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With Constantine Hatzivassiliou—Partner, Certuity Golf taught Constantine Hatzivassiliou how to perform under pressure. Building a nearly $5B multi-family office taught him that the best advisors become the first call when life, not just the markets, gets complicated. In Summary Many advisors spend years mastering investments, but for affluent families, portfolio management is often just the starting point. Jason Diamond welcomes Constantine Hatzivassiliou, Partner at Certuity, to discuss how his journey from aspiring professional golfer to leader of a nearly $5B multi-family office shaped his approach to client service. Their conversation explores why trust is earned long before a crisis, how family office services evolve naturally from client needs, and why the advisor's role increasingly resembles that of a quarterback coordinating every aspect of a family's financial life. The discussion also examines organic growth, referrals, fiduciary advice, private equity's impact on the RIA landscape, and the qualities that allow advisors to become indispensable over decades—not just market cycles. The Storyline Many advisors spend years perfecting investment management. But as clients become more successful, the job changes. The questions become bigger than portfolio construction. A business is being sold. A family dynamic shifts. A tax issue emerges. An estate plan needs updating. Suddenly, the advisor isn't simply managing assets—they're coordinating decisions, relationships, and emotions. For Constantine, that broader role was shaped long before he entered wealth management. As an aspiring professional golfer, he learned lessons about discipline, preparation, and performing under pressure that continue to influence how he serves clients today. Jason and Constantine explore how Certuity grew from approximately $210 million in assets to nearly $5B, not through acquisitions but through referrals and a service model built on becoming indispensable to the families they advise. Constantine explains why he believes the best advisors function more like quarterbacks than portfolio managers, orchestrating the many moving pieces that come with significant wealth. The conversation also examines the evolution of the multi-family office model, the role of fiduciary advice, the impact of private equity on the advisory landscape, and why experience, judgment, and trust remain the qualities clients value most. Ultimately, this episode is about what it takes to become the first call when life – not just the markets – becomes complicated. Topics Covered Lessons from professional golf that translate to wealth management Building Certuity from $210mm to nearly $5B in assets What distinguishes a multi-family office from a traditional RIA Why referrals fuel long-term organic growth Becoming the “first call” for affluent families Fiduciary advice and the evolution of the advisory profession Family office services beyond investment management Private equity and M&A in the RIA space Developing the next generation of advisors Trust, relationships, and lifetime client service > Download a transcript of this episode… Listen and Learn Highlights for Advisors How did professional golf prepare Constantine for advising wealthy families? (3:45) Constantine explains why competing under pressure taught him discipline, emotional control, and process—qualities that now guide every client relationship. How did Certuity grow from $210 million to nearly $5 billion? (8:00) He shares why nearly all of the firm's growth has come organically through client referrals rather than acquisitions or aggressive recruiting. What separates a multi-family office from a traditional advisory firm? (11:45) The conversation explores how expanding into trust, estate, tax, and family office services became a response to client needs—not a business strategy. Why should advisors think of themselves as quarterbacks? (20:00) Constantine recounts a client business sale that fell apart at the closing table and explains why advisors often become the person holding everything together. How does Certuity view private equity and acquisitions? (36:20) Jason and Constantine discuss when outside capital can make sense—and why Certuity has chosen a different path centered on client alignment. Why do wisdom and experience still matter in an AI-driven world? (29:30) Despite advances in technology, Constantine argues that judgment, trust, and perspective remain the qualities affluent families value most. Key Takeaways High-net-worth clients increasingly value coordination, judgment, and perspective over investment selection alone. Family office services often evolve naturally as advisors respond to increasingly complex client needs. Sustainable organic growth is rooted in trust, which explains why referrals account for the overwhelming majority of Certuity's new business. Golf and wealth management share the same disciplines: preparation, emotional control, patience, and executing under pressure. The most valuable advisors become trusted partners during life's defining moments—not simply portfolio managers. Technology continues to reshape wealth management, but experience and wisdom remain difficult to replicate. Building a lasting advisory business requires investing in culture, succession, and the next generation of talent. https://youtu.be/m72Hq6bMTo4 Quotable Moments “The best advisors aren't simply managing portfolios. They're the first person clients call when life gets complicated.” “A bad shot in golf is the equivalent of a bad day in the market. You can't let one dictate everything that comes next.” “More often than not, we're not just financial advisors—we're financial therapists.” “Growth gets the headlines. Trust is what makes it possible.” FAQs What is a multi-family office? A multi-family office delivers integrated services beyond investment management, often coordinating tax, estate planning, philanthropy, business planning, and other complex financial matters for affluent families. Why has Certuity grown primarily through referrals? Constantine attributes the firm's growth to deep client relationships, a collaborative service model, and becoming the trusted advisor clients recommend to others. How does golf relate to wealth management? Golf reinforces discipline, emotional control, preparation, and performing under pressure—all qualities Constantine believes are essential for effective advisors. What is Constantine's perspective on private equity in wealth management? While he understands why many firms pursue private equity, he believes every strategic decision should ultimately be measured against what best serves clients. What qualities distinguish exceptional advisors today? According to Constantine, exceptional advisors become trusted coordinators of a client's financial life—bringing together specialists, solving problems, and providing perspective during life's most important moments. A multi-family office delivers integrated services beyond investment management, often coordinating tax, estate planning, philanthropy, business planning, and other complex financial matters for affluent families. Constantine attributes the firm's growth to deep client relationships, a collaborative service model, and becoming the trusted advisor clients recommend to others. Golf reinforces discipline, emotional control, preparation, and performing under pressure—all qualities Constantine believes are essential for effective advisors. While he understands why many firms pursue private equity, he believes every strategic decision should ultimately be measured against what best serves clients. According to Constantine, exceptional advisors become trusted coordinators of a client's financial life—bringing together specialists, solving problems, and providing perspective during life's most important moments. Related Resources Emotional Intelligence: The “Untouchable” Differentiator in an AI World Intentional Growth: How Top Advisors Build Businesses That Last The 10 Characteristics of the Most Successful Teams Constantine HatzivassiliouPartner  Constantine Hatzivassiliou is a Partner at Certuity, a nationally recognized multi-family office serving affluent families, entrepreneurs, executives, foundations, and endowments. He advises clients on the complex financial, tax, estate, and business planning decisions that accompany significant wealth, helping families coordinate all aspects of their financial lives through a comprehensive family office approach. Drawing on more than two decades of experience, Constantine works closely with successful business owners, corporate executives, and multi-generational families to simplify financial complexity and align investment management, tax planning, estate planning, philanthropy, and family governance strategies. As a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA®), he frequently assists entrepreneurs in preparing for liquidity events, business transitions, and the long-term stewardship of family wealth. His clients often view him as a trusted advisor and strategic sounding board, helping them navigate important financial decisions with the perspective of both a family office professional and a coach. Prior to joining Certuity, Constantine held advisory and banking positions with The Bank of New York Mellon, Bernstein Global Wealth Management, and Pacific Mercantile Bank. Before entering the financial services industry, he was a Golf Professional and member of the PGA of America, experiences that continue to shape his disciplined, competitive, and relationship-focused approach to advising clients. Outside of his professional responsibilities, Constantine is passionate about mentoring young athletes and strengthening the communities in which he lives and works. He serves as a Board Member of Coerfontaine Football Club (CFC), a premier youth soccer organization focused on developing young athletes and helping them pursue collegiate and professional opportunities while fostering leadership, discipline, and character. He also serves as Chair of the Safety and Security Committee for Parkland, where he works alongside community leadership to enhance resident safety, security, and quality of life. In addition, Constantine is a Founding Board Member of The Boardroom, a private membership organization focused on fostering meaningful relationships among business leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals through networking, education, and philanthropy. Born in Greece, Constantine spent his childhood in Montreal before relocating to South Florida. He attended the University of Florida before earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Florida Atlantic University, where he graduated with honors. He holds the Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA®) designation. A lifelong student of the game, Constantine remains active in golf and is a member of Muirfield Village Golf Club, founded by his longtime  hero and mentor, Jack Nicklaus, as well as Parkland Golf & Country Club. Constantine resides in Parkland, Florida, with his wife, Stephanie, and their two children, Nicholas and Olivia. NOTE: The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Diamond Consultants. Neither Diamond Consultants nor the guests on this podcast are compensated in any way for their participation. Episode Transcript Lessons from the Links: From Golf Pro to $5B Family Office Partner A conversation with Jason Diamond and Constantine Hatzivassiliou, Partner at Certuity. Jason Diamond: Welcome to the latest episode of our podcast series for financial advisors. Today’s episode is Lessons from the Links: From Golf Pro to $5B Family Office Partner. It’s a conversation with Constantine Hatzivassiliou, partner at Certuity. I’m Jason Diamond and this is the Diamond Podcast for Financial Advisors. Mindy Diamond: At Diamond Consultants, we help elite advisors identify the right environment for their businesses to thrive whether that’s at a wirehouse, boutique or independent firm. With nearly three decades of experience, we’ve guided thousands of advisors and represented more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in assets transitioned and, each year, one in four advisors managing $1 billion or more who change firms are our clients. Our process is education-driven and based on building relationships starting as your strategic partner well before you’re even thinking of a move. To schedule a confidential conversation, call us at (908) 879-1002. Wondering why advisors change firms and where they’re headed? Are transition deals going up or down? Those very questions and more inspired us to create our annual advisor transition report, it’s the award-winning data-driven resource designed for advisors that connects the dots between the motivations around movement and the firm’s appetite for top talent. Arm yourself with the knowledge you need to make smart decisions, download your copy at diamond-consultants.com/transitionreport. Jason Diamond: Golf is a way of exposing who you really are, there are no teammates to blame, no clock to run out and no hiding from a bad decision. Every shot demands discipline, patience and the ability to stay focused when the pressure is highest, my guest today knows that firsthand. Before becoming a partner at Certuity, a multifamily office approaching five billion in assets, Constantine Hatzivassiliou was pursuing a career as a professional golfer. An injury ultimately redirected his path towards wealth management but many of the lessons he learned on the course still shaped the way he serves clients today. Certuity has grown from roughly 210 million in assets to nearly five billion, that’s impressive on its own but the more interesting story is how they’ve done it. The firm has grown largely through referrals built around a multifamily office model and focused on becoming far more than an investment advisor to the families it serves. In Constantine’s view, the best advisors aren’t simply managing portfolios, they’re the first person clients call when a business is being sold, a family issue becomes complicated or a major decision carries consequences well beyond the balance sheet. Constantine and I discuss the lessons golf teaches about handling pressure then we dive into the evolution from the traditional wealth management world to the multifamily office model, why referrals drive nearly all of Certuity’s growth, how he thinks about private equity’s influence on the advisory business and what it takes to become the first call for the wealthy families they serve and perhaps, most importantly, why the same qualities that help someone succeed on a golf course may be surprisingly relevant to building trust over a lifetime. It’s a great conversation so let’s dive in. Constantine, thank you so much for joining, thrilled to have you here. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: Thank you for having me, excited to be here. Jason Diamond: Yeah, absolutely. So, you had an unconventional path to wealth management, you started as a professional golfer, I think that’s a first for us on this show, before ultimately transitioning into this world. Can you tell us a little bit about the journey and what brought you here? Constantine Hatzivassiliou: Yeah, I never thought I’d be here, my parents were certainly shocked that I got here path wise. Growing up, immigrants from Greece, you settle into Florida the traditional way where you either go down the diner route or the gas station route in mechanics which my father was the latter and school and education was never priority, it was always about supporting the family needs. So, next thing you know, sports are a critical part of any good household, that’s how I was raised and I played everything but golf. I grew up on a golf course because my parents believed that a location of a property was critical to long-term financial success. We lived on a golf course, it was in our backyard, we’d stare at it and we’d use it to play football or baseball or anything but actual golf. And my freshman year at the University of Florida, I started dating a girl on the golf team and she got me hooked to the point where, after four years of hitting balls with the women’s and men’s golf team at the University of Florida for six hours a day, we finished school and realized I’m actually pretty good at the game and, while I have a finance and economics background and degree, let’s try and pursue this for a living and I was blessed. I had a sponsor who helped me succeed at golf on a small scale, it was a humbling experience to say the least. I was competing and playing with Sean O’Hair, Ken Duke, guys who made it out on tour for a very long time, we had the same sponsor so we functioned as a team, it was a collegiate team effectively trying to make it out on tour. And, unfortunately, my second year of competing, I blew out my back doing heavy deadlifts which set me aside for 18 months. While I was recovering, my primary sponsor was in financial services and says, “Hey, you have a background in this, it’s killing you not being able to be on the golf course, why don’t you come work for me while you’re rehabbing so that, when you get back to playing golf, it’s easier for you to talk about our business as a sponsor to try and develop business to throw it to the financial services side?” And Jason, the reality is, after 18 months working there, I fell in love with it. I made way more money working in that environment than I ever would’ve made playing golf because, again, I came to the game late. I was decent but I was nowhere near the caliber of players that are succeeding now out on tour. So, I pivoted after having met my wife and decided to settle down into the wealth management space and, what is it now, 26 years later, going strong. So, it’s been a fun transition from golf into wealth management to say the least. Jason Diamond: Probably my favorite background … I watch a lot of golf, I should caveat that, probably my favorite origin story we’ve had, I’ll give you the Wanamaker trophy or whatever you get, first place. Let’s talk about the business now, so Certuity. For our audience who may not be familiar, tell us a little bit about the firm, what types of clients do you serve and any context you can provide on size as well. We’ll talk about how your firm got there but just give us where we are today to start with. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: So, goal by the end of the year is to have $5 billion in AUM, we’re just shy of that now. We currently service 428 families across the country. So, we’re boutiquey and nimble, we’re based in South Florida, we have offices in New York, San Fran and LA. I’m fortunate to be one of four partners at the firm supporting the growth and the direction of the company and it’s a fun endeavor in the sense that, when we first started, I was employee number four 16 years ago and, with 210 million in AUM at the time to grow it to where we are today, to learn all the things that we have over the years, the curve balls that were thrown at us because all of us came from massive institutional wealth management firms. So, we transitioned from the Bernsteins of the world, the BNY Mellons of the world into an RIA in the South Florida market, there was absolutely an entrepreneurial learning curve involved. Jason Diamond: I bet. And on follow-up question, 16 years ago, did you have a book of business, client business and do you still maintain a book of business today? Constantine Hatzivassiliou: I do. The four of us at the firm share in all of the clients, we work together. Being in the Southeast, I’m responsible for, let’s call it, the Southeast demographics of the US which is a large portion of Certuity’s book. I have a partner in Tennessee, I have a partner in LA and San Francisco and we divide and conquer across the country. But, yes, we came over with a small book, we’ve all grown it organically since then. So, we’ve been very effective in how we’ve grown. Jason Diamond: Just from adding new client money? Constantine Hatzivassiliou: Strictly through new clients referred to us by existing clients. Jason Diamond: Wow. I want to talk more about the growth because that’s remarkable. But before I do, can we double click on the service model? So, I would say the most typical we hear, I think more of our guests typically come from the wirehouse world where it’s I have my book, you have your book. What does your service model look like? So, is it truly, if it’s working well from the end client perspective, you should be interchangeable with your partners and it’s a true team approach? Constantine Hatzivassiliou: How we engage our clients, the theory should be I can get hit by a bus tomorrow and outside of the client not being able to speak to me directly, they will not have a hiccup in any way, shape or form. And when we’re dealing with families across multiple generations, the way we’ve built our platform, that continuity is critical in the engagement process for the clients hiring us to help them through all of the challenges that they face. Jason Diamond: What’s your sweet spot in terms of client size? Constantine Hatzivassiliou: Our average client size today has just shy of eight million AUM with us. We have some clients who have $1 million certainly but they’re strategic in that their friends, their family, they could be centers of influence who help send business our way because they value what it is that we do and there’s a strategic partnership because we might need them for their trust and estate services or their accounting work and they have clients who have a need and we’re on the short list of people they refer to. Jason Diamond: That they trust. Yeah, makes sense. So, I’ve seen this in the news and also even on your own internal materials, I’ve seen you described as both a modern multifamily office, you’ll also obviously hear the term RIA as well. Does that distinction matter at all? And maybe my second part of that question would be what is the distinction between that space, whatever you call it, and the more traditional firm world from a client service perspective? You mentioned that all of your partners from that world. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: I started in this industry truly at an institutional level at Bernstein in New York and, for anyone who knows Bernstein, they really do brainwash you on the fiduciary model and the values affiliated with that philosophy has translated through my career at BNY Mellon which has a very similar feel as Bernstein. And then, when we came here, we instilled that same core value principle of fiduciary responsibility for our clients so we are very different than a traditional wirehouse or brokerage house, it is why we’ve grown so successfully. I would never, one, work for an institution that did bide by those standards and, secondarily, I wished Congress and Senate would turn around and actually implement a mandatory fiduciary liability for all financial advisors because, far too often, we see prospective clients or families get taken advantage of because the individual sitting across from them giving them financial advice is not necessarily aligned with their goals and objectives. Jason Diamond: So, I take it you are fee only. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: We are fee only. Jason Diamond: Yeah. I don’t want to lose the thread on the first part of my question. Do you think there is a distinction between a multifamily office and an RIA? I don’t want to lead you here but to me it implies a different level or different caliber of service model that probably includes more of the ancillary trust and estate and CPA type stuff that higher network clients need but curious what your thoughts are. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: Our first seven years at the firm, we were strictly an RIA, we functioned as an advisory service provider to our clients. What attracted me and my partners to Certuity was the nimbleness of the firm. So, for instance, at BNY Mellon, we often deemed a change necessary as moving an aircraft carrier across the world but it was an impossible task to accomplish. But when you’re small and nimble and clients come to you with a need and you’re in the service, ultimately, first and foremost, it made sense for us to start building out family office services for our clients because they had a need and we found it as a way to centralize everything because, far too often, when the communication standards break down between all the individual parts, one, it’s more expensive for the clients and, two, the process isn’t efficient, things get missed. So, we tried, largely due to our growth, to bring everything in house and our clients appreciate that for it. Jason Diamond: So, this is not a chicken and egg situation, this is very much we had large clients, we were attracting large clients and, in order to service them optimally, here’s what we felt we needed to build. Is that fair? Constantine Hatzivassiliou: 100%. Jason Diamond: Let’s shift gears, I need to go deeper on the professional golf thread a little bit. I promise I won’t make the whole interview about your golf background. I’m curious if you feel like that experience or that, I don’t know, upbringing or, I guess, background laid any foundation for the way you engage with clients today or the way you operate as a business leader today. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: So, there’s a couple parts to that. The golf side, certainly, just from an engaging client perspective, 90% of our clients are golfers. Jason Diamond: It’s very true. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: Right. It just helps because of our background and certainly with some of the clients and partners that we have at the firm, golf is a critical thread in what we do. However, when it comes to golf, what I learned playing golf at a high level directly translates to how we manage money for clients and I’ll express it this way. There’s generally two types of golfers, there’s the artist, the Sergios of the world who don’t fundamentally function off of specific points in their swing or a very structured platform, they see something, their mind becomes creative and they execute on it. I was never that way, I am a numbers person, I think everything analytically, I break everything down to the minute, everything is strategized and organized, I was taught to practice that way by Coach Alexander at the University of Florida and that foundational element seemed easy, it worked. If you practice properly, you’ve succeeded. Under pressure, all those hours and hours of repetition translated to success more often than not. In our industry, it’s process-driven, it has to be unemotional. A bad shot in golf is the equivalent of a bad day in the market, you can’t let one bad day in the market influence everything you do for the next year. Same way on the golf course playing in a tournament, you can’t allow one golf shot to affect the rest of the round. We kid with our clients oftentimes that, while we are fundamentally their financial advisor, more often than not, we’re their financial therapist. We have to control their emotions and make sure they’re not making an irrational decision. For instance, a couple days ago we were out with a client the day that Iran shot down one of the US military helicopters and we’re sitting down at lunch and, all of a sudden, his phone starts blowing up because he’s getting all these Google alerts to the market heading in the wrong direction and he had to go do a life insurance test later on that afternoon. So, all week, he had prepped and he was calm and he was relaxed, he was really excited, he’s, “My wife is setting me up with a new insurance policy and I know it’s for her benefit but all my numbers look good, I’m going to ace this and my premiums will be really low because of it,” it was a $25 million policy. And as he’s looking at his phone and he sees the market collapsing in his mind, his blood pressure rose to no end, you could see that his anxiety level went through the roof and, had I not been there with him at the time to hold his hand through that process, his afternoon would’ve been shot. I would’ve got a phone call saying, “What are we doing to prevent 2% loss in my portfolio,” because that’s how he thinks and, in that moment, I was the therapist to talk him off a ledge. It’s so hard for individuals to manage the stress of the markets, that golfer mentality of, okay, just breathe, relax, let’s see what’s going on, let’s make an educated, confirmed decision, let’s circle back with our caddy if we’re on tour and competing and make a unified decision for the long-term success of the goal that we’re trying to achieve. And what we do every day is the same thing with our clients. Jason Diamond: It’s an incredibly thoughtful answer, I expected a version of the latter part of your answer. I appreciate that you added the part about just most clients like golf, enjoy talking about golf, enjoy playing golf and it’s an effective business development tool, there’s no question. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: So, I have two kids, a 12-year-old and an eight-year-old, my son who’s 12 who’s an exceptional soccer player and wants to, aspires to play professionally one day has now fallen in love with golf which I’m ecstatic about. I think golf and tennis, from a business development perspective- Jason Diamond: Yeah, lifelong sports. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: And I look at it now and my mentor when I started in the business was absolutely right. The fact that I could get a CEO of a Fortune 100 company to want to actively spend four hours with me where we could dive into the weeds about their personal life, their financial situation, their business, you could never get that time otherwise. I urge everyone who’s coming out of college or is going into college who wants to aspire to be in any type of sales related role, golf is a great venue to make long-term relationships. Jason Diamond: And importantly, tennis is not as good on the knees long-term or the back long-term. So, you stick to golf, you get a little more longevity out of it. