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It's US Open week and the European Champs is on... what a week of sport we have! We dive into a whole lot this week....

• Pops Watch - Has he hit a ball yet? (1:55)
• Ben plays A LOT of golf this week (7:08) 
• Garrick Higgo gets his first win on PGA Tour and 3rd win in last 4 events! (25:33)
• Scandinavian Mixed Event - Is this the future of golf? (31:58)
• US OPEN - our picks (39:47)
• What would a European Championships of Golf look like? (55:13)

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TourChamp - Ever thought of creating your own golf leagues? Your own "Race To Dubai" or “FedEx Cup” style competitions with your mates? Well, now you can! Choose from Stableford leagues or matchplay leagues and over the course of a season, let’s see who will be crowned TourChamp! Click here to start your league now for FREE

U.S. Open week special: Join in as Judd gets you prepped for the event with "The Open Doctor," course architect Rees Jones, and San Diego-based golf professional Tina Mickelson (yes, big sister to Phil Mickelson).

Golf course architect Jeff Stein joins me to discuss his career in golf course design, working with his mentors, the golden age design styles of C.B. Macdonald and others, golf course photography, and running his own design firm.

Stein Golf Design: https://www.steingolf.com/

Follow Jeff on Instagram @steingolfdesign

Golf is a sport full of fear, we all seem to do a great job of imagining the worst things that could happen to us...  and then sometimes... they actually do happen. 

Chris, Ben and Tim share their worst experiences on a golf course in the hope you can relate, or make you feel more comfortable knowing that someone else has done stupid stuff too... it happens to all of us at some point! 

Enjoy the show!

• Ben breaks his driver
• Tim finds some old golf clubs... and we propose a challenge... can we trade our way to something amazing? (15:38)
• Pops has a range session (27:14)
• The Pros - Charles Schwab Challenge (33:18)
• Kokrak sponsor question...
• Our Draft Kings Picks for the Memorial Tournament (42:46)
• Are we working towards our goals? Can we even remember what they were? (50:08)
• Our worst experiences on a golf course... (1:06:18)

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TourChamp - Ever thought of creating your own golf leagues? Your own "Race To Dubai" or “FedEx Cup” style competitions with your mates? Well, now you can! Choose from Stableford leagues or matchplay leagues and over the course of a season, let’s see who will be crowned TourChamp! Click here to start your league now for FREE

On this week's episode we of course dive into the PGA Championship and the incredible story of Phil Mickelson taking the win!

We also dive into the whole Brooks and Bryson rivalry after that "leaked" video... yes I used ""

And England Golf finally give us a date for the launch of the nomadic handicap tracker.... and Golf Twitter and Golf Facebook think it's the end of the world.... SPOILER... it really isn't!




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TourChamp - Ever thought of creating your own golf leagues? Your own "Race To Dubai" or “FedEx Cup” style competitions with your mates? Well, now you can! Choose from Stableford leagues or matchplay leagues and over the course of a season, let’s see who will be crowned TourChamp! Click here to start your league now for FREE

On this week's episode of A Slice Of Golf we obviously talk about the PGA Championships coming up, we talk about the bizarre happenings in college golf, we talk about our favourite budget golf clubs and Tim plays a game of... What would you do...

• Chris has had a bad... bad weekend (0:25)
• Tim gets a lesson ... can he stop the snap hooks? (15:05)
• The Pros - AT&T Byron Nelson, European Tour Fairy Tale Story (20:43)
• College Golf making questionable decisions (29:30)
• Which are our favourite budget golf courses that we really enjoy? (36:20)
• PGA Championship Week (42:36) - Who are our picks?
• A game of "Tim's games of situations" or..."What would you do?" (1:02:35)

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TourChamp - Ever thought of creating your own golf leagues? Your own "Race To Dubai" or “FedEx Cup” style competitions with your mates? Well, now you can! Choose from Stableford leagues or matchplay leagues and over the course of a season, let’s see who will be crowned TourChamp! Click here to start your league now for FREE

On this week’s episode of a slice of golf we chat about whether you should focus on points or par if you want to improve your game. I also quiz the guys on some putting stats and I have an idea to mess with the PGA’s Player Impact Program

• How did our rounds go this weekend?
• The Pros... Rory is BACK! (28:20)
• A Putting Quiz (A Question of Sport inspired)  - Lowest number putts over 4 rounds, fewest putts over 18 holes, longest feet of putts made over 4 rounds (39:45)
• To improve your golf scores should you focus on stableford points or score to par? (52:32)
• My plan to mess with the PGA's Player Impact Program (1:12:50)

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TourChamp - Ever thought of creating your own golf leagues? Your own "Race To Dubai" or “FedEx Cup” style competitions with your mates? Well, now you can! Choose from Stableford leagues or matchplay leagues and over the course of a season, let’s see who will be crowned TourChamp! Click here to start your league now for FREE

On this week's episode, we discuss getting new players out onto the course and how to make them comfortable and make sure everyone has a great day... including the old, grumpy member who thinks he's a pro....

