Bay State Golf Podcast

It’s Masters week, so my major preview stalwart Paul Burke joins me. We start with a discussion about the Augusta National Women’s Amateur that was held this past weekend. Then we jump into some silly hypotheticals. We pick a permanent home course for ...

Ron Forse got into the golf architecture game in the late 1980s. Over the last 30+ years, alongside his partner Jim Nagle, Ron has worked at countless courses doing restorations, renovations, and original designs. His love of art, sports, and history p...

Paul Burke joins me to touch on a bunch of different golf related topics. We hit on golf pet peeves, with some help for some folks on Instagram, and then we offer up some new golf rules that we think might make the game better or more interesting. Next...

Laz Versalles is a man full of interesting stories and hot takes. During our conversation, we talk about golf in Minnesota, Laz’s stint as a club pro, his path to writing for various golf publications. Laz isn’t afraid of sharing his opinions on twitte...

Frank Vana Jr. is one of the most dominant amateur golfers in Massachusetts history. For starters, Vana qualified for the Round of 32 in 24 straight Massachusetts Amateur championships. Over the course of 9 years, Vana reached the MassAm final match 6 ...

Bill Buttner is currently the golf coach at Ekerd College in Tampa Bay, Florida. His journey to Ekerd was a long and winding path. It started with a baseball injury in high school, then to UNC-Chapel Hill where he wanted to play basketball. All the whi...

Nick Maccario joins me on today’s podcast. Nick won the 2020 Mass Golf player of the year award after finishing runner-up in the Amateur Invitational, the Mass Amatuer, the New England Amateur, and The Ouimet Invitational in four straight weeks. He cap...

My friend Paul Burke joins me to talk about the new documentary on HBO. We hit on the people we'd like to have seen, the people we could do without, the stars of the doc, memories that we had forgotten about, if it was fair, and if we liked it. Twitter...

On today's podcast Jim Salinetti, the Head Pro at Winchester CC joins me. Jim was an exceptional amateur player in Massachusetts, winning the Massachusetts Amateur in 1997, 1999, and 2000. In 1997, Jim was the youngest player to ever win the Mass Am. J...

Ed Meyers joins me for this week's episode. Ed started played golf in 2016. He grew up playing baseball competitively, and after finishing his college career on the diamond, he started playing golf with his buddies. The golf bug bit him hard. He loved ...

Hey everyone, the final Imperfect Game Podcast of 2020 is the second part of my talk with Paul Burke. In this pod Burke tells us about us his Masters online food order. Then we revisit some of our takes about Rory, Bryson, and the boredom of Winged Foo...

This week, I wrap up the year with Paul with a 2-part podcast. Paul is my go to guest for the preview of the majors. This pod is a bit different. In part 1, we tackle two questions: Question 1: If you could go back in time and experience three historic...

This week Colin Brennan joined me to talk about his start in the game and those endless summer days on the course with his brother, playing 36 holes and killing time on the range. Colin was the 2012 MGA player of the year, and that summer’s success ins...

Seth and Chris, the guys behind Be Good Golf join me to talk about a wide range of golf topics. They share their golf origin stories and how Be Good Golf came to be during a lot car ride through Nebraska. We lament the challenges of Instagram and figur...

Sean has his friend Mike on this week to talk about golf. In strange twist of fate, some big NBA news dropped just before they recorded and because their friendship blossomed around the NBA, we break down the trade first. Then we get to Mike's reinvigo...

Ryan French who runs the Monday Q account on Twitter joins me on this podcast. Ryan is a champion of the mini-tour golfer and has spent the last three years documenting the challenges of making it as a professional golfer. We discuss how he got into th...

On this episode, I have am joined by Matt Roberts who runs Old Line Golf. Matt is an admitted golf nut and loves to travel all around Maryland playing golf and finding interesting stories to tell. We covered a bunch of topics including his changed pers...

Today's podcast is a Masters Preview with Paul Burke. In this episode, we discuss the golf course and some hypotheticals if we were able to play only some of the golf holes at Augusta National. We touch on the good and bad about a November Masters befo...

Adam and Jarrod joined me to talk about Cape Cod Golf. These two brothers, aka The Cape Cod Golf Guys, have decided to play each course on the Cape and Islands. Their motivation is both from a love of golf and a glaring lack of online info about course...

Jed Moller joins me to talk about Plymouth Country Club. Jed is a member at Plymouth CC but is also become the club’s historian. He’s full of great info about Plymouth’s history on and off the golf course. We talk about the founding of the course, Dona...

I'm joined on this pod by Kevin Van Cleef. Kevin and I had never met before this pod, we found each other on golf twitter and he seemed like he had some interesting thoughts on golf and he is also currently working on the grounds crew at Old Sandwich i...

Golfer Matt Parziale joins me for this pod to talk about playing in major championships, his mental game, life as a big time amateur golfer, his preparation for events, his schedule, his plans for golf down the road, and more. Matt has won the Mass Ama...

It's the week of a major, so Paul joins the pod to dish on US Open golf. They start off talking about Winged Foot the course, a place neither of them know terribly well. Paul believes that might be due to the lack of truly memorable holes as compared t...

Sean has his golf stand-by Paul Burke on because it's major week. The PGA is the first major in more than a year. Paul launches into a golf coverage rant right off the bat. The Golf Channel dropped the ball by not having any real coverage from Harding ...

I am joined by Paul Burke to talk about golf and how we're filling the void of live sporting events. We challenge the Golf Channel to be better, because they've dropped the ball on various opportunities to show coverage of great tournaments instead of ...