Winning the Battle Within - The Perfect Swing Is The One You Trust with Dr. Glenn Albaugh (RIP)

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Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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GS#420 January 21, 2014 NFL head coach Pete Carroll was a long time friend, and former sports psychology student at University of Pacific of this week’s guest, Dr. Glen Albaugh. On the cover of Glen’s book, “Winning the Battle Within” Coach Carroll is quoted as saying “Glen’s teachings helped form my coaching philosophy.” Whether you’re rooting for Pete or not, you have to admire his attitude, and his approach to competition and winning. Dr. Glen Albaugh has created a unique Applied Sport Psychology Consulting Service for a wide range of professional and amateur golfers. Formerly a sports psychology instructor at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California for 28 years where he coached the Pacific Tigers golf team. It was during this time, while working with the finest sports psychologists, coaches and golf instructors in the world, that he formulated the basis for the principles in his renowned book, which was authored with Michael Bowker, Winning the Battle Within. These principles have been refined over the years through applications and consultations with established touring pros, and a broad-base of amateurs – juniors to elite. By establishing structure in pre, post and in-between shot routines, Glen gives golfers the ability to apply his most profound insight “the perfect swing is the one you trust”. In Winning the Battle Within – this podcast episode, the book, and his workshop/consultations – Glen features quality practice describing drills that will enhance learning and improve performance.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... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Golf Smarter number 420, published on January 21, 2014.
0:06.7	Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans.
0:09.7	Your second chance to gain insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the Golf Smarter podcast.
0:17.9	Great golf instruction never gets old.
0:21.4	Our interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations like
0:26.5	this that are no longer available in any podcast app.
0:30.5	Another way is the way we practice, and I think golfers even to Houselaw will violate
0:35.9	these principles probably more than any other sport that I know.
0:39.3	So we need to practice in a different way. There's three ways to practice. One is hitting 57 irons.
0:45.3	That's good if you're going to enter a seven iron tournament, but I'm not sure when that is.
0:50.3	The other way to practice, if we're on a range, is to practice like you play.
0:54.3	So how about next time you go to the range?
0:56.5	Why don't you do first shot practice?
0:58.5	Change targets on every shot.
1:00.0	I can use the same club.
1:01.5	If you really have some skill, you can change the shape of the shot.
1:05.0	You can change clubs on each shot, but you can't repeat anything.
1:08.5	What you're going to find during your practice probably won't practice as well as when you hit 57 irons in a row,
1:14.7	but it's going to correlate more significantly to what you do when you apply on the course.
1:25.0	Winning the Battle Within, the return of Dr. Glenn Albop.
1:29.1	This is Golf Smarter.
1:31.7	Sharing tips and insights from golfers and golf professionals to help lower your score.
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