• Chris FINALLY has a good round... 1.5 years since his last
• Ben takes 2 brand new golfers out on the course (16:15)
• Ben gets beaten by someone who blobbed the first 5 holes.... (22:25)
• After Chris, outed fellow tour player Ben for having a really tough time in golf... he has an update... What did Ben do this week? Hint... it got REALLY bad! (29:07)
• How to club twirl? (30:39)
• How to get new players on the course and playing the game? (Chris goes on a bit of a rant) (32:39)
• Practice Greens - do they ACTUALLY reflect the greens out on the course? Do you get value from using them before a round? (1:02:05)
• The Price is Right... Ben tests Chris and Tim on their player performance knowledge ... Spoiler... they aren't very good ...Who is the best putter on tour? The best iron player? (1:12:40)

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TourChamp - Ever thought of creating your own golf leagues? Your own "Race To Dubai" or “FedEx Cup” style competitions with your mates? Well, now you can! Choose from Stableford leagues or matchplay leagues and over the course of a season, let’s see who will be crowned TourChamp! Click here to start your league now for FREE

On this weeks episode we talk about how the PGA intends to keep the top 10 players happy by paying them a share of $40m, we also take a look at the Race To Dubai rankings and see how apparently you don't actually have to play any events on the European Tour and loads more....

• We had our first major... how did it go?
• What happened to the guy who had completely lost it? Did he manage to recover his game before the major? (21:39)
• Zurich Classic Review (26:14)
• The $40m bonus for the top 10 players.... good idea or a terrible idea? (38:54)
• Should you be able to compete for the Race To Dubai without playing European Tour events? Billy Horshel currently leads and hasn't played a single European Tour event so far this season. Is that fair? (1:03:46)

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TourChamp - Ever thought of creating your own golf leagues? Your own "Race To Dubai" or “FedEx Cup” style competitions with your mates? Well, now you can! Choose from Stableford leagues or matchplay leagues and over the course of a season, let’s see who will be crowned TourChamp! Click here to start your league now for FREE

An LPGA player got fined for slow play... that fine was 64% of her years' earnings so far... Is that fair? We talk about bringing in the shot clock and what punishments would be better and would actually speed up play! 

Oh also, there's a small tournament on this week.... THE MASTERS!!

• Did the LPGA learn from last years ANA Inspiration? (14:56)
• Player fined 64% of years earnings for slow play... surely there is a better way? (20:00)
• Spieth is BACK! (47:06)
• Bryson warming up for the Masters (57:31)
• Our picks for The Masters (59:45)
• If players weren't pro golfers what would their jobs be? Tim plays a game... (1:11:31)

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TourChamp - Ever thought of creating your own golf leagues? Your own "Race To Dubai" or “FedEx Cup” style competitions with your mates? Well, now you can! Choose from Stableford leagues or matchplay leagues and over the course of a season, let’s see who will be crowned TourChamp! Click here to start your league now for FREE

Let's play a game.... What golf brand do associate with the word.... arrogant? How about deceitful? Join in this word association game...

Also... GOLF IS BACK!  And Tim gets snapped by the paparazzi...or some weird guy with a camera.

• Tim gets papped (8:43)
• WGC Matchplay Review - How has this affected our view on potential Ryder Cup picks? (16:10)
• What other formats would you like to see on the PGA tour? Is there room for more teams events? (30:05)
• Fun... less pressure formats to play (38:15)
• Ben pitches a new format... it's called "3's" (43:09)
• Word association game... what brands do associate with the words... arrogant? Deceitful? The results are quite surprising. (50:30)

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The rules were simple... £500 per person to cover travel, food, beer, accommodation and of course, the golf, for 3 days. Here is what we came up with...

We wanted to steer away from the classic resorts and go find other courses on these trips. We know full well you can easily find  3 day trips to some lovely resorts for under £500, but we wanted something a bit different.

We are thinking about going on a trip and documenting it... the travel, the golf, the beer etc and perhaps showcasing courses that aren't always on the youtube.

