Group Golf Therapy

We've been hearing about it for months: since the groundbreaking success of Netflix's F1 expose-all docuseries, Drive to Survive, producers have tipped that a golf edition has been in the works. Well, it's finally here. Full Swing — #2 most popular on Netflix at time of recording — takes viewers behind the curtains in professional golf, during a particularly dramatic 2022 season. 8 episodes of her...

Lizette Salas is an LPGA Tour golfer. She's a US Solheim Cup team member. But her identity encapsulates so much more. During the height of the pandemic, when the LPGA Tour was shut down, Lizette was forced to ask herself big, difficult questions about how golf made her feel. For six months, she went through a process the Shrinks call "burning down the forest to see what grows back." Lizette w...

Jordan Rogers thought that Nike was the top of the mountain. He's since realized that it was just a stepping stone. His company, Perseus Creative , is dedicated to educating and empowering college athletes to build and monetize their personal brands through the NIL program. Personal brand gets thrown around a lot, but it's something Jordan has methodically worked on rebuilding in his own life. Jor...

Abby Liebenthal has, like, so many full-time jobs. In addition to her 9-5 for the USGA, she heads up Fore the Ladies , one of the illest nonprofits in golf, which hosts introductory events and creates educational content designed to get more women and non-binary folks into the game. FTL is no joke: they hosted 50 events in 2022, and there’s no sign of slowing down. Abby shares about her experience...

Kareem Rahma is a lot of things. He's a standup comedian, a podcaster, a documentarian, and is the host of a buzzing new TikTok show, Keep the Meter Running. He's also a naturally-gifted, mostly-irregular golfer, who joined the Shrinks for a lively conversation about New York City, therapy, and making fun of your friends.  Weekly phone calls with his therapist are taken during long walks arou...

Bonny and Michelle met in yoga class. Among many things, they connected over the lack of available options for women’s golf clothing. They got to designing, with a simple edict in mind: each piece must be considerate to how women functionally use the clothing on the golf course. That means pockets, that means mock-necks, that means ZERO skort mullets. Sierra Madre was born. What Bonny and Michelle...

Akbar Chisti and his wife, Megan, started Seamus Golf 11 years ago — they were one of the first in a slew of small makers in the golf space who have since helped define the look and feel of "new golf". The son of Pakistani immigrants, Akbar learned golf in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, while skipping Sunday school at his local mosque. He would eventually join the caddie ranks at Bandon Dunes q...

Daniel Augustus (full name in session title) is a Bermudian professional golfer on the APGA Tour. He has a widely covered childhood story — it's an emotional one. But through hardship, Daniel pushed forward: he found golf and put every ounce of himself into becoming a professional athlete. More importantly, he worked therapy into his life to address the scar tissue left from his childhood, and now...

Who else loves a Thursday Bonus? The Shrinks grouped up for an all-too-rare session together, to ruminate on bagels and other breakfast breads, and Connor is so ill. The bois also discuss recent therapy conversations, the act of journaling and other forms of self-care, and how they deal with failure.  In this session: Bradford's Breakfast Bread Power Rankings, English slander, what we've lear...

Jeremy Kirkland has been a #podboy since 2016 — an eternity, by podverse standards. His show, Blamo! , is artfully described as "a podcast about people wearing clothes." Drew has been a longtime listener, and he even copped to Blamo!'s influence on the creation of Group Golf Therapy — so it was only right to have Jeremy on the couch to spit on one of his other interests: golf. Jeremy regales the S...

Aaron Chewning has been chewning out comedy content since the days of Internet yore (Vine). But his recent venture, St. André — an ode to Atlanta co-inhabitant, André 3000 — has its phasers set to stun the golf world. The Shrinks set aside the first 20 minutes of this session to shower Aaron with compliments for his and his team's work on St. André: it's some of the only golf content the Shrinks h...

Casey Bannon is a golf storyteller: he holds down the editorial wing at The Golfer's Journal, and really wants to run a piece about Robert Garrigus' weed farm. Casey also wears two pairs of socks at once, and is developing queues that help him stay present in an increasingly noisy world. The Shrinks brought Casey on the couch to discuss the mystique of good golf events, The Plateau Effect, and as...

Jermaine Kearse is a Superbowl champion. He's an 8 year NFL veteran. But now, he has the opportunity to redefine his path forward. Drum roll... Jermaine is launching Evergreen Golf Club in Seattle: an indoor golf educational center geared toward teaching young people the game at a competitive level. Jermaine is bringing his elite mental strength and conditioning to the golf world, and we unpack al...

