The Rounds Golf Podcast

As the PGA Tour season comes to an end and Zach Johnson announces his 6 wildcard picks, we debate the merits of the Fedex Cup and what to make of the US team. Warning contains very negative sentiment towards the Fedex Cup!  

Now known as the Tuesday Toppers and despite being stood up by Marc, we managed to ramble on pondering whether Celine Boutier is the hottest player in world Golf right now, acknowledging that 61/58 over the weekend aint bad golf and winners and losers as the Regular PGA Tour season ends.

With the Ladies Scottish Open in town, we caught up with Becky and got her thoughts on the week ahead, how her season has shaped up, the golfing challenges she's faced of late with her game, and after the Seniors got battered around Royal Porthcawl her worst weather experiences. 

Is it the best week of golf?  Is the 17th going to be as bad as it seems?  Is internal OB an abomination? Who is the mysterious presenter that Huggy has become fond of?  These questions and many more are the topics of our Open preview show, which warning starts with a lot of fawning over the Scottish Open for good measure.

Our second attempt to record a Monday Micro Pod yet again failed and here we are Tuesday catching up on Corpuz victory at Pebble, Anika's dodgy drop, boring playoffs, team golf, Matteo is on his way back, and the best two weeks in pro golf.

Our attempt at a new weekly micro pod format, a whistle stop run down of professional golf in 25 minutes or less.  We cover the final open qualifiers, Rickie's back in the winner's circle and is Bernard the Benjamin Button golf.

This week we debate the key subjects from the US Open including what time did Iain go to bed, how many golf balls does Lionel Ritchies hedge claim and should * year olds wear sports jackets.  We may also have covered a little bit of golf as well. 

A short summary of the weekend at Oak Hill including King Brooks, Camera loving Michael Block, Tom Kims mud wrestling, Mickelson makes it 100 and why does Adam Scott disappoint so much?

Ten years after his incredible achievement, qualifying for the last PGA Championship at Oak Hill in 2013, Lee joins us to preview this weeks event, look back on his experiences and provide his insights on the course.

We caught up with Golfs musical maestro Sam Harrop to find out how an English Piano player suddenly becomes a social media star performing at the Presidents Cup, playing putting competitions with PGA tour players and how the hit factory keeps on rolling.

We catch up with Becky on how her 2023 season is going so far, what its like working with BBC 5 Live, Greg Norman and his LIV ladies comments and awkward moments on the golf course! 

We are joined by Graeme Stevenson as we look back on all things Augusta.  We cover everything from Rahms dominant Sunday to Sandy's farewell in our look back on last weekends action.

Its been a while but we got back on the mic to talk about Balls, Tampons, Netflix, Sawgrass and a freezing cold Royal Aberdeen, quite the eclectic mix. 

We were joined by Mark Baldwin and Ryan French (aka MondayQInfo) and caught up on the last twelve months since we last had them on.We veered way off script and had great fun chatting with Mark and Ryan on everything from Robert's false accusations, unpublished stories, dodgy Scottish accent, Lord Voldemort, and the occasional golf chat. Check out Mark and Ryan on the Firepit Collective new YouTube show the Grind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBEwKfGq954

We are live from the Studio this week and joined by YouTuber Andy Stirling and our resident PGA Professional Marc Sadler.  We spent the afternoon filming with Andy and learning a little about the Langlands Rick Shiels.

A week later than planned but our 2nd Annual alternative Rounds Golf awards 2022 is out.  Some absolutely shocking suggestions for award winners and we predict the outcome of the 2023 main events with some equally appalling takes, spoiler alert Iain's had a howler on this one.

Our final podcast episode of 2022, the best of the guests 2022 compilation. A massive thanks and a Happy Hogmanay to all our guests who kindly gave up their time to join us this year.  John Peterson, Oli Wilson (great to see back in the winners circle), Willy Wilcox, Martin Demptser, Paul Waring, Alex Evans, Scott Hend, Laird Shepherd, Kenny Pallas, Gavin Dear, Duncan Stewart, Alan Shipnuck, Stephen Gallacher, Daniel Young, Becky Brewerton and of course our co-hosts Iain Stoddart and Stewart MacBride : ) 

We are back with a year-ending catch-up with Becky Brewerton as part of our Life on Tour series presented by TMD Building Consultancy. We reflect on a successful 2022, look ahead to the 2023 season and open up the financials and dive into just how much a season on the LET costs and what the 26th ranked player on tour really took home.

