Tee for Two

Our guest today is Michele Watts. Michele lost her sight through 2015-16 to a rare eye disease. Yet by 2017 she was an Australian champion blind golfer and in 2018 claimed an International World Blind Golf Championship title. She recently won the national blind golf championship for the second time and has qualified for Team Asutralia at the International Blind Golf Championships in Canada in Augu...

After an excellent 2023, LPGA Tour veteran Sarah Kemp experienced a career-threatening knee injury in 2024. With hard work, mental resilience and a deep love for the game, Sarah made a stunning comeback to tour golf in early 2025. Today she shares her comeback story, her journey through golf and what lies ahead. About Sarah: Our guest today has seen both the highs and the lows of professional tour...

Sonia Kirkman is a successful businesswoman in a niche area covering a diverse range of golf related sectors, including golf retail and tournament merchandising, business analysis and management, and in transforming golf shops. How many of us have any understanding of the behind-the-scenes of retail golf shops? Today, we’re going to learn more. Our guest today is Sonia Kirkman of Kirkman Spo...

Our guest today is Emma Ballard, the current editor of the leading UK women’s magazine Women & Golf. Emma has an 18-year career in both selling – and telling – the stories of women in golf. There are a lot of issues that women in golf encounter, whether they be serious or social players or women working in the golf industry, and these affect women golfers world over. On Emma&...

Our guest today is Alicia Nagle, founder and CEO of the social golf club and sport platform Zonely. Alicia, the granddaughter of Australian golf legend Kel, is passionate about inclusion in sport and creating a strong sense of community within Zonely. Her commitment to this resulted in Zonely winning the Excellence in Community Engagement award at the inaugural Women in Golf Charter Awards held in...

Our guest today is Nadene Gole. Nadene is the world number one ranked senior woman amateur, a position she has held since February 2023 after only commencing playing senior women’s amateur events in late 2022. In 2023, Nadene won all six Australian state senior women’s amateur titles as well as the Australian and New Zealand championships, a feat not achieved by anyone previously. 2024 has seen he...

Our guests today are Kate Torgersen and Monina Gilbey. Kate and Monina have worked individually for a long period of time of the area of environmental sustainability in golf. In May 2024, on World Biodiversity Day, they announced their joint partnership Torgersen Gilbey.  The theme of World Biodiversity Day this year was “Be Part of the Plan” and there is no doubt they are part of the grand plan....

Our guest today is Fiza Errington, General Manager of Gosnells Golf Club in Western Australia. Fiza is one of the new breed of female managers in the golf industry, a role she performs with great commitment and passion. With extensive experience in both sports management and club management, on top of being a former top junior golfer, Fiza brings a wealth of knowledge on various aspects of the gam...

Our guest today is Karen Lunn. As CEO of WPGA Tour Australasia, Karen is one of golf’s most accomplished administrators and one of the most important thought leaders in the game.  A former tour player on the Ladies European Tour, the LPGA Tour and the domestic ALPG Tour, Karen amassed 16 career wins around the world, including the 1993 Weetabix Women’s British Open, a highly coveted title. Her exp...

Our guests today are well known media personality and keen golfer Deborah Hutton and respected dermatologist Dr Anita Lasocki. In the lead up to The Longest Day, the golf challenge run by Cancer Council Victoria to raise funds for prevention programs and research into skin cancer, Deborah and Anita share with us ways in which we can lower the risk of contracting skin cancers.  Anita has a special...

Our guest today is Nikki McClure. Nikki grew up in a family of golfers but initially didn’t take to the game, preferring other sports. But when personal tragedy struck her young family, it was golf that helped bring her out from a very dark place and then buoyed her as she created a place of light for other women entering the game.  From reluctant golfer, to beginner rebuilding her life, to entrep...

Our guest today is Raj Narayan. Raj is one of golf’s emerging women entrepreneurs, coming from a corporate financial and management background to apply both analytical skills and social awareness to create an online business and networking golf club, the creatively named Emajin.  From someone who started out hating the game, Raj has transitioned into someone who not only loves it with a...

Our guest on Tee for Two today is Hannah Brown, PhD. Hannah is a person of serious intellect, a person of reflection and a qualitative thinker on the world she sees around her. Hannah is also a fairly new golfer who speaks with relevance and authority on what a new player encounters as they enter the game.  Hannah has recently completed a paper for her MBA called Re-imagining the Game and Bus...

Our guest on Tee for Two today is Hannah Green. Hannah recently made golf history by not only taking out two gender-neutral tournaments in succession in Victoria, Australia - the 2022 Vic Open and the Webex Players Series Murray River – but, in winning the second she became not only the first female to win one of The Players Series events in Australia but the first woman to win a four-round...

Our guest on Tee for Two today is Bonnie Boezeman. Bonnie enjoyed a brilliant corporate career including over 20 years with media giant Time Warner, 13 of them as Managing Director and Chair of Time Life Australia. Her career took her around the globe before she arrived in Australia in 1983. It was here that her instinct for helping others took hold, becoming a passion and what she now calls her l...

Our guest on Tee for Two today is Jane Crafter, one of Australia’s finest professional golfers as well as one of the game’s best ambassadors. Jane is one of only three women to have won the Women’s Australian Open in a wonderful career that has seen her be a successful LPGA Tour player, a respected commentator and broadcaster, a course design consultant and one of the 25 co-found...

Our guest on Tee for Two today is Geraldine O’Callaghan, the recently appointed course superintendent at Sandringham Golf Links, the home of the new Australian Golf Centre. Gerri is one of a small (but growing) group of women in greenkeeping and is believed to be one of only four female golf course superintendents in Australia. Gerri was raised in the northern part of the state of Victoria,...

Introducing Tee for Two, the podcast for women in golf – and the men who support them. There are so many wonderful people playing or being involved in our fabulous, fun and sometimes ‘challenging’ game. Everywhere we look, there are good people doing amazing things, quietly. And they all have a story. On Tee for Two, we’re going to talk with women from all areas of golf and...