Break80 Podcast

Podcast favorite Wyndham Clark played close to flawless golf this week at the Wells Fargo Championship to post -19 and cruise to his first PGA Tour win at Quail Hollow. The Break80 boys have seen this coming for a while with his stellar play and his caddie John Ellis made the prediction as we have in the intro back in February that his guy Wyndham would win this year. He chose a hell of an event to win and claim his first tour victory.

In a little worse than -19, Jeff and Tim kicked off the Twin Cities Golf mini tour at New Prague GC with a little match as we get going with our season finally hear in Minnesota, hear about that and some upcoming PGA Tour picks and thoughts about this week's AT&T Byron Nelson.

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Tim travelled to Pinehurst last week to play at what has been dubbed the "mecca" of United States golf. He will give you some ups and downs from the trip and chronicle his run-ins with some over zealous rangers. Multiple travel tips will be told and Tim talks about playing the famed #2.

Golf season is finally here and the Break80 Podcast boys hit the links this weekend to play in some apocalyptic winds. We will tell you all about some ridiculous golf in crazy winds.

Tony Finau went head-to-head this week with world #1 Jon Rahm in Mexico and took him down. Will this propel Finau to his first major title in 2023? The tour heads to Quail Hollow for another elevated event this week at the Wells Fargo Championship. We will dive into the tournament history and make our picks for the week.

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After Jordan Spieth barely missed 2 winning putts, Matt Fitzpatrick hit one of the greatest shots in Harbour Town history on the third playoff hole to capture the RBC Heritage title in the latest elevated event on the PGA Tour.

All the big names showed up (minus one giant name) on the leaderboard this week, proving once again that a tightly contested tournament with the best players in the world is must watch television.

We discuss the latest rumblings from the tour, including a Spencer Levin victory on the Korn Ferry Tour and many other topics on episode 49, including how our current spring season as coaches is going. Enjoy.

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Jon Rahm battled Augusta National and the elements en route to an easy victory in the end at the Masters. Rahm becomes the first European to win both the Masters and U.S. Open.

We will dive into Rahm's mastery of Augusta and discuss LIV golfers good showing, including Phil Mickelson coming out of nowhere to fire one of the best Sunday rounds Augusta National has seen.

Does Brooks Koepka have a Sunday problem in majors? After cruising through the first 42 holes of the tournament, Koepka struggled mightily Sunday in finishing the third round and throughout the final round. This has been an issue for him over the past 4 times he has been in contention on a Sunday of a major.

We will of course talk Tiger and the disappointment of Rory missing the cut and a bunch of other stuff Master's related.

The PGA Tour heads 130 miles to Hilton Head and Harbor Town for the RBC Heritage, which is an elevated event this year, so no rest for the stars of the PGA Tour - well, except for Rory that is. We will make some picks for this weeks event and talk about the uniqueness that is Harbor Town.

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After talking about our quick golf trip to Tim's home state of Iowa, it will be all things Masters talk.

We will dig into story lines, favorites, the golf course and just all the things we love about the Master's Tournament and Augusta National.

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With March Madness pumping out thrilling game after thrilling game and the Master's starting next week, this has to be the best sports time of the year right?

Even though this is a golf podcast, we love hoops as well and will talk some NCAA Tournament and give our thoughts so far on what has transpired and discuss if Caitlin Clark is the most exciting player in either of the tournaments.

Jeff may have found something in his game while on vacation in Florida and the pod may be heading to Iowa next weekend for some outdoor golf.

All this and we will actually talk plenty of golf and discuss our thoughts on the WGC Dell Championship and the end of match-play on the PGA Tour... for the time being anyway.

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2nd year PGA Tour player Andrew Novak joins the podcast. In his 2nd year on tour, Andrew is close to cracking the top 100 in FedEx Cup points and has multiple top 20 finishes, including the Sony Open and AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Andrew gave us some insight on his path to the PGA Tour, creating a yardage book for a senior high thesis and his basketball abilities.

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The quest for better golf and qualifying for the Minnesota State Amateur Championship ramped up this week for Tim as he has all kinds of new weapons in the bag after getting fit for new irons and a driver. We will see how they work out as he is also going to Southern California this weekend to play some more top 100 public tracks.

The PGA Tour had a first time winner this week at the Valspar as Taylor Moore took home the title as contenders such as Jordan Spieth and Tommy Fleetwood faltered down the stretch. This week the top players in the world are headed to one of the Break80 Podcasts favorite events, the WGC Match Play. The match play is bidding farewell to the the Austin Country Club and it sounds like it will not return anywhere in the future.

We are also playing some PGA Tour bio trivia in this episode using players from the opposite field event in the Dominican Republic.

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Tim sits down for an interview with Pete Wlodkowski, the founder of amateurgolf.com. Amateurgolf.com is the most comprehensive website there is when it comes to amateur golf tournaments of all sizes.

Pete will talk about the early days of amateurgolf.com and how he got started and grown to become an authority of amateur golf tournaments.

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Scottie Scheffler took most of the drama out of Sunday at the Player's Championship, winning in dominating fashion to regain the top spot in the world golf rankings.  We will discuss his play as well as what we thought about the 2023 Player's Championship.

The Valspar Championship is this week and we will preview the event and make our picks. Jeff and Tim will be quizzed on the world ranking of some random players in the field who you may or may not have heard of.  We will also makes picks for this weeks DP World Tour event in South Africa.

With the "Quest to Qualify" coming up this summer, the crew will give our thoughts on what we are working on this week in preparation.

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