The Golf Improvement Podcast

THE Golf Improvement Podcast Episode 229 with Dean Snell - Dean founded the Snell Golf golf ball company in 2015. Prior to starting Snell Golf, he played major roles in creating the original Titleis Pro V1 line and Taylormade golf ball line. He started Snell Golf in 2015 to "give back to consumers."

In this interview, Dean talks about how he decided to be trained in Plastics Engineering with minors in Chemistry and Math, and how he was hired to work with the Titleist Golf company. He also shares why he decided to create Snell Golf in 2015.

He discusses the most important golf ball technologies that influence how golf balls are constructed and that affect golf ball performance. He talks about some important Golf Ball Myths - Golf Ball Compression, and Making A Golf Ball Choice Based On Swing Speed.

Dean talks about the four different golf balls designs that Snell Golf offers - Get Sum, Prime 2.0, Prime 3.0, and Prime 4.0 - and how each of these can work best for different classes of golfers.

He ends the interview by sharing some of his views on the coming USGA Golf Ball Changes - and shares the most personally satisfying things from his 10 years of leading Snell Golf.

Click The Link Below to learn more about Snell Golf ...

In Episode 228 of THE Golf Improvement Podcast, Tony Wright interviews Keith Muir - creator of the ThoughtsFromTheTrain web site. Keith has been on a personal journey to find a "Gamer" putter for his personal golf game.

He talks about his initial interactions with Bruce Rearick - Burnt Edges Consulting - and what he has learned about his personal putting style and stroke.

Keith shares the detailed process he has used to test a lot of different putters in the past year. He shares some of the testing results, and how he has identified the SeeMore Mini Giant FGP as a great fit to now become his "Gamer" putter.

He also shares his journey to learn AimPoint Express green reading, and how that in fact has been the most important factor in improving his putting performance.

Here's a link to Keith's ThoughtsFromTheTrain web site ...

In Episode 227 of THE Golf Improvement Podcast, Tony Wright interviews John Novosel Jr. John and his father discovered - roughly 20 years ago - the amazing concept of Tour Tempo - which has value for golfers who want to improve their full swing and short game performance.

John shares some of the interesting details about how he and his father discovered how a 3 to 1 full swing tempo is what the best players in the world use. He discusses his Tour Tempo Total Game app, and the meaning of the Tour Tempo Long Game Tones - such as 18/6 up to 30/10.

He talks about some of the biggest myths that golfers have about their full swing tempos - and evidence that golfers can achieve significant swing improvements by creating full swings that are close to a 3 to 1 tempo.

John shares how he found out that effective Short Game Tempos are different - close to 2 to 1. He also talks about why they are different.

He finally shares what golfers can do to jump in to learning about THEIR full swing and short game tempos - and learn how to improve them and their golf games!

Web link to access the Tour Tempo web site ...

In Episode 226 of THE Golf Improvement Podcast, Tony Wright interviews David Orr - Golf Magazine Top 100 Teacher and creator of the Flatstick Academy in Southern Pines, North Carolina.

David talks about what motivated him to want to share his thoughts on how to best fit junior golfers for putters - and some of the mistakes that junior golfers can make with the putters they start with.

We discuss some of the most important starting elements for good putter fittings - Length, Lie, and Putter Weight.

We also discuss how putter weight can vary for different types of putters - blades and mallets - and about how the industry trend to creating heavier and heavier putters may not be helping all golfers.

David talks about how he is excited about the putter designs that he is creating with David Frisch at Goodwood Golf.

Finally - more than once in the interview - David talks about how getting junior golfers into well-fit putters can help them learn Coordination in their Putting Strokes.

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This Podcast Episode is sponsored by David Orr and The Flatstick Academy.

"Putting Instruction Without All Of The Bull!" Thanks David!

In Episode 225 of THE Golf Improvement Podcast, Tony Wright interviews Dr. David Creswell, the William S. Dietrich II Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. At his Health and Performance Laboratory, he studies what makes people resilient under stress, the science of mindfulness meditation, and wellness. He is also the Chief of Science at Equa Health - a mindfulness coaching app.

David discusses the role that mindfulness meditation can play in helping athletes and all of us develop resilience and equanimity in our lives. He also discusses the development of the Equa Health meditation app.

A recent addition to Equa Health is the addition of a biosignal respiration model.

The Equa Health team has created an opportunity for listeners of this podcast to use the beta version of the biosignal respiration model for 3 months! You can sign into the Equa Health on your smart phone, and use this code - GLF4LF (golf for life!)- to have access to this version.

NOTE - you will have to complete Elite User Terms - so that the Equa Health team can anonomously use your respiration data to improve the breathing models in the app.