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The Thing About Golf: #141 Andrew Coltart
He’s familiar to many through his work as a commentator for Sky Sports, but Scotland's Andrew Coltart is much more than that.
4 Jun 2025
The Thing About Golf: #134 David Rickman
We have a special treat for the true rules nerds of the game among you, with our latest guest non other than recently retired R&A rules guru David Rickman.
13 Feb 2025
The Thing About Golf: #133 Lucas Herbert
Enjoy John Huggan's entertaining and thought-provoking chat with one of the biggest stars of Australian golf, Lucas Herbert.
31 Jan 2025
The Thing About Golf: #132 Karen Stupples
It was a meteoric rise to fame for Karen Stupples when she claimed the 2004 Women’s British Open with a final-round 64 after opening eagle-albatross on Sunday.
4 Dec 2024
The Thing About Golf #131: Tim Barter
There are many in the golf commentary business who add little to a broadcast, but Sky Sports’ Tim Barter is certainly not among them.
20 Nov 2024
The Thing About Golf: #130 Rich Beem
Rich Beem is one of the game’s best characters of the past 30 years and his 2002 PGA Championship win over a charging Tiger Woods remains among the most entertaining finishes to a tournament this century.
7 Nov 2024
The Thing About Golf: #128 Jim Nantz
There is perhaps no more familiar voice in the game than that of Jim Nantz, host of CBS’ golf coverage, including almost 40 years of The Masters.
9 Oct 2024
The Thing About Golf: #127 Peter Baker
In our latest episode, John Huggan has a revealing and intriguing chat with none other than former Ryder Cup combatant Peter Baker.
25 Sep 2024
The Thing About Golf: #126 Richard Gillis
Sports business expert, journalist and our latest podcast guest Richard Gillis has a dual interest in golf, both as a lifelong player and having covered the game professionally.
16 Sep 2024
The Thing About Golf: #125 Trevor Immelman
Rarely has a player sported the green jacket with such style than our latest guest and one of golf’s greatest assets, Trevor Immelman.
28 Aug 2024
The Thing About Golf: #124 Ryan French
Our special guest this week discusses the new media landscape, building a media business when you had no intention of ever doing so and the challenges of monetising what started out as a hobby.
14 Aug 2024
The Thing About Golf #120: Howard Clark
Our latest special guest is England’s Howard Clark, who was a stalwart of the European Tour in a time of major changes for the professional game in the 1980s and 90s.
19 Jun 2024
The Thing About Golf #119: Mark James
A stalwart of the European Tour during the boom years of the 1980s and 90s, Mark James had a ringside seat to some of the most exciting times the men’s professional game has known.
5 Jun 2024
"Will win": Our experts tip the PGA Championship
Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka are the three standout favourites ahead of the 106th PGA Championship at Valhalla GC. Yet our experts have found several chances in the 156-man field, including Ludvig Aberg, Wyndham Clark and, er, Eric Cole. Coverage of play begins Thursday 9pm eastern Australia time on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo.
16 May 2024
The Thing About Golf Podcast #118 - Geoff Shackelford
There are few writers in golf whose words have appeared in as many publications and on as many different “new media” platforms as the prolific Geoff Shackelford. In this episode he tells Rod Morri what the future holds for the game’s media landscape.
8 May 2024
Hot-Pot, a Shot or Not? Our experts' tips for the Masters
Golf Australia magazine’s pundits were polled for their tips ahead of this lucky 88th Masters Tournament at Augusta National. The brief was: give us the winner, a roughie and a dreamer. Consider their answers for your tipping comp responsibly.
11 Apr 2024
Morri: Public golf... again
Almost evert day it seems my Twitter feed contains news of another public golf course under threat somewhere in the world.
26 Feb 2024
Morri: Golf at Riviera is golf worth watching
Watching the play at Riviera this past week once again brought the role of the golf course in tournament play sharply into focus.
19 Feb 2024
Morri: Thoughts from left field
Aaah the Phoenix Open. What more can be said.
12 Feb 2024
Morri: Please applaud Shina Kanizawa for ‘not robbing the bank’
It struck while watching the third round of the Vic Open at the weekend that there is more to ‘the quality of the golf’ at a tournament than ‘ball hitting and putt holing’.
5 Feb 2024
Morri: Social media done right
For all its faults (and there are many, as we know) social media does at least one thing better than ‘traditional’ media ever has and that is offer direct access to the thoughts of some of the game’s best proponents.
29 Jan 2024
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