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: It does help, yes. You’re right. Jason Diamond: My thought always goes to people call it the 15th club in golf, just this mental element of the game and to me it’s the clear moment in golf that always comes to mind for me is the 72nd hole. I don’t know if you just watched the US Women’s Open but Nelly Korda standing over a two-foot putt that I really thought she missed, is there an equivalent of that moment? Are you ever able to recreate that pressure in your current role or is that something that you miss? Constantine Hatzivassiliou: Jason, we have those moments weekly, countless stories. Here’s where I love my job. I’ve transitioned from being the guy behind the screen who is just trading accounts, that’s where we all start and you have to have that foundational perspective of what’s involved in trading an account on a daily basis. Not that we ever picked stocks to an extensive level, we were generally managing ETFs, mutual funds and strategies but I’ll give you an example. So, just last week, we had a family and this is where the family office side comes in more so than the financial advisory services come in. We had spent four months in helping a family sell their business, it was a life altering moment, the dad started the business, the dad had been independently successful, net worth of well into eight figures, was happy and content, brought his son into the business, son was brilliant, saw an opportunity within the business and grew the business by 4,000%. Jason Diamond: Literally? Constantine Hatzivassiliou: Yup. All because of this, the son saw a different direction and pivoted the business and grew it out and here he is, getting ready to have their first child and he gets approached by a firm to acquire his business. They’re ecstatic, the number was perfect, I thought it was overvalued, I was telling them that there’s no way they could turn it down because the number was too significant. Had they gone to the market, they would probably never achieve that level of return. And literally, the day of closing, as we’re expecting the wire to come through, the deal gets pulled. So, here you have the father who’s crushed because he was trying to provide something for his son, the son who’s just devastated because he now was preparing for the second stage of his life and you go through at that stage the classic stages of grief, it’s the cycle that goes through it. I was holding their hand through the three-month process up to there, every day, hourly calls, strategizing, building everything out, organizing the accounting team, organizing the attorneys, getting it all to work out. And here I am, father and son, unbelievably stressed, you have the wives in the background who can’t quite comprehend what’s going on, you have employees beneath them who are now confused as to there was a transition getting ready to take place and the only person who can step in under that critical moment to bring everybody back together was me. So, here I am thinking, 20 years ago, I’ll just pick stocks and bonds for individuals but now I’m in the middle of deal flow trying to help a family solve the issues that arise. So, those are hugely critical- Jason Diamond: Yeah, that’s right. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: …moments where, because our clients are our friends and family, we care for them like they’re our own, you become emotionally attached. And the same pressure that I felt when I won my first mini tour event after college, when I had to get up and down from the impossible bunker shot and I hit it to six feet and I made the crucial put to win my first $23,000 check which I thought was unbelievable, they gave you those big old-fashioned- Jason Diamond: The Happy Gilmore checks. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: Exactly, right? It was the greatest day at that time. The stress of being in that bunker trying to hit that shot is the same stress I felt having two phones ringing, one the father, one the son where we have to keep that situation separate. So, you’re diving into unbelievably stressful situations and the best part is, when we get it all solved and literally yesterday we solved the entire dynamic of the business, I get a text from the son saying that this was the most incredible rollercoaster experience he’s ever experienced, that he’s incredibly grateful for all that I did and our team did for him and that, for the rest of his life, we will always be the first person he calls to solve any of his problems. So, for us, that’s the recreation of that stressful moment and then the victory on the back end. Twenty-five years ago, I got the big Happy Gilmore check. Yesterday, I got that text which I’ve printed out and framed and have it in my office as a constant memory of why it is we do what we do. Jason Diamond: And I would bet that’s more impactful than the $23,000. It’s an incredible story and I’ll tell you why, you said it but it’s as far away from stocks and bonds as you could possibly get. But I think, most advisors, a story like that resonates much more. It leads into my next question. You intentionally choose to service a high net worth segment of the market and I would assume that number’s probably creeping up, not down over time in terms of who you service. My thought is that’s a very competitive segment of the market as well. Is this how you differentiate is just you make it about those types of human examples or is there more to it? Constantine Hatzivassiliou: I’m envious of the advisor who could walk into a room of 200 people and they become the central focal point of the room where they can walk up to every single person and fearlessly ask them incredibly personal information, I’m not wired that way. For me, I’m very much the individual that I will find the one person that I have common ground with, I will deepen that relationship and I will add value and, because of the value that I create, I become a critical component of that individual’s success. And that’s how we’ve grown our business holistically at the firm largely buy that extra layer of service. We’re a commodity business. Being in South Florida, the clubs that I belong to, 10 to 15% of the members feel like they’re financial advisors. You could throw a rock anywhere and find a financial advisor so how do I differentiate myself? The only way I can truly differentiate myself and my firm is the level of service we provide, to go that extra step. To where, when we’re calling a client, they know I’m calling them to support their needs not because I’m seeking something for any ulterior motive. Jason Diamond: But you don’t mention financial planning or investment management or asset custody. Is that because I assume just that’s table stakes? Of course we do that but … Okay, yeah. Makes sense. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: That’s the easy part, right? That’s foundationally … And to your earlier point, you were asking the RIA model. One of the biggest challenges that we had down here in South Florida was the RIA model is new. If you were in the northeast, RIAs are very common, out west, incredibly common. Down here in South Florida, I just finished dealing with Bernie Madoff. Jason Diamond: You were fighting the good education fight a little bit. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: At Bernstein, 108 of our clients had assets with Bernie Madoff. Jason Diamond: Yeah. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: So, when you leave, one of our biggest growing curves as an RIA in South Florida was, when you leave the power of BNY Mellon or Bernstein and you’re some random little shop called Certuity, no one knows who you are. So, there was a big part of our education in the business was learning how to educate clients and prospective clients on the value of the RIA model and the fiduciary model in particular. Jason Diamond: Could you give me the 30-second answer to that if somebody says who are you, your prospect? I’ll tell you why I ask. Forget just Bernstein’s and BNYs of the world, a Morgan Stanley advisor or Merrill advisor has the exact same fear. I’m leaving Merrill to go launch Jason Diamond Wealth Management, my client’s going to say, “Well, who is that?” So, give me the quick pitch. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: Your typical broker, let’s say, you’re not really hiring JP Morgan, you’re not really hiring Wells Fargo, you’re not hiring Goldman Sachs, you’re hiring the advisor who works for that institution. Now, yes, that advisor has the Rolodex of data and information available at the firm level but, ultimately, you’re entrusting that individual to make your decisions for you. The broker who leaves the brokerage model to open up their own brick and mortar operation has to then decide are they continuing down the wirehouse brokerage model where they’re transactional in nature, the economics behind that, far more profitable. The revenue streams affiliated with a brokerage house drastically blows us out of the water. But then you have to also look at yourself in the mirror so how are you running your book of business, how are you running your practice. So, to answer your 30-second question, the RIA model, in my opinion, is truly the only way any family of wealth should proceed with an advisory firm because you want an individual who is aligned in your goals and objectives. Our clients know that I’m their chief financial officer, I work for them. They task us with building out a financial strategy that is customized to their individual needs and they never have to worry do I have an ulterior motive as to why I’m presenting an option in that strategy. And, because of that, the fiduciary model, I think, is critical for our success as a firm and, again, as I mentioned earlier, I wish it’s something that was industry well and not the vast minority. Jason Diamond: Yeah. No, that’s a great answer. So, do you think then that, as time has gone on, this has gotten easier? I assume the answer is yes either because more clients are aware of your brand and/or more aware of the space as a whole. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: The first thing that helped the most was some gray hair. When I started at Bernstein, I attempted to solicit new clients very much the same way I do today. But when I was 26 years old and I’m sitting in front of a family worth and the dad was in the 70s and he lived his life and I’m younger than his kids, he would look at me and say, “What do you really know? What experience do you have?” So, doing this now for as long as I have, the number one thing that has helped me the most in growth is just wisdom and time. Without that, yes, you can be a rockstar stock picker. We have so many kids coming out of college today with the advent of AI and technology that have algorithms that could run unbelievable portfolios and there is a segment of the market who wants to hire and engage those individuals but, generally speaking, the families that we service, that is 10th or 12th on the list of importance. Jason Diamond: No, I think that’s spot on. I think most high net worth clients counterintuitively agree with that, that alpha, for lack of a better term, is really not the name of the game or not in the top five reasons why you would engage with a financial advisor. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: Agreed. The biggest thing that we’ve been doing to educate clients especially in today’s environment, I had a call yesterday with an individual, a client who lives in New Jersey who works out of New York for a hedge fund, he knows our space incredibly well. He’s one of those kids, 28 years old, brilliant, as smart as you’ll ever be but his tax bracket is atrocious. He is paying so much of his W-2 income in taxes and building out a strategy that can reduce his tax liability by several hundred thousand dollars a year far exceeds any alpha I can generate by picking a top decile performer. Jason Diamond: What was the strategy? Move to Florida? I’m just kidding. Don’t answer that. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: We offered that but, unfortunately, he has to be physically in the office in New York City but yes. Jason Diamond: I think that will resonate, by the way, your gray hair comment. I appreciate the humility and the modesty in that because, the reality is, one of the questions I was going to ask you about was next-gen talent cultivation. In my opinion, this is a hard game for younger folks for that reason. People sit across from other people with a lot of money and they say, “Why am I going to entrust you with my life’s work when you just don’t have that degree of experience?” I was asking more even about your firm success and your firm story, have you felt like that’s caught on more? Do you have more brand awareness, if you will, now when you go to a prospect meeting or do you think you’re still constantly fighting that education fight? Constantine Hatzivassiliou: So, first part, brands, it’s improved in our immediate network. In our little bubble of the world, yes, it’s known. Let’s call it, in South Florida the influential attorneys, the accountants, the divorce attorneys know who we are because, having been down here long enough, we’ve had opportunities to work together. Our network of friends, certainly, the word spreads. But in the grand scheme of things, we are so small in the South Florida landscape or the LA landscape or the New York landscape so any incremental gain that we pick up is meaningful. And then, as it relates to young talent, our success is completely, long-term, derived by the young talent that we bring in to nurture them to help them grow. I look at our success, two of our critical mentors and board members of our firm are in their 80s, their children and grandchildren, nepotism aside, whether it was interning while in college or coming to work for us after school, they’re our best employees. And our goal as a firm, just like how I was offered the opportunity to become a partner and own a piece of the business, our goal long term will be to transition the business to this younger generation that we’re developing. I look at, again, those two board members who are in their 80s, the advice they’ve given me is don’t ever stop working, you have to be doing something. And I turn to them and say, “I don’t work every day.” I put in 20 hour days, well, not quite 20, 18 hour days but it’s never work because, what I do every day, I don’t deem it work, I love what I do, I don’t ever see myself stopping. Because they’ll tell me all of their friends that have stopped working or sold their business, invariably, the men die within six months because boredom and we always joke around that you’ll continue to work forever. So, I would hope that one day I transition into that advisory board member role where I step aside day-to-day activity where I’m now a mentor to our younger generation that we’re promoting into partners because we’ve made promises to our clients that we will forever be their family office. So, we have to, as part of our growth model, have those transitions in place because we’re servicing many families that have 85-year-old clients and two-year-old clients and we’re tasked with the two-year-olds as well as the 85-year-old. Jason Diamond: I also feel like there’s a little bit of younger generations I think have been reluctant to some degree to get it, you can disagree with this, to get into this space because there’s a more appeal to things like investment banking and sales and trading to some degree. The other problem obviously you alluded to is asset gathering. Your model speaks so clearly to success because you don’t say I own the client, that’s my relationship. To me, you plant the seeds of being able to handle succession much better than somebody who does the mine is mine and yours is yours approach. Is that fair? Constantine Hatzivassiliou: That’s completely accurate. And I think there’s two types of people that serve in the financial advisory space. You have the individual who is analytics driven, who likes being behind the bank of monitors trading account and there’s a critical part of our firm and our success is driven by the team in the office that aren’t necessarily client facing that do all the heavy lifting every day because they’re really doing the heavy work. Myself, my partners, the select few, while talented and able to do that, realize the value that we present is quarterbacking the relationship and helping understand all the components. We kid around that we’ve all stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night, we’ve become experts in tax, we’ve become experts at trust and estate planning, we’ve become experts at divorce, we’ve become experts at the medical field. It’s shocking how it’s 2:00 in the morning and you get a phone call, panic attack by a client saying they need a doctor for X, Y and Z, can you connect me. So, the younger generation, yes, the sexy space is investment banking and that is really hard work. I could not do what my friends at Goldman do who are at these private mid-market funds, that’s just not me. I’ve been fortunate that I stumbled into an avenue in financial services that I think perfectly fits my personality and my want and desire to help others because that’s what we’re driven by and we try and hire people with that same mindset. The hardest thing as an RIA especially in South Florida is finding and retaining talent that is like-minded and that could function well within our family. Jason Diamond: If you build a firm predicated on culture and client service, I understand, certainly, the importance of that. I want to shift gears, I don’t want to lose this thought. You mentioned organic growth, it’s incredible. You have not mentioned inorganic growth at all and maybe because you haven’t had to but give me your thoughts on M&A, private equity in this space, do you have plans to sell the business, take on a capital partner, buy other RIAs? Constantine Hatzivassiliou: Yeah. So, I understand why private equity in the last 10 years has come into the market. For years, they bought up insurance practices, that recurring revenue, sticky assets, it makes sense. Personally, I’m not a fan of them being in our markets, I think they’re motivated at the end of the day by AUM growth, revenue growth and the second transaction which, for most of our clients, would not make sense because, again, that then questions why it is that we’re motivated to do something. Am I taking extra risk in the portfolio because I want to grow the AUM because I’m looking to sell in a year? Am I bringing in a strategy that has a higher fee? For us, it doesn’t work. In the brokerage model, it makes perfect sense. Now, there are some RIAs who leave the wirehouses, open up an RIA shop, do really well for their clients but don’t have the long-term aspirations of making the institution a legacy to where they’re passing it off. I hope my kids one day want to come work for dad and follow in his steps, that’d be amazing. Just like our younger generation working at the firm, our goal is we’ve already targeted the three or four guys that will be partner one day and we’ll transition the business over to them. But it’s okay if there’s an RIA out there who doesn’t have that transition product or isn’t motivated by that and is looking at it as a vehicle that I’ve built a really good successful book of business and I want to now retire and spend time with my family and kids and travel, et cetera, and that’s where PE steps in and offers an attractive number and the person makes their move. So, I can’t fault the individual for wanting that and I’m not saying that they’re not doing well by their clients, it’s just, for us, I’m not a fan of it because, again, I’m first critically and always focused on what’s best for the client. Jason Diamond: Fair. And I largely agree with some of what you said around private equity in this space but private equity enables … Obviously, it’s capital so which enables acquisitions which is why a lot of firms take on private equity. So, what about the idea of potentially buying businesses to start up inorganic growth? Constantine Hatzivassiliou: We have gone down the road of acquiring other institutions potentially. The challenge is, because we manage money so uniquely and our approach is so different, I’m not going to bring on an institution or bring in a new partner to the firm or a new book of business that we’ve acquired if the methodology and the life of that book doesn’t mirror ours. So, yes, there is opportunities to grow through acquisition, it’s not something that we are leaning on heavily. However, for the right institution that’s available that is aligned with our thinking, whose clients would value and appreciate how we do things or, if that institution is doing something truly unique that we would want to bolt onto our platform, all day long because, again, for the benefit of the client, it makes sense. So, yes, there are opportunities for that. Too often we find that, when a book is available for acquisition, the highest bidder tends to win out and we don’t have the deep enough pockets to write a multiple that we don’t deem to be, let’s call it, market neutral. Jason Diamond: Yeah, market prudent. I understand the premise and I think that’s fair. I also think you have the luxury, because of your organic growth, you can be super, super picky about inorganic and I love how you bring it all back to the lens of the client. Can this improve the client experience in some way? And, if so, yes, we’ll take a look. I got time for one more question, I can’t believe time has flown. You’ve had a remarkable journey, professional golf now partner at a $4 billion plus on the way to $5 billion RIA multifamily office. What are you most proud of when you reflect on your career journey? Constantine Hatzivassiliou: What am I most proud of? To see what Rich, myself and Mark and Jayson built over these years from where we were sitting in a small conference room, struggling to figure out how do we find a way to hire a trust and estate attorney to help with that component, which CPAs do we bring on board in-house because clients have a need. So, the entrepreneurial spirit involved in growing the business, the late nights, the struggles, the banter back and forth, to put so much blood, sweat and tears into this and now to look at all that we’ve accomplished, being in four separate states with offices, having so many wonderful employees that have come to us from all over the world, Germany, from China, from Tokyo, bringing people in to the US and building out something that, when we leave at the end of the day, are incredibly proud of. My father’s no longer with us, for 50 years, I always strived to make him proud because he never told me that he was proud of me, he was the classic Greek old-fashioned dad. I think he looks down on his now for everything that we’ve built and would say that he’s proud of us so, for me, that’s the best. Jason Diamond: Yeah. That’s an incredible place to end. Thank you for sharing that, it’s a touching place to end and I appreciate you being open. Thank you. This has been one of my favorite episodes, your journey, your humility, your honesty, your transparency, it’s no wonder you’ve built a business you’ve built. So, thanks for joining us, Constantine. I look forward to having you back on to talk about the next chapter. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: Thank you. Next time we’ll do it from the golf course. Jason Diamond: Oh, absolutely. Mindy Diamond: As a financial advisor, you hold yourself to the highest standards of integrity, honesty and credibility. You are successful because you take your professional responsibility seriously and are dedicated to your clients. But are you living your best business life? Are your goals aligned with your firms or could a better option exist? Should I Stay or Should I Go? Is a book written with you in mind? It’s a self-guided journey that walks you through the key steps that we take with our advisor clients. This strategic thought process and roadmap to professional self-discovery is designed to help you ask the right questions and think critically and objectively whether you’re considering change or not. Learn how to get your copy at diamond-consultants.com/thebook.   Lessons from the Links: From Golf Pro to $5B Family Office Partner A conversation with Jason Diamond and Constantine Hatzivassiliou, Partner at Certuity. Jason Diamond: Welcome to the latest episode of our podcast series for financial advisors. Today’s episode is Lessons from the Links: From Golf Pro to $5B Family Office Partner. It’s a conversation with Constantine Hatzivassiliou, partner at Certuity. I’m Jason Diamond and this is the Diamond Podcast for Financial Advisors. Mindy Diamond: At Diamond Consultants, we help elite advisors identify the right environment for their businesses to thrive whether that’s at a wirehouse, boutique or independent firm. With nearly three decades of experience, we’ve guided thousands of advisors and represented more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in assets transitioned and, each year, one in four advisors managing $1 billion or more who change firms are our clients. Our process is education-driven and based on building relationships starting as your strategic partner well before you’re even thinking of a move. To schedule a confidential conversation, call us at (908) 879-1002. Wondering why advisors change firms and where they’re headed? Are transition deals going up or down? Those very questions and more inspired us to create our annual advisor transition report, it’s the award-winning data-driven resource designed for advisors that connects the dots between the motivations around movement and the firm’s appetite for top talent. Arm yourself with the knowledge you need to make smart decisions, download your copy at diamond-consultants.com/transitionreport. Jason Diamond: Golf is a way of exposing who you really are, there are no teammates to blame, no clock to run out and no hiding from a bad decision. Every shot demands discipline, patience and the ability to stay focused when the pressure is highest, my guest today knows that firsthand. Before becoming a partner at Certuity, a multifamily office approaching five billion in assets, Constantine Hatzivassiliou was pursuing a career as a professional golfer. An injury ultimately redirected his path towards wealth management but many of the lessons he learned on the course still shaped the way he serves clients today. Certuity has grown from roughly 210 million in assets to nearly five billion, that’s impressive on its own but the more interesting story is how they’ve done it. The firm has grown largely through referrals built around a multifamily office model and focused on becoming far more than an investment advisor to the families it serves. In Constantine’s view, the best advisors aren’t simply managing portfolios, they’re the first person clients call when a business is being sold, a family issue becomes complicated or a major decision carries consequences well beyond the balance sheet. Constantine and I discuss the lessons golf teaches about handling pressure then we dive into the evolution from the traditional wealth management world to the multifamily office model, why referrals drive nearly all of Certuity’s growth, how he thinks about private equity’s influence on the advisory business and what it takes to become the first call for the wealthy families they serve and perhaps, most importantly, why the same qualities that help someone succeed on a golf course may be surprisingly relevant to building trust over a lifetime. It’s a great conversation so let’s dive in. Constantine, thank you so much for joining, thrilled to have you here. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: Thank you for having me, excited to be here. Jason Diamond: Yeah, absolutely. So, you had an unconventional path to wealth management, you started as a professional golfer, I think that’s a first for us on this show, before ultimately transitioning into this world. Can you tell us a little bit about the journey and what brought you here? Constantine Hatzivassiliou: Yeah, I never thought I’d be here, my parents were certainly shocked that I got here path wise. Growing up, immigrants from Greece, you settle into Florida the traditional way where you either go down the diner route or the gas station route in mechanics which my father was the latter and school and education was never priority, it was always about supporting the family needs. So, next thing you know, sports are a critical part of any good household, that’s how I was raised and I played everything but golf. I grew up on a golf course because my parents believed that a location of a property was critical to long-term financial success. We lived on a golf course, it was in our backyard, we’d stare at it and we’d use it to play football or baseball or anything but actual golf. And my freshman year at the University of Florida, I started dating a girl on the golf team and she got me hooked to the point where, after four years of hitting balls with the women’s and men’s golf team at the University of Florida for six hours a day, we finished school and realized I’m actually pretty good at the game and, while I have a finance and economics background and degree, let’s try and pursue this for a living and I was blessed. I had a sponsor who helped me succeed at golf on a small scale, it was a humbling experience to say the least. I was competing and playing with Sean O’Hair, Ken Duke, guys who made it out on tour for a very long time, we had the same sponsor so we functioned as a team, it was a collegiate team effectively trying to make it out on tour. And, unfortunately, my second year of competing, I blew out my back doing heavy deadlifts which set me aside for 18 months. While I was recovering, my primary sponsor was in financial services and says, “Hey, you have a background in this, it’s killing you not being able to be on the golf course, why don’t you come work for me while you’re rehabbing so that, when you get back to playing golf, it’s easier for you to talk about our business as a sponsor to try and develop business to throw it to the financial services side?” And Jason, the reality is, after 18 months working there, I fell in love with it. I made way more money working in that environment than I ever would’ve made playing golf because, again, I came to the game late. I was decent but I was nowhere near the caliber of players that are succeeding now out on tour. So, I pivoted after having met my wife and decided to settle down into the wealth management space and, what is it now, 26 years later, going strong. So, it’s been a fun transition from golf into wealth management to say the least. Jason Diamond: Probably my favorite background … I watch a lot of golf, I should caveat that, probably my favorite origin story we’ve had, I’ll give you the Wanamaker trophy or whatever you get, first place. Let’s talk about the business now, so Certuity. For our audience who may not be familiar, tell us a little bit about the firm, what types of clients do you serve and any context you can provide on size as well. We’ll talk about how your firm got there but just give us where we are today to start with. Constantine Hatzivassiliou: So, goal by the end of the year is to have $5 billion in AUM, we’re just shy of that now. We currently service 428 families across the country. So, we’re boutiquey and nimble, we’re based in South Florida, we have offices in New York, San Fran and LA. I’m fortunate to be one of four partners at the firm supporting the growth and the direction of the company and it’s a fun endeavor in the sense that, when we first started, I was employee number four 16 years ago and, with 210 million in AUM at the time to grow it to where we are today, to learn all the things that we have over the years, the curve balls that were thrown at us because all of us came from massive institutional wealth management firms. So, we transitioned from the Bernsteins of the world, the BNY Mellons of the world into an RIA in the South Florida market, there was absolutely an entrepreneurial learning curve involved. Jason Diamond: I bet. And on follow-up question, 16 years ago, did you have a book of business, client business and do you still maintain a book of business today? Constantine Hatzivassiliou: I do. The four of us at the firm share in all of the clients, we work together. Being in the Southeast, I’m responsible for, let’s call it, the Southeast demographics of the US which is a large portion of Certuity’s book. I have a partner in Tennessee, I have a partner in LA and San Francisco and we divide and conquer across the country. But, yes, we came over with a small book, we’ve all grown it organically since then. So, we’ve been very effective in how we’ve grown. Jason Diamond: Just from adding new client money? Constantine Hatzivassiliou: Strictly through new clients referred to us by existing clients. Jason Diamond: Wow. I

