Unleash Your Creativity Using Pitching and Chipping with The Wedge Guy | #874

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Sports, Golf

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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874: Short game! The best way to lower scores is by practicing and fine tuning your shots from inside 100yds, and around the green. This week, Terry “The Wedge Guy” Koehler returns for his 17th appearance on Golf Smarter. We talk about various aspects of the short game and how much your creativity with each club can have you playing like the pros. We also discuss his company, Edison Golf and why his wedge designs are special in their design, feel, and performance.Listen to the complete podcast interview, or watch the highlights of this conversation that includes bonus footage on GolfSmarterTV! https://youtu.be/f5M1AlRsnjE or on today’s blogpost at https://GolfSmarter.com This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens from AG1. Sign up at athleticgreens.com/golfsmarter and get a FREE one year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND five FREE travel packs with your first purchase.This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans #190, Jim Waldron returns to discuss what he's observed from his students who succeed in improving and those who don't. His observations are so helpful that you shouldn't miss part 2 when he helps to turn you into a better golfer with lower scores.Become a Golf Smarter Ambassador by introducing our next episode! For your effort you’ll receive a choice of prizes including:A box of ODIN balls of your choice with the Golf Smarter logo. ODIN Golf is the only golf brand that sponsors and pays everyday golfers! See our custom page at odin-golf.com/pages/golfsmarter. A Glove + Glove Compartment from RedRoosterGolf.com where you can choose from a large variety of styles of gloves in 26 sizes! A private link to Tony Manzoni’s video “The Lost Fundamental”. Write to GolfSmarterPodcast@gmail.com and we’ll send you simple instructions and a brief script to record for the intro of the show. In addition to sharing your home course, you now have the opportunity to offer your favorite Golf Smarter lesson, episode, insight or teacher.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Former GolfSmarter host, Fred Greene has been nominated for the 2025 Audiocaster of the Year by the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame Vote now at BARHOF.org. Voting is open through July 1. Please welcome our new host of Golf Smarter, Josh Karp! Fred has retired and will be working on his game with more intention than ever. You can stay up-to-date with Josh on all the GolfSmarter social accounts or by reaching out at karpj2323@mac.com. To stay connected with Fred reach out at golfsmarterpodcast@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A chip shot is going to be something within six, eight, ten yards of the green where you
0:07.0	want to fly it, maybe 30 feet and have a roll out another 30.
0:11.0	You're not looking at it to spin and check up.
0:14.0	To me, a pitch shot, I want it airborne, I want it landing softly or I want it landing with a
0:18.0	lot of spin.
0:19.0	And to hit that pitch shot, I've got to get the ball in the air,
0:21.6	and I don't have a lot of clubhead speed.
0:23.6	I'm hitting that ball 20 yards or 30 yards.
0:26.6	So how the ball flies is a function of clubhead speed and the loft of the golf club.
0:31.6	The slower the club is moving, the more loft you need to get up in the air.
0:35.6	Hi, this is Steve Nakarado from Tacoma, Washington,
0:38.9	and I play at Lake Spanaway. This is Golf Smarter number 874. The creativity involved and the
0:47.0	difference between pitching and chipping with the wedge guide. Terry Kaler. This is Golf Smarter.
0:57.6	Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ. Here's your host, Fred Green. Welcome back
1:05.4	to the Golf Smarter podcast, Terry. Oh, it's really good to be here again. Been too long. It has. It's been since September of
1:14.2	2021, the last time you're on. And I was actually going over my spreadsheet today. And it's like,
1:19.4	Terry may have been on more than any person. I mean, I've had people in Jim Waldron's been on a lot.
1:24.5	Joe parents been on a lot. You're the, you're the, my, the wedge guy,
1:29.7	and this is actually your 17th appearance on Golf Smarter. Oh, wow. Well, we always have fun when we do it.
1:37.4	And, you know, I love sharing things I've learned in my 40 years in the industry and nearly 70 play in the
1:43.5	game. And, you know, I never met anybody that knew too much about anything.
1:47.8	So I figure if I can help some of your listeners with something maybe they haven't heard before,
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