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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.

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" 

Salut c’est Romane, de retour pour un nouvel épisode avec Nelson Da Silva Ramos, qui est parti, lui aussi, faire son cursus américain grâce au golf dans l’esprit de devenir professionnel après l’obtention de son diplôme. Mais son parcours est semé d’obstacles puisqu'il perd son éligibilité à son arrivée, c'est-à-dire qu’il perd son droit de jouer dans l’équipe de golf de l’université dans laquelle il est en Division 1.

Il doit alors trouver des solutions pour lui permettre de rester aux Etats-Unis ce qui le conduit à changer d’université.

Une expérience qui lui aura permis de réaliser que rien n’est acquis et de développer son mental. On compare alors l’enjeu de la préparation mentale dans nos deux sports, le tennis et le golf. Et également les méthodes d'entraînements en université américaine.

Nelson a-t-il réalisé son rêve de jouer professionnellement après l’obtention de son bachelor ?

Rejoignez tout de suite notre conversation. Bonne écoute ! 

Liens importants : 

Instagram Nelson Da Silva Ramos : @nelsondsr62 

Instagram Double Casquette : @doublecasquette.podcast 

Mon site internet : www.agencehalo.com 

The University of New Mexico : https://www.unm.edu/ 

Barry University, Miami : https://www.barry.edu/en 

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.

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.

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.

Let's talk fitness and how we can gain some distance and speed in our golf swing. Chris Finn of Par 4 Success joins us to discuss how they have helped juniors, college golfers, professionals and amateurs like you increase speed, strength and mobility. 85% of folks who take the rotation test fail 1 of the 4 areas of rotation. 1.Hips  2.Shoulders 3. Thoracic Spine 4. Neck Rotation. They use data combined with years of experience to help golfers today. Mission Statement is "help juniors prepare for college golf and for some top level amateur and professional golf"

Ron Read the author of "Starting the US Open from Shinnecock to Pebble Beach" Ron spent 44 years starting with the Northern California Golf Association and the USGA. He started from the ground up running tournaments, handicap development, and of course the starter of the US Open for 22 straight years. So many amazing stories from the US Open and other Championships. You can read more at https://www.ronread.com after you hear from him on this week's podcast.

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2 Time Mississippi Women's State Amateur Champion Mary Langdon Hardman joins us this week. We talk about life as a PGA TOUR Kid, her love of sports and how she got her late start playing competitive golf. Now a mother of 2, she was the medalist at the USGA Women's Mid-Am qualifier at Houston CC making it to the national tournament 2 years in a row. She just happens to be my oldest daughter.

This week's guest in Michigan Women's Golf Coach Jan Dowling now in her 10th season. She grew up outside Toronto before heading to the USA to play her college golf at Kent State. Jan played professionally for a couple of years before returning to Kent State to start her coaching career there as an assistant. She also spent time at  University of Florida and Tennessee before becoming the head coach at Michigan. While at Michigan they have reached the NCAA Championship 4 different times including the past 2 seasons.

We are back for season 6 and can't wait for everyone to get to know a few more college coaches along the way and many more of our guests. This week we have Mike McGraw the Baylor Men's Golf Coach with us with some great insight to college golf. He has been part of 3 National Championship teams over the years including stops at Oklahoma State, Alabama and he has turned the Baylor Men's Golf Team into a very competitive team both in the Big 12 as well as nationally.

We have Ben Daughan, Coordinating Producer Tournaments, Golf Channel. He grew up in Maine, played college golf at Rollins College where he was on the winning National Championship team with PGA Tour player Rob Oppenheim. He started out as an intern for Golf Channel and has spent 20 years in several key roles. Ben tells us some fun stories about his early days with Golf Channel, his most memorable show and gives us an insight to producing golf both in studio and live coverage.

Tim Yelverton, short game instructor at Old Waverly Golf Club joins us to discuss and recaps the prep for this year's Masters. He is working with Kevin Kisner and Sepp Straka this week at Augusta National as they prepare for this week's Masters. We talk how they have prepared, strategy and how the golf course has changed since Monday. 

We are excited to have the most recent PGA Tour Winner Chad Ramey returning to the podcast to tell us about his big win at the Corales Puntacana Championship in his rookie season. He won in 2022 on the Korn Ferry Tour in Maine to secure his PGA Tour card for this season. He grew up on a 9 hole course in Fulton MS, played his college golf at Mississippi State and now is a PGA Tour Winner.

Jim catches up with an old friend from college golf. It's Jack Larkin winner of the 1979 US Jr. Boys Championship, UGA standout, has played in a US Amateur in 5 different decades a total of 17 USGA combined events in his career. We talk about balancing family, job and still staying very competitive among the over 50 gang. Great advice for junior golfers and parents.