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The Thing About Golf Podcast #80 – Stephen Allan
A golfer can only beat the field assembled on any given week under whatever conditions are present at the time and that’s exactly what Stephen Allan did at the 2002 Australian Open at Victoria Golf Club.
30 Nov 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #79 – Tony Blackburn
Can golf be more than just a game? 100 percent yes, according to our guest on Episode 79 of The Thing About Golf.
16 Nov 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #77 – Jackie Newton & Kathie Shearer
Jackie Newton and Kathie Shearer have been staunch friends since the early 1970’s when they met and married two of Australia’s finest golfers, Jack Newton and Bob Shearer.
19 Oct 2022
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
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
The Thing About Golf Podcast #73 – Alex Mercer
For 77 of his 88 years on the planet Alex Mercer’s life has been dominated by golf.
24 Aug 2022
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
The Thing About Golf Podcast #70 – Cameron Percy
He’s not a household name or a prolific tournament winner but at the age of 48 Cameron Percy continues to achieve something most never do: keep his card on the most competitive Tour in the world.
13 Jul 2022
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
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
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 #64 – Brendan Jones
Brendan Jones is one of Australia’s most successful yet lowest profile international golfers.
20 Apr 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #62 – Vaughan Somers
He might be best known for a brilliant hole-in-one that ultimately embroiled him in a lengthy legal dispute with the tax man, but there is much more to Vaughan Somers than that magical 6-iron on the 17th hole at Coolangatta and Tweed Heads Golf Club in 1981.
30 Mar 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #61 – Catriona Matthew
She made history by captaining back-to-back winning European Solheim Cup teams and finished top 10 in 18 different majors with one win, at the 2009 Women’s British Open.
16 Mar 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #58 – Gerri O'Callaghan
Geraldine O’Callaghan is one of just a handful of female course superintendents in Australia.
2 Feb 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #56 – Hazel Irvine
TV is how most of us consume the bulk of our golf and those who are the face and voice of the medium help shape how we view the game.
9 Dec 2021
The Thing About Golf Podcast #53 – Guy Yocom
He’s been one of the game’s great storytellers for more than 30 years and while he retired last year the work of Guys Yocom will endure for generations to come.
27 Oct 2021
The Thing About Golf: Braith Anasta
A premiership winner, New South Wales and Australian representative in rugby league, Braith Anasta has an almost lifelong love affair with golf.
21 Jun 2021
The Thing About Golf Podcast #44 – Bill Coore
In the world of golf course architecture Bill Coore is considered royalty.
16 Jun 2021
The Thing About Golf Podcast #43 – Padraig Harrington
Three majors and a Ryder Cup captaincy might be the highlights of a stellar career but as John Huggan puts it in the introduction, the most impressive thing about Padraig Harrington is that he’s basically a good bloke.
31 May 2021
Opinion: More women needed in every part of the game
For anyone with an interest in golf and its future, the suggestion that the game needs more women is not even close to a ground-breaking statement
21 May 2021
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