Part 2 of our DP World Q School special with Daniel Young.  We catch up on Daniels near Houdini escape from 2nd stage qualifying, his plans for 2023 and Iain's slightly more in-depth quickfire 5 questions to end!

Rounds Golf Life on Tour with Becky Brewerton series in partnership with TMD Building Consultancy.We've partnered with 2 time Solheim Cup star and LET winner Becky Brewerton to go behind the scenes of her life on the LET.Episode one covers everything from final destination moments, appearances in the sky booth, Discovery channel documentaries, Q School and gearing up to the last two events of the seasonWe'll be joining Becky periodically to catch up  on what life on tour is truly like. 

First of a two part DP World Q School special. With the first DP World Q School in 3 years reaching the second stage this week, we spoke to Challenge Tour player Daniel Young.Daniel gained status at the last Q School in 2019 spending time on both the DP World Tour and Challenge Tour over the last few years.  Daniel will be teeing it up next week vying to earn one of the coveted 25 tour cards available as he looks to regain status on the DP World Tour.  

Bobs back, Robert MacIntyre wins at Marco Simone, Migliozzi plays shot of the year at Le Golf National, Tom Kim isnae Honkin at the Presidents cup and Liv Golf might have just revealed an innovative format that could entice Poods to watch.

We've been away building our golf studio, but we decided it was time to catch up on a few matters including the Playoffs, Wentworth, golfers at war, Presidents cup, upsetting the Ballesteros family and the mystery of Dustin Johnsons £400,000 per hole!

Who knew the OWGR was such an emotive topic? This week we caught up on the Womens Open at Muirfield, Huggy's double bogey blues at the Deer Park Masters, changes to the OWGR, Scots win again on tour and how dull was the Fedex cup leaderboard?

We sat down this week to chat with TheLinksDiary.com co founder Kenny Pallas.  A magazine filled with incredible images and stories from Scotland's golf courses and characters. We spent time talking about how they came to be, what readers can expect, golfs rarest stories and much more, go check them out.  

Straight from her practice round at Muirfield we preview this week's Women's Open Championship with LET star Becky Brewerton.

We're back! Round 3 begins, lots to catch up on since our last show 5 weeks ago, US Open, Irish Open, Scottish Open, Open Championship and preview of the British Seniors Open at Gleneagles.  Lots of Opens, not so many Invitationals...

The final episode of Round 2, where arguably we spent too much time reviewing LIV golf and not enough previewing the US Open, but we'll let you decide.  

Author of the new best selling Phil Mickelson book Alan Shipnuck joins us to talk about his career as a golf writer, tales from his new book and the work of the Firepit Collective.

Former PGA Tour player Willy Wilcox joins us to talk about life in the 59 club, what its like to have a hole in one at the Island Green, demonstrate his Scottish credentials and discuss his recent road to recovery after battling a long time drug addiction whilst playing professional golf.  

This week we catch up with former European Tour player and Challenge Tour winner Duncan Stewart.  Duncan who represented Scotland at the World Cup of Golf in 2016 with Russell Knox is now the Sales Director at Druids Golf clothing.  We talk about his career in golf and life after Elite golf.

Former World Amateur team champion, Walker cup player and Challenge Tour member joins us to talk about life as an Elite Amateur, transition into the professional ranks and returning to amateur golf where Gavin is now the Chief Commercial Officer of leading golf technology brand Shot Scope.

This week it's all about the 2nd Major of the year, but not before we cover off important topics such as Poods Golf trip to Portugal and even more LIV Golf debate.

We had the privilege of spending an hour with former PGA Tour pro and Fore the People podcast host John Peterson.  John's stellar Amateur career saw him win the 2011 NCAA championship before turning pro and finishing T4 at the 2012 US Open.  With his PGA Tour career sadly cut short by injury, John has no shortage of tales to tell, including his real-life Happy Gilmour on the PGA Tour. You can hear John and his co-host JJ Killeen on the Fore the People Podcast - check them out

For the first time since October its just the Rounds Golf fourball as we catch up on The Masters, Hilton Head, Scottie Scheffler as world number 1, Garrigus the LIV golf needle mover and who would Poods partner in the Zurich Classic?

