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In what has been a roller coaster year, Beth Coulter literally pulled over whilst en route Christmas shopping for this catch up! Whilst we got the full in’s and out’s of winning both Womens and Girl’s Close Championships in our episode not so long ago (Ep 122), in this Wrapped 2022 special we hear about how Beth has dealt with and embraced the move to Arizona State and her goals for 2023! Tune in...

Lauren Walsh is busier than your average college going woman. Elite collegiate golfer at Wake Forest, sophomore college student, travel statewide playing tournaments, US x Ireland x European Travel representing the Senior Irish Women’s Golf Team. We all need time management lessons from Lauren! We managed to siphon some time together to catch up on her year, her goals and what’s her plan for 2023!...

Brendan Lawlor entered 2022 as the World #1 EDGA Golfer in the World. The ultra-talented has been the talisman for the tour and now has an axe to grind to get back to #1. We grabbed some time to chat about his year which has been busy on and off the golf course. To tune in and for more check out www. PaddyTalksGolf.com  The PaddyTalks Golf Podcast is Powered by ForeGolf Custom. To book your t...

This Quick 9 episode into the back catalogue is a revisit to our conversation with Ireland’s own Ken Kearney in episode 64 and his approach to golf course design. For the full episode and more visit www.paddytalksgolf.com The PaddyTalks Golf Podcast is Powered By ForeGolf Custom. For your tour level five start custom fitting experience visit www. ForeGolf.ie/booking Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...

After a golfing holiday to Myrtle Beach, Padraig McGrath visited a number of golf superstores and thought he’d love to open one of his own back home in Ennis. On his journey home after this trip, he turned his business idea into a business plan and eventually into a reality when he opened P&M Golf Superstore the following year on the 14th of March 2004.  We chat about that decision, his j...

Irelands top golf podcast is back in your eardrums with a fantastic conversation with Paul McCanny, Director of Golf at Portmarnock Links & Hotel. He tell’s us of his life getting into golf, 20+ years at Killeen Castle, the move and vision at Portmarnock Links and how he isn’t even the best golfer in his own house! If you enjoyed the episode, please share it with your family and friends. For e...

A motorcycle accident took his leg, but Gareth McNeilly professes “I was lucky” given his on-bike decision to “Abandon Ship” and his friends quick first aid thinking led to saving his life that day. Pre accident he was a keen golfer, but having re-discovered golf post accident has opened up a different world for Gareth, now Team Captain for the victory is EDGA Golf Ireland Team who romped to the v...

North of Ireland Champion 2022. South of Ireland Champion 2022. Runner-Up in the Irish Close and the 2022 US Mid Am. Bridgestone Order of Merit winner, #1 in Ireland, 2022. A season of all seasons. It was superb to catch up with Hugh to have a chat about his year, where his focus has been and his plan over the next few months. Make sure you check him out on the upcoming “The Grind” series by The F...

In this week’s inaugural Quick 9 Series episode, we’re returning to episode 3 with Matt Adam’s. A golf industry veteran of more than 25 years, host of “Fairways of Life” golf show, multiple-time New York Time best selling author, has been called “the best interviewer in golf,” having interviewed virtually every living legend of the game from Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Tom Watson to Tiger Woo...

Matthew McClean is if anything, a chilled out individual. A chilled out individual playing amateur golf at an incredibly elite level. Having been pipped to the post a couple of times this year, namely at the North of Ireland Championship (by Hugh Foley), Matthew gained sweet revenge at a tournament that wasn’t even on his schedule at the start of the year! Whilst working most of the year and repre...

After nearly 20 years in the golf industry Enda McLoughlin combined both his experience as a competitive golfer and as a PGA coach working with hundreds of golfers over many years, to design a putter grip specifically designed to match up the putter shaft and forearms and then went on to create the world’s first fully adjustable ball marker. We chat early golfing memories, why Enda felt the time w...

Ireland’s top ranking Golf Podcast is back for another week! This week we have CEO of Carr Golf Travel on the show, Marty Carr himself. With some great stories of growing up in a golf and business mad household, golf in Old Head with Arnold Palmer and how his impact on the Carr’s meant plenty of beans on toast! Listen to the show and more at www. PaddyTalksGolf.com PaddyTalks Golf is powered by Fo...

