The Secret to Transforming Your Game with Fred Shoemaker of Extraordinary Golf

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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GS#402 September 17, 2013 “You’ll become a ‘golfer’ when learning becomes more important than the outcome of your shot.” Be prepared to have your normal perceptions of improvement challenged, Fred Shoemaker of Extraordinary Golf talks about his DVD.Please check out this article about Fred's golf and podcast journey called "A Lifetime On The Air" that was published in the NCGA Magazine (Northern California Golf Association) recently! Get more when your visit the refreshed golfsmarter.com! Introduce an Upcoming Episode: Receive free gifts for recording a show opening by clicking on "Record Your Show Open Here!" tab on the right side of golfsmarter.com. Watch Daily Video Highlights from Our Interviews: Follow @golfsmarter on Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube daily to see our highlights and helpful insights from our interviews on the podcast. Post a Review: you'll receive three free gifts when you post an honest review about Golf Smarter the podcast. Fill Out a Listener Survey: It only takes a few minutes to fill out our survey, which helps us to better serve your interests in the podcast. You'll receive a free link to Tony Manzoni's video and Justin Tang’s summary of Tony’s Lost Fundamental on pdf! This episode is brought to you by BreakfastBalls.Golf. Visit BreakfastBalls.Golf for the best quality and pricing on premium used golf balls. Find your favorite brand at half the price of new balls! Use GOLFSMARTER at checkout for 20% off your order!This episode is brought to you by the Tour Striker Golf Academy. Visit tourstriker.com/TSGA and use the code GOLFSMARTER to get your first month of the Tour Striker GolfAcademy Online free, plus instant access to two bonus courses—'The Recipe for Better Golf' and 'Bombs: How to Consistently Smash the Driver”: a $194 value for free.This episode is brought to you by 5Hour Energy. 5-hour ENERGY Transfusion flavor is available online or in stores. Head to 5hourENERGY.com and order yours today!Check out "Invested in the Game", a new original podcast from Charles Schwab. This podcast is their way of sharing the incredible stories behind the game. Listen now at schwab.com/TheGame or wherever you get your podcasts.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 Indeed. Please visit indeed.com/GOLFSMARTER and get a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT. Terms and conditions apply. 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 402 published on September 17, 2013.
0:05.8	Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans.
0:08.7	Your second chance to gain insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the Golf Smarter podcast.
0:17.0	Great golf instruction never gets old.
0:20.3	Our interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations like this
0:26.6	that are no longer available in any podcast app.
0:29.6	We haven't figured out fully that being present is the access to success.
0:33.6	Getting out of your head and the future and past outcomes that were in these scenarios all the time.
0:38.5	Just being there, feeling the club, sensing your body, being with the target, whatever you choose.
0:43.2	To me, that's the only way I've ever accessed great performance.
0:46.3	And yet my mind, like everybody else's mind, has concerns about outcomes and how I'll look and what people will say
0:52.2	and the whole story is the whole bit like every other human being. And That's automatic. It's just going to happen. Now the question is, can I observe
0:59.0	it happening? Oh, my mind just said don't hit it right. Let it alone and come back to the task at
1:05.4	hand. See, that's what you train a tournament player to be able to let go of an irrelevant thought.
1:11.6	Observe it,
1:16.4	let it alone, and come back to the task at hand. That's called coming back. And that's what great tournament players have to do. Most people get lost in these, I'm three over for four.
1:20.5	If I can part the next six, I'll shoot 39, and da-da-da-da-da-da-nall. Way you go this way.
1:24.1	Kiss of death. Yes. And we don't even know that we're gone.
1:37.8	The secret to transforming your game with Fred Shoemaker of Extraordinary Golf. This is Golf Smarter.
1:40.5	Sharing tips and insights from golfers and golf professionals to help lower your score.
1:46.0	It's worked for your host, Fred Green.
1:48.7	Welcome back to Golf Smarter, Fred.
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