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Get ready to learn a lot about golf stats from the man who developed and built the 'Strokes Gained' system which is now used on the PGA Tour to better measure player performance as well as greatly improving our television viewing experience!  Also, find out how Strokes Gained can really help you improve your own game and understand better how to go about lowering your scores. 

Mark is also the author of the best selling book 'Every Shot Counts.' 

With Stewart Whiteford & Scott Rose

This week, Donald, Peter and Stewart discuss all the goings on in Scottish golf as well as The PGA Championship and Martin Slumbers (and the R&A) buying a municipal golf course in Glasgow.

A man with a real should've/could've golfing career, Lorne was all set to make it big in golf after wins in The Walker Cup, The World Amateur Championship (Eisenhower Trophy), The Scottish Strokeplay, The Lytham Trophy among many others but sadly, it didn't all go to plan.  Lorne tells his full story and looks back at what didn't work and what he might do differently if he had the chance again.  We also talk about the incredible work he has done since, helping young golfers find their way in the game and in the big wide world.  Truly inspirational stuff!

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Jon Rahm moves to world number 1 for the first time at Muirfield Village.  We talk course setup as well as rules controversies and Mickelson and Bryson acting up.

We also look back at The Open For The Ages and look forward to the beginning of the new European Tour British Swing.

With Donald, Peter and Stewart

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In this special episode Scott got the chance to talk with the leading Scottish golfer in the Ladies Rolex World Rankings, Gemma Dryburgh.  Hot off two wins on the Justin Rose Ladies Series Gemma talks about here career to date and looks forward to beginning her LPGA campaign in the States.  A great girl and a huge asset to Scottish golf!

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A great week for Scottish golf with Gemma Dryburgh winning for the second week in a row on the Justin Rose Ladies Series and Marc Warren winning for the 4th time on the European Tour.  We also talk about milkshakes and the return of Tiger Woods!

To hear a small interview we had with Marc stay tuned till the end!!

With Stewart Whiteford, Peter Whiteford & Scott Rose

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It is really not easy to talk about anything else in the world of golf at the moment while Bryson DeChambeau does his best to change the game, single handedly forever!

We also discuss Paul Lawrie and his new development tour for Scottish Professionals. 

With Scott Rose, Donald McKay, Peter, Whiteford & Stewart Whiteford

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This week we talk about Dustin Johnson and extending his win streak on the PGA Tour to 14 consecutive years!!  Other stories include, Covid withdrawls, 1 balls and a famous victory around The Wee Course at Wellsgreen!!

With Donald, Stewart, Scott and Peter.

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This week we talk over the latest PGA Tour event at Hilton Head where long hitting was not the defining factor. We also talk about a suspension handed out by Scottish Golf and discuss other Covid related issues.  Also, we look back at our own 'golf on TV' tournament - The Wee Course Challenge where Donald took on Scott in the first semi final. All good fun!! 

With Donald, Scott, Peter and Stewart

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We saw our first live tournament golf in over two months and there were lots of discussion points including golfs newest longest hitter in Bryson Dechambeau as well as Justin Rose and Jordan Spieth returning to some form while Rory McIlroy continues his Sunday blues!

We are finally back to recording together (although 2M apart!!) at our home at Wellsgreen for the first time in 12 weeks!!  Our video pods may return once we don't need such a wide angle camera to get us all in!!  

Anyway, this week we talk about the devastating fire at Charleton Golf Club only a couple of days ago as well as the 5 mile rule, Justin Rose and the return of the PGA Tour this week at Colonial.

With Stewart, Donald, Scott and Peter

In this weeks blether we ramble on something rotten!! Scott plays Dumbarnie and gives his critique, Donald talkes on fake reviewers, Peter gives his thoughts on the new European Tour Schedule and Stewart stumbles his way through yet another Zoom!!

With golf set to return from self isolation this Friday, we get a little excited!  Also, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson face off in another televised social distancing match and we discuss whether we think it was better or worse than last time.  Oh, and Justin Rose splits from Honma.. 

This week we discuss the outrage caused by Vijay Singh entering a Korn Ferry event as well as Gary Player's comments on Jordan Spieth.  We also look at 8 players who have disappeared from the face of the golfing earth...

This week we do a golf related Room 101. Peter, Donald and Scott all choose 3 things they would like to send to Room 101 and I decide which one goes! Donald also tells us about his new idea for golf and Scott talks golfing biomechanics...

In this special I got the chance to have a lengthy chat with one of Scotland's very best golfers over the past 20 years in Marc Warren.  Marc has 3 victories on the European Tour and also won the World Cup in 1997 with his partner Colin Montgomerie.  He had many great times but also a few bumps along the road which he was more than happy to talk about.  We also discuss the coaches he has worked with and what his thoughts are for the future.

This week we discuss who was the best golfers (outside of USA) since Gary Player.  

This week we discuss who we think is number 1 Scottish golfer - Colin Montgomerie or Sandy Lyle.  We also discuss our favourite and least favourite golfing gadgets on the market.

In this special episode I had a chat with Grant Moir, the Director of Rules at The R&A.  We had a great discussion about his career to date and what his job as Director of Rules at the R&A entails.   We also talk about Grant's involvement with golf course set-up at The Open Championship and other championships around the world.

With Stewart Whiteford

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