Clubkampioenschap strokeplay op Amelisweerd dit weekend. Martijn miste ivm herstel zijn eerste clubkampioenschap strokeplay. Paul kon zondag niet want hij ging fietsen, Rogier had een aflopend schema maar het was net 7 ronden te kort om nog een redelijk rondje neer te zetten en had het met name druk met Gamebook. Peter kwam niet uit de bunkers en veroorzaakte een rel. Groot succes dus! Top 10 nog wel voor Peet, gezellig weekend en mooie winnaar. Paul gaat naar The Open komende zondag en ook een beetje golfen en bier drinken.De eerste win van Lars van der Vight is binnen op de HotelPlanner Tour met een 59! op vrijdag in de German Challenge. Wouter de Vries ook nog 3e. In het Schots Open miste een hoop grote namen de cut, waaronder Scheff en Schauf. Bobby Mac was weer goed in 'zijn' open, maar Tom Kim won zijn 4e PGA tour event. Na een lange streak van slecht golf is hij sinds het US Open weer terug.Op Birkdale was de Last Change Qualifyer met 12 man om 1 plek. Jo Dean de postbode wint en kwalificeert zich voor The Open.Op het alternate event, de ISCO Championship won Fisk. Jackson Koivun haalt in zijn eerste wedstrijd als pro een dikke cheque.Dewi Weber speelde nog een major, het Evian Masters. Helaas de cut niet gehaald, overigens net zoals Nelly Korda. Bovenaan weer tante Brooke en Ryu. Ryu wint weer!In de korte ronde: wedstrijdkalender, vergeet niet in te schrijven voor het Anderstein Open, is er iemand die met Paul wil foursome'en?, de Tour met Pogi, Mattieu en Merlier, Louis Vuitton, de overrated baan van Martijn, Obidos, huis te koop met eigen golfbaan, YGT.Geen Raad de Speler, maar genoeg te raden in de open Quiz van Martijn, later vandaag als aparte aflevering.0:00 - 18:05 Eigen golf18:05 - 39:45 Professioneel golf39:45 - 56:24 Korte Ronde

