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The Thing About Golf Podcast #87 – Charlie Earp

The Thing About Golf Podcast #87 – Charlie Earp

Charlie Earp is an Australian golf icon. 29 Mar 2023
Morri: Tour’s two birds one stone opportunity

Morri: Tour’s two birds one stone opportunity

You wonder sometimes if those in charge of the PGA Tour have any knowledge of, or perhaps even interest in, golf. 27 Mar 2023
Playing From The Tips: Episode 2

Playing From The Tips: Episode 2

We are back for week two of Playing From The Tips, our new podcast previewing all the action from around the world of professional golf. Plus, tips from our so-called experts as to who they think might win. 21 Feb 2023
Morri: Lack of Saudi women’s discussion a blight on golf

Morri: Lack of Saudi women’s discussion a blight on golf

Are the game’s top women being given a free ride when it comes to playing for Saudi money? Some on social media would like to have you think so, but the reality is likely much more depressing. 20 Feb 2023
The Thing About Golf Podcast #84 – Christine Fraser

The Thing About Golf Podcast #84 – Christine Fraser

Christine Fraser is one of only a few women in the golf course design business but the Canadian native is one of the most eloquent speakers and broad thinkers about what golf course design can and should be. 15 Feb 2023
Morri: Warren’s Sunday an example for us all

Morri: Warren’s Sunday an example for us all

There were better scores shot Sunday at the Vic Open but there may not have been a better round than that played by joint third place finisher Justin Warren. 13 Feb 2023
Morri: Rahm’s distance comments don’t measure up

Morri: Rahm’s distance comments don’t measure up

It’s an unanswerable question (aren’t they usually the best kind?) but how much attention should we pay to the game’s best players when considering topics outside the actual playing of the game? 6 Feb 2023
Morri: The Players Series punches above its weight

Morri: The Players Series punches above its weight

There was a pretty full array of professional golf available over the weekend but the ‘smallest’ of the tournaments on offer easily held its head up in the more prestigious company of the game’s biggest circuits. 30 Jan 2023
Morri: What would Thommo think?

Morri: What would Thommo think?

It can often be instructive when thinking about big issues facing the game today to wonder what the late, great Peter Thomson might have made of it all. 23 Jan 2023
The Thing About Golf Podcast #82 – Mary Thomson

The Thing About Golf Podcast #82 – Mary Thomson

The name Thomson is synonymous with golf not only in Australia but globally. Five times Open Champion Peter is, of course, one of the game’s greats but ask his wife Mary and she’ll tell you that you never would have known it. 18 Jan 2023
Morri: Spaun’s untucked shirt reveals golf’s dumb side

Morri: Spaun’s untucked shirt reveals golf’s dumb side

It passes for ‘news’ when it shouldn’t but the great ‘untucked shirt debate’ of the weekend at Kapalua points to a much bigger discussion golf needs to be having. 9 Jan 2023
Morri: The other side to the Aussie Open debate

Morri: The other side to the Aussie Open debate

What does the future hold for the nation’s two most important golf tournaments? 20 Dec 2022
Morri: Game for the ages

Morri: Game for the ages

It’s something we too often take for granted but the ability to play golf into later years – even at a high level – is one of the game’s greatest appeals. 12 Dec 2022
Morri: Colosseum a grim reminder of fractured golf’s fragile future

Morri: Colosseum a grim reminder of fractured golf’s fragile future

Sometimes the most interesting things historians have to say are not about the past but the future. 28 Nov 2022
Morri: New rules reinforce the same public golf message

Morri: New rules reinforce the same public golf message

It didn’t attract much fanfare, but last week’s announcement that specific rules have been introduced for golfers with a disability may be the most important thing to happen in the game for years. 14 Nov 2022
Morri: In appreciation of Karrie

Morri: In appreciation of Karrie

A quarter of a century ago one of our greatest ever golfers, Peter Thomson, wrote something that today could easily be applied to one of our other greatest ever players, Karrie Webb. 7 Nov 2022
Morri: Distance debate back on the horizon

Morri: Distance debate back on the horizon

One thing the arrival of LIV Golf has achieved has been to shift focus away from the otherwise perennially simmering distance discussion. 10 Oct 2022
Morri: The parallels of dog ownership and golf

Morri: The parallels of dog ownership and golf

There are only two types of people in this world: golfers and non-golfers. 26 Sep 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #74 – Isiaih Mwisege

The Thing About Golf Podcast #74 – Isiaih Mwisege

Golf is a lot of different things to a lot of different people but for Uganda’s Isiaih Mwisege it is a calling. 21 Sep 2022
Morri: Ines the inspiration

Morri: Ines the inspiration

The relationship between professional golf and ‘growing the game’ is a nuanced one. 19 Sep 2022
Morri: Imagination the key to golf’s image problem

Morri: Imagination the key to golf’s image problem

The ‘I’s’ have it. Image and imagination, opposite sides of the same coin that contain both the problem and solution for golf. 5 Sep 2022