We welcome back former Scottish Amateur International and qualifier for the 2013 PGA Championship Lee Rhind.  We talk all things Augusta as we look forward to this week US Masters.

A few weeks back we joined US Masters bound Amateur Champion Laird Shepherd as he talked us through his plans for the season ahead and his preparation for the professional ranks. 

European Tour winner Paul Waring and caddie  Alex Evans join us this week to talk about their life on tour, careers in Golf, YouTube fame and  long time friendship.

This week we're joined by Australian golfing legend Scott Hend.  Over his 25 years playing professionally Scott has played all over the world including Asian Tour, PGA Tour & DP World Tour.  Never shy to offer his opinion we talked about life on tour, slow play, distance the Saudi golf league and much more.

This week we're joined by Stephen Gallacher a man with over 600 European Tour appearances , 4 wins and a Ryder Cup to his name.  Stephen talked through career, thoughts on the game, his 2014 Ryder Cup experience and what the future holds.

With no special guest and no Poods, its up to Huggy, Bob and Col to cover this weeks golfing headlines, including the Saudi backed Asian tour event, the DP World tour in Ras al Kaimah, we debate Rory's shot choice from the week before, Leona MacGuire's debut LPGA tour win and Mark Baldwin's magnificent showing the AT&T Pro Am.

We had the privilege this week to spend time with LET and Solheim cup star Becky Brewerton.  Becky shares the story of her remarkable golfing journey over the last twenty years, from her stellar Amateur career, multiple LET wins, Solheim cup appearances and her near decade long battle to return from golfs wilderness.  Insightful, honest and inspiring.

Scottish Golf writer Martin Dempster joins us this week to talk about his career in Golf Journalism, following the biggest events in World Golf and the strength of Scottish Golf at both Elite and Amateur level.

We had the pleasure of European Tour winner & 2008 Ryder Cup player Oliver Wilson this week.  Oli takes us through his career to date including his win at St Andrews, 2008 Ryder Cup at Valhalla, his aspirations as we enter the 2022 season with a little bit of Boo Weekly and Anthony Kim thrown in for good measure.

We thought we'd end the year by knitting together the best of our guests from this year.  A massive thank you to Ryan French, Mark Baldwin, Gary Nicol, Eilidh Barbour, Karl Morris, Lee Rhind and Sir Alan Tait.  Thanks for joining and we'll see you in 2022.

Join us for Episode two of Round two, the end of year alternative golfing awards and our Rounds golf quiz of 2021.  Merry Christmas and we'll see you all in the New Year with even more fantastic guests.

Joining us this week on the Podcast is renowned former European Tour coach, TrackMan Master, Certified Mind Factor coach and co-Author of the Lost Art trilogy Gary Nicol. Gary spends his time talking about life working with Tour Pro's, the lost art series of books and his ongoing coaching work at Archerfield.

This week we are joined by Mr Monday Q Info himself Ryan French alongside Korn Ferry member and PGA Tour Monday qualifier Mark Baldwin.  Mark and Ryan share their experiences of Monday Qualifiers, how Ryan became a social media giant and Marks own Monday Q experience at this year's Barracuda Championship on the PGA Tour and his sponsors invite to the 2022 Barracuda Championship.

This week we are joined by BBC Sports presenter Eilidh Barbour who offers insight into her broadcasting career, her own golfing life, we talk women's golf as well as our usual round up of this weeks golfing news.

This week we are joined by Karl Morris one of Golf's leading performance and mind coaches.  Author of the Lost Art series of books with Gary Nicol and with a CV that includes Louis Oosthuizen, Darren Clarke, Graeme McDowell, Trish Johnson and many more.  Karl shares his life and experiences of over 25 years in the game.

With no Huggy this week its up to Colin, Bob and Poods to cover this weeks golfing news including the banning of green reading books, Liam Johnston's end of season appraisal on himself ahead of Karl Morris joining us next week and we cover off the Rounds golf concept.