond the ball, maybe an inch or two beyond, and try to hit the ground or see their club go through the grass beyond the ball. It can help a tremendous amount in short game and long to actually see your club go through the grass past the ball. And I've also used this opposite effect. People
1:12.3	want to get the ball in the air. So what they do is they try to flip their hands, they stay
1:16.2	behind the ball, they fall away. I've told people, I want you to hit this ball as low as possible.
1:21.7	Drill it five feet off the ground, and they've made perfect golf shots that go exactly the height
1:26.6	they're supposed to and they hit him
1:28.0	crisply. When somebody tries to hit the ball low, they instinctively know, okay, I've got to deal off
1:34.0	the club, I've got to get my hands forward and try to hit this ball low, get my way to the left.
1:38.7	That's how you hit a golf ball.
1:49.4	How to take your A game from the range to the course with Ken Doherty.
1:51.5	This is Golf Smarter.
1:54.8	Welcome back to the Golf Smarter podcast, Ken.
1:55.7	Thank you.
1:58.0	It's great to have you back on the show.
1:59.3	It's great to have you back in the studio.
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