No More Lies

Golf instruction has a war going on, and this week Brian and Sam walk straight into it. Brian Manzella (Golf Digest's #14-ranked teacher in America) and Sam Osborne (former touring pro) trace Stack & Tilt back to its real roots: Homer Kelley's The Golfing Machine, Mac O'Grady's MORAD, and the symposiums that shaped a generation of teachers. Sam shares what happened when he actually tried the m...

Bryson DeChambeau went to the press and said AI helped fix his golf swing, name-dropping Google Gemini and tossing out terms like alpha torque, gamma torque, and passive squaring. Brian Manzella and Sam Osborne were not buying it. In Episode 5 of No More Lies, the two veterans break down Bryson's AI press conference line by line: what he got right, what he got wrong, and why the idea of "passive s...

Brian Manzella and Sam Osborne take on the loudest fight in golf: the distance debate. Both land on the same side, then explain why the people pushing hardest against a rollback are the ones with the most money on the line. In Episode 4: Why the pro game has outgrown its own golf courses The case that a shorter, spinnier ball brings real skill back (long irons into par 4s again) Why the "rolled-ba...

Before YouTube. Before Instagram. Before anyone was farming golf tips for engagement, the real arguments happened on message boards at 2am. Brian Manzella was there for all of it. In this episode, Brian and Sam trace the strange, scrappy history of golf instruction online, from a clunky Macintosh in 1996 to the forum that genuinely changed how the game gets taught. What's inside: Why Brian got ban...

In Episode 2 of No More Lies, Brian Manzella and Sam Osborne open up the most contentious story in modern golf instruction: the Alpha War. Manzella traces 12 years of golf science, from the collapse of the Golfing Machine to the rise of club kinetics and Jacobs 3D, and names the names most teachers won't. Along the way: how the work rebuilt Padraig Harrington's career, why the PGA Tour looked like...

Two veterans. Decades inside the game. Done biting their tongues. This is Episode 1 of NO MORE LIES. Welcome to the flagship talk show of Funnel Golf. With conversations about instruction, the teaching industry, the professional game, and the game at large—covering the parts of this industry nobody else is willing to say out loud. In Episode 1, we introduce ourselves, lay out why we’re doing this,...