So help us pick... whose trip do you like the sound of most?  Tweet us @asliceofgolfpod and let us know.

Want to skip straight to the chat about the trips -> 22:46
 

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TourChamp - Ever thought of creating your own golf leagues? Your own "Race To Dubai" or “FedEx Cup” style competitions with your mates? Well, now you can! Choose from Stableford leagues or matchplay leagues and over the course of a season, let’s see who will be crowned TourChamp! Click here to start your league now for FREE

On this weeks episode of A Slice Of Golf we talk about golf on the moon and how that golf shot REALLY went, golf's boom and how we can keep new players playing, we review that Tiger documentary and Rob & Romesh vs Golf...

On and Tim finally joins fantasy league and starts the challenge between us!

• Trivia: How far was that golf shot on the moon?
• Pebble Beach Review (6:56)
• Jordan Spieth's & Rickie Fowler... is it all in their heads? (11:08)
• The Back Gardens At Pebble... Have you googled them? (18:33)
• Fantasy Golf - Tim FINALLY Joins (20:30)
• Phil Mickelson .... let's talk about his meltdown on 18... (24:13)
• Tiger - The documentary ... What did we think? (32:01)
• Rob & Romesh vs Golf.... It's amazing... WATCH IT! (49:56)
• How does golf maintain this boom? (58:00)

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TourChamp - Ever thought of creating your own golf leagues? Your own "Race To Dubai" or “FedEx Cup” style competitions with your mates? Well, now you can! Choose from Stableford leagues or matchplay leagues and over the course of a season, let’s see who will be crowned TourChamp! Click here to start your league now for FREE

On this weeks episode of A Slice of Golf we are joined by Peter Finch, golf YouTuber, coach, pro, content creator! We obviously talk about his journey from coach to having 275,000 subscribers on YouTube, how he did it and his advice for people wanting to build there own channels.

But we also talk about his journey to the worlds greatest pub and an incredible moment where videos go wrong with the pros and never see the light of day.  This was so much fun to record and we hope you enjoy listening!


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TourChamp - Ever thought of creating your own golf leagues? Your own "Race To Dubai" or “FedEx Cup” style competitions with your mates? Well, now you can! Choose from Stableford leagues or matchplay leagues and over the course of a season, let’s see who will be crowned TourChamp! Click here to start your league now for FREE

On this weeks episode, we discuss whether players from the senior's tour should be allowed to take up places on regular PGA season events, we love seeing them back, but is it fair? 

Also, BIG NEWS is that the R&A and USGA are putting in new rules around equipment to slow the big hitters. And of course... we chat about Patrick Reed...

• Should players who play on the senior's tour be able to play on pro tour as well? (6:36)
• Dubai Desert Classic - Hatton showing us what golf is all about (15:30)
• PGA - Patrick Reed dominated & Tony Finau.... 2nd AGAIN...  (20:12)
• What does Tony Finau need to do to win?
• The drop rule needs to change.... Hovland's drop... wow that was boring to watch.
• Patrick Reed... did he cheat? (29:51)
• Taylormade is up for sale.... pocket change.... (43:58)
• USGA & R&A bringing in the first rules to limit distance (44:50)

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TourChamp - Ever thought of creating your own golf leagues? Your own "Race To Dubai" or “FedEx Cup” style competitions with your mates? Well, now you can! Choose from Stableford leagues or matchplay leagues and over the course of a season, let’s see who will be crowned TourChamp! Click here to start your league now for FREE

On this weeks episode, we talk about why the new releases of clubs irritate so many people...possibly something to do with the constant "OUR BEST DRIVER EVER" claims.

We also, talk about PXG’s new affordable clubs and why we think they've entered this level of the market.  Tim is having golf dreams… maybe nightmares, and we play a game of Play, Spectate, Demolish…. (Tim gives us 3 courses and we have to choose)

• Tim's Golf Dreams (0:33)
• Tim's Biggest Regret... Yep... it's Tyrell Hatton - Race To Dubai Has Begun (7:55)
• Tony Finau... Yet again can't close a lead . Si Woo Kim with his 3rd win on tour! (17:44)
• LPGA - Korda Sisters & Danielle Kang (24:32)
• PXG bring out new range of clubs to reach the masses ... we discuss why and what this means (26:14)
• Why do new club releases every year irritate so many people? (38:54)
• Play / Spectate / Demolish - Tim gives us 3 courses and we have to choose which we would play, which we would want to watch a pro event at and which we would demolish. (55:00)
• Tim's Challenge For The Week (1:05:00)

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TourChamp - Ever thought of creating your own golf leagues? Your own "Race To Dubai" or “FedEx Cup” style competitions with your mates? Well, now you can! Choose from Stableford leagues or matchplay leagues and over the course of a season, let’s see who will be crowned TourChamp! Click here to start your league now for FREE

On this weeks show we talk about how JT's missed putt went from bad to worse, Ralph Lauren being hypocritical and missing an opportunity, and we dive into the Race To Dubai picking who we think will take the title and players we are keeping an eye on this year too and finally we look back at our stats and look at what 3 things we are going to work on this year!

