Weekday Golf

After our conversation with Joe Kwok, Oliver kept the mics rolling. Joe stayed to answer a series of questions about club fitting—from the biggest mistakes golfers make during a fitting, to premium shafts, loft and lie adjustments, grip size, Japanese craftsmanship, tour vans, and more. If you enjoyed our main conversation with Joe, this bonus episode offers an even deeper look into the craft of c...

Golfers love to obsess over their equipment. And for many, club fitting is about finding the perfect clubs. For Joe Kwok, it's about eliminating doubt. Joe is one of the country's most respected independent club fitters. With 30+ years of working with everyone from beginners to elite players, he's learned that great fitting is more about understanding the golfer than it is about specs...

In this listener mailbag episode, Oliver and Preston answer questions about slow play, the friend who backs off a shot to tell a story, where your bag actually belongs around the green, Oliver’s infamous crusty glove, what’s really in our golf bags, bad behavior in a foursome, the biggest on-course meltdowns we’ve witnessed, what makes a round “good,” how to help someone fall in love with golf, an...

We're excited to be joined by Joe Skovron (aka "Skov"), who has spent nearly two decades as one of the most respected caddies on the PGA Tour, including 13 years with Rickie Fowler and now in his third season with Ludvig Åberg. We've been fortunate to spend a few rounds with Skov over the years, and that familiarity made for a candid conversation. We didn't talk about specifi...

A few weeks ago, we recorded Part 1 of the Los Cab Cup before the event actually began. At that point, all we had were expectations, optimism, and a lot of questions about what would happen when 90 golfers descended on a ranch in Arizona. Now we're back with the aftermath. Joined once again by our friend Scott Walker from the The Edge Podcast, we look back on what worked, what surprised us, an...

A few episodes back, Jason Soucy told us that hosting a major championship means building a temporary city. After spending several days inside the PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club, Preston realized he wasn’t exaggerating. We go behind the scenes of a modern major championship — from 60,000-square-foot merch tents and massive hospitality compounds to volunteer operations, transportation logi...

For years, golf course rankings have tried to answer a deceptively simple question: what makes a golf course great? We intuitively believe that our overall golf experience includes, but extends beyond pure course design. But we were curious to learn how the official ratings worked. This week, we sit down with Golf Digest course rating panelist David Rawlinson to explore that question from every an...

Dr. Rick Sessinghaus has spent decades coaching golfers at the highest level of the game, including working with Collin Morikawa since childhood. Instead of approaching this conversation like a traditional interview, we decided to use ourselves — and our own golf games — as the case study. We talk with Rick about focus, confidence, expectations, frustration, slow play, performance under pressure,...

Two years ago, a golf trip to Wickenburg, Arizona brought together 44 guys for a long weekend of golf, games, and stories. This year, it became something much bigger. For Part 1, we teamed up with our friend Scott Walker, co-host of The Edge podcast, and recorded live from Rancho de Los Caballeros just before the 2026 Los Cab Cup began: 90 golfers, 22 teams, and three and a half days in the Arizon...

This week we sit down with Jason Soucy, Championship Director for the 2028 PGA Championship at the Olympic Club, for a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to stage one of the biggest events in golf. Jason takes us inside the enormous scale of a major championship — from building a “startup” years in advance for what is ultimately one week of golf, to coordinating thousands of workers, city age...

There’s a moment for a lot of serious golfers where the path changes. You’ve spent years competing, improving, chasing something—and then, at some point, you realize it’s probably not going to be your profession. But that doesn’t mean you stop. This week, we talk with Marissa Mar, a Stanford golfer and elite amateur, about what happens after that decision. We get into the difference between loving...

Golf friendships are real—but they’re different. We talk about what makes them unique: the time you spend together, the “hang,” and how the shared love of the game can lead to legitimate friendships without needing to get into deeper life stuff. We also get into how these friendships form, why some people find a crew and others don’t, and whether playing well matters more than we want it to. At th...

In Part 2 of our conversation with Olympic Club instructor Nic Noya, we shift from Nic’s playing career to how he now thinks about coaching—and what actually helps golfers improve and perform on the course. Nic breaks down how he evaluates players, why he focuses on ball flight over mechanics, and how he tailors his approach depending on the person in front of him. Through contrasting examples—inc...