We are back! After a little hiatus, holidays, we are back with a bang, literally! Swifts Forge is a small family run business based in Northern Ireland. Hand-forging all of their putters and pride themselves on the craftmanship, quality and unique design of our clubs. The traditional handforged nature of the putters and the 15+ years of blacksmithing experience gives Aaron & Kathryn an underst...

Stories from The Open. Your Stories. Thanks to Andy Gray, Paul O’Neill and Andy Smyth for coming on the show this week, it literally couldn’t have happened without you! I’d love for you all to get involved in the show every week so head over to www.paddytalksgolf.com and send me a message in the contact me form. Send me your stories. What your friends, family and fellow golfers have done this week...

Possibly the greatest show in Golf. Period. 10 of the World’s Top 12 Golfers. Tiger Woods. Over €140 million raised for charities in the mid West region of Ireland. 40,000 Spectators each day. Tom Fazio designed course with the Calendar Building that is Adare Manor almost visible from every part of the estate. This week’s episode looks to cover the JP McManus ProAm from cover to cover. The History...

I’ve been meaning to cover Women’s Golf as a whole since I started the podcast. Not women golfers, I try and do that as best I can (Hazel Kavangh, Beth Coulter, Lauren Walsh, Mary Doyle, Rebecca Codd, Olivia Mehaffey etc) I mean the whole area of womens golf in golf clubs and in the golf industry itself. The reasons why women don’t generally play. How do golf clubs and culture need to change. What...

A few days after winning the Irish Women’s Close at Grange Golf Club and fresh off the camogie field, Beth Coulter joined me for a great, insightful chat. Growing up in a non-golf household, what being from the country actually means (I have a test for that!), looking forward to the Women’s Amateur Championship next week and pretty much beginning a new life as a Sun Devil in Arizona State Universi...

LIV Golf is not about growing the game. It is not about those golfers doing best for their families. It is not about golf at all. It’s a PR crusade for a country looking to avert the eyes of the world from their home atrocities. So this week’s episode IS NOT about LIV Golf. It’s about pure golf. You cannot get purer golf then that of the amateur game. This episode in fact should rightfully be laid...

“We don’t do stuffy” is proclaimed in the About Us section of the Dingle Golf Club website. What they are as a community is incredibly proud, which they should be given the insanely good product they have created on the most westerly point for golf on the Wild Atlantic Way. They are indeed, custodians. Custodians of golf, of the Irish language, of Irish culture and craic, actually custodians of th...

Adam chases his passion. It transpired in this episode the day job is just as much a passion as his phenomenal Golf Course Photography. We get stuck into the what compelling events drove him to pick up a camera and how he goes about getting the optimum golf hole snap! For more check out www. PaddyTalksGolf.com PaddyTalks Golf is Powered By ForeGolf Custom. Book your tour level golf club fitting to...

It’s here! The first, second episode of the week! The Road to the South series will focus in on my own game improvement, areas of development, what I’m doing and why I’m doing it. I’ll look to cover topics that are interesting to more than me too! Course Management, Practice methods, Preparing for Golf, Tournament / Competition reviews and more. I am very keen to involve you, the listener, as much...

A full time job. A married man. A father, yet still an elite golfer on this island of Ireland. Colm Campbell rolled back time and captured his second Irish Amateur title last week at The Island Golf Club. We chat about fitting it all in, his mindset when the pressure was on and whether Celtic Symphony is still his walk on song!  For more check out  www.paddytalksgolf.com PaddyTalks Golf...

Eric Stepanian loves golf and loves Irish Golf amongst others. He and his friends created The Fliers Club a number of years ago designing experiences for a collective of golfers who are inspired by the discovery of diverse courses, cultures and time-honoured traditions of the game.  For more check out  www.paddytalksgolf.com Check out Membership of the Fliers Club here:  https://www...

Multiple New York Times best seller, senior editor and podcast host at The Golfers Journal and has written for multiple other sports publications including Sports Illustrated and Golf Magazine. We discover in this week’s episode Tom has been coming to Ireland since his early teens and continues to bring groups of golfers to these shores each year as well as keeping up with his writing!  For m...

Over drinks, some friends and I had a good debate over what is acceptable to wear when golfing. With Tyrell Hatton winning in a hoodie, Justin Thomas and many more embracing the golf jogger whilst the ladies game has always had a fashion forward sense of style. If we were talking about it, I thought it might be of value to put a little solo episode together taking in some of your opinions and get...