Break80 Podcast

There was a lot going on in the world of golf this week. The Dunhill Links was played in Scotland on a trio of the best golf courses in the world and the PGA Tour fall series went west to Utah and Black Desert.

Adrian Meronk won the Dunhill Links title in Scotland. Played at Carnoustie, Kingsbarns and St. Andrews, the Dunhill Links is an annual pro-am event that features a great field. Meronk outlasted the likes of Casey Jarvis, Tommy Fleetwood, Matt Fitzpatrick and Brooks Koepka for the title.

On the PGA Tour, Austin Smotherman won the Bank of Utah Championship at Black Desert. For Smotherman it was his first PGA Tour title in 100 starts. One big takeaway was the play of the young Americans in the field. Ben James, Luke Clanton, David Ford and others had top 10 finishes at the event.

All of this and more on this week's episode of the Break80 Podcast. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify & YouTube for weekly golf content.

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On the second episode of Travel Talk Portugal, we are talking about the capital city of Lisbon.

Besides the info about the city and all that we did, we also played golf at a couple of Open de Portugal sites on the DP World Tour - Oitavos Dunes and PGA Aroeira.

Stay tuned for info about the courses, the city and other bits of information to help you on your trip to Lisbon or if you are thinking about going to Lisbon.

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It was a wild ride this week in Chicago for the Presidents Cup at Medinah No. 3. The United States staged a furious comeback in Sunday singles to win the event for the 11th straight time.

We dive into it all, captaincy errors, player rankings, golf course setup and big moments from the event. We will also do a lot of discussing what can be done to fix the foursomes format, which has been a disaster, for the Ryder Cup next year in Ireland.

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Manuel Elvira had a meltdown on the 18th hole this week like we haven't seen in a while at Wentworth for the DP World Tour's PGA Championship. He entered the final hole tied for the lead, but a disastrous double bogey allowed JJ Spaun to claim the victory.

The victory for Spaun, who was left off the Presidents Cup team threw this weeks Presidents Cup into the forefront in golf. Spaun's comments about captain Brant Snedeker and not getting picked raised some eyebrows.

Another captain's pick won this week as Jacob Bridgeman won the Biltmore Championship in Asheville, North Carolina. Bridgeman hopes to roll the hot play into this week's Presidents Cup.

We will preview the Presidents Cup and make some picks for it on this episode of the Break80 Podcast.

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It was another head scratching loss for the Americans in team format golf. This time the European team bested the USA at the Solheim Cup. Heading into Sunday the American and European teams were tied going into singles, but Europe outlasted the Americans in the Netherlands to win the Solheim Cup. We will have all of our reactions plus we try to figure out... why is America so bad at these events? We will also question some of captain Angela Stanford's decisions.

Shane Lowry blitzed the field at Doonbeg to win the Irish Open by 11 shots at -23. It is Lowry's second win in his home country, 17 years after he won the Irish Open as an amateur.

We ventured to Sioux Falls for the Champions tour event and the absurdity was real. Players in carts while the caddies walked, silencer tents at a golf tournament, etc. We will discuss what we saw at the Sanford International.

The pod headed back to Landmand for the first time since we were there before its opening. We also got a chance to play the newest private club in Sioux Falls, Mapleton Golf Club and we were not disappointed.

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It was a Walker Cup for the ages as Great Britain and Ireland stormed back in Sunday singles to squeak out a 13 1/2 to 12 1/2 win. Josh Hill made a 4 foot putt on the 18th green to win it for GB&I. We will have all our reactions on this episode. From the golf course, to players and how this wild Walker Cup played out in this episode.

Tim played in a Shortstop Tournament at Stillwater Country Club and it is a story you will want to stay tuned in for.

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Scottie Scheffler did what Scottie Scheffler does and won the FedEx Cup Championship at East Lake. This capped off another remarkable season for the world's number one player. We will dive into the stats and numbers from Scottie's 2026 season.

We will talk some 2026 PGA Tour season, who played well but didn't win, possible Rookie of the Year picks and who disappointed this season.

President's Cup picks are days away and we will make our selections for both the International and United States squads as they get ready to head to Chicago at the end of the month.

Mike and Tim headed south this weekend to play Somerby Country Club and La Crosse Country Club. Two exceptional clubs, but we found out we are getting old along the way!

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In this episode, Break80 sits down with South African golf star Christiaan Bezuidenhout for a wide-ranging conversation about the path that took him from a small golf course in Delmas, Mpumalanga, to the biggest stages in professional golf. Christiaan opens up about picking up the game at age four, his rise through South Africa's amateur and Sunshine Tour ranks, and the pivotal years he spent as part of the Ernie Els & Fancourt Foundation, where a young Ernie Els played mentor, coach, and financial backer to the future PGA Tour pro. We talk about what it meant to learn the game under "The Big Easy," how that relationship shaped his career, and what it was like to later stand alongside Els on the International Team at the Presidents Cup.

From there, we dig into his current life on the PGA Tour — his approach to competing week to week against the world's best, standout performances at the majors, and what's next on his goals list. Christiaan also shares the deeply personal side of his story: his lifelong experience with stuttering, and his partnership as an ambassador for the Arthur M. Blank Center for Stuttering Education & Research, where he's used his platform to raise awareness and support others navigating the same challenge he once faced.

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It was a busy week in golf this week. LIV Golf may have played their final event in Indianapolis, Wyndham Clark won the BMW Championship in St. Louis and possibly locked up the Player of the Year award and Good Good had an all-time catastrophe with their new Callaway ad.

We dive into it all, plus Jeff makes a hole-in-one that didn't count and Mike finds vintage golf cards from 1991, and it was seemingly the era of the tour visor.

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PGA Tour profiles is back and this week we have two-time PGA Tour champion Austin Eckroat on the Break80 Podcast.

Austin will go into winning on the PGA Tour, which he did twice in 2024 and what comes with that and the pressure coming down the stretch while winning on the PGA Tour. He will also get into some of the things he practices and even his home setup in Oklahoma that other professional golfers also hang out at.

Austin was part of the fabled 2018 Oklahoma State national championship team that was full of current PGA Tour players like Viktor Hovland and others. He will talk college golf and what makes Oklahoma State such a special place in the college golf world.

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