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Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast powered by ForeGolf Custom! This week I sat down with an old friend and all around legend, Kelan McDonagh. Born and raised in Athlone, represented Ireland on the International stage between 2009-2013 before turning his attention to the PGA of Ireland before a move to the US of A and becoming a member of the US PGA organisation over there. E...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast powered by ForeGolf Custom! This week I sat down with Niall Kearney, touring professional and PGA Professional in his own right. We chat early beginnings in golf, his simulation room and Golf coaching and of course the buzz that is touring professional golf. For more, including the full back catalog of podcast episodes visit www. PaddyTalks...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast powered by ForeGolf Custom! This week I sat down with Amy O'Donnell, SENr Sport Nutritionist with the Ladies European Tour, Challenge Tour, Golf England and Golf Ireland. We discuss whether my four shot skinny cappuccino and monster almond croissant pre-round meal is advisable, not to mention the can of monster on the 10th tee...lots to tak...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast powered by ForeGolf Custom. This week I sat down with Tom Hayward, founder & CEO of the Development Clutch Pro Golf Tour and pathway to the big leagues. The Clutch Pro Tour is Europe's largest development tour with an international series, 19 event schedule and a bundle of opportunity and official pathway to the Challenge Tour and DP Wo...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast powered by ForeGolf Custom. This week I sat down with Conor Purcell who after 4+ years on the Challenge Tour has secured his full card for the DP World Tour for 2025 after a season of seasons in 2024. We discuss his approach, practice plans and learning from the year and also about his addiction-like application to Madden the PlayStation ga...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast powered by ForeGolf Custom. This week we unravel iGolf with Golf Ireland annual report stats, number of registered golfer vs golfers, Number of rounds played in Ireland since 2021, has it worked in other countries and of course the people’s opinions and reactions to the iGolf launch by Golf Ireland earlier this month. Also, we revisit my Be...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast and official podcast partner of the KPMG Women’s Irish Open. I took some time with rising star in Irish golf, Lauren Walsh who is no stranger to this podcast and known for her impressive achievements both as an amateur and a young professional. Born in County Kildare, Ireland, Walsh developed her skills early at Castlewarden Golf Club befor...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast and I'm proud to announce that PaddyTalks Golf is the official podcast partner for the event! It is a record Irish presence at this week’s KPMG Women’s Irish Open. Five professionals, led by Solheim Cup star Leona Maguire, will be joined by eight amateurs.  Elm Park’s Anna Foster and Lurgan’s Annabel Wilson will be making their profess...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast and a chat with Eamonn O'Donnell, Director of Golf at Dromoland Castle and Golf Resort in County Clare. From the various responsibilities and remit's of a Director of Golf, to being a large part in bringing the KPMG Women's Irish Open back on the Ladies European Tour to Halle Berry, this one has it all. You'll enjoy this one. For more, incl...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast and a chat with Aideen Walsh, school teacher and elite amateur golfer in Ireland, Interpro and Home International team member, winner of multiple scratch cups and championships. You'll enjoy this one. For more, including the full back catalog of podcast episodes visit www. PaddyTalksGolf.com The PaddyTalks Golf Podcast is Powered By ForeGol...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast and a chat with Gavin Lunny, PGA Professional at Dun Laoghaire Pro Shop and Golf Academy. You'll enjoy this one. For more, including the full back catalog of podcast episodes visit www. PaddyTalksGolf.com The PaddyTalks Golf Podcast is Powered By ForeGolf Custom. For your tour level custom fitting experience visit www.foregolf.ie/booking Ho...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast and a chat with Patrick Adler, 2024 South of Ireland Champion. Connections to Ireland, to Clare, to Clare Hurlers, Paddy's Army, a hole in one to win a match and the first Lahinch member to win the South of Ireland since the great J.D Smyth in 1968! You'll enjoy this one. For more, including the full back catalog of podcast episodes visit w...

