Lost Fore Words

This week on the Lost Fore Words Podcast, European and Challenge Tour professional, Charlie Ford and current European Tour caddie, Oliver Briggs joined the show to discuss the latest ruling from the PGA of America on Rangefinders, which will allow the use of them in tournament play at the PGA Championship, Women’s PGA Championship, and the Senior PGA Championship. The guys also discuss slow play,...

This week we only have one event to preview, as the PGA Tour heads to Pebble Beach. Will Dustin Johnson romp home as a short-price favourite this week or can one from the pack come and get the job done, as we have seen in recent years with Ted Potter Jr and last year with Nick Taylor? We recap an exciting week on both Tours as well, discussing the highs and lows for the likes of Tony Finau, Jordan...

In the first of a new mini-series, Patrick Koenig joins the podcast to give listeners an insight into why he loves Golf. In terms of life experience, Patrick has it in bundles and early in his adult life, Patrick realised something had to change. He had to face up to the fact he was an alcoholic, and faced a 7-year battle. Since then, he has turned his obsessive personality from a negative into a...

This week’s Lost Fore Words podcast sees Skyler Hoke of FTN Daily and Mayo Media Network join regular hosts, Tom and Jason. The guys breakdown the field at the Saudi International and the Phoenix Open, with top-heavy fields in both allowing some long shots selections in both events.    Saudi International 00:00 - 56:33 Phoenix Open & Summary 56:34 till close   As ever we highly recommend you check...

Two events this week, first up in Dubai where Tom, Jason and Matt Cooper break down the field and give a huge range of picks from 33/1 - 300/1. Can Tyrrell Hatton be beaten in this kind in form?  On the other side of the pond, we get a look at Torrey Pines ahead of the U.S Open and it’s generally a group of top-grade, course specialists that catch the eye for the guys here, as they look to take on...

Tom and Jason were joined this week by golf’s favourite singer-songwriter Sam Harrop. Sam discusses his latest song, and the guys take him back to his Oddschecker days as they make picks for the first European Tour event of the season - the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and on the PGA Tour, the American Express.    Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship 00:00 - 1:02:36 American Express and Summary 1:02:37 till...

This week, Tom and Jason were joined by Martin Mathews, commonly known as SundogMonkey on Twitter, as they breakdown last week’s events at the Tournament of Champions, and look ahead to this week at the Sony Open. With back-to-back starts in Hawaii considered a significant advantage, do you need to play it safe and take one of the 30-odd players in the field this week that teed it up at Kapalua, o...

This week Jason and Tom were joined by Mike Miller of SmartGolfBets. The guys discussed the previous season, how COVID-19 affected players differently and assessing who struggled and who played best under the conditions. All three picked a player to look out for in 2021, and had brief looks at the upcoming majors, before finally picking bets for this week’s Tournament of Champions. Tom and Jason w...

Ten years after turning professional in 2009, Dale Whitnell won the 2019 KPMG Trophy, shooting -23 under par thru the last three rounds and outlasting Laurie Canter in a playoff. That alone was not enough to secure a European Tour card for 2020, so it was a trip to Q-School - an all too familiar setting for Dale. A positive outcome that week saw Dale make his way onto the European Tour full-time f...

The season-ending DP World Tour Championship is upon us, as is our last betting preview of 2020. Patrick Reed will be looking for a good week to seal the Race to Dubai title, but with Tommy Fleetwood on his heels, he cannot afford to have a bad week.  With a lot of the players coming over from the nearby Fire Course last week, will that be an advantage? Andy Sullivan was in fine form thru three ro...

This week we have three events, the Golf in Dubai Championship which starts in the morning, the SA Open where there are two home favourites and the Mayakoba Classic on the PGA Tour which has attracted an unusually strong field. This is the penultimate podcast of 2020, before the last European Tour event of the year next week in Dubai. As ever, thank you everyone for your support.  Golf in Dubai Ch...

This week we only have one event in South Africa, the Alfred Dunhill Championship, on a familiar course in the shape of Leopard Creek.  Will favourite Brandon Stone get the win his current play suggests he deserves, or can one from the pack get the job done on Sunday? 

A week after Dustin Johnson sauntered to his second major championship title, our attentions turn to two smaller events, in the form of the Joburg Open and the RSM Classic. The Joburg Open will be played at the Firethorn Course and Randpark, which was one of the courses recently used for the 2020 SA Open, and South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout is favoured to get the job done on home soil. On th...