Deuxième Majeur de la saison d'affilée pour Haeran Ryu ! La Sud-Coréenne a remporté l'Amundi Evian Championship en playoffs face à la Canadienne Brooke Henderson, de quoi faire de l'ombre à Nelly Korda. Et puis la résurrection de Tom Kim ! Le Sud-Coréen s'est imposé sur le Scottish Open, plus de 1000 jours après sa dernière victoire sur le circuit. L'ancien prodige turbulant se serait-il assagi ? Enfin, projection sur The Open, le dernier Grand Chelem masculin de la saison, qui a lieu le week-end prochain ! Avec Simon Dutin, Fabien Donoyan et François Scimeca.

The Wednesday edition of 5 Clubs gets you ready for a loaded week of golf across the globe. Gary Williams previews the Genesis Scottish Open, a star-studded field at Renaissance Club, and the final tune-up before The Open Championship.Mel Reid joins the show to break down the Amundi Evian Championship, why the course has been a difficult fit for Nelly Korda, the evolution of women's majors, and which players could contend in France.Emilia Doran checks in between competitive rounds at the Western Amateur to discuss balancing elite amateur golf and broadcasting, what she learned covering the U.S. Open and U.S. Women's Open, and how competing helps shape her perspective behind the mic.Plus, Keith Stewart of Read The Line shares his thoughts on the changes at Renaissance Club, Rory McIlroy's approach after completing the career Grand Slam, Scottish Open picks, Evian picks, and a look ahead to Open Championship week.Also on the show:- Chris Gotterup returning to Scotland after his breakthrough win- Featured groups to watch at the Genesis Scottish Open- The biggest storylines heading into the Amundi Evian Championship- Dogs of the Week - Picks of the Week5 Clubs airs on Golf Channel and SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio (Channel 92).FOLLOW 5 Clubs: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/5clubsgolf/X: https://x.com/5ClubsGolf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/5ClubsGolf/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@5clubsgolfWant to wear Gary's Peter Millar fits from the show? Head to the link below and pick up the latest styles for on and off the course.https://www.petermillar.com/d/men#5Clubs #PGATOUR #ScottishOpen #LPGA #Golf