It is Open Championship week at Royal Troon! The 152nd edition of this major championship will set many a record. Longest hole, shortest hole, most attended perhaps, but who will put there name in the history books this week? Barry Doyle from the ATOC (A Touch of Class) Podcast joins me and we go through the who’s who and what’s what on all things Open Championship and Royal Troon this week. For m...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast and a chat with Keith Egan, 2024 West of Ireland Champion. From soccer trials at Sunderland, to a Golf Scholarship in the USA, to finding his career in fitness and how his day to day life revolves around his type 1 diabetes management. For more, including the full back catalog of podcast episodes visit www. PaddyTalksGolf.com The PaddyTalks...

The beyond scratch project is in full flow at this stage of the year. In this episode I talk about what the Beyond Scratch project is, the areas of the game, equipment, training aids, fitness and more. There is a new segment, which I loved putting together, which is PaddyTalksGolf community correspondence! Looking forward to putting more of these episodes together and more consistently too! The la...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast and a chat with Brian McCormack, recent PGA Championship leading qualifier and also announced just last week as the new Head PGA Professional at the historic Tullamore Golf Club. We dig into his early days of golf, the compelling event to turn pro, an incredibly supportive wife and of course how he approaches coaching. For more, including t...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast and a chat with Frank and John Casey who own and run Rosapenna Golf Links in Co. Donegal. The Casey’s history with Rosapenna goes back to the 1940’s when Frank and John’s grandfather worked as a caddy at 13 through to working in the original golf hotel, to when Frank and Hilary Casey bought the property in 1981 developing the Sandy Links co...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast and a chat with one of the top coaches in the country, a woman who has grown a highly successful junior coaching school and junior section at Lurgan Golf Club, PGA Professional and Top 50 US Kids Golf coach Zoe Allen. Whilst we learnt all about Zoe and her journey in golf back in episode 90, today we chat about how to grow a junior section...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast and a chat with one of my favourite G-G-G-Galway people, Ronan Mullarney. Having won the order of merit and graduated from Alps Tour in 2023 thus securing his playing status on the Challenge Tour for 2024, Ronan looks at the game a bit different then most. Very business-like and matter of fact on his approach, we should keep an eye on this...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast and a super sit down with one of my all-time favourite people in golf, Matt Ginella. Over 25 years in golf media, tourism and making incredible shows and content surrounding golf especially golf in Ireland. For more, including the full back catalog of podcast episodes visit www. PaddyTalksGolf.com Check out the FirePit Collective here: http...

Welcome to this week’s episode of PaddyTalks Golf Podcast and part 2 of the 2-part special showcasing Carne Golf Links, with Chairman Gerry Maguire being the guest for part two. Gerry is a man I think we could sit down a listen to for days, from stories of CIE Dublin Bus to dark days of Covid19 and survival, to a more positive outlook now as Carne is going from strength to strength thanks to the s...

Carne is a special place. Biblical. Spiritual. Golf on the edge of the world. It has become a place of pilgrimage for not only golfers from all parishes of Ireland, but for golfers from every corner of the globe. Is it the scale of the dunes? The rawness of the terrain or the subtlety of Hackett’s routing through the scale of sand and sea? I don’t know, but I know I need to go back. We kick off th...

This week's guest on the PaddyTalks Golf Podcast is Alex Maguire who has pretty much done it all in amateur golf winning multiple national championships. Represented his country, played Europeans and Home Internationals, reached the semi-finals of The Amateur, played in the Irish Open and The Open Championship as well as being part of the 2023 Walker Cup Team at the Old Course, St. Andrew’s. We ch...

Welcome to another episode of PaddyTalks Golf, your Golf podcast covering all things and people across golf and the golf industry. This week’s guest is Chris Selfridge, Tour Caddy and Liverpool FC fan. Chris talks us through life on Tour, the travel, preperation in practice rounds, what about LIV golf, the importance of a wind map and much much more of about tournament golf. Thanks for pressing pl...

Welcome to another episode of PaddyTalks Golf, your Irish Golf podcast covering all things and people across golf and the golf industry. This week’s guest has been on before, in his Louisville days. The now European Tour player, with one of the best party tricks in the game, talks us through life on Tour, the travel, strategy in practice rounds, the gear on tour and of course how mentally strainin...