Month: June 2022

Episode 85: TGH 85: A Golf Historian’s Guide to St Andrews Part 1

We welcome back St Andrews Golf Historian, Roger McStravick to TalkinGolf History to give our listeners a walking tour of the Auld Grey Toon that will be hosting the 150th playing of the Open Championship.

A very special thanks to Monty Python and the Holy Grail for adding some much needed humor to the podcast.

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Episode 13: Following Fairways and Flying Flags with Nick Edmund of Global Golf 4 Cancer

Nick Edmund joins us on this episode to discuss his story in golf – PG Woodhouse, 1976 Open Championships, Following the Fairways and 27 other golf publications, Faldo Golf Design, 4 time cancer survivor and founder of the Global Golf 4 Cancer campaign.

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SOG 121: Joe Ogilvie talks LIV Golf

There’s probably not a lot left to say on the LIV Golf situation but when you get the chance to pick the brains of someone as smart as Joe Ogilvie you grab it.

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Feed the Ball Salon Volume 21, ft. Chris Cochran

Chris Cochran began his career building golf courses for Jack Nicklaus in the mid-1980s. With over 100 international projects completed, he is Nicklaus Design’s longest tenured senior design associate, and since the early 90s has arguably been the most…

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Ep 111: Linn Grant and LIV Golf

In the big picture, the most important thing to happen in golf last week was Linn Grant winning the Scandinavian Mixed event. We at least talked about that a bit before getting completely derailed – like everybody else – by LIV Golf and the turmoil at the top of the men’s professional game.

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Ep 111: Linn Grant and LIV

In the big picture, the most important thing to happen in golf last week was Linn Grant winning the Scandinavian Mixed event. We at least talked about that a bit before getting completely derailed – like everybody else – by LIV Golf and the turmoil at the top of the men’s professional game.

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Ep 110: Minjee and Mickelson with John Huggan

Hardly a dull week in the world of golf so, unusually for us, we’ve turned our attention to the pay for play ranks with special guest John Huggan joining form London as he prepares to cover the first LIV Golf event at the Centurion Club.

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Episode 12: The Long Golden Afternoon – Golf’s Age of Glory – 1864 – 1914

Today we explore the days immediately after the death of young Tommy Morris – what and who were the main drivers and influencers that facilitated the transposition of the game of golf around the world during Golf’s Age of Glory.

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