Only One Shot Golf

Chris Finn CEO of Par4Success was our guest in season 6 and with the spring nearly around the corner we wanted to re-release our sit down with him. We talk fitness, gaining speed, strength and the 4 areas 85% of the folks fail on mobility and strength. They work with juniors, college golfers, top amateur and professionals as well. Very informative on what you can do to get better.

It is the Cognizant Classic week on the PGA TOUR at PGA National and we wanted to go back to our podcast with Barbara Nicklaus from Season 4. Living life with Jack Nicklaus with her view from the front row watching arguably the greatest golfer of all time. Raising kids while traveling the PGA TOUR, life lessons and their desire to help with children's charities.

We look back at the Life of George Bryan founder of Old Waverly and Mossy Oak Golf Courses. One of the most influential business men in Mississippi who brought the US Women's Open Golf to Old Waverly, US Women's Mid-Am and US Women's Amateur. He had vision that very few have and worked hard to make those visions a reality. We hear from VJ Trolio, Thomas Gallagher, Toxey Haas (Haas Outdoors) and his son Wilkes to reflect on his incredible life.

VJ Trolio, head golf instructor at Old Waverly Golf Club discusses current junior golf topics and the state of the game in 2024. Great insight from one of the brightest minds in the game.

Alexis Rather joins us again this week to discuss being named 2024 Women's Assistant Coach for the USA Palmer Cup Team. She was named 2023 National Assistant Coach of the year by Women's Golf Coaches Association. In her 14th year at LSU she has been a huge part of their success over those years. We discuss preparation for the Palmer Cup and what lies ahead for the LSU Women's Golf Team this spring of 2024.

Get to know Arizona State Men's Golf Coach Matt Thurmond better as we discuss 2024 Palmer Cup, college golf, importance of relationships in life, how he got into coaching and his influences. We also talk about the impact his dad, who also was a coach, had on his life. One of the best coaches in college golf and even better person.

LSU Women's Golf Coach Garrett returns to the podcast to discuss Garrett being named 2024 USA Palmer Cup Team Coach, his current LSU assistant coach Alexis Rather will be his USA assistant as well. Great stories on his relationship with Arnold Palmer and Bay Hill as a kid and the LSU Women's Golf Team. Fun insight into what he expects on his trip to Ireland in July to represent the USA.

Dudley Hart joins us for this episode and it is a good one. He played college golf at Florida where he was a SEC, won twice on the PGA TOUR, won the 2023 Jan Strickland Assistant Golf Coach of the year for 2023 NCAA Champion Florida Gators and was named the assistant coach for the USA Palmer Cup Team. He gives us his insight on his career, coaching at his alma mater and so much more. You don't want to miss this one and some of his best comments are at the end of the podcast. 

44 year old Josh Teater will return to the PGA Tour for the 3rd time as a Korn Ferry Tour Graduate. We relive that nerve wracking week in Indiana where he started #34 and needed a top 5 to get into the Top 30 to get his PGA TOUR Card. Hear his story here and how his faith has kept him grounded and personal belief that his best his ahead of him. The emotions run high in this week's podcast because as in the SEC "It just means more" 

Ryan Cabbage Charlotte's Men's Golf Coach joins us again to discuss Walker Cup and the upcoming NCAA Men's Golf season. He talk about having players on the Walker Cup and their impact on the program. We also discuss the upcoming season and everything college golf.

Coach Erika Brennan of USF Women's Golf joins us to tell us what it has been like to go from being the daughter of a firefighter to head coach at her dream school USF. The lessons learned from the men and women of the firehouse, pros and cons of early specialization, her coaching journey to USF and more. Don't miss this one.

Coach Brennan Webb, Men's Golf Coach at Tennessee visits us again to talk Vol Men's Golf, Walker Cup and coaching college golf. He talks about his experience watching Caleb Surratt play at St Andrews in the latest Walker Cup and much more.

We have Missy Kaye Arizona State Women's Golf Coach on this week to discuss Linn Grant's first LPGA win at the Dana Open. Missy coach her at ASU and she helps us get to know Linn better and how so many of her former players on the LPGA have impacted their program. We relive her week at Pebble Beach at the US Women's Open and what that week meant for women's golf and more.

Rachel Kuehn joins us this week to discuss Wake Forest Women's Golf NCAA Championship week. She is a 4 Time All-American, 2 Time Curtis Cup, 4 Time Palmer Cup Team Member. We talk about how she deals with expectations, pressure, match play and what it has been like to follow in her mother Brenda's footsteps at Wake Forest. Get to know Rachel a little bit better in this week's podcast.

Doug Martin was once the #1 Junior and #1 Amateur winning the 1984 US Junior Boys, semi-finalist US Am in 1988 and a Member of the 1989 Walker Cup Team. He played the PGA TOUR for nearly 9 years before a back injury cut his career short at 34. This is his 14th year as the Men's Golf Coach for the Cincinnati Bearcats with 5 career team wins, 3 in this season. The team has been ranked as high as #25 this season and getting better every week. Great stories from his golf and his friendship with Coach Lou Holtz and what he has learned along the way.

Part 2 with Golf Channel's Steve Burkowski. He is the college golf insider for the Golf Channel and we dive deep into the current state of college golf. What teams on both the Women's and Men's side who could contend for the NCAA Title. What individuals to watch for. Why Stanford Women's team has been so dominate, and the parity on the men's side. Will we see a Vandy vs North Carolina match up at Grayhawk or will some other team step up?

Part 1 of our conversation with Golf Channel's Steve Burkowski talking about his journey to the Golf Channel, his take on the College Golf Today, and what makes Elite Golfers Elite. We had so much fun talking with him that we had to split it up into 2 different episodes. Check out Part 2 with Steve Burkowski in our next episode where we talk specifically about the teams and individuals in the college game.

We have Ellen Port who has won 7 different USGA Championships (Joanne Carner has 8 titles), 4 US Women's Mid-Ams (3 different decades), 3 US Sr Women's Amateurs. St Louis Sports and Missouri Sports Hall of Fame Member. Member of 1994 and 1996 USA Curtis Cup Team, Captain of the winning USA 2014 Curtis Cup Team. First woman to win the St. Louis Amateur in 2021. An amazing amateur career, mother, wife and all around great person.

Season 7 begins with 2 of the finest people you can meet, Tony and Libby Pancake. Libby was an incredible junior and amateur player winning several state titles in Indiana. Tony is now the director of golf at Crooked Stick GC in Carmel IN. They talk about their golf, their advice for junior golfers, the differences from when they played and now and so many life lessons. "Don't let golf be your idol or define your self worth" "but have fun and believe in yourself" Get to know them better in today's podcast.

Get to know 2022 US Amateur Champion Sam Bennett a little bit better in this week's podcast. We talk about what it was like growing up on a 9 hole golf course in Madisonville TX, becoming an All-American at Texas A&M and topping it off with winning the 2022 US Amateur this past summer. His story is one that you don't want to miss and I guarantee that you will enjoy this one.