Precision in practice. Trust on the course. That's the theme this week — and Viktor Hovland just proved it in the most dramatic way possible.Episode 128 is here, and Scott's breaking down one of the wildest weekends we've seen in a while. The Travelers Championship — the last $20M Signature Event of the year — couldn't even finish on Sunday. Scheffler and Hovland finished tied at 21-under after an 83-minute rain delay blew the whole thing wide open, with Hovland roaring back with three straight birdies to force a Monday playoff. He closed it out on No. 18 the next morning — his first win since last year's Valspar — and we've got the full story of how he got there.Over on the LPGA side, the KPMG Women's PGA Championship at Hazeltine brought its own Sunday drama, with Haeran Ryu holding off a hard-charging field and Nelly Korda chasing a third straight major. And on the DP World Tour, Eugenio Chacarra birdied the 72nd hole to steal the KLM Open by a single shot. Different tours, same story all week: the player who trusted their game in the clutch walked away with the trophy.That's exactly what this week's improvement segment is about — precision in practice is what lets you trust it when you play. Hovland didn't claw his way back by gritting his teeth and trying harder. He bogeyed four of his first ten holes, used that rain delay to reset, and came out firing three straight birdies — because the mechanics were already in there. That's not luck, that's reps. That's what it means to Own Your SSWING —Scott breaks down what that means for your own game, and why what you do between rounds is what shows up when it counts.Join the SSWING SocietyBe part of a growing community of golfers, movers and performance-minded individuals committed to mastering their game.

A Monday playoff between Viktor Hovland and Scottie Scheffler will serve as an exclamation point to one of the best golf weekends of 2026 thus far. Andy and Brendan! are fired up for this episode, recorded after watching a birdie-fest at TPC River Highlands, another women's major, and Blockie's near-perfect Champions Tour debut. They can't help themselves and begin with a brief section on the Dick's Open, an event that made some consider if the Champions Tour really needs Tiger Woods at all. Upstate New York's finest sporting event provided plenty of fodder, from Bob Papa singing Zac Brown Band, to the emergence of a "Paddy Stopper," and so, so much Michael Block content. The two then move on to the unfinished Travelers Championship, where a score of -21 got into a playoff to be held on Monday morning. Andy and Brendan discuss Viktor Hovland's turnaround from hitting hundreds of balls on the Shinnecock range after a missed cut last week to now potentially a Signature Event win in just seven days. They also debate whether Scottie Scheffler already missed out on multiple chances to win the tournament in regulation on Sunday afternoon on an extra-soft course after a lengthy rain delay. Andy is hung up on a Keegan Bradley quote from earlier this week alluding to the Travelers as a "vacation week" after a tough U.S. Open, and openly wonders if TPC River Highlands can fit into the PGA Tour's new Championship Series model. While the event itself is enjoyable, does the golf course leave too much to be desired as true test of professional golf? Haeran Ryu won her first major championship at the KPMG Women's PGA at Hazeltine, holding off a charge from Brooke Henderson, Ina Yoon, and Nelly Korda. The broadcast coverage was the big story of this Sunday, with a weather delay pushing the finish off of NBC and moving it to Golf Channel. A lengthy discussion about rights deals and coverage windows ensues, with ideas about ways for the LPGA to branch out and not be buried by non-major PGA Tour events on its biggest weeks of the year. Lastly, Andy and Brendan react to Alan Shipnuck's latest article on Phil Mickelson, full of more scandalous details following up on the Golf Digest report about Phil being removed from The Farms in San Diego. Celebrate "The Summer of Cotton" with B. Draddy with promo code SGS30 at BDraddy.com! We’re hosting our first Fried Egg Golf event at Pasatimepo later this month and we have a few spots remaining. For more information, head to thefriedegg.com/events!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brendan and KVV begin this Friday episode with some clean up on the sweeping changes announced from the PGA Tour this week, including the initial “reporting” and subsequent freak out that places like Pine Valley, Cypress Point, and Seminole could host the re-imagined PGA Tour Championship. They discuss some Travelers odds and ends, where Scottie’s missing belt is a big story, and this also leads to a devastating drive by of Arch Manning. Then they discuss video of Rory McIlroy playing Birkdale on the day of a PGA Tour Signature event and reporting from Bob Harig that he has received a special discretionary exemption to maintain his membership even though he will not meet the minimum number of starts after another skip this week. Nelly Korda’s early start at the Women’s PGA is also discussed, as well as her embrace of being the star of that tour. They also discuss the new pronunciation of Turkey or Türkiye before getting to a Flashback Friday on another U.S. Open rules classic, namely the double chip of TC Chen that lost him the 1985 U.S. Open. They close answering a handful of Golf Advice questions on buddies trips, ride along watchers, and awkward pairings. Use the code FRIEDEGG at eightsleep.com/friedegg for up to $500 off. The 4th of July sale ends July 12. To learn more about how T-Mobile supports the USGA inside the ropes and provides exclusive benefits to its members outside, visit https://t-mobile.com/usga.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Substantial changes are on the way for the PGA Tour as Brian Rolapp announced a new competitive structure beginning in 2028. Join us as we react to the new two-tiered system, the February-to-August season, the match-play postseason, and more. Plus, we get you ready for the third major of the LPGA season as the best women in the world head to Hazeltine National for the KPMG Women's PGA Championship. Nelly Korda is chasing three in a row, Minjee Lee returns as defending champion, and Lydia Ko looks to complete the career Grand Slam. Presented by Titleist. Support our sponsors: Titleist - the #1 ball in Golf! Rhoback - code NLU for 20% off at https://www.rhoback.com Loch Lomond Whiskies - Official Spirit of The Open Looking to travel this year, check out East Sands Golf Co.: https://www.eastsandsgolf.co/nlu Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CostCo just dropped their Kirkland Signature wedges! Nelly Korda finally got her Women's US Open Victory. More Gear stuff dropped these past weeks so stay tuned for TaylorMade, Maxfli and Kirkland's offerings. 00:00 Welcome Back 02:05 Nelly Korda WITB 05:41 Tour Roundup 08:45 New Maxfli Ball 16:47 Kirkland Wedges 24:39 Mizuno's M13 Recall 33:03 TM Performance Stripe Ball

