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The Thing About Golf Podcast #81 – Rich Lerner

The Thing About Golf Podcast #81 – Rich Lerner

The voice will be familiar but there is much more to Golf Channel’s Rich Lerner than most golf fans would ever guess. 14 Dec 2022
Inside Golf Australia December 2022

Inside Golf Australia December 2022

This country’s biggest stars are all coming home to play the men’s and women’s Australian Open as well as the PGA Championship. 17 Nov 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #78 – Nicolas Colsaerts

The Thing About Golf Podcast #78 – Nicolas Colsaerts

From an early age Nicolas Colsaerts knew he was good. Not in a cocky way, just an acknowledgement he could do things with a golf ball others couldn’t. 2 Nov 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #76 – Lindsey Garden

The Thing About Golf Podcast #76 – Lindsey Garden

Women and caddies – two perspectives we don’t hear enough of in golf media and both bundled up in one interview. 5 Oct 2022
Huggan: Sergio’s departure disappoints but doesn’t surprise

Huggan: Sergio’s departure disappoints but doesn’t surprise

As these words are written, qualifying for the European Ryder Cup team that will attempt to recover the trophy from American hands in Italy a year from now is less than four days old. 11 Sep 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #74 – Paul McGinley

The Thing About Golf Podcast #74 – Paul McGinley

If not for a knee injury sustained playing Gaelic football as a teenager, Paul McGinley’s life may have turned out very different. 7 Sep 2022
Weiskopf ... an important voice lost – Huggan

Weiskopf ... an important voice lost – Huggan

Things were getting desperate. The column for the Sunday newspaper hadn’t been written and ideas were short. So, a phone call was made to the Rusacks Hotel that sits on the right side of the 18th fairway on the Old Course at St. Andrews. 22 Aug 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #72 – Eddie Pepperell

The Thing About Golf Podcast #72 – Eddie Pepperell

Eddie Pepperell is a two-time European Tour winner and owner of some of the game’s most unusual swing drills. 10 Aug 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #71 – Jose Maria Olazabal

The Thing About Golf Podcast #71 – Jose Maria Olazabal

Jose Maria Olazabal was one of the best of his generation – a dual Masters winner with one of the most admired short games in history. 27 Jul 2022
Huggan: Can we have our Old Course back please?

Huggan: Can we have our Old Course back please?

By the presumably informed calculation of a guy going by the name, Tiger Woods, the Open Championship is not scheduled to return to the Old Course at St. Andrews until 2030. This is no bad thing. 17 Jul 2022
Huggan: Was this really goodbye, Tiger?

Huggan: Was this really goodbye, Tiger?

So, was this goodbye? Or merely “see you later?” 16 Jul 2022
Huggan: LIV a little … but not too much

Huggan: LIV a little … but not too much

It isn’t often that golf administrators are seen to choke, but we might just be treated to such a sight (literally) at the conclusion of this 150th Open Championship. 16 Jul 2022
Huggan: My Open journey

Huggan: My Open journey

No one ever forgets their first time at The Open. 11 Jul 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #69 – Jaime Diaz

The Thing About Golf Podcast #69 – Jaime Diaz

Technically, writing is just the putting together of words to form sentences. However, like golf, that undersells by quite a margin the gift some have for it. 29 Jun 2022
Huggan: My U.S Open takeaway (and it’s not fish & chips)

Huggan: My U.S Open takeaway (and it’s not fish & chips)

In America, they call a column like this “takeaways.” Where I come from that means a fish supper. But no matter. 20 Jun 2022
Inside Golf Australia July 2022

Inside Golf Australia July 2022

The focus of the golfing world will turn to the spiritual home of the game – St. Andrews in Scotland – in July for the staging of the 150th Open Championship. 16 Jun 2022
Huggan: LIV Golf v the PGA Tour – the battle, pro golf needs to have

Huggan: LIV Golf v the PGA Tour – the battle, pro golf needs to have

Like all the best precedents, it came early. Long before Old Tom Morris – never mind his more illustrious off-spring – strode the links of St. Andrews, the diminutive David, in a shock result of some resonance, saw-off the big, bad Goliath. So, it is with all bullies. 14 Jun 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #67 – Lee Westwood

The Thing About Golf Podcast #67 – Lee Westwood

Next year will mark Lee Westwood’s 30th year as a professional and while the game’s Grand Slam titles have eluded him, he has achieved every other measurable milestone in the game. 1 Jun 2022
Morri: The importance of managing expectations

Morri: The importance of managing expectations

In an upcoming episode of Golf Australia magazine’s The Thing About Golf podcast, a conversation with Nick O’Hern turned to the work he does with some of Australia’s most promising young professionals. 16 May 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #65 – Peter Kostis

The Thing About Golf Podcast #65 – Peter Kostis

For a generation of golf watchers, he was the voice of CBS broadcasts, breaking down swings courtesy of the Konica Minolta BizHub Swing Vision camera between bringing insightful on course analysis. 4 May 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #63 – Masters special with Eamon Lynch

The Thing About Golf Podcast #63 – Masters special with Eamon Lynch

A career in journalism outside the game has informed and shaped Eamon Lynch’s work within it, making him one of the most important public voices of this modern tumultuous time in golf. 6 Apr 2022

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