The Chipping Forecast

This week’s pod comes from Troon, Oxfordshire, Dubai and Florida, with all the wifi lags that such a thing entails. But it’s worth it as Iain, Eddie and Andrew are joined by Luke Donald who gives an insight into the effort and detail behind the scenes at the Ryder Cup and ponders the possibility of another captaincy. Eddie petitions hard for a menial role at Bethpage and petitions even harder for...

This week our rambling trio are in contrasting states of health as Andrew returns from Paris with la grippe d’homme while Iain professes to be both invigorated and taller due to Pilates. Meanwhile Eddie is back from Qatar where he says it was hot. They proceed to talk about failing to break 90 despite driving q̶u̶i̶t̶e̶ very well and the gambling paradox in sport. Eddie also confesses that he near...

On this week’s episode Eddie gives us all an insight into the pressure and emotions of professional golf, while Andrew and Iain wonder if their own golf careers could be significantly improved by moving to Guam. We also take a diversion into the world of 1970s advertising, consider the prospect of more LIV defections and Iain then tells us all about an exciting new band he thinks we should listen...

Eddie rejoins the party, suffering from a post-modern cold but able to reflect on his efforts in Spain so far, while Andrew reveals some startling numbers from his golf club fitting. We abandon efforts to guess Iain’s age and instead examine LIV’s ongoing lack of world ranking points and also come to the conclusion that Talor Gooch will leave no lasting legacy in the game of golf but may well leav...

With Eddie travelling and drying out, Andrew and Iain remain to talk rugby in Paris, being ghosted by golfers and honorific titles in St Andrews. There is further discussion of LIV being welcomed by the golfing establishment, payment at the Ryder Cup and Lexi Thompson playing on the PGA Tour. And whether you want it or not, there is also a brief history of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of...

Andrew and Iain are still riding the waves of Europe's emphatic win in Rome where they discuss, along with Eddie, how Europe dominated on the first day and how, at one point, they almost looked like losing it on the last. They talk about the USA's attitude and some unruly fan behaviour as well as why there are so few golf courses in Greece and Eddie remembers a round with the 7th richest person in...

Once again defeated by really quite basic technology, Andrew and Iain end up sharing one microphone in Rome as well as sharing further thoughts on the upcoming Ryder Cup. Eddie returns to offer some insight into potential pairings and offers an 'insight' into the mentality of the French - neither of which may be correct. The trio also reflect on Brookline 99, debate which national foodstuff you wo...

By various means of travel Andrew and Iain have made it to the Ryder Cup, with a failed attempt to pod with Eddie en route. Instead, he’ll join an extra pod coming soon and it’s left to the two inferior golfers to review the Solheim, preview the Ryder, while also discussing Jon Rahm's weight, guilt-walks on Italian motorways and Ludvig Åberg’s preferred choice of budget airline. Learn more about y...

An episode in which The TCF guys (not yet a thing) are fractured - Andrew preparing for rugby duties again, Iain in Spain for the Solheim Cup and Eddie once again in Ibiza to recharge his batteries. Eddie makes a brief cameo appearance, but mostly it’s left to the other two to discuss Solheim and Ryder Cup pairings, the possibility of more LIV signings and a former US Champion called Ebenezer. Tha...

A bonus Friday pod from Wentworth. With Eddie battling away on the course, Andrew and Iain bring all Åberg name-chat to a happy conclusion, while hearing in-depth from Bob MacIntyre and less in-depth from Rory McIlroy. They also remember all the shenanigans of The Ryder Cup at Kiawah Island in 1991. AKA The Wår on the Shöre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Host...

The inaugural in-person pod as Andrew, Iain and Eddie are together at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth for the pro-am day, recording the show in between the first tee and the practice putting green. Amongst the hooked tee shots the three discuss the rough in Rome and analyse Matt Fitzpatrick's resistance band. They also gush over Adam Scott's swing, react to a bad review and look at the etymo...

The European Ryder Cup team has been announced so Andrew, Iain and Eddie hear from team captain Luke Donald on his 12 to take on the Americans in Rome in a few week's time. Eddie waxes lyrical about the selected Ludvig Åberg as Andrew and Iain have another disagreement about how to pronounce Swede's surname. There's also interruptions from Olive and Mabel, discussions of Sepp Straka's accent, golf...

