The Bogey Men

We sit down to talk about Michael's golfing journey from a 23 handicap to how playing off 17.5 and chat through his goals, how low he'd like to get and plenty more. We played The Heritage Golf Club together and it was a first for both of us. We really enjoyed the day out, even with plenty of rain the course was holding up really well and greens were rolling! We pick our US Ryder Cup team n...

We did a live show recapping our thoughts on The Open Championship and Brian Harman being crowned the Champion Golfer of The Year. For this live show we were joined by Brendan Lawlor, an Open Champion himself after winning the inaugural G4D Open earlier this year. Jonny's audio for the Open recap segment of this podcast isn't great so apologies for this, but that issue has been resolved an...

The lads sit down to recap the Scottish Open and Rory winning again on the DP World Tour. Robert Macintyre, friend of the podcast gave it everything and really provided the drama, we're equally delighted for Rory as heartbroken for Bob. The Bogey Men's coverage of the upcoming KPMG Women's Irish Open is now brought to you by Sports Direct and we're thrilled with this new partnershi...

The Bogey Men podcast is now supported by Callaway Golf! We catch up after a busy week from the US Women's Open completing and Aine Donegan stealing the show, to looking back on our live stream at the Callaway Performance Centre at Mount Juliet Estate. Jonny played 18 holes the other day and hit the driver 12 times, hitting 10 fades and shot +7! We are hitting the road next week heading to Cla...

2005 US Open winner, Michael Campbell, joined us live for a look back at some of his career highlights, from his near miss at the Open Championship in 1995, winning the Irish Open in 2003 to qualifying for and eventually winning the 2005 US Open. Michael was great with his time and had some fantastic stories. We caught up with Michael at Seapoint Golf Links for the Irish Legends Tour event a coupl...

Jonny the Michael catch Rickie Fowler winning the Rocket Mortgage, what his win means for him and the US Ryder Cup team as well as what it means emotionally for fans of Rickie, watching him win in his old school orange. Danniel Hillier also won the British Masters on the DP World Tour, taking his maiden title in daramtic final round fashion. We also caught up with Brendan Walton of Portmarnock Hot...

We were invited to take part in the Irish Legends Tour event at Seapoint Golf Links, hosted by Des Smyth and Roddy Carr. In this episode of the podcast we sat down with both Roddy and Marty Carr, separately to discuss how they both became involved in this event. We discuss how Carr Golf became involved in the acquisition of Seapoint Golf Links, plans for the club in the future, as well as looking...

The lads catch up after an incredible week at the Irish Legends Tour event at Seapoint Golf links. We were invited to cover the event by Forefront Sports and Carr golf and as luck would have it, we managed to fluke our way into playing the event! We talk about how great Seapoint is playing, the challenge it posed to players as well as some of our favourite moments, holes and experiences from the w...

Irish golfing legend, 8 Time European Tour Winner and Ryder Cup Player & Vice Captain, Des Smyth joins the podcast for a chat about his career, life on Tour in the 70s and 80s as well as being part of an incredibly important period for Team Europe in the Ryder Cup. Des is also co-hosting the Irish Legends Tour event at Seapoint golf links alongside Roddy Carr, the event is sure to be brilliant...

Jonny and Michael look back at The Canadian Open and all of the playoff drama between Nick Taylor and Tommy Fleetwood, we're devastated for Tommy but the drama of a Canadian winning their national open was so much fun to watch! We also look ahead to the US Open at LACC and pick some of our favourites to win, as well as some people we think don't stand a chance. Lastly, we sat down with Ros...

I'm delighted to introduce the newest member of The Bogey Men podcast, Michael Styles! Michael is a very good friend of Jonny's. We went to school together, played hockey together and live just 10mins from each other! Michael is a golf nut with some great golf takes and hilarious opinions, particularly when he adds in the flair of trying some accents. We're really excited for this new...

Thank you all for getting in touch and showing your support after our last episode where Dave announced we is leaving The Bogey Men. I really appreciate your support, and don't worry we have big plans to continue growing this community and also have some big announcements coming in the next week or so. Jonny is joined by Mark Fox from The Plugged Lie to look back on the PGA Championship and al...

Dave and Jonny caught up on the podcast with a quite honestly sad announcement. Dave has had to leave The Bogey Men after over 3 years building an incredible "lockdown project" into one of the greatest experiences of our lives. But don't fear, the door is always open to Dave should he ever want to come on to chat golf AND the The Bogey Men are not going anywhere. Jonny has plans to b...

