Break80 Podcast

It is spooky season! On this week's episode we are talking Halloween golf costumes and Tim has some stories of haunted golf courses, capped off with an interview at the end about Montgomery National being haunted.

We are also talking happenings this week in golf and making up some LIV teams if we could pick anyone from the normal PGA Tour. With TPC Sawgrass upping its price to $900, we will be talking about if golf in America is broken.

All this and more on episode 74 of the Break80 Podcast.

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We are taking listener questions on episode 73! We will of course be talking about Lexi Thompson and her close call with the cut line in Las Vegas at the Shriners Children's Open. Tom Kim captured the title for the second straight year and his 3rd PGA Tour victory. We will discuss how the 11th ranked player in the world could still be underrated.

We take questions about a variety of things from cheap golf travel to coaching golf and how to get kids involved. Listeners wanted the best fall golf options and we have them for you as well.

Talor Gooch won the LIV Tour season title and Brooks Koepka won the event in Jedda this week.

Was it bad for LIV that one of the big stars didn't win the season long title? What the hell are they thinking having it taped delayed on the CW to start at noon to compete with goliath that is the NFL?

All of this and more on this weeks episode of the Break80 podcast.

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Tim sat down for an interview with Mason from A Good Walk Spoiled. He currently just finished a documentary on Joel Goldstrand, who is one of Minnesota's most prolific golf architects, played professionally and was head pro at Minneapolis Golf Club at one time.

A Good Walk Spoiled also does golf course photography, a newsletter and other multi media ventures related to golf. Make sure to give them a follow on social media. He can be found on instagram under @aspoiledwalk.

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An unprepared United States Ryder Cup team got their doors blown off by Europe for a day and a half. It proved to be a deficit they could not recover from as Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy and Viktor Hovland led a European charge in Italy.

We will be giving all of our reactions. From the captains Zach Johnson and Luke Donald's pairings to hatgate with Patrick Cantlay.

Are the U.S. problems fixable? Will we ever win in Europe? Will Tiger Woods be the next captain? These and many other questions from the 2023 Ryder Cup will be discussed.

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The Ryder Cup in Rome is upon us. We are talking all things competitive team golf this week on the Break80 Podcast.

The Solheim Cup was halved at 14 points a piece and the European team retained the cup behind some clutch putting from Caroline Hedwall and some darts thrown by Carlota Ciganda.

Well, the week you have been waiting for is here, Ryder Cup 2023. Will the United States team finally be able to win the cup for the first time on European soil in three decades?

We are talking storylines, the golf course, comments by players and many more this week.

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Sahith Theegala takes home his first PGA Tour title in impressive fashion at the Fortinet Championship in Napa Valley. Justin Thomas showed signs of life heading into the Ryder Cup with a 5th place finish.

Rory talked this week about what kind of setup he is looking for at the Ryder Cup and thinks it should focus on making it a putting contest - so we will dig into some putting stats of both teams.

Ryan Fox wins the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. After making an early triple bogey, Fox rolled off 8 birdies to take the title by a stroke. The majority of the European Ryder Cup team played very well, sparking some U.S. concerns coming into the Ryder Cup.

The summer of Block bleeds into fall as Michael Block is in the news again for making his 9th albatross this week. We will talk a little Blockie this week and even spill in some NFL football talk as we are full swing into fall.

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Tim sat down at the Royal Club with World Golf Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam.

Sorenstam has 97 worldwide wins, including 72 LPGA Tour victories and 10 majors! In 2003 she became the first woman since 1945 to play in a PGA Tour event when she teed it up at the Colonial. She is regarded as the greatest female golfer of all time.

She talks about womens golf and how it has evolved. The Annika Foundation is geared towards girls and womens golf and they put on this championship at the Royal Club, which has the top 12 womens college golf teams in the country.

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This week we had the chance to play in a college-am event at the Royal Club before the Annika Invitational. We were paired with Mimi Rhodes, a senior golfer for the defending national champion Wake Forest Demon Deacons. We were blown away by the quality of play and will discuss this episode.

The Irish Open was at the K Club this week and Rory McIlroy was in the hunt before a disastrous triple bogey on hole 16 took him out of the running. Vincent Norrman took home the title and continued his great play late in the season.

Jeff had a fitting with Hunter Hoaglund at Go Low Golf here in the twin cities and will discuss the experience on this weeks episode.

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With Luke Donalds captains picks today the Ryder Cup teams are set for Rome later this month. Ludvig Aberg won this week on the DP World Tour and made the team - and Mike knew it all along. Mike has been begging for Luke Donald to pick Aberg for months and the dream has finally become reality!

The podcast made our way up to the Brainerd lakes area this weekend for the Canadian Tour event at Craguns and we played the main courses in the area.

There will even be a little Walker Cup talk to end the podcast as the United States team cameback on Sunday to win at St. Andrews.

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Jeff sat down for an interview with Daniel Gale. The Australian fired a 60 at 3M Monday qualifying, including a hole out for eagle on 18 to earn his way into the PGA Tour's 3M Open.

He recently won the NT PGA Championship in Australia. He will talk about his journey in golf and his plans for the future.

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