Lee Aldrick of FanShare Sports joined the podcast to discuss this week's Masters from a DraftKings perspective. Who is the pick of the bunch at the top of the slate and worth paying up for, and who is perhaps costly but easy enough to put a line through? At the opposite end, who is going to be the guy in the 6k and 7k brackets that contribute to some winning lineups? Tune in to hear us go through...

Tom and Jason are joined by Sporting Life’s, Ben Coley as they preview the much anticipated, 2020 Masters. With the top players generally all showing very good signs of form since golf returned over the Summer, which should make for an excellent event. Are there any outsiders worth betting this week, or should you stick to the head of the market? Will a November Masters play that different to Apri...

In Episode 49 of the Lost Fore Words podcast, Will Wilcox joined the show to discuss his career so far. Will talks about his humble beginnings, how he struggled in his late teens, rededicating himself when given a second chance by Clayton State and much, much more. A winner on Tour, a member of the 59 club and a famous hole-in-one at the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass that will live long in the memory,...

Two events this week, with the European Tour staying at Aphrodite Hills in Cyprus for a unique format in the Cyprus Showdown, while we get a new course in Houston for the Houston Open. Renowned designer, Tom Doak gets his first shot at a PGA Tour event, after his Renaissance design hosted the Scottish Open in 2018 and 2019. It’s 30/1 the field in Cyprus, so you can take your pick, while Dustin Joh...

Charlie Ford joins the podcast again for another topical discussion, this time about Major Championships. Tom and Charlie discuss whether majors are as essential to legendary status as they’re made out to be among fans, media and the likes. Do the players themselves consider them as essential? Are majors championship victories an unfair barometer of a players’ career? With just four played a year,...

This week’s events see a new course and event on the European Tour as Aphrodite Hills plays host to the Cyprus Open, while the PGA Tour returns to Bermuda for the second staging of the Bermuda Championship. Both events have slightly weaker fields than previous weeks, as the top players opt to play it safe and take rest and recovery over match practice, in preparation for the upcoming Masters. We c...

This week the European Tour to heads to Italy for the Italian Open while the PGA moves to California for the relocated ZOZO Championship. As has often been the case, these are courses we are not used to seeing on Tour, such is golf in the COVID-19 era, but we have some excellent players competing in both events, as they all desperately try and sharpen their tools for the upcoming Masters in Novemb...

This week’s podcast sees Tom and Jason discuss the Scottish Championship and the CJ Cup. While a weak field has assembled on the European Tour, 16 of the top-20 players in the world are teeing it up in Las Vegas and more specifically Shadow Creek. With new courses on both Tours, it should make for an interesting week.   Scottish Championship 00:00 - 35:17 CJ Cup 35:18 - 1:35:44 General Discussion...

This week the European Tour heads to Wentworth for its flagship event, the BMW PGA Championship, while the PGA Tour travels to Vegas this week, for the first of a double-header in Sin City, at the Shriners Open. Americans are favourites on both sides of the pond as Patrick Reed tees up at Wentworth after finishing T4 on debut last year, and the much discussed, Bryson DeChambeau pegs it up again at...

This week's podcast sees Golf.com's instructional and service columnist, Luke Kerr-Dineen join Tom to discuss Bryson DeChambeau. They discuss; Bryson's bright start to his career, turning from promising amateur to established professional, the ceiling of his driving distance, the potential improvements he can still make, his chances at Augusta and why this current run may well have been a long tim...

This week Tom and Jason break down the fields at the Scottish Open and Sanderson Farms Championship. The Scottish Open is the first Rolex event on the European Tour since the restart, which means a larger prize fund and in turn a better field, as the players battle on the links before heading south next week to Wentworth, for the Tour’s flagship event, the BMW PGA Championship. At the Sanderson Fa...

Is distance really killing golf? Did Bryson DeChambeau ruin the challenge Winged Foot previously presented? Is golf in a bad place? Tom was joined by Touring Professional, Charlie Ford to discuss; Bryson, Winged Foot, misconceptions around course setup, bifurcation and a lot more, as they try to pump the brakes on the concern surrounding the game and let everybody know “it’s going to be alright!”