This is our 150 episode of the podcast! It has been a very busy week in the world of golf. We have a full recap of the Irish Amateur Championship with Garry from Irish Amateur Info. Brendan Lawlor won the inaugural G4D Open, held at Woburn's Duchess Course. Brendan won by 2 strokes to hold off World Number 1, Kipp Poppert. Another friend of the pod, Ronan Mullarney claimed his maiden victory o...

Jonny sits down with Garry Murphy from Irish Amateur Info, the go-to source for all things amateur golf in Ireland. Garry set up the Twitter account to travel around Ireland and document the scoring for the Irish amateur golfing events throughout the year, and he does it all off his own back. We discuss the upcoming Irish Amateur Championship at The Island as well as who some of the favourites for...

A much shorter episode this week as Jonny flies solo. Jonny catches up with Challenge Tour professional Conor Purcell ahead of the Abu Dhabi Challenge this week to look back on his recent form and goals for this season, as well as looking back at his great top10 finish on the DP World Tour in Australia. Battle Golf with Colm Campbell is live now, we played this match at Clandeboye Golf Club and ha...

The lads catch up after a busy week on the road for David, he has been driving the length and breadth of Ireland for work as well as playing a 3 day competition in Donegal. We discuss Matt Fitzpatrick's win at the RBC Heritage and what it means for the Ryder Cup and preview the first Major on the LPGA season, the Chevron Championship. We question whether it actually is a Major or is it just a...

Jon Rahm has won The Masters and Jonny is delighted. We talk Rory's disappointment at Augusta, again. Who some of our standout performers were and why it was great having the LIV players back The West of Ireland Championship is complete and conditions seemed brutal, so we ask why is this Championship so early in the season when the weather in Ireland is so unreliable? We travelled up to Clande...

It's the greatest week of the year! The Masters is back and the boys couldn't be more excited. We talk through our picks and some of the big storylines. Will Rory complete the career Grand Slam? Has Rahm peaked too early in the season? Can anyone stop Scottie? We also have a quiz on The Masters to test your Augusta knowledge. The West Qualifying is ongoing as we speak as the Irish Amateur...

The Irish Amateur season got underway last weekend with the Laytown Bettystown Scratch Cup. David competed and unfortunately it wasn't his greatest showing. The tournament was won by Richard Knightley who won in a playoff and will be using his winnings to buy a new car window! The WGC is over and Sam Burns was crowned champion, but for us the two real winners were Jason Day and Rory Mcilroy! W...

The boys chat about the USGA and R&A proposal to roll back the golf ball and we are right now in favour of it. We discuss some potential scenarios where good players will play the new bifurcated ball and how bifurcated balls will probably end up being available to the public. We talk through David's Odyssey putter fitting at Mount Juliet Estate and how valuable it was. You can watch that f...

Michael McKillop is widely regarded as the greatest middle distance runner in Paralympic history. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at 2 years of age, Michael has gone on to win 4 Paralympic gold medals and 9 World Titles.   Throughout his life, golf has played a pivotal role. What was initially a form of physio for Michael, golf became an escape for his mental health and so much more.   We sat down w...

On this episode, the Bogey Men are joined by Malachy Clerkin to break down and review episodes 5 & 6 of Netflix's new golf documentary series 'Full Swing'.   We're joined by Malachy Clerkin from The Irish Times to discuss the successes and failures of the Full Swing series and particularly what we learnt about Matt Fitzpatrick, Dustin Johnson, Tony Finau and Collin Morikawa, as well as so...

Dave and Jonny catch up after a busy few days, we played an alternate shot match at Muskerry Golf Club with Nicci Daly and Valerie Mulcahy in association with Massage Guns Ireland. You can pick up your own massage gun at massagegunsireland.ie and get 15% off with discount code BM15. The video from this match will be live in a couple weeks. We also visited Mount Juliet to get a custom putter fittin...

The boys catch up after LIV's season opener in Mexico was a dull watch and the Honda Classic was a dramatic finish with a superb story in the final group! The Bogey Men golf podcast is presented by Tourism Northern Ireland, we have spent a lot of time in Northern Ireland this year covering and playing golf and it is such a special and honestly underrated place for a golf trip, one great course we...