The PGA TOUR has taken its most significant step toward restructuring in years. On today's episode of 5 Clubs, Gary Williams breaks down the two-series model officially unveiled by CEO Brian Rolapp at TPC River Highlands, what it means for players, sponsors, and the future of professional golf, and what critical details are still missing from the picture.Joining Gary:Ryan Lavner (GolfChannel.com / Golf Channel Podcast with Rex & Lav) live from the Travelers Championship to discuss the hardline promotion and relegation structure, what the top 90 cutline means for players like Adam Scott, the Challenger Series sponsorship challenge, and where the PGA TOUR's regular season finale should land on the calendar.Gabby Herzig (The Athletic) on the significance of Tiger Woods appearing in the room, whether the PGA TOUR would ever build a structure that excludes him, what LIV Golf players are likely thinking after Tuesday's announcement, and why the WM Phoenix Open has to be the opening event of the Championship Series.Keith Stewart (Read the Line) on site at TPC River Highlands breaking down course conditions ahead of the Travelers Championship, plus picks for both the Travelers and the KPMG Women's PGA Championship at Hazeltine National, where the 5 Clubs panel is heavily invested in Nelly Korda.Plus:- Brian Rolapp's two-series roadmap explained- Promotion and relegation comes to American professional golf- Championship Series vs. Challenger Series: the sponsorship divide- Match play returns as the postseason finale- Pine Valley, Cypress Point, Bandon Dunes: where does the final series go?- Making the regular season champion the automatic Player of the Year- Tiger Woods and his role in the TOUR's next chapter- Travelers Championship and KPMG Women's PGA picks with Keith Stewart5 Clubs airs on Golf Channel and SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio, Channel 92.0:00 Reaction to the PGA TOUR's News13:30 Ryan Lavner26:10 Gabby Herzig39:05 Keith StewartFOLLOW 5 Clubs: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/5clubsgolf/X: https://x.com/5ClubsGolf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/5ClubsGolf/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@5clubsgolfWant to wear Gary's Peter Millar fits from the show? Head to the link below and pick up the latest styles for on and off the course.https://www.petermillar.com/d/men

Donna & Steve open the show talking about accidently paying the wrong amount on a bill, Elmo setting the record straight on who he's cheering for in the FIFA World Cup and a special screening of Jaws happening in Martha's Vineyard.In hour two, we play the Sesame Street edition of the College of Pop Culture Knowledge, debate which American fast food joints have the best customer service and why dermatologists are saying you shouldn't use a loofa in the shower.Finally, we go through the strict rules the Dallas Cowboys' cheerleaders must follow, foreign visitors are gaining the "FIFA 15" during the World Cup and we find out the Soup of the Day!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tournament Chair Laura Fricke with a countdown to the action which begins on Thursday morning in Chaska

The guys are back to preview the 126th U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills.We kick things off by discussing Nelly Korda's victory at the U.S. Women's Open before turning our attention to this week's national championship. We talk about the amateurs who earned their way into the field through qualifying, what makes the U.S. Open so special, and some of the storylines we're watching heading into the week.We also rank the new Nike NRG Pack, share a few critiques, and debate which shoes stand out from the collection. Finally, we make our Winners Circle picks for who we think will lift the trophy on Sunday and announce our latest giveaway with Turtlebox.

En este episodio hablaremos de la gran actuación de Gaby López en el US Open femenil, con un segundo lugar a un golpe de Nelly Korda. Además tendremos las noticias más relevantes de la semana y las secciones de pregúntale al PRO y las Reglas del Golf como cada semana. Si te gusta lo que hacemos, por favor síguenos y regálanos 5 estrellas.

What a week. After the excitement yesterday of the PK news, and the co-sanctioning with the PGAT (along with the DPWT), and what that could mean, we've got plenty to run through. And given that, we thought we'd kick off the show by chatting to Tour Pro, and Peninsula Kingswood royalty, Marcus Fraser about how it came about and whether the excitement levels are off the chart. Marcus reveals that there has been offers before for events at PK, but the board decided to wait for the right event, and that has paid off. Whilst the course will play as a composite, he is yet to have a decent look at the routing, however he said the excitement around the club is huge. For Hostplus, the AO at PK is our plus for golf this week.Mark questions why the even need the composite approach, which he and Nick discuss.This weeks BMW Touch of Class is easy. Last week, just after we recorded the pod, we heard the news that the legendary Brian Twite from Metropolitan had passed away only 2 months shy of turning 100. Mark tells a great story about getting in trouble from Brian when he (Mark) was a mischievous kid doing what mischievous kids do, and being chased by Brian on a motorbike on a golf course!Mark read this week that LIV are saying that they have a number of Australian sponsors who are interested, and Mark asks Nick - where have they been for the last decade ? On LIV, with rumours (unsubstantiated) of money not forthcoming to wrap up the season, what could that mean were it to occur. Mark read this week about the details of Jon Rahm's LIV deal, the numbers are mind-blowing, and Nick describes them as 'silly'.Nick and Mark discuss how it is disappointing that the prizemoney in Australia today, is pretty much what it was 30-years ago.It is US Open week, we touch on it briefly today - not because we're not excited but because we'll do a preview pod over the next day or two and get into some real detail about the tournament. We do discuss Shinnecock, and some of the adjustments to the course - particularly the widening. Nick describes this course as 'brutal'.After the turn, as if he needed another reason, Mark has found one to criticise the world feed over. Nick reckons Charlie Woods may well be on the bag in the US Open, that would be interesting.Nicks Top 5 this week for Betr, and he lists his Top 5 memorable moments from Australasian players, one player makes two entries! For Southern Golf Club, into feedback:Ron has a fun fact about Nelly Korda's win a week or so back, Ken and John each have some feedback on Marks 'Swatters' Top 5 from last week, we hear some great stories about Sandy Lyle. Lots of feedback on our video from The Furrows last week - see it here - Gards, Angela, and Pete loved it, Wolfpacker Mark has a question for our Mark about his putter, and Ali Whittaker, commentator extraordinaire, enjoyed Nick showing different shots for how different people play. And on The Furrows video, a whack from Soph for one team member who gets a little defensive over it.The overwhelming feedback was that you want more of that sort of stuff, so we think one a month might be good....let us know in the comments if you reckon that would be worthwhile (or not).Message, and a request, from Simon over the international feed, and Mark goes rogue and lays the blame for the international feed's very existence at the feet of one person. He names the person who he blames, and explains why he believes that said person is responsible. Ouch.Few more bits of feedback, Darren on the 3-club challenge, Dodgy on the 7-club tournament idea, and Stephen has what is essentially a crack at Nick O'Hern...!PING Globals from Nick, not a hugely busy week in golf, but a few things going on around the world. Mark read a tweet from Ryan at Monday Q on 'Why Cuts Matter' which he discusses, and Nick and Mark discuss the strategy behind attempting to qualify for a major.And for the Golf Clearance Outlet, Marks masterclass is on 'finishing balanced'.We're live from Titleist and FootJoy HQ thanks to our great partners:Hostplus, Talk Birdie To Me's official retirement partnerBMW, luxury and comfort for the 19th hole;Titleist, the #1 ball in golf;FootJoy, the #1 shoe and glove in golf;PING will help you play your best;Golf Clearance Outlet, they beat everyone's prices;Betr, the fastest and easiest betting app in Australia;The Find My Player app - follow every player on every tour;And Southern Golf Club. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this edition of 'Talking Golf with Ann Liguori,' Ann recaps Nelly Korda's thrilling victory at the U.S. Women's Open, sits down with filmmaker and actor Ed Burns to discuss his new film Finnegan's Foursome, and previews the Travelers Championship with Tournament Director Nathan Grube. 

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This week on Quiet Please Golf, we celebrate another major championship performance from Nelly Korda as she captures the U.S. Women's Open and further cements her place atop the game. We also break down the action from The Memorial Tournament before turning our attention to one of golf's most demanding traditions — Golf's Longest Day, where dreams of playing in the U.S. Open are won and lost in a single marathon of competitionSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There was nothing like competing at the U.S. Open says the Troy Burne teaching pro. Find out how she picked up the game and how Nelly Korda has become the talk of the golf world, and Nelly will be here later this month! It's "The Drive" with Vineeta Sawkar on The WCCO Morning News

On this episode of 5 Clubs, Gary Williams is joined by Mel Reid to break down Nelly Korda's victory at the U.S. Women's Open at Riviera Country Club. Reid shares her perspective from Golf Channel's Live From coverage, discusses the key moments that defined Korda's week, and explains why this version of Nelly may be the most dangerous yet. They also discuss Charlie Hull's charge, Allison Lee's impressive performance, and what could be ahead as the LPGA major season continues.Later, Justin Leonard joins the show following the announcement that the World Champions Cup will return this December. Leonard discusses taking over as U.S. captain, the unique team format, the importance of camaraderie in senior team golf, and his growing role within the U.S. Ryder Cup leadership structure as a vice captain under Jim Furyk.Gary also shares thoughts on Rory McIlroy's commitment to the Australian Open, the evolving global golf schedule, LIV Golf's future, this week's RBC Canadian Open, Dogs of the Week, and the latest Picks of the Week.Featured Topics:- Nelly Korda wins the U.S. Women's Open- Mel Reid's analysis from Riviera- Charlie Hull's Sunday charge- Allison Lee and Gabby Lopez performances- World Champions Cup returns in December- Justin Leonard on Team USA captaincy- Ryder Cup planning with Jim Furyk- Rory McIlroy and the Australian Open- RBC Canadian Open preview- Dogs of the Week & Picks of the Week5 Clubs airs on Golf Channel and SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio (Channel 92).FOLLOW 5 Clubs: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/5clubsgolf/X: https://x.com/5ClubsGolf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/5ClubsGolf/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@5clubsgolfWant to wear Gary's Peter Millar fits from the show? Head to the link below and pick up the latest styles for on and off the course.https://www.petermillar.com/d/men

This episode of 2nd Swing Thoughts features a club fitting discussion with PGA Master Professional and 2nd Swing master club fitter Blaine Seitz on his fitting operation at PGA Coaching Center and what he's seen in the club fitting bay this year. Plus, this episode also features a recap of the week on tour, unique clubs in play, and the wins by JT Poston and Nelly Korda. 0:00 Intro 0:40 Recapping the week on tour 12:53 New Putters (TaylorMade Spider Torched & LAB VZN.1i) 15:40 Winning WITBs - JT Poston & Nelly Korda 26:09 Interview w/ Blaine Seitz - PGA Coaching Center, Club Fitting Trends, etc 52:30 LIVE Club Fitting Q&A w/ Harrison Arnold The 2nd Swing Thoughts podcast is now LIVE every Monday at 9am on the 2nd Swing Golf YouTube channel.  The 2nd Swing Thoughts podcast, presented by 2nd Swing Golf, covers anything and everything in golf equipment and club fitting. The 2nd Swing Thoughts will feature experts in the golf industry sharing insights and latest trends in golf clubs and club fittings. 2nd Swing Thoughts will also cover the latest in professional golf. LISTEN ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2bJFzfhoUmpHZF6fyFsjmX  LISTEN ON AMAZON: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f5e3b825-bae2-40d0-9ec4-722e96b99de6/2nd-swing-thoughts  LISTEN ON APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2nd-swing-thoughts/id1683899359 Schedule an award-winning 2nd Swing fitting: https://www.2ndswing.com/golf-club-fittings SUBSCRIBE to the 2nd Swing YouTube channel today for more in-depth golf equipment reviews and club fitting insights. FOLLOW 2ND SWING GOLF ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/2ndSwingGolf X: https://X.com/2ndSwingGolf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/2ndswinggolf/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@2ndswinggolf

