The Tie Podcast

Two great public courses here are being matched up today for a little house theory action! It's been a little while since we've done a house theory, but boy are we excited to be back. The common thread here between these two courses is public golf, and great public golf at that. Wild Horse is in the middle of nowhere and is the best/only game in town whereas Pinehurst No. 4 is surrounded...

Not always do we hop on a Mudball Monday in attempt to provide actual value; however, today that will not be the case. In today's episode we will be running through how we like to go about our fueling plan in a round of golf to maximize performance and give ourselves the best chance at success. Not every round is this necessary, but especially when in competition, it's valuable to know t...

Geoff is back to talk about the best par 3's in California with Henry today! If you recall from our last podcast with Geoff, we went on a slight tangent talking about how many great par 3's there are in the state of California. So, naturally, we decided to put those thoughts to action and do a pod. Today we present to you 18 of California's great par 3's from nine different cat...

It's going to be here before we know so we are getting out ahead of the Ryder Cup team breakdowns to talk about what we know today, where we think things may go with the teams from here, and what still needs to happen before we can know who the teams will ultimately be. We of course start with the DERT, and then get into a chat about the Ryder Cup teams on both the US and European side as wel...

Mike Nuzzo joins us today to discuss his "tie" to the game- One thing I've found common amongst most architects is that for better or worse, golf and architecture consume their thinking. For many, it does result in some extraordinary work. With Mike, I found it refreshing how much he has invested in a well-rounded life. Expect an episode that covers far more than width, angles, and...

Great Championships are made by great courses. Great courses are made by great holes. Today, we are talking about what we believe makes a great championship golf hole and what the best courses and holes have in common that create for interesting and exciting tournament golf. In our opinion, there are two types of great championship holes: those that provide scoring opportunities but also present d...

Hello Tie Friends, Joining us this week is Chandler Withington who is now an artist focused on delivering history through his hand-drawn artwork. His "tie" to the game goes much deeper, and is the reason this was such a slam-dunk conversation for this platform. Chandler tells us about his path; navigating dreams of a career in architecture, then finding a home as a PGA Professional at so...

Hoylake is undoubtedly a highly underrated open venue. While the locale may not be the best of places to be for the open relative to a St. Andrews or Edinburgh, Hoylake is a gem, and it's going to be an awesome week of golf for the 151st Open Championship. Today we will preview the week by talking about a few of the holes and players we will be watching this week at Hoylake. Walker will focus...

Cole Buck played for a stint at TCU before realizing his passions for the game were more in coaching others, rather than playing himself. His first coaching gig was as a graduate student at Wagner College in Staten Island, NY. Likely making him the youngest D1 head coach at the time. From Wagner, he would move on to Lipscomb University in Nashville, and eventually to Stanford, before taking the As...

My guest this week is Emilia Migliaccio, 2023 NCAA Champion from Wake Forest University, 2-time Curtis Cup competitor, GOLF Channel commentator, and on going competitive golfer. Emilia spoke a lot about her decision to bypass professional golf as she decided she wanted to pursue other options such as being a commentator/podcaster, journalist, and amateur competitor. This week will likely be the fi...

We don't always provide "value" in the form of playing golf here at The Tie Podcast, but today, we will. The topic of today's conversation is how to get the most out of your golf game if you are someone who doesn't get much - if any - time to practice golf. In the last year or so, both of us have entered the world of "what was I thinking about last time I played... a...

Blake Conant and Brian Schneider are two of the most experienced folks in the industry of course design, construction, restoration, and golf course consulting work. Both sit atop a mountain of important projects as both have lent their expertise on courses many of us regard as "Bucket A" golf in the United States and the globe at large. So when they show up to build a course on sandy, un...

There's a lot of craziness going on in the world of men's professional golf these days and we believe this presents a really strong opportunity for the women to leverage this into a chance to bring golf back to more pure roots. From the golf courses, to the way the product is presented to us, to the players in the game, there is a lot to be interested in with what is going on in the wome...

HELLO TIE FRIENDS, Excited to bring this chat to you all today. Lee Wybranski these days doesn't need much of an introduction, but for those of you who haven't purchased far too many golf related artwork for your workspace, Lee's is among the most desirable. This conversation provides a thorough background on Lee's journey to where he is today as a golf artist, producing prints...

What a week at LACC! Although  the reviews may have been a bit less positive than we may have expected, it was still an awesome week to be a golf fan and take in the 3rd major of the year. We split time this week between being at the event vs watching on TV so we entered into a chat today about what the experience was like on the ground vs just watching from home. We also tackle some of the common...

This is an episode that has been a long time coming, and this felt like the perfect time to call in Coach Ray to talk about a big week ahead for the Stanford Cardinal at LACC. With 4 players in the field, it is already a historic week for the Stanford Men's Golf program and it will be awesome to see where things shake out over the course of the week. While Coach Ray has 4 players in this week...

We're here! This is a week we've been fired up about for a long, long time and we couldn't be more excited that it's here. A major championship, on an incredible golf course, with a golf world that is in a super interesting spot, what a time to be having an event like this. To kick the week off, we are going to talk about who we each think is going to finish 1st, 2nd, and 3rd a...

What a treat to have Mike McCoy here to talk about his preparations for this summer's Walker Cup as well as his own background in the game. A few highlights: - 2013 US Mid Am Champion - Competed in 2014 Masters - 2015 US Walker Cup Team Member - 66(!) time USGA competitor What a list of achievements and captaining the US side at St. Andrews later this summer surely will be moved close to the...

Had to do it! Like every golf podcast under the sun, we are here to hop on and chat about the LIV-PGA merger and what we think about how things have gone down so far. This has been a wild ride for everyone, and we wanted to have a 4 way chat with our friends over at Sticks Golf to discuss what we're thinking about what this means for the game going forward based on what we know at the moment....

NCAA Golf was a hot piece of the golf landscape over the last few weeks and we consumed A LOT of it. As the years have gone on, more and more people seem to be really intrigued by what is going on in the college golf space; however, the communication through the broadcast of the format, who the players are, and the overall context of the championship just flat out needs to be better. While some of...

These are some of the more subtle features in a golf course that often may or may not be discussed at as much length as other aspects when we value a golf course for its architectural merits. That said, these are some of the features of courses that take good courses and make them great, and make the elite ones as described. Today we tease out why these 3 categories can add so much to a golf cours...

We're here to talk Block. Michael Block. Block Talk, if you will. Everyone has been all over this guy and what he has been up to the last couple weeks, and we are here to break it down. The exemptions, the performance at Oak Hill, the quotes, the twitter discourse, all of it. This guy has become the American dream of golf in the last couple weeks. We build him up to heights no one can sustain...

Colin Sheehan is a total Renaissance man. From college golfer to world traveler, writer, course design enthusiast, college golf coach, and now full time consultant for new destination golf course projects, the man has done and continues to do it all. Today, we touch on a bit of all of those things. His past with the Yale golf team. Some of his fondest memories coaching at his alma mater for 15 sea...

The best part of pro golf or any pro sport is the figures we follow and how they develop as characters over time. This game certainly has many of them, but arguably none better than Rahm and Brooks in the current landscape of the game. These are two guys who have had long careers in the spotlight, a ton of success, plenty of controversy, and have changed who they are and how they want to be seen m...

Hello friends! James Ellis-Caird joins us today from the clubhouse Whitby Golf Club on the eastern coastline of the UK.  James is a teacher focused on not only performance, but also enjoyment. The through-line of this podcast is his book, "The Uncorrupted Pleasure of an Old Bladed Putter" which we both reference often throughout the conversation.  Some other topics we cover:  Rewilding o...