Those Weekend Golf Guys

  This week on Those Weekend Golf Guys, The Second Best Golf Show in The World, Jeff explains the differenmces between teaching technique and asuring your equipment isright for you, Can yiu not hit yout driver straight because of your swing> Or because the shaft you have is wrong for you? You must have the right equipment before the lessoins, that you definitely need, will work. Join Top 100 teacher, Jeff Smith and John Ashton on this week's episode you can't afford to miss.  

This week on Those Weekend Golf Guys, The Second Best Golf how In The World, our guest is Tony Ruggiero, Golf Magazine Top 100 teacher and Golf Digest Top 40 Teacher.  Tony leads a team of golf instructors called “The dew Sweepers” He and Jeff spoke together at the PGA Merchandise Show this past week very very early in the morning. So early in fact, John couldn’t get his lazy butt out of bed. Tony leads an entire team of folks who work to make everyone who has he desire the best golfer they can be. Tony works with amateur and professional golfers, including tour players Lucas Glover, Zach Sucher, Robby Shelton. and Bill Haas. One hour of listening to two of the best golf instructors in the world can teach you a lot. All you have to do is listen! 

Those weekend Golf Guys, The Second Best Gold Show In The World, this week answers a bunch of question you may (or may not) have been asking your self for quite q while. Questions like: What is Smash Factor, and why do I care? Do golf clubs ever wear out? Can a $350 launch monitor work right? And even more things you never knew or never knew you needed to know.

This week on the Second Best Golf Show In The World, Those Weekend Golf Guys. A couple things of interest. First, Golf Magazine contacted Jeff Smith after Colin Morikawa chokes and chunked a few chips to lose the Sentry Tournament of Champions. Jeff then contributed 3 ways to chip successfully every time/ Jeff reiterates the instructions here. And then we welcome in a guest, Ron Sullivan, who had an idea that we bet every single one of you has also had except Ron did something about it. He created Pro Tips Golf which is a phone app that helps you play a course more easily with suggestions on how to play the course from the course pro. It makes playing a new course, or any course, so much easier. 

This week on the Second Best Golf Show In The World, Those Weekend Golf Guys, Jeff explains how changing the grip size for a client changed his whole game. And once again explains the importance of getting fitted for your clubs. He also assures us all there is no “right” or “wrong” way to do things. It is an individual fit and that everyone must become “a feel player”.  Listen to this week’s show and all of this will make perfect sense.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Since it’s a holiday we here at Those Weekend Golf guys take the time off to reflect on the past year. We hope you now understand why we were recognized as The Second Best Golf Show in the world, Number One in USA! This week we present the BEST (That We Could Find) of Those Weekend Golf Guys. We repeat a show from back in October that featured one of our favorite guests and one helluva gold instructor, Kellie Stenzel. Make 2023 your year to break (insert your target number here) with tips and tricks from Jeff Smith and the rest of the crew of Those Weekend Golf Guys.

Get Up And Down every time! As daunting as it is, those two shots from off the green for par (hopefully for par) are knee knockers. But if you follow Jeff Smith’s instructions this week, you should be getting that ship close enough for an easy par putt. It’s not as hard as you might think to get up and down if you listen to Jeff Snith’s chipping and putting instructions. Also, if you have a business with 5 employees or more we have our new client, Jonathan Pittard from refundsasap.com explain how you can get up to $26,000 cash back from the government if you stayed open during the pandemic. Another great episode this week on Those weekend Golf Guys: The Second Best Golf Show In The World.

The answer to your putting woes may be the grip of your club! Yup, the flat part may not be best  laying at a 90 degree angle from your putter face. Your arms hand differently from person to person. It could be that your arm’s natural hang is incompatible with your grip position. This means that you may never be able to aim the putter right until you change the orientation of your putter grip. Jeff Smith and our guest instructor, Sara Stone discuss this and other techniques that are revolutionizing the golf instruction field and may just ne the secret to you actually getting better after all these years.

Your Golf Game is a MESS! MESS, the Mental, the Emotional, the Social, and the Spirit side of golf. Brooke Watts from Round Rock Texas joins us on this weeks program and talks about how “MESS’d” Up your golf game can get from many outside sources. So often, if you are off mentally (maybe there’s a work thing going on that’s messing up your thinking) or you’re emotionally challenges these problems manifest themselves as performance problems. Maybe a glitch in your swing or you aren’t turning completely, or some other element of performance is affected. But it isn’t a performance issue! In order to fix the performance, we need to identify the cause which could be any of the elements of the MESS!

Your Golf Game is a MESS! MESS, the Mental, the Emotional, the Social, and the Spirit side of golf. Brooke Watts from Round Rock Texas joins us on this weeks program and talks about how “MESS’d” Up your golf game can get from many outside sources. So often, if you are off mentally (maybe there’s a work thing going on that’s messing up your thinking) or you’re emotionally challenges these problems manifest themselves as performance problems. Maybe a glitch in your swing or you aren’t turning completely, or some other element of performance is affected. But it isn’t a performance issue! In order to fix the performance, we need to identify the cause which could be any of the elements of the MESS!