On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about calling game 3 of the NBA Finals last night from Madison Square Garden that saw the Spurs get back on the board 2-1, before previewing tonight's Stanley Cup Finals Game 4, and everything else happening in the sports world. Pat and the boys also welcome several great guests to the show including ESPN NBA legend Brian Windhorst; Stanley Cup Champion and ESPN NHL analyst Erik Johnson; 7x Pro Bowler, 5x All-Pro, and one of the visionaries of of TEU, George Kittle; Emmy Winner and ESPN Swiss Army knife Peter Schrager; 4x Major Champion, 19x LPGA winner, fresh off a US Women's Open victory, Nelly Korda; and UFC Lightweight Champion and Interim Champion Ilia Topuria and Just Gaethje before UFC Freedom 250. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN's Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you, we're off tomorrow, we'll be back Monday LIVE from Bristol. Cheers.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We have a packed show coming off a busy weekend across the golf and sports world. We break down Nelly Korda's long-awaited U.S. Open victory, the Knicks mania taking over New York, and everything that unfolded during a jam-packed week at the Memorial Tournament. Plus, Kiz gives his perspective on the player-caddie relationship following Scottie Scheffler's on-course altercation with Ted Scott and explains how situations like that are handled inside the ropes.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/foreplaypod

House and Nathan discuss Nelly Korda winning her second major of the season and what it means for the rest of the LPGA Tour. Then, they break down what they saw at the Memorial Tournament before welcoming in Brendan Porath to share their thoughts on the latest with LIV and to preview the upcoming U.S. Open.(00:00) Welcome to Fairway Rollin'!(01:30) Nelly Korda (–8) wins the U.S. Women's Open(14:15) Takeaways from the Memorial Tournament(25:55) Brendan Porath joins the show!(28:35) What's going on with LIV?(40:15) Early U.S. Open preview(1:03:15) Canadian Open picksCheck out https://triangle-inc.org/golf2026/ to support innovative programs for people with disabilities.The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit https://fanduel.com/playwithaplan to learn more about the resources and helplines.Hosts: Joe House and Nathan Hubbard Guest: Brendan PorathProducers: Tucker Tashjian and Mike Wargon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Pete, Jacob, Kieran and Mick break down all the action from over the weekend! Nelly Korda winning back-to-back majors, J.T Poston prevailing at Jack's place and Eugenio Chacarra gets closer to his dream of heading to the PGA TOUR. As a sponsor of the Rough Cut Golf Podcast, Golf Care have an exclusive offer with 30% off specialist golf insurance and 9 FREE golf balls! Don't miss out - get this offer today! --https://www.golfcare.co.uk/roughcutpodEXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://NordVPN.com/roughcut Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee!Follow the Rough Cut Golf Podcast on...Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/roughcutgolfpodcastTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@roughcutgolfpodcastJoin our Discord here: https://discord.gg/hUT3dyGSFKCheck out the podcast here:On Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rough-cut-golf-podcast/id1663329120On Spotify Podcasts - https://open.spotify.com/show/6RarAwS3zAv91okDghrhL5?si=2c4e0a7e132945f2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Writer/Director/Actor Ed Burns joins us to chat about his new golf movie “Finnegan's Foursome,” along with co-star Brian d'Arcy James. Plus, we talk Nelly Korda's U.S. Women's Open victory, J.T. Poston's Memorial win and an incredible chirp from Ryan Gerard. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bri likes Knicks in 4, Golden Knights in 6, Braves, Dodgers and Brewers reach 40 wins; The Postman wins in Columbus and Nelly Korda wins at Riv

This week, we are back after a week off to recap the Elk Ridge PLYR Cup. Plus, Nelly Korda gets her US Open, the Postman wins the Memorial, Henley wins the Big Ol Bastard, and a pile of news from the past two weeks. The post Episode 416 – Hangovers Gone appeared first on Drive The Green Golf.

This past weekend reminded us why we love this game. At the center of it all was Nelly Korda, who won her first U.S. Women's Open at Riviera — her fourth major — with a clutch birdie on 17 and a par putt on 18 that circled the lip and dropped in for the win. Seven shots off the lead after round one, she made a grip change on her sister Jessica's advice and shot 67-67-69 to close it out. That's not luck. That's what elite athleticism looks like under pressure — and it's exactly what sets the LPGA women apart. Born into arguably the most athletic family in sports, the daughter of Czech tennis champions, Korda's rotational power, her ability to reset physically mid-round, her body that holds its pattern when everything tightens — that's a trained athlete performing at the highest level. The LPGA women move differently. This week at Riviera proved it.The rest of the weekend didn't disappoint either. JT Poston won a marathon Memorial Tournament in a playoff after blowing a four-shot lead, grinding through a 31-hole Sunday to birdie 18 when it mattered most. New dad Tyrrell Hatton went wire-to-wire at Valderrama to hold off Rahm on LIV. And 35-year-old Ben Kohles chased a fifth Korn Ferry Tour win across 1,016 career professional rounds — the definition of the long game. With Shinnecock Hills and the US Open two weeks away, Scott breaks down what all of it means for your game: why movement under pressure is the separator at every level, and how you can start building the kind of athletic foundation that holds up when something is actually on the line. Own Your SSWING.Shop the new G'day Golfers hat

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After a "fabulous golf weekend," Andy and Brendan return to recap the best-case scenario unfolding at the U.S. Women's Open and a marathon Sunday at Jack's Place that ended up in yet another playoff finish. They begin with Nelly Korda's win at Riviera, her first U.S. Open title and another leg down on both the Career Grand Slam and Career Super Slam. The two are joined by former LPGA caddie Matthew Galloway to break down the weekend and what this monumental win could mean for women's golf moving forward. They discuss how to improve the broadcast experience on NBC as well as the impressive list of future host courses for the U.S. Women's Open. Andy and Brendan then move on to the Memorial, where The Postman delivered on Sunday! J.T. Poston took down Ryan Gerard in a Sunday playoff after playing 33 holes due to a rain-shortened Saturday round. Poston's win and Gerard's continued 2026 emergence are propped up as evidence that the Signature Event model is working as intended, with both Andy and Brendan criticizing the idea of "Track 2" players not being able to play their way into "Track 1" events on the new PGA Tour schedule. They also discuss Scottie Scheffler at length following a now-viral interaction with Ted Scott on Thursday afternoon and another disappointing finish at perhaps his best course-fit on Tour. PJ pops in to share that Ben Crane has FINALLY won on the Champions Tour, solidifying the quality reporting that he and Andy did earlier this year. Andy and Brendan also pepper PJ with questions about his upcoming 100 Hole Hike on Tuesday and how he's planning to survive the marathon day while staying sane while the Knicks have a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals. Donate to PJ's 100 Hole Hike with the National Links Trust: https://www.nationallinkstrust.org/the-hike-pj-clark Visit garmin.com to browse the ongoing Father's Day Sale. Use our code FRIEDEGG at eightsleep.com/friedegg for up to $350 off the Pod 5.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

06/08 Hour 1: The Sports Junkies Recap Their Weekend - 1:00 Top Storylines Around The Sports World - 12:00 Nelly Korda Wins The US Women's Open - 34:00

10 Things from the Weekend! 1. NBA Finals Game 2 Recap (3:51) 2. NBA Finals Game 3 (20:16) 3. NBA Draft (34:51)4. College World Series (47:13)5. World Cup (53:40)6. Memphis Hound Dogs (1:11:50)7. Nelly Korda (1:30:25)8. Brendan Sorsby (1:35:33)9. RIP Stacey King (1:40:46)10. Tonight (1:42:30)Host: Chris VernonContributors: Jon Roser, Devin Walker Technical Director: Jaylon Wallace Associate Producer: Jena Broyles 

With 33 holes played already on Sunday at Muirfield Village, it took J.T. Poston two more to emerge victorious, punching his ticket to Shinnecock Hills (and avoiding another 36 holes on Golf's Longest Day) in the process. Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme recap the week at Memorial, and Poston's journey back to the winner's circle.Smylie was on-site at Jack's Place and gives his perspective on how Poston found something special with his ball striking and putter, why Ryan Gerard's putting turnaround is elevating his ceiling, and how brutal Muirfield Village played before the weekend rain softened the golf course.The guys also discuss Scottie Scheffler's viral frustration at the 16th hole, Wyndham Clark's form heading toward the U.S. Open, Golf's Longest Day, Nelly Korda's first U.S. Women's Open win at Riviera, the future of mixed men's/women's golf events, and the latest LIV Golf reporting.Subscribe to The Smylie Show and follow our socials @thesmylieshow for more PGA TOUR analysis, player insight, and weekly golf conversation. ⛳️

Gary Williams dedicates this special edition of 5 Clubs to one of the most unique and compelling days in golf: U.S. Open Final Qualifying. With more than 700 players competing across North America for a place in the field at Shinnecock Hills, Gary recaps weekend winners including J.T. Poston and Nelly Korda before diving into the stories, pressure and opportunity that define "Golf's Longest Day."Brentley Romine, Golf Channel reporter and college golf insider, joins from the Palm Beach Gardens qualifying site to discuss several of the top young players in the field, including Luke Clanton, Luke Poulter and Miles Russell. Romine explains why this year's qualifying class features some of the brightest rising stars in the game and what makes their paths to the U.S. Open so compelling.Brent Paladino, Senior Director of Championship Administration for the USGA, provides an inside look at the logistics behind U.S. Open qualifying. Paladino explains how more than 10,000 entrants are narrowed down to the championship field, how qualifying sites are selected and why the U.S. Open remains one of the most accessible championships in sports.Dalen Cuff, Golf Channel reporter and former Columbia University basketball player, checks in from Purchase, New York, where two courses are hosting final qualifying. Cuff highlights several notable contenders and discusses the unique pressure players face while chasing a spot in the year's third major championship.Todd Lewis, Golf Channel reporter, joins from the Ohio qualifying site to preview a field featuring PGA TOUR veterans, former major champions and emerging talent. Lewis discusses players including Lucas Glover, Bud Cauley and Denny McCarthy while sharing stories of how Golf's Longest Day has often served as a turning point in players' careers.Rex Hoggard, senior writer for Golf Channel, reports from the Canadian qualifying site and breaks down one of the strongest fields in final qualifying. Hoggard discusses Max Homa, Taylor Moore and several other PGA TOUR players attempting to earn their way into the U.S. Open field.Ryan Lavner, senior writer for GolfChannel.com, joins Gary to discuss additional qualifying storylines from around the country, including players looking to seize a career-changing opportunity and others hoping to continue their journeys on golf's biggest stages.James Colgan, news and features editor for GOLF.com, offers his perspective on Golf's Longest Day, the significance of U.S. Open qualifying and the unique stories that emerge every year as players chase a place in the championship.Bob Harig, senior golf writer for Sports Illustrated, discusses the broader U.S. Open landscape, key contenders and the players who could use final qualifying as a springboard heading into one of golf's most demanding tests.Brentley Romine returns later in the show with updates from Palm Beach Gardens, sharing leaderboard developments, notable performances and the latest from one of the day's most competitive qualifying sites as the race to Shinnecock Hills intensifies.5 Clubs airs on Golf Channel and SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio (Channel 92).0:00 Nelly Korda wins the US Women's Open9:45 Golf's Longest Day 12:45 Brentley Romine 24:34 Brent Paladino35:36 Dalen Cuff 47:00 Todd Lewis1:06:37 Rex Hoggard 1:18:04 Ryan Lavner1:40:00 James Colgan1:50:34 Bob Harig2:05:28 Brentley Romine ReturnsFOLLOW 5 Clubs: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/5clubsgolf/X: https://x.com/5ClubsGolf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/5ClubsGolf/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@5clubsgolfWant to wear Gary's Peter Millar fits from the show? Head to the link below and pick up the latest styles for on and off the course.https://www.petermillar.com/d/men

