Larry The Golf Guy

Chris Biggins was born with cerebral palsy, had braces on both legs until 10th grade, and has had numerous medical procedures to deal with his condition. Notwithstanding these physical challenges, Chris has persevered to become one of the best adaptive golfers in the country and a PGA teaching professional at the Country Club of Birmingham in Alabama. We talk with Chris about his prowess in sports...

Ed Holmes has had a long and distinguished career as a Board member and leader for various golf associations in Southern California, including the SCGA, the SCGA Junior Foundation and the SCPGA, and has also done television and rules work for the USGA. We talk with Ed about his journey in the game and the many contributions he has made to golf in Southern California and beyond.

Lizette Salas has come a long way in golf, from her first day going with her dad to the local course in Azusa here in Southern California (where he worked as a mechanic) to being a two-time winner on the LPGA Tour and a five-time member of the US Solheim Cup team. We talk about how she got started in the game, her junior career, earning a golf scholarship to USC, winning the NCAA team championship...

Thirty years ago, Sheena and Jack Willoughby, newly married, purchased the Dunvegan Hotel, which sits just a bit more than 100 yards from the 18th green at the Old Course in St. Andrews. They transformed the place into one of golf's greatest 19th holes. We talk with Sheena about her journey with the Dunvegan and how she and Jack came to purchase it and transformed it, and the great memories she ha...

Kay Cockerill has had a stellar career as a commentator at The Golf Channel for nearly 30 years. We talk with Kay about her start in golf in Northern California, making the team at UCLA as a walk on and becoming a two-time All-American, winning back-to-back US Women's Amateurs, her time on the LPGA Tour and her transition into broadcasting at the dawn of The Golf Channel. We also get Kay's thought...

Megha Ganne is entering her junior year at Stanford after a season which saw her earn first-team All-American honors and go undefeated in match play in the NCAA Finals as Stanford won the team title. We talk with Megha about her start in the game at age 7, what it was like to be a 4 time finalist in the Drive, Chip and Putt finals at Augusta, and her stellar junior golf record which included reach...

Carrie Forsyth retired last year after a tremendous 24-year run as head coach of the UCLA Women's Golf Team, where she won 2 national championships and 5 Pac12 championships, and coached many players who are stars today on the LPGA (including Alison Lee, Lilia Vu and Patty Tavatanakit, among others). We talk with Carrie about how she got her start in golf, her junior career in Southern California,...

Jaden Soong is a rare talent. Having started in golf at age 3, he has compiled a remarkable resume in the game, culminating this summer with his victory in the 125th SCGA Amateur Championship. We talk with Jaden and his dad Chris about how Jaden got started in the game, his participation in the US Kids program, his work with Rick Sessinghaus, his social media presence, his practice routine, his re...

Suzy Whaley has had an amazing career in golf -- member of the PGA of America Hall of Fame, 41st President of the PGA of America, nationally recognized teacher, first woman to qualify for a PGA tour event (2003 GHO) since Babe Zaharias, and the list goes on. We talk with Suzy about how she got started in the game, her college golf experience, her pivot from heading to law school to playing on the...

Gary McCord had a lengthy career on Tour, playing in over 400 PGA Tour events and then playing in another 161 events on the Champions Tour (with two victories), but Gary is probably best known for his 33 year career as a member of the CBS golf telecast crew from 1986-2019. We talk with Gary about life on Tour in the early 70's with Monday qualifying, his lead role in creating the all-exempt Tour i...

Rod Trump is a passionate golfer who was looking for a golf course to purchase. Rod discovered High Pointe in Northern Michigan, which was Tom Doak's first golf course design which had opened in 1989 as a daily fee facility and closed in 2009, a victim of the Great Recession. Rod, working with Tom, is reviving High Pointe as an elite national golf club. We talk with Rod about his journey in the ga...

Andrea Gaston has had a stellar coaching career, highlighted by her 22-year run as coach of the USC Women's Golf Team where she won 3 national championships, qualified for the NCAA's 21 years in a row, and coached 50 All-Americans (including 5 NCAA individual champions). We talk to Andrea about her start in golf in Los Angeles, her own notable playing career, her 14 year break from the game, her r...