Strange as it may be John and Jeff actually agree with the new rules that take effect on January 1, 2023. They all seem to make sense but really only come into play in some serious competition. And speaking of serious competition, a very serious competitor, Ava Bunker joins us in studio. She is one of Jeff’s students and won the Junior World this past summer and a bunch of other tournaments plus the Indiana High School Girls Championship. We talk about routine, preparation, and practice with a champion. Another opportunity for you to get a lot better this week on the World’s Second Best Golf Show, Those Weekend Golf Guys

WE got a message through the Instagram account (john.thegolfguy) from a listener, Craig Burden. He had just listened to the “If You Think, You Stink” episode. The message from Craig was “…it changed my life!” He had listened to Jeff Smith counsel us to stop over thinking everything, develop a repeatable pre-shot routine and stick to it. Well, Craig took the advice to heart and on this week’s episode he tells us how it helped. A listener with measurable results from just one episode! Craig Burden is our guest this week on the second-best golf show in the world, Those Weekend Golf Guys

This week another great episode of Those Weekend Golf Guys, the Second Best Golf Show in the world! Joining John Ashton and Jeff Smith is Kellie Stenzel, another of Golf Magazine’s Top 100 teachers. If you listen you will hear so many wonderful tips and tricks that will help you shoot a lower score as soon as your next round. Jeff and Kellie discuss some techniques for a much better short game; some ideas about using wedges that can revolutionize your short game. http://www.kelliestenzelgolf.com/”>Kellie Stenzel, a Golf Magazine Top 100 Teacher and PGA Master Professional  joins the guys this week for another great episode of Those Weekend Golf Guys.

Top 100 Teacher, James Hong returns to the show for more teaching technique conversations with another Top 100 Teacher, our own Jeff Smith. The guys all talk about things they run into every day while on their mission to make amateur golfers better golfers. There seem to be things that are universal in the golf community. There are many things many of us amateur golfers do that frustrate the hell out of our instructors. Listen and find out if you make any f these mistakes when dealing with your golf instructor.

This week Those Weekend Golf Guys discuss the easiest ways to piss off your favorite Golf Pro. Yup, special guest James Hong joins Jeff Smith and John Ashton to tell you the things that many of us do that really piss off golf Pros. Now both Jeff and James are Top100 teachers. They have been around and have taught many players so when these guys tell you doing “this” pisses off a teacher, you can believe them. So, listen close and if you do any of the things these guys list here this week stop it immediately! Things you do that piss off your PGA Pro. This week on Those Weekend Golf Guys

This is a good time to catch up with Jeff’s most successful student, Ava Bunker. She had a very successful summer winning a number of Junior Tournaments. This was also her inaugural High School golf team season and she (spoiler alert) blew everyone else away in the State Tournament. John and Jeff also discuss places to go in the US for a golf trip. East coast? We tell you the best choices. Western US? You got to do Vegas! Where to play and, more importantly for Jeff, where to eat! This week on Those Weekend Golf Guys.

Golf can be intimidating. From the cost of equipment, clothing, even greens fees. And then there are the rules, the etiquette, and the traditions. Instead of being nervous or intimidated, why not take an hour out of your day and hear how to do everything right? John and Jeff discuss everything from how to buy equipment cheap to what to do during and after a round. Everything that ever confused you about the game explained in great detail right now by Those Weekend Golf Guys. Listen now.

This week on Those Weekend Golf Guys, the second best golf show in the world, the three words you hate t hear on the golf course: Cart Path Only! Those 3 words open up a whole raft of special circumstances. Because the cause is wetness, there are different ways to swing, different clubs for the same lengths. And you must be careful not to slow down the pace of play too badly. It’s harder to get accurate distances. I mean, it’s almost a completely different game. Well, this week the guys help you navigate a wet course quickly, accurately, and efficiently. Listen this week as Jeff Smith, one of America’s Top 100 Golf Indstructors, suggest how to play well when the sign reads Cart Path Only.

If You Think – You Stink! Golf isn’t hard to play. It is hard to be good at, but not hard to play. In fact it is so very simple. Hit a ball with a stick, go get the ball, hit it again and again until you get it in the hole. You know why it seems to be so hard? Because we THINK it should be hard and we THINK too much and make it hard. You want to play golf? Here’s all you need to do. Find someone to teach you how to grip the club; how to position the ball; where to put your feet; how to swing the club; how to make center face contact between the club and the ball every time. That’s it! Those are the things you should think about and you should only think about them prior to swinging. When you have all those elements together, simply swing the club without thinking about it and watch how wonderful a shot you can hit. Another simple lesson from one of Aerica’s Top 100 golf instructors, Jeff Smith and Those Weekend Golf Guys