In a slightly tardy podcast due to travel, illness and the timing of Ryder Cup picks, Andrew, Iain and Eddie discuss said picks after hearing from US captain Zach Johnson, while also discussing the name Todd, poor Northern Irish accents and whether two average golfers in a scramble could beat Eddie. Perhaps to distract from the obvious answer being ’Of course not - how deluded are you?’, Eddie see...

This week golf meets athletics and meets bodily parts of Saints as Andrew joins the pod from the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Iain enjoys his temporary extra-special status and Eddie discusses his good finish in Northern Ireland courtesy of lost clubs, old-school putting methods and a tiny hire car. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast....

Desperately trying to emerge from a post-Osman slump, Andrew, Iain and Eddie decide that the best way to do it is by discussing the perspiration habits of Lucas Glover amidst his ongoing recovery from the yips with an absurd putter. Eddie looks forward to emerging from the Wilderness and getting back out on Tour, Andrew talks about talking too much and Iain talks about inviting a large man called...

A special episode as Andrew, Iain and Eddie are joined by golf fan, best-selling author and general polymath Richard Osman. Richard displays his encyclopaedic knowledge of golf and offers ideas for the solution to pretty much everything. Meanwhile Andrew forgets stuff, Iain gives us the biography of Calvin Peete and Eddie recalls a naked cricket match. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podca...

An episode in which Andrew, Iain and Eddie go deep on senior’s golf, slow play and strangely smooth calves. Iain also becomes greatly agitated by almost everything and in the absence of DP World Tour events, Eddie lets us know that he’s been to a petrol station. Meanwhile, having joined a dog-friendly club, Andrew has begun training his two dogs to sit obediently by the tee and also not judge him...

Andrew, Eddie and Iain have dried off to review the 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool and a stunning win for Brian Harman. They discuss the lack of love for the American as he made his way round Hoylake despite mastering the course and the conditions over the weekend, why didn't the crowd take to the 36-year old? Andrew has his say on the behaviour of a number of spectators at the course...

Andrew and Iain a recording a bonus episode next to the short game practice area at Royal Hoylake ahead of the 151st Open Championship where they preview the tournament and pick up on some of the biggest stories in and around the course and clubhouse. Why didn't McIlroy do yet another press conference, the new 17th hole, who's short game is looking on form and crucially if Iain managed to find som...

Andrew, Eddie and Iain return for the best golfing week of the year post the Scottish Open and the week of The Open. They discuss Rory McIlroy's thrilling win at The Renaissance Club and whether the Northern Irishman is back to somewhere near his best. Eddie also gives us a review of his swing-aid but also what happened after he missed the cut in Scotland. Andrew reveals his link with Bradley Wals...

Andrew, Eddie and Iain look back at The Women's US Open where Charley Hull came up just short of a debut Major win and at Eddie's sojourn in Denmark where he missed the cut and had already booked his flight home before the end of his second round. They also preview The Scottish Open this weekend, talk about why Rory McIlroy is continuing his media silence, discuss the ever ending amount of golf po...

Just Andrew and Eddie on the first tee at the start of the show as Iain tries to navigate his way along the A3 through south west London en route to Wimbledon. In the mean time Andrew and Eddie go though some reviews of the pod so far both positive and negative, break down Eddie's tilt at the British Masters including a discarded club into the woods and also his driver woes! Iain does arrive and i...

Andrew, Eddie and Iain are back where they review the Women's PGA Championship in Baltusrol and why Iain preferred it to the men's US Open the week before. The trio go deep into the weeds, or rough if you will, with the bifurcation of golf - should the pros be using different equipment and balls to level the playing field than those that us regular hackers and swishers do? They also look ahead to...

Andrew, Eddie and Iain review the US Open in Los Angeles where Rory McIlroy so nearly ended his almost decade long major-drought. Andrew provides irrefutable evidence that he predicted the win for Wyndham Clark and Eddie talks about the problems for golfers when their short game deserts them. There's also an edition of Ed-heads (Eddie quizzing Andrew & Iain on the US Open) and Iain struggles t...

In the inaugural episode of The Chipping Forecast, leading commentator Andrew Cotter and fan favourite Eddie Pepperell are joined by one of the most distinctive voices in golf, Iain Carter, to talk about the creation of, as Andrew calls it, "yet another golf podcast". They discuss the various names on the table, how The Chipping Forecast came about and how Eddie is completely oblivious to Radio 4'...