Bay State Golf Podcast

Sully: Episode 2: Cape Cod. With keen insight and well-timed humor, three lifelong friends retrace PGA Professional Tom Sullivan’s formative years on Cape Cod in the 1970s and 80s, when he played money matches by day, tended bar at night and gained a r...

Last month, I caddied for Brandon Johnson in the US MidAm on Nantucket. I was writing a piece about golfers from the Dayton, Ohio area competing in the event, Brandon was one of them, and when Brandon said he was looking for a caddie, I offered my medi...

Sully: Ep 1: Dad. On October 7th, 2020, Tom Sullivan died tragically when a tree collapsed onto his golf cart during a violent storm that swept through Wyantenuck Country Club in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In an instant, the world of golf lost a ...

Coming Thursday, October 14 to The Imperfect Game - "Sully: A narrative podcast about PGA Professional Tom Sullivan." Be sure to listen to the October 7 episode where I interview Dom Dastoli, the man behind this new series. Subscribe to this podcast to...

I connected with Dom last spring after he heard my interview with Jim Salinetti, the head pro at Winchester CC. Dom was working on a project about Tom Sullivan, a long-time, beloved club pro from Massachusetts who passed away on Oct. 7 2020. Dom’s proj...

Boo Weekley played in one Ryder Cup and made quite an impression at Valhalla in 2008. He was a big reason for the USA's much needed victory. The story of Boo's rise in professional golf was long and trying but inspiring. Hear about his fight with an or...

Golf club maker and entrepreneur Josh Haywood joins me to talk about Haywood Golf. In 2018, Josh decided he wanted to make affordable, direct to consumer golf clubs that compete with the big brands that most golfers gravitate towards. Josh's story is i...

This week Tung and I catch up on his latest golf escapades. He’s playing and watching golf, he’s been lucky enough to visit Belmont in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia. We talk about Collin Morikawa’s maniacal cereal eating routine, making friends on...

This pod was supposed to focus team USA's captains picks, but before talking through all the different options and characters we talk about some Ryder Cup news, our 1999 Ryder Cup memories from The Country Club, and what we'd change about the event if ...

A different kind of episode this week. A little dive into the life and times of Christy O'Connor Sr. The Irishman played in 10 straight Ryder Cups from 1955-1973. Back then the Ryder Cup was tilted firmly in favor of the Americans, but O'Connor kept co...

This week’s guest is Joe Hooks, a pro golfer who I discovered on Erik Anders Lang’s Breaking Sawgrass this past spring. Joe speaks about playing competitive golf at an early age, his golf support system, and making the choice in 9th grade to focus on p...

This is the fourth installment of podcasts with my friend Tung about the first months of his golf journey. This past spring, Tung caught the golfing bug and hasn’t looked back. If you haven’t listened to the other three pods with Tung, give them a list...

Kevin Van Cleef is this week’s guest. This is his second time joining me on the pod. We connected through twitter last fall and since then he has continued his work on the grounds crew at Old Sandwich. He shares some news on his progress, but we also t...

Over the last 20 years, fitness has become more important to playing good golf over a longer period of time. Bobby Dattero is a self-described golf addict. He has taken his love of the game and blended it with his profession as a physical trainer to he...

It's been two years since the world's best golfers competed for the Claret Jug. Paul joins me to talk about the five year anniversaries of the Open. Stenson, Clarke, Tiger, Duval, and Baker-Finch get some air time before we dip our toes in two discussi...

Hooper Golf Course is one of the best nine hole golf courses in the world. Its history is deeply connected with the community of Walpole, New Hampshire, which is a big part of why it survived financial challenges and the threat of becoming condominiums...

Back by popular demand, Tung joins me to talk about his latest adventures as a new golfer. Since our last pod, he's graduated from par 3 courses to a few rounds of nine holes at a full golf course both with and without his son. He also tells a great st...

The US Open is at Torrey Pines this week. Burke and I start the pod discussing the Korn Ferry Tour on-course fight and arrest this Monday before jumping into our US Open topics. We start with our US Open five year anniversaries that include DJ, Rory, G...

Golf has endless entry points. For Christian Williams (aka The Hickory Hacker), it started in high school with some curiosity, some used clubs, and a friend. In the last few years, Christian reconnected with the game through hickory golf. The challenge...

It's major week, so I've got Paul Burke back on to talk about the PGA Championship. We quickly touch on the course before diving into the PGA's anniversary victories, which includes John Daly's incredible 1991 victory, a Greg Norman meltdown, and Kenny...

I was fortunate to have Ron Forse join me for a second podcast. We start with Pete Dye's impact on golf architecture and what to look for this week as you watch the PGA Championship on TV. Then we move on and discuss the future of golf. We start with w...

Today’s pod is a free flowing discussion with my friend Tung. We catch up on his latest golf adventures as he and his son continue to fall in love with the game. Tung has played a couple rounds at a local par 3 course, hit balls at the range, and even ...

This week we head to Australia to talk with Sandy Jamieson about his golfing life. Sandy has stood with, and coached, some of the best players in the world - Robert Allenby and Y.E. Yang to name two. But after years of grinding on professional tours, S...

My friend Tung is dipping his toe into the game of golf. He has stepped foot on a golf course once in the last decade, but his son’s interest in the game has brought the game back into his life. We cover a bunch of different questions beginners have ab...

David Jones is a superintendent in Oklahoma who caught my attention last month when he popped up on my Twitter feed because he only has a few courses left to play before he can say he’s played every golf course in Oklahoma. We start our discussion focu...