Ep75: Golfer of the Year: Schauffele v Scheffler, Olympics Golf & Nick Talks Belly Wedges

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Another fun episode this week, with plenty of golf to discuss. We start with a text that Mark received from former Herald Sun golf journo Brian Meldrum about a fantastic achievement from Huntingdale member Ken Chandler recently. Fantastic. We love these stories.

Nick mentions that Gary Player's 1974 Claret Jug replica was sold recently by his son, not with Gary's approval unfortunately. But a lazy 400k for him (the son not Gary).

Back to Huntingdale, we discuss the development and how it is going. It is going to be very, very good. Mark starts banging on about trees again.

The Olympics. Nick and Mark haven't seen a lot of the golf, in fact Mark zero, Nick only highlights, but they're loving the Olympics - just not so much the golf. We discuss the ridiculous outfits the US golf team were wearing, and then Mark asks Nick who should win golfer of the year, and does the Olympic gold medal for Scottie Scheffler count towards that?

Great win from Aussie Karl Vilips on the Korn Ferry tour in Utah. Nick and Mark discuss how he came to move to America, and the advice Mark gave him before he did. Did Karl listen to Mark?

Leds to a chat about college scholarships for young golfers, Mark is a huge advocate of it, as is Nick. We hear how Mark obtained his scholarship and what it did for his golf. And we discuss the path Max Charles went on, and how it evolved his game.

Voicemail comes in during the pod from Brad who has a ripping question about mentoring kids in golf, Nick and Mark have some thoughts.

A top 5 from Mark this week on his 'stupidest' sports in the Olympics....does golf get a run?

Nick wraps up all the results in the last week or so in the PING global results, we have a heap of feedback to run through from the Talk Birdie Wolfpack, and inspired by Moriya Jutanufarn Nicks masterclass is on using a belly wedge.

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