Gary Van Sickle has covered golf for more than 4 decades, including 125 majors and 14 Ryder Cups. We talk to Gary about his start in sports journalism at the Milwaukee Journal, and discuss some of the notable Ryder Cups and other events he has covered, and what it has been like to cover Tiger Woods from his 1st victory in 1996 to his 81st at The Masters in 2019. We also discuss Scottie Scheffler's...

David Frost has had a wonderful career on tour, winning 10 titles on the PGA Tour and another 6 titles on the Champions Tour. We talk about his growing up in South Africa and learning the game, and his early years as a pro playing in Europe before coming to the US. We also discuss his meetings with Ben Hogan, his high finishes in The Open at Muirfield and Carnoustie, and his family wine business,...

Don Pooley had a long career on both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour, highlighted by his victory in a playoff over Tom Watson for the 2002 US Senior Open. We talk about his journey in the game, from growing up and learning the game at The Victoria Club in Riverside, CA, walking on the golf team at the University of Arizona, his challenges in securing his PGA Tour card, and then his long and su...

We talk with our friend, Top 100 Teacher Brady Riggs, about the state of the women's and men's game as we get ready for the season's first major. We discuss Nelly Korda's dominance this year with her 4 consecutive victories, and the tremendous young talent in the women's game as illustrated by the performances we saw in the Augusta National Women's Amateur this past week. We then cover the men's g...

Bill Fields has had a long and distinguished career as a golf journalist, and among other awards has received the PGA of America Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism. We talk to Bill about his life in journalism, from his writing for The Daily Tar Heel at UNC and the various newspapers he worked for, to his time at Golf Illustrated and his many years at Golf World Magazine. We discuss several...

Mike Donald had a long career on the PGA Tour, making nearly 300 cuts and winning the 1989 Anheuser-Busch Classic. Mike is perhaps most famous for his runner-up finish in the 1990 US Open where he lost in a playoff to Hale Irwin after they were tied at the end of 72 holes and remained tied after their subsequent 18 hole playoff, thereby necessitating a sudden death playoff. Mike talks about growin...

Geoff Lofstead is the Executive Director of the South Florida PGA Section, one of the leading sections in the country. We talk with Geoff about his journey in golf administration which has taken him from his first job in golf in his hometown of Morgantown, West Virginia, to tournament director positions in the Iowa and Michigan PGA sections, to his 20+ year career in the South Florida PGA Section....

Having photographed over 700 courses, Evan Schiller is perhaps the most celebrated golf course photographer in the world. We talk with Evan about how he migrated from playing golf in college and on various mini-tours to being a club pro at Quaker Ridge and Westchester CC to dabbling in photography to ultimately making that his career. We discuss what a typical shoot day is like for Evan (including...

Bob Dolan had a stellar 28 year run as only the third Head Professional in the long history of Columbia Country Club, following in the footsteps of his legendary predecessors Fred McLeod and Bill Strausbaugh. We talk with Bob about how he approached the head pro position at Columbia, his thoughts on teaching and how he feels that the game today is overtaught and under-coached, the importance of no...

Rachel Kuehn is one of the top collegiate players in the game. We talk to Rachel about growing up as the daughter of Wake Forest golf legend Brenda Corrie Kuehn and creating her own stellar record at Wake as a 4-time All-American, a two-time ACC Player of the Year, having the lowest 4-year career scoring average in program history, winning 6 tournaments in her college career and leading her team t...

Rees Jones is one of the most celebrated golf architects in history. As the son of the famous golf architect Robert Trent Jones Sr., he was born into the game of golf, and after working with his dad, Rees started his own design firm nearly 50 years ago. He has designed or renovated more than 270 golf courses in his career, and has earned the moniker "The Open Doctor" for his work in preparing nume...

Dan Hicks has had a stellar career at NBC Sports for the past 32 years, including serving as the lead golf play-by-play announcer for NBC for the past 24 years. We talk to Dan about having a front row seat for Tiger Woods' career and his iconic call for Tiger's US Open win at Torrey Pines in 2008, what it was like to work with Johnny Miller in the booth for nearly 20 years, how he prepares for his...

Alan Shipnuck is one of the leading sportswriters and authors in golf, and most notably has recently published "LIV and Let Die" and the NY Times bestseller "PHIL". We go into depth on these two topics, talking about the various contradictions in Phil Mickelson's life and where he stands with the public, and then discuss at length various aspects of LIV and where LIV vs. the Tour stands today in l...