Shamrocks and Shanks

My guest for this episode is Jonah Oliver. Jonah may be unfamiliar to some of you but is one of the leading sports psychologists in Australia. He has worked with a multitude of elite performers and sports stars from Australian Football League, Formula 1, Soccer and Tennis…. Jonah’s golf connection comes from his work with current British open champion Cam Smith.   In this podcast we start by Jonah...

My guest for this episode is Mike Kay. Mike is a PT by trade and is fast becoming one of the foremost experts on movement in professional sport as well as becoming one of the foremost choice for PGA Tour Professionals to work with. Mike works with professional athletes across a number of sports ranging from MLB, NBA and of course the PGA tour so is in a very good position to pass along his knowled...

This episode’s guest is Stuart Morgan who works with many Tour Players and indeed elite amateurs around the globe in helping them improve their results. Some might label that a performance coach but to be percise Stuarts skills revolve around practicing and the learning side of the equation and in working with the players to get to know them more personally and to analyse their current practice an...

In this episode I got to chat to Jake Thurm. Jake is not only one of the smartest coaches in world golf but also one of the busiest as he coordinates success in all age groups of the game and indeed from all levels. From guiding junior players success as a director of the Midwest section and coach of the USA Junior Golf Team to working with many tour players like Kevin Streelman, James Hann , Mark...

In this episode I got to chat with two good friends of mine who also happen to be two of the smartest coaches in golf right at this time. Rob Failes, who is the Director of player development at Boars Head Golf Club in Virginia and a newcomer to the show Mark Grace who is the owner of Mark Grace Golf and a full time coach in Memphis Tennessee.  For this podcast I ask Mark and Robbie to chat about...

In this episode I got to chat with Justin Parsons who is one of the premier coaches in world golf. Justin, originally from Northern Ireland, is an elite golf instructor at the impressive Sea Island Resort in Georgia. Over the past few years has worked with many top PGA tour players including Louis Oosthuizen, Davis Love 111, Patton Kizzire, Brian Harman, Gary Woodland as well as working with many...

In this episode I chat with Dave Phillips who is the co founder of the Titleist Performance Institute(TPI) which is the world's leading educational organization dedicated to the study of how the human body functions in relation to the golf swing .  A golf digest top 50 coach Dave has learned alongside some of the smartest in golf including David Leadbetter, Mac O’Grady , Ramsey McMaster and t...

In this episode I got to chat with George Gankas who my mind is one of the top coaches of our generation. I don’t think anyone has moved the needle more in how golf coaching is delivered all the while backing it up with an in depth understanding of human movement and golf dynamics. His ability to create distance for players across the board has made him a guru of sorts and numerous tour pros and e...

In this episode I got to chat with John Dunigan who is one of the elite coaches at combining motor control and learning with the technical aspect of golf coaching. John has worked with numerous PGA tour players as well as creating one of the best Junior programs in North America. He is a Golf Magazine Top 100 Teacher, a Golf Digest Top 50 Teacher and has won the Philadelphia PGA Section's Tea...

Our guest for this episode is Rob Failes who is the Player Development Leader at the mightily impressive Boars Head Golf Resort in Charlottesville Virginia. As well as been a bachelor of science graduate from Clemson University Rob has been nominated by Golf Digest as a Top 50 teacher in state as well as numerous other accolades in his career to date. What makes Rob stand out to me as a coach off...

In this episode I got to chat with Dana Dahlquist who is one of the top coaches in world golf. As well as working with many elite amateur, college and tour players Dana is constantly evolving his golf coaching style and skills and the result is a team of some of the best movers in the game. We chat about one of Danas students Beau Hossler and his return to form on the PGA tour, speed creation and...

So on this weeks show we have Baden Schaff. Now Baden may not be a household name but the platform he has created, Skillest Golf, is the #1 online golf lessons platform in the world and is changing the face of golf coaching.  We chat about Baden’s early years in growing his love for golf and how from an early age he would have that inquisitive personality that all great coaches’ posses. This inqui...

My guest this week is Scott Cowx, one of the smartest people in world golf instruction and indeed in golf coach education.  Scott has long been associated with dissecting a golf swing pattern into moving parts to illustrate their cause and effect and then putting it all back together again akin to how a top mechanic might reconstruct an engine. His stable of players if full of carefully orchestrat...

In this episode I am joined by Dr. Mark Bull one of the premier bio mechanists in the golf world today. Dr. Bull is one of the most fascinating individuals to listen to as his perspective on learning delves deeply into a questioning of all that you have learned as a default since you started to play the game of golf.  His conciseness of the terminology we use is on display as he navigates through...

A sit down and chat with Jason Sutton aka The Golf Guru who is truly one of the elite coaches and one of the smarted individuals in the game today. I really wanted to get Jason on the show as when you look at his experience and status in the game there are few who can match it.  Jason has amassed a huge following on his Podcast , The Golf Guru Show, where he interviews the top echelon of the golf...

A chat with 5 time European Tour Winner Barry Lane. Barry discusses his entry into golf and how the love affair began. We chat about his memories of interactions with such legends as Bob Torrance,  Seve and Bernhard Langer. He gives us some detail on what is helping him get his game back in shape for the 2022 season and also some advice for the club golfer out there and how changing your mind set...

In this episode I got to chat with Dr. Karl Morris who is one of the elite sports performance coaches in the world. Client list in the Golf world includes Lee Westwood, Graeme McDowell, Darren Clarke, Louis Oosthuizen to name a few.  Karl discusses how we as players are constantly creating opinions on our games rather than dealing more with facts, how we can improve our game by creating simple tho...

A chat with short game coach to LPGA and PGA players, Gareth Raflewski. Gareth has over 75 wins as a coach on both tours combined and joined us to chat about his coaching philosophy, what he looks for when helping golfers of all abilities and his venture in to the putting training aid market and how that started to really help his students.  Support the show

Chat with PGA Tour putting coach and Irishman Stephen Sweeney about his journey to the PGA  tour from Donegal, his work with PGA  players like Joaquin Niemann, Aaron Wise, Wyndham Clark and his recent addition to that list in the form of an Irish Major Winner Shane Lowry......Stephen also gave us some good fundamentals to work on our own games and chatted about his upcoming creation of a new Indoo...

A chat with Dr. Will Wu PHD about understanding motor learning and how we can use that understanding to potentially enhance our practice time. How to create a structure in our practice so we are practicing to improve rather than for the sake of practicing full stop and also how coaches can look more at the art of learning and guided practice to assist students in their environments when away from...

I got to chat with Coach Doug Lawrie about his path to becoming one of the premier coaches in the country, his views on junior golf in Canada and some other fun topics that came up. Enjoy Support the show