In Part 1 of our conversation with Olympic Club instructor Nic Noya, we start with Nic’s own golf story: growing up as one of the top junior players in Northern California, competing against future PGA Tour names like Bryson DeChambeau, Austin Smotherman, and Kurt Kitayama, and trying to understand what truly separated the best from everyone else. Nic reflects on the players who became his measuri...

Golf has a way of inspiring some pretty ridiculous behavior among friends. In 2024, our friend Jerry played 201 rounds of golf. So heading into 2025—with his first baby on the way and a job search underway—we started wondering: how many rounds would he actually play this year? What began as a casual conversation at the bar turned into a secret betting pool predicting Jerry’s entire golf year. And...

This is Part 2 of our conversation with Tom Johnson. If you haven’t listened to Part 1 yet, it’s worth starting there. After sharing the story of his journey through professional golf and recovery, Tom turns to what he’s learned from the game since then. We talk about how his experience as a player shaped his philosophy as a teacher, why ego can be the biggest obstacle in improvement, and what sep...

Tom Johnson has lived many lives in golf. A standout junior player from Northern California, Tom went on to play college golf at Northwestern alongside future world #1 Luke Donald before turning professional and competing on the PGA Tour. After years grinding on tour and chasing the next level, golf eventually stopped being fun. In this first part of our conversation, Tom shares the story behind h...

Oliver loves the grind. Preston loves the hang. In this episode, we explore how two very different personalities experience the same game — from preparation and practice to identity, self-esteem, and why we keep coming back to golf. Along the way we talk about pre-round routines, the mental side of the game, and how our friendship somehow works despite (or maybe because of) approaching the game in...

Nicole McGirr (a.k.a. “Magic”) joins Weekday Golf for a laughter-filled hang on what actually helps golfers get better: strength, mobility, balance, and smarter expectations. We talk TPI assessments (and why your “golf fitness handicap” is probably higher than you think), the real tradeoff between technique vs. physical limitations, and what it’s like growing up in golf as a girl. Plus: warmup rou...

Listener mailbag time. We debate sandbagging and golf reputations, how we handle slow play, our on-course rituals, music etiquette, the shots that make us uncomfortable, and our favorite betting games—including Scotch and the O’Hara trifecta. Contact us: weekdaygolfpodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @weekdaygolfpodcast YouTube: @weekdaygolfpodcast Twitter/X: @weekdaygolfpod Design by: Austin Wooldridge...

Josh Zander, GOLF top 100 instructor and all around great guy, joins us to discuss his upbringing in Venezuela, playing in the 1992 US Open at Pebble Beach, and his innate urge to help everyone with their golf swing. We talk about the number one thing most students don't work on enough, playing on the Golden State Tour, and how to get your mind right when you have a 3-footer for a personal rec...

Golf, perhaps more so than any other sport, is often passed down from parent to child (as it was for Oliver and Preston). Our friends David and Luke Johnson join us to talk about what it's like to be a father/son duo who are also golf buddies. Hear their stories about how to make golf fun for kids, what the soul of golf means at different life stages, and parenting approaches when it comes to...

You never forget your first real golf trip. Beyond the stories and memories, we discuss what has to happen behind the scenes to make a golf trip truly special. Matching outfits preferred. Contact us: weekdaygolfpodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @weekdaygolfpodcast YouTube: @weekdaygolfpodcast Twitter/X: @weekdaygolfpod Design by: Austin Wooldridge Music provided by: ⁠https://www.classicals.de/mozart-fi...

Our friend Scott Oxandaboure - the Olympic Club's 2025 Club Champion - joins us to share his fascinating golf journey from junior golf in San Diego to playing on the USC men's golf team and professional golf aspirations. We discuss the role that community plays in his appreciation of golf, and how he approaches the game as a working stiff, busy dad, and mid-am. Contact us: weekdaygolfpodcast@gmail...

Where does our appreciation for the soul of golf come from? We take a shallow dive into our golf upbringings (thanks, Dad), from playing 54 holes a day during teenage summers, to the ebbs and flows of college golf. Contact us: weekdaygolfpodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @weekdaygolfpodcast YouTube: @weekdaygolfpodcast Twitter/X: @weekdaygolfpod Design by: Austin Wooldridge Music provided by: ⁠https://...