golf SMARTER · Fred Greene

NOT ABOUT GOLF! The Life Changing Joy of Playing the Game with author Mike Berland

·47 min·4 clips
Instinct putting involves looking at the hole instead of the ball, just like shooting a basket.
Host Fred Greene interviews author Mike Berlin about his book 'Not About Golf,' exploring how golf fosters joy, networking, and personal growth beyond just sport. They discuss debunking golf intimidation, the dopamine rush from playing, character assessment on the course, and the rise of simulator golf.

As heard by us

A golf chat about belonging, not swing mechanics.

This episode treats golf as a social machine, and that reading holds up. It shows how handicaps can flatten the room, how the game lowers the pressure to belong, and why people keep coming back even when the round itself is messy.

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Why you'd press play

A golf conversation that treats handicap math as the thing that makes mixed-skill rounds actually work.

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