Things got bad for Jordan Thomas. In 2005, a 16 year-old Jordan lost both of his legs in a tragic boating accident. He describes that, beyond the road to physical recovery, his mental and emotional health would take much longer to be set right. But Jordan mustered the courage to ask for help — friends and family rallied around, and helped inspire what Jordan has become: a giver, and a support engi...

Sadena Parks is undeniably, unabashedly herself. It's something she challenged herself with during her professional golf hiatus: to walk into every room unafraid to be herself. Now she's back in competition mode — on June 2, she won THE JOHN SHIPPEN National Golf Invitational — and is making another run toward the LPGA. But this time around, her inner child is calling some of the shots, cartwheels...

The Shrinks group up for a fun game of Overrated/Underrated, and deliver their takes on the likes of: Gimmes, Top Golf, Nashville Hot Chicken, THE STARTER. Bradford, Connor, and Drew also catch up on responding to some incredibly thoughtful listener questions, as well as HOTD conspiracies.  In this session: Kicking your golf bag, bloodthirst, Betty White's buzzer-beater. As always, thanks for...

Lawrence Schlossman is one half of the fashion empire, Throwing Fits. Cole Owens-Young needs no introduction; he runs Metalwood Studio, and his name has been dropped on nearly every MF GGT podcast to date. We brought these two sartorial wündermen onto the couch to unpack the ramp-up of golfcore: the catalysts and spark plugs responsible for golf fashion's reinvention.  In this session: where...

Julia Rae's first film role is a golf movie. Wow. She's one of the leads in the upcoming, festival award winning movie, "Playing Through", which documents the life of Ann Gregory, the first Black woman to compete in a USGA championship. Julia lives in LA, but is deeply connected to her Philly roots, and will never give up Mom's cooking. Julia took golf lessons as a kid, but dove head first into pe...

This full session is available at: patreon.com/groupgolftherapy Connor is tired, after living in 11 NYC apartments in 2022. Drew can only sleep on super soft mattresses. Bradford gives new dog, Honey, the Vibe Test. All this and more on the Group Golf Therapy Patreon page. In this session: the high-wire act of moving in NYC, where to store your golf clubs, hardly any golf. As always, thanks for li...

Plenty of swing changes and life changes have unfolded for Tom Coyne since he wrote A Course Called Ireland in 2009: he had kids, quit drinking, wrote two follow-up books detailing his journey-in-entirety of golf and relationships in Scotland and America along the way. A dream job — to walk from one bucket-list course to another, and getting to write about it — but it's work. Raising a family, and...

Ben Boskovich is coming back to golf with full force. After putting down his clubs in pursuit of his dream job — Deputy Editor at Esquire — in New York City, Ben has spent the past few years falling back in love with the game he grew up around. It started with sleepless nights; turning to visualizations of playing his childhood golf course to distract a clouded mind. Now, Ben is soaking up all tha...

Is it a coincidence that we release this session with an ordained rabbi the morning after Rosh Hashanah? Absolutely. Also, Rabbi Marc isn't ordained — he isn't a rabbi at all (don't worry though, he is Jewish). Instead, Ben Something from southern California went on eBay early in the pandemic to buy a used golf bag to feed his budding golf interest; the leather staff bag he purchased arrived at hi...

Jacques Slade has his hands in a lot of things: he's built a successful YouTube channel , he's made sneakers with Nike, he's acted in feature films. He's also become golf obsessed, and is learning more about himself through playing the game. Jacques came to the GGT couch with loads of opinions on the state of fashion in professional golf, how sneaker culture can bring more people to the golf cours...

This full session is available at: patreon.com/groupgolftherapy Uh oh. A last-minute guest cancellation bore a truly, madly, deeply unhinged conversation betwixt the Shrinks. This clip is the tip of this iceberg. In this session: Game of Thrones (tons of it), Connor's encounter with Flea, shout-outs aplenty. As always, thanks for listening to Group Golf Therapy! #mindyourgolf Please subscribe, rat...

Group Golf Therapy is officially back for season 3! Another chewy block of 20 sessions is coming to you, and we begin this batch with a timely one: professional golfer, Hailey Davidson. Hailey is the first trans woman to win a professional golf tournament in the US, but eking out a living on mini tours isn't easy — a reality she shares with us on the show. After posting 2-under par in her first ro...