• The Pro's In Hawaii (7:40)
• JT gets FIRED! New clothing deal for him somewhere! Could Ralph Lauren handled this differently and made it into a win? (12:35)
• The Race To Dubai begins this weekend... who are our picks for the year? (23:50)
• 3 things each of us will be working on this year... let's take a look at the stats. (39:20)
• Ben's Ryder Cup Trivia Quiz (1:11:00)

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TourChamp - Ever thought of creating your own golf leagues? Your own "Race To Dubai" or “FedEx Cup” style competitions with your mates? Well, now you can! Choose from Stableford leagues or matchplay leagues and over the course of a season, let’s see who will be crowned TourChamp! Click here to start your league now for FREE

Happy New Year! Welcome back to A Slice Of Golf! Considering there's been no golf we have quite a lot to talk about today... Trump's course's get booted off the tours event lists, which got us thinking about what causes us to NOT want to visit a course or go back. We pick our major winners for 2021 and loads more!

• Sentry Tournament of Champions Review... Including Justin Thomas's unfortunate moment, Rahm with new gears... except one slightly awkward situation and more (9:46)
• Trump's courses get booted from the tours event list... which got us thinking about what puts us off going to certain courses or going back to them. (Considering we will happily play almost anywhere)  (18:59)
• Ben's lockdown, home based, strength tips for us golfers (35:35)
• Our Major Picks For 2021 and who we think will be the top 5 at the end of the year (55:49)

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TourChamp - Ever thought of creating your own golf leagues? Your own "Race To Dubai" or “FedEx Cup” style competitions with your mates? Well, now you can! Choose from Stableford leagues or matchplay leagues and over the course of a season, let’s see who will be crowned TourChamp! Click here to start your league now for FREE

Who is your pro chump of the year? Champ of the year? Who had the best shot, worst shot? On this episode of A Slice Of Golf, we do our alternative golf awards! We also talk about Tiger & Charlie,  our own golf performances this year and our resolutions for next year!

• Tiger & Charlie - PNC Championship (6:30)
• Our Year In Review - 2 truths and a lie (15:52)
• New Years Golf Resolutions (40:22)
• The Alternative Golf Awards (52:44)
  • Best Golf Shot Of The Year
  • Worst Golf Shot Of The Year
  • Worst Gears Of The Year
  • Moment Of The Year
  • Champ Of The Year
  • Chump Of The Year
  • Favourite Course We Played This Year
  • Podcast Gaffe Of The Year

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TourChamp - Ever thought of creating your own golf leagues? Your own "Race To Dubai" or “FedEx Cup” style competitions with your mates? Well, now you can! Choose from Stableford leagues or matchplay leagues and over the course of a season, let’s see who will be crowned TourChamp! Click here to start your league now for FREE

On this weeks episode of A Slice of Golf, we talk about whether Vice Golf lives up to its "premium golf ball, half the price" marketing. We share our experiences of our £10 clubs, look at the new  club releases and discuss the Race To Dubai finish! Lee Westwood... Hero!

• Driver Testing - Our £10 clubs.... how did they compare to our modern drivers (5:07)
• US Womens Open Review (22:03)
• Race To Dubai review (26:00)
• Lee Westwood Stats (31:56)
• PGA Team Event (36:50)
• Vice Golf - Is it still good value for money? Why does it cost more in the UK compared to USA? Should their marketing be changed? (40:58)
• The new releases - which new drivers are we loving? (58:01)

Thank you to Patrick Campbell from Profit Well for the insights into pricing of products in UK vs USA!

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TourChamp - Ever thought of creating your own golf leagues? Your own "Race To Dubai" or “FedEx Cup” style competitions with your mates? Well, now you can! Choose from Stableford leagues or matchplay leagues and over the course of a season, let’s see who will be crowned TourChamp! Click here to start your league now for FREE