Beltway Golfer

Alex talks Grapefruit League golf and public options down in West Palm Beach as well as a visit to Tiger Woods’ booming mini-golf business.  Josh stops off at Furnace Creek GC north of Charm City and the discussion turns to a shared love of the nine-holer at Sligo Creek, along with an offbeat anecdote related […]

With a professional golf career spanning 43 years and counting, Fred Funk has experienced close to all you can imagine on tour.  The PG County native who played for and coached the UMD golf team before his long journey on tour, joins the podcast to share stories from his career, memories from golf around the […]

Josh talks a few recent coastal first-state rounds at Baywood Greens, The Rookery & Midway.  Alex plays a blustery round at Bull Run and shares some recent observations down at East Potomac. Listen to Episode 3 of the Surrender Birdies podcast below!

Alex and Josh dive into night golf after watching the latest iteration of The Match as well a recent round under the lights played at Knights Play in North Carolina.  The discussion dives into the economics of adding lights to a course and where in the DMV night golf could work.  Josh goes into the […]

For the past eight years, superintendent Chris Navin has led an on-course resurgence at PB Dye GC, with a continuing series of projects designed to have the course in the conversation as one of the best public options in the region.  In the mid-2010s, conditions went through a rough stretch which led to ownership bringing […]

We kick off our new show with a review of the format, a couple host introductions and the plans for the podcast orgoing forward.  A recent invite to BHCC gets interrupted by an urgent call from the homefront and the police have to be redirected from looking for one of our hosts mid-round, reflections on […]

The 2024 PGA Show in Orlando kicks off a conversation with Golf News Net’s founder, Ryan Ballangee.  We discuss what Ryan saw at the show and how he’s seen the event evolve over the years before our discussion dives into his career in golf media.  Just last year, Golf News Net launched a 24-hour golf […]

Fresh off last weekend’s PGA Tour Q-School, Davis Lamb joins the podcast to talk through his young career, which saw back-to-back wins on PGA Tour Canada this past summer.  Those victories and a top 5 finish in the Fortinet Cup have earned him status on the Korn Ferry Tour with a handful of guaranteed starts […]

Jim Estes has enjoyed a long journey tied to this game.  The DC area native and long-time resident spent years playing professionally on various tours both domestically and abroad, playing in five majors and earning his PGA Tour card for a year in the late 90s.  But his enduring contribution to the game is co-founding […]

In our 75th podcast episode, we speak with five young golfers about their experience with the First Tee of Greater Washington DC and the impact both the organization and the game of golf has made with each of them.  This impressive group each continued with The First Tee well into their teenage years, representing the […]

Retiring this season after a 27-year run as head golf coach for the Langley HS Saxons in McLean, Al Berg has led his program on a remarkable run of success.  His team is competing to extend a run of seven consecutive Virginia Class 6 State Championship, and add to a total of 9 state titles […]

Recently named as one of Golf Magazine’s Top 100 teachers and having already been included in Golf Digest’s Top 50, Trillium Rose has established herself as one of the preeminent instructors in the game.  Based at Woodmont Country Club in Rockville, MD, she has also attracted a legion of followers to her social media channels […]

Having been named one of the top 50 Golf Fitness Trainers in America by Golf Digest every year since the list began, Jason Meisch is about as trusted a source for golf exercise training and performance enhancement as you’ll find. Jason and the PEAK team have been training golfers at their Rockville location since 2009 […]

With a lack of an end-of-season tournament available for his Stone Ridge golf team and other local private schools girls golf programs, Justin Nogay recently launched the Washington Metro Private School Girls’ Tournament, which in its second year fielded high school girls from 12 area schools.  The success of his team and his contributions to […]

Playing golf six times a week is a dream that many who play this game imagine spending their golden years.  DC Native and World War II veteran, Bernie Smoot has been living that dream for over 4 decades now since retiring in 1980. Weather permitting and when not visiting his sister and playing golf in […]

Jack Bonifant’s golf career alone is one most golfers would be impressed by. Junior champion at the Bobby Bowers at the age of 16, All-Met in high school, walk-on D1 golfer at James Madison University, and today a plus-handicap who competes for and sits on the board at Argyle Country Club.  His story becomes truly […]

As one of less than 500 PGA Master Professionals, Mike Dickson exudes a passion for seeing his students improve along with a deep understanding of the mechanics of the golf swing.  After a seventeen-year run at Congressional Country Club, Mike now leads instruction at the MCG Academy at Little Bennett Golf Course. Earlier this month […]

For over 20 years, Jimmy Garvin ran programs at Langston Golf Course that included creating a learning center in the clubhouse where he used the game of golf as a carrot to get kids to focus on their education as well as exposing new destinations to a traveling team of All-Stars that competed against their […]

The indoor golf market has exploded in the US over the past few years with simulators popping up seemingly everywhere you look.   After well-establishing itself as a global leader in the industry, Korean-based Golfzon opened its North American headquarters in Northern Virginia and is methodically pursuing US market share as this trend shows no sign […]

When not working behind the camera on some of DC’s most-watched shows like Meet The Press & Scott Van Pelt’s SportsCenter, Garrett Johnston has been hustling to make a name for himself in the golf world, both as a writer and with a microphone.  The Alexandria-based fellow podcaster has hosted over 140 episodes of Beyond […]

One of the best stories in DC-area sports the last few years has been not just the resurrection, but the play of the Howard University Golf team. Leading the way on the course has been Gregory Odom Jr who has won several events since transferring into the program from Memphis, and got the opportunity to […]

With 190 episodes under their belt and counting, Adam Hallenbeck and Eddie Taylor have been sharing their light-hearted stories and golf takes for four years.  The Maryland-based duo tape the Mediocre Golf Podcast every week where they banter about their observations, recent rounds, buddies trips and whatever else is on their mind.   We sat down […]

This episode was taped on the convention center floor during this month’s PGA Show in Orlando, FL  The annual industry event looked a bit more normal this year after going virtual in 2021 due to covid & last year’s which was skipped by almost every major OEM. A couple weeks prior to the event, David […]

With the highest population of any county in Virginia and the third highest median income in the country, Fairfax County has golfers galore. Its Park Authority provides and manages seven properties that run the gamut of municipal golf.  A 36-hole property at Twin Lakes, two-executive nines at Pinecrest & Jefferson District, a pair of par […]

Flying under the radar while in the ear of some of golf’s top stars has been Julie Elion’s modus operandi for going on two decades.  While most golf fans likely aren’t familiar with her, she is still very active in working with tour pros at the very top of the sport.  With a resume that […]