Start from Scratch

We're back with yet another Touring Professional! This time it is Gary Boyd and he gripped us with tales from playing in Open Championships and his first US Open at Pebble Beach of all places. He also very politely answers some of the most absurd questions from Josh, for which we apologise! During the intro we chat about taking our better halves along with us to the golf course ... yep, we we...

What do you get when you put one of the best golf psychologists in the game and Joshua Griffiths the self-proclaimed Mental Maestro together on a Zoom call? You get this, episode 14. We had the privilege of Dr Karl Morris's time to pick his brains and what an interview it was! You meet certain people in the world of golf that you wish you could spend more time with, and Karl is definitely one...

We've wanted to host this special episode for a while as it is right down Josh's street... it's a Long Drive special! And who else but 'Quadzilla' himself Bry Roberts as our guest Bomber! In a content packed intro this week we cover Josh's first lesson with Matthew Tottey,  preview our first official SFS Society outing to Carden Park and Josh's matchplay with ano...

Blessed with yet another European Tour Player, we're on our best bevahiour! This time though with LET Star Amy Boulden. We are over the moon to have our first official female guest on Start from Scratch and hope Amy leads the way for more in future. The contrast in mind-frames between Amy Boulden and Josh was as evident as you'd expect... During the introduction we discuss a major change...

We're somehow managing to get genuine top coaches and swing guru's to come and have a chat with us?! Not sure how, but it's happening. This week we are joined by SolidGolf Instructor and Today's Golfer Magazine coach Adrian Fryer, and his knowledge of all things golf shocks us to be honest. Adrian has so much experience, but I don't think he was quite prepared for meeting...

To celebrate our 10th episode we have a fantastic guest who quite literally left us all speechless. We welcome Zach Gould a.k.a Dr Golf on to the show to discuss his glittering amateur career as a young golfer, and his online training platform that will help all golfers get the most of their body and their golf potential. to introduce the show we are treated to recollection of the time Josh lost a...

We’ve more or less made it... or in our eyes we have. This week we’re joined by European Tour and Ryder Cup star Jamie Donaldson! A fantastic experience just to chat golf with a top pro and top guy. He talks to us about life in lockdown and what’s next for him as he plans his way around the next few Tour dates. In the intro we discuss our decisions to find golf coaches to help us improve! We’re ob...

This week saw us try us genuinely help people improve - we got Josh to give free golf advice! We share a small treasure that Eddie found in a golf analysis spreadsheet which we'll be using over the next year to compare and analyse parts of our golf against each other. Our scratch golfer this week is Dewi Caughter, a previous Welsh Amateur semi-finalist and County Golf stalwart over the years!...

How the three of us reached a 7th episode, we will never know! This week Trist & Eddie get to strike back at Josh by analysing his game, it doesn't make for pleasant listening. We interview Marcus Mohr, a Touring Professional of four years who has played two years on the Alps Tour and one year on the Challenge Tour. Despite only starting golf at 15 years old, he's overcome plenty of...

This week we allowed Josh the opportunity to analyse Trist and Eddie's games in detail during the introduction and in typical fashion, he didn't hold back!! Apparently there's work to do. We interview Lee Jones, an Honorary Member and Green Keeper at Conwy Golf Club, who has informative about how we can improve but also open and honest about his decision not to turn professional off...

This week was a good week for Start from Scratch as we celebrated 600 downloads! We needed a good guest to mark this occasion so we drafted in Matthew Tottey, winner of over 100 PGA sanctioned events, a Challenge Tour regular and has two appearances on the European Tour under his belt. Tristian quizzes Eddie and Josh with a tailor-made 'how addicted to golf are you?' quiz which listeners...

We're lucky enough to have an hour of JR's time as he imparts his wisdom on us, but more specifically Josh! JR Jones has been a 5 x Welsh Champion, 12 x County Champion and represented his country 85 times. He is now an Elected Member of the R&A and Open Championship referee and shared some brilliant stories of his time walking the fairways with the best players in the game. Me and E...

In episode 3 we attempt to reach out to our new followers in France and the US of America! We read a pretty damning review out for Josh who is determined to prove this reviewer wrong...watch this space! Josh wasn't done there either, he proceeds to tell us about a time he lied about his handicap and told a University Golf Team that he played off scratch. We're joined by a scratch golfer...

We made a second episode after some encouragement! In this episode we discuss Eddie's somewhat strained exchange with Marc Player (son of Gary Player) on Twitter and our 'home golf practice' as we're still in the lock-down. We also chat with Mathew Wharton, a teaching professional who provides us with some insightful tips as well as a brilliant story about the time he blagged h...

In our first podcast we introduce ourselves, set out our audacious plans for the podcast, and overcome some slight audio issues in the first section as we find a way of podcasting during this "unprecedented" time! However we manage to overcome it and we are joined by a friend of ours Sion Thomas, whose achievements so far include winning the Club Championship, County Championship AND Reg...

Here's a preview for our new golf podcast 'Start from Scratch'. We hope this gives you a little insight into us not taking ourselves too seriously, but also enough insight to know that we are going to need help! Our aim is to interview "normal" golfers who have achieved scratch or professional status and who we find to be much more relatable than Tour Pros. These are the p...