The Short Course Golf Podcast

John Lawlor: Open Invitations

John Lawlor is General Manager of Royal Portrush Golf Club, one of the world's eminent golfing venues, and host of the 2019 and 2025 Open Championship. John sits down to discuss the processes involved in preparing for an Open, how major events are coordinated, and adjusting to life on the Causeway coast.

Peter Palacios: The Tale of Yale

Peter Palacios, General Manager of Yale, joins to talk more about Seth Raynor's magnificent design. In it, he discusses the origin story of the course, and getting back to it through Gil Hanse's work later this year. Peter also tells how he came to arrive at Yale, and his favourite New Haven pizzas.

Ina Kim-Schaad: Mind Games

Ina Kim-Schaad is a mental performance coach, working under the tutelage of Dr. Gio Valiante, with many elite players. She enjoyed a glittering amateur career, playing in the Junior Ryder Cup and winning the 2019 U.S. Women's Mid-Am. She discusses the mental aspects of the game, how our mindset shapes us on and off the course, and crying in a bunker...

Paul Dotti: Garden States

Paul Dotti is superintendent at Arcola Country Club. He discusses what green keeping in the North East of the US is like, hosting the US Amateur last year, and the Metropolitan Open this year.

Matt Adams: Media Matters

Matt Adams joins me today. You will be familiar with his work on Golf Channel and his own Fairways of Life podcast. Matt has experience in the manufacturing side of the game, so who better to discuss rollback, the tours and spiritual awakenings with.

Colm Campbell : Amateur Hour

Colm Campbell is the reigning Irish Amateur Champion, having previously won it in 2016. We discuss what golf at an elite level is like-from course setups to routines, what life is like against the up-and-coming youngsters while working full time, and having pregnant wives following you around in the soaking rain of famous Irish links...

Samuel Beckman: Designer Chic

Samuel Beckman is the chief strategy officer, owner and designer at Emergency Nine Golf. Based in Chicago, his company and he have designed many courses in the area. We discuss his beginnings, what being a golf course architect is really like, and daliances with Hollywood A-listers at Waitrose...

Northern Lights with Jeremy Mulvihill

Jeremy Mulvihill is a Ballybunion native with an interesting career path as a superintendent/head greenkeeper. Listen as he describes his journey from the Kingdom of Kerry to deep inside the Arctic Circle, where he now resides at Lofoten, the most northerly links in the world.