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What the Fastest Golfer In History Can Teach Us About Playing Slow Golf with Christopher Smith, PGA

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3577 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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808: Christopher Smith is an award winning PGA Teaching Professional, and accomplished golfer, and since 2005 (according to the Guinness Book of World Records), the Fastest Golfer in History! Chris holds the Speed Golf record by shooting a 65 over 18 holes in only 44:06. Yes. 44 minutes and 6 seconds! But how does that help us? You’d be surprised. We get into his details of how he plays speed golf, but we also discuss what speed golf can do for your mental game and overall approach to each shot you make. You don’t have to be a runner to appreciate what we discuss, but as a golfer, you’ll get a lot more from the conversation than you think! For more visit christophersmithgolf.com Golf Smarter is your podcast forecaddie! As an entertainment service that enhances your game like a great caddie, we’re now accepting tips on the homepage at GolfSmarter.com. Please show your support so that we can continue to provide weekly, helpful, and entertaining content. Your donation can be as much, or as little as you’d like. It can be a one time offering or your can even do it recurring. Thank you very much. This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans 124 Dr. Joseph Parent joins us again to impart his brilliant mental game advice and introduce us to the book “The Art of the Mental Game”. This episode of Golf Smarter is brought to you by ReliefFactor.com/golfsmarter. If you have everyday aches and pains, Relief Factor is 100% drug-free and designed to be taken every day, so you can get out and stay out of pain.Go to ReliefFactor.com/GOLFSMARTER and order a 3-Week QuickStart for only $19.95.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

Well, I came up with Shift-Aulf golf as I'm staring at my keyboard here, and sometimes you hit Shift-alt in a key and you don't know what's going to come up.

0:09.5

And I continue to be amazed at how much is completely out of my control.

0:13.7

So I really don't know what's going to happen to a large extent.

0:17.2

And I've gotten much better at accepting that, where I'm just going to do my best when I make a golf swing,

0:23.1

where the ball ends up, I don't know.

0:24.9

Could we take some of those things to our life and integrate them

0:28.2

and understand that it may not go exactly as planned?

0:31.7

Golf Smarter number 8008 is brought to you by relieffactor.com slash golf smarter.

0:39.8

What the fastest golfer in history can teach us about playing slow golf with Christopher Smith.

0:47.0

This is Golf Smarter.

0:49.8

Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ.

0:57.6

Here's your host, Fred Green.

1:00.0

Welcome back to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Chris.

1:03.2

Thank you, Fred.

1:04.1

Pleasure to be here once every 20 years, right?

1:06.1

Something like that.

1:07.0

Something like that.

1:07.9

You know, I say welcome back, but it's been such a long time since we had you on that I admit that I forgot.

1:16.0

What a great teacher you are, what an inspirational teacher you are.

1:20.3

But luckily, Joe Hallett reminded me that I needed to get you back on the show.

1:25.5

My sister in crime, as I call him sometimes.

1:29.2

We look like brothers with people call us sisters and one of my dearest friends, colleagues.

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