They debate whether it is easier to mimic a professional baseball player or a golfer, with Leroy arguing that golf's consistency makes it impossible to fake. The conversation compares the difficulty of hitting a major league fastball to playing four rounds of professional golf. Additionally, they recap Nelly Korda's U.S. Women's Open win. 02:00 - Golf Tournament Recap 04:22 - Pro Athlete Fakeability Debate 12:15 - Scheffler Versus Alcantara 23:08 - Marlins Victory Over Rays

The young, fresh and not at all over the hill trio have plenty to get their teeth into this week - Charley Hull goes close in a major once again, but Nelly Korda makes it number four in her collection. Eddie reflects on a tough four days in the Netherlands and an event which leaves all three extolling the virtues of a cut in golf. JT Poston turns his form around to win the Memorial, Andy Murray suffers golfing heartache and Eddie finally decides that he might not rate AI as a swing coach.This episode is brought to you by: www.petermillar.co.ukAnd by: www.ping.comEmail: tcf@thechippingforecast.co.ukInstagram: @chippingforecast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

0:00: Rex finally made it to Canada 02:00: The lowdown on our respective sites for Golf's Longest Day coverage 06:30: How Nelly Korda pulled out the biggest win of her career at Riviera 15:00: What J.T. Poston and Ryan Gerard showed us at the Memorial Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jamie is joined by the 2004 Women's Open champion Karen Stupples on this week's episode of the Sky Sports Golf Podcast.They look back on a brilliant US Women's Open in which Nelly Korda just pipped Charley Hull to the title at Riviera Country Club.Plus, in part two of the episode there's an extended interview with Retief Goosen - the winner of the 2002 US Open at Shinnecock Hills. He looks back on his win ahead of this year's tournament returning to Long Island.-•You can watch the PGA Tour, DP World Tour, LPGA Tour and all the major tournaments live on Sky Sports. If you're not already a Sky customer, you can stream Sky Sports on your terms with a NOW membership. Sign up to NOW here:www.nowtv.com/membership/watch-sky-sports?DCMP=ilc_skysports_podcastlink•Listen to every episode of the Sky Sports Golf Podcast here: www.skysports.com/sky-sports-golf-podcast•You can listen to the Sky Sports Golf Podcast on your smart speaker by asking it to "play Sky Sports Golf Podcast".•Watch every episode of the Sky Sports Golf Podcast on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/c/skysportsgolf•For all the latest golf news, head to skysports.com/golf•For advertising opportunities email: skysportspodcasts@sky.uk

Andy Johnson is joined by Fried Egg Golf's Kevin Van Valkenburg and Joseph LaMagna for the June installment of their monthly pro golf check-ins. The three each give one thing they're watching at this week's U.S. Women's Open at Riviera Country Club, primarily focusing on Nelly Korda's search for her first win at the event. From there, Andy, Kevin, and Joseph discuss a variety of pro golf topics, including Tommy Fleetwood's winless 2026, Scottie Scheffler's upcoming attempt to win the Career Grand Slam, and whether PGA Tour U is harming players more than it's helping them. Visit garmin.com to browse the ongoing Father's Day Sale. Use our code FRIEDEGG at eightsleep.com/friedegg for up to $350 off the Pod 5.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Gary Williams opens the show by previewing a massive week in golf, with the U.S. Women's Open making its Riviera debut and the Memorial Tournament celebrating its 50th edition. Gary discusses Nelly Korda's pursuit of another major championship, the significance of Riviera hosting the game's biggest women's event, and shares thoughts from Jack Nicklaus on the PGA TOUR schedule, course setup challenges, and the evolving state of professional golf.Bob Harig, longtime golf journalist and author of Tiger vs. Jack: Golf's Great Debate, joins Gary to discuss the enduring comparison between Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus. Harig explains why the debate remains compelling, breaks down how different eras shape the conversation, and shares insights from years of covering both legends. The discussion also touches on Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau, LIV Golf's future, and Harig's thoughts following the recent changes at Sports Illustrated.Gene Wojciechowski, New York Times bestselling author and longtime sports storyteller, discusses his new golf-themed novel All Carry. Gene shares how his personal connection to golf and his relationship with his father inspired the story, why caddies remain some of the most fascinating figures in the game, and how years of covering golf helped shape the authenticity of the book's characters and setting.Keith Stewart, founder of Read The Line, returns for his betting analysis for both the Memorial Tournament and the U.S. Women's Open. Keith breaks down why Muirfield Village continues to challenge the world's best players, explains why Scottie Scheffler is the favorite to complete a Memorial three-peat, and shares his pick for the U.S. Women's Open at Riviera.The Show wraps with Dogs & Picks of the week.5 Clubs airs on Golf Channel and SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio (Channel 92).0:00 US Women's Open Preview8:00 Jack Speaks to the Media12:30 Bob Harig26:26 Gene Wojciechowski38:33 Keith StewartFOLLOW 5 Clubs: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/5clubsgolf/X: https://x.com/5ClubsGolf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/5ClubsGolf/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@5clubsgolfWant to wear Gary's Peter Millar fits from the show? Head to the link below and pick up the latest styles for on and off the course.https://www.petermillar.com/d/men

Golf DIgest came out with their top 100 world list, excluding the United States this week. Tim and Mike will discuss some interesting selections and talk about some of the courses they have played on this list. After a quick recap of the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club, we will be talking the Memorial Tournament as the PGA Tour has yet another signature event this week at Jack's place, Muirfield Village in Ohio. Riviera Country Club will host the best women's players in the world this week for the U.S. Women's Open. Nelly Korda will look to continue her hot season as we will finally get to see Riviera in U.S. Open conditions. Subscribe to the Break80 Podcast on Apple, Spotify and YouTube for weekly golf content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jamie is joined by GOLF magazine and GOLF.com writer Sean Zak on this week's episode of the Sky Sports Golf Podcast.They start by discussing Russell Henley's win at the Charles Schwab Challenge before chatting about reports that LIV players could use their own money to secure the tour's future.Then we hear from Europe Ryder Cup star Ludvig Aberg who tells us about how he's dealing with several recent near-misses and why he's considering slowing his game down a little.In the final part of the pod, Jamie and Sean take a look at the upcoming changes to the PGA Tour schedule and preview the US Women's Open where Nelly Korda is aiming to win her second major championship in a row.-•You can watch the PGA Tour, DP World Tour, LPGA Tour and all the major tournaments live on Sky Sports. If you're not already a Sky customer, you can stream Sky Sports on your terms with a NOW membership. Sign up to NOW here:www.nowtv.com/membership/watch-sky-sports?DCMP=ilc_skysports_podcastlink•Listen to every episode of the Sky Sports Golf Podcast here: www.skysports.com/sky-sports-golf-podcast•You can listen to the Sky Sports Golf Podcast on your smart speaker by asking it to "play Sky Sports Golf Podcast".•Watch every episode of the Sky Sports Golf Podcast on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/c/skysportsgolf•For all the latest golf news, head to skysports.com/golf•For advertising opportunities email: skysportspodcasts@sky.uk

On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk and the boys recap everything that happened in the sports world this weekend, including the NBA & NHL playoffs wrapping up their first rounds, Golden Tempo winning the 152nd Kentucky Derby, the NFL's The Pick Is In dropping on ESPN taking us inside NFL Draft rooms, and more. In the first hour, we are joined by NFL Senior Insider Adam Schefter, who recaps being Mic'd up for NFL Films during the Draft, gives us an update on AJ Brown's future, his perspective on Brendan Sorsby & the supplemental draft, and more. Right after Schefter we are joined by ESPN's Senior NBA Insider Shams Charania who takes us inside the Magic's decision to fire Jamahl Mosley, Anthony Edwards plan to play through his knee injury, the status of Joel Embiid and more. After Shams, 3x NBA Champion & 1x NCAA Champion Danny Green joins the progrum and gives his respective on Anthony Edwards toughness, the 76ers chances of taking dahn the New York Knicks, Lebron's Lakers odds against the defending champion Thunder, Jaylen Brown livestreaming right after being eliminated, and more. In the second hour we are joined by the founder & owner of the Savannah Bananas, Jesse Cole, who recaps the Bananas playing in front of 102,000 fans at Kyle Field, his philosophy in running the Bananas, and more. Also in the second hour, 18x LPGA Tour & 3x LPGA Major Champion, Nelly Korda joins the show to talk about her incredible start to her golf season, where she is mentally with her game, how her golf swing has changed over time, what made her fall in love with golf, her Green Bay Packers fanhood and more. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN's Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We will be back tomorrow LIVE from the ThunderDome. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cameron Young blows out the field in Miami while Nelly Korda does the same in Mexico. Oh, and Blockie is back. Join us as we recap events across the globe. Plus a big week of news, notes, and what it all means. Presented by Titleist. FootJoy - #1 Shoe in Golf High Noon - Sun's Up! H&B - NLU10 at https://www.hbgolf.com Looking to travel this year, check out East Sands Golf Co.: https://www.eastsandsgolf.co/nlu Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf The NLU email newsletter: bi-monthly updates on all things NLU: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/subscribe Join The No Laying Up Nest: https://nolayingup.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For one final time, Andy joins Brendan from The Shed(!) for this Sunday recording as they look back on the formative years of this podcast. It's often said that the more things change, the more they stay the same, so it's nice that Cameron Young's dominant 2026 season remains in progress despite Andy leaving The Shed behind. Mr. 1,000 blitzed the field at the inaugural Cadillac Championship, defeating World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler by six in the end. This event was practically over on Friday afternoon and Cameron secured his third PGA Tour victory despite calling a penalty on himself for his ball moving at address on a day with Preferred Lies. Brendan found the whole week at Trump Doral sleepy and wonders if there's anything the PGA Tour can do to make events between majors truly stand out. The two discuss which PGA Tour events matter on their own and nearly all occur before the Masters. Andy gives major props to Cameron Young for his continued evolution into a top three player in the world and there's a debate whether the foursome of Young, Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, and Matt Fitzpatrick have separated themselves from the rest of the world. In other Doral news, Adam Scott looks likely to qualify for his 100th straight major, Justin Rose's McLaren irons didn't make it out of the garage, and Alex Fitzpatrick secured a top ten finish without his brother! Brendan and Andy then run through results from the rest of the world, including a back-to-back runaway win for Nelly Korda, a famous Michael winning on the DP World Tour, and a SECOND major championship win this year for now-Ryder Cup Vice Captain Stewart Cink. Lastly, Brendan wraps up this show with some... enthusiasm for a Game 7 performance from James Harden! Visit BDraddy.com and use promo code SGS30 for 30% off your 2026 Presidents Cup gear! Visit your local Golf Galaxy and download the Golf Galaxy mobile app today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jim Furyk has been named the next U.S. Ryder Cup captain, and Kiz is here to break it all down with insight from inside the team room. Then we recap a busy weekend in the world of golf, including an emotional win for the Fitzpatrick brothers and Nelly Korda capturing her third major championship.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/foreplaypod

Nelly Korda wins her third Major Championship at the 2026 Chevron Championship. While Team Fitzpatrick locks up brother Alex's Tour Card after winning the Zurich. Join us as we break it all down, run through this week's news and notes, plus more. Presented by Titleist. Titleist - #1 Ball in Golf Arccos - NLU15 for 15% off at https://www.arccosgolf.com/ AT&T - Connecting Changes Everything Looking to travel this year, check out East Sands Golf Co.: https://www.eastsandsgolf.co/nlu Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices