The final week of meaningful golf for 2025 has came and went with the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne, Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas and the DP World Tour in South Africa. We will review the three events and give our thoughts on each of them.

It is simulator season for those of us in cold climates and we are going to discuss the good and bad of simulator golf and whether it has become a necessity in the winter.

Brooks Koepka made the news this week with talk of him not playing LIV Golf. Where this will go is anyones guess, but we will discuss some possibilities for Koepka.

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Beau Welling of Beau Welling Design joins the Break80 Podcast to discuss some of his upcoming projects including a new golf club in Texas, the expansion of the TGL green and additional hole designs and golf architecture and design.

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The Skins Game was back this week for the first time in ages at Panther National in Florida. Keegan Bradley was the big winner, but the bigger story may have been Xander Schauffele getting shut out out receiving a giant check for zero dollars. We will recap the event and where it could go in the future.

Young LIV golfer David Puig won the BMW Australian PGA Championship last week in Brisbane. He went the last 40 holes without a bogey en route to a 2-shot victory. Former podcast guest Daniel Gale made an ace and had a top 10 finish as well.

It is a big week upcoming in professional golf for December. Tiger Woods Hero Challenge with some of the top players in the world is happening in the Bahamas and Australian Open, with a field that includes Rory McIlroy is happening at Royal Melbourne.

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The 2025 PGA Tour season came to a close last week. Some players played their way into a 2026 PGA Tour card, while others played their way out of a card. We will discuss the players who will not have a tour card next year and what some options are for veteran players.

Anthony Kim played well this week on the Asian Tour in Saudi Arabia and finished T5 along with many LIV Golfers. What is next for AK? We discuss this and some other LIV Golf news.

Golf magazine released their new world top 100 courses ranking. We have played some and will talk about the list, some possible snubs and some overrated courses.

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The event that took the internet by storm has come and gone, but we are here to recap the Internet Invitational put on by Barstool Sports and Bob Does Sports. We will get into Paige Spiranac and Malosi cheating to Brad Dalke carrying his team to victory and of course Frankie Borelli choking on 18 and Beef making the winning putt. We have a full recap of the event and where it goes from here.

Rory McIlroy won his 7th DP World Tour title. He is now 1 short of catching Colin Montgomery for most all-time. We will go into a deep dive on whether or not Rory is the greatest European player ever.

Adam Schenk won his first PGA Tour event this week in Bermuda. Schenk battled high winds using old equipment and multiple putting grips including one-handed. We will discuss the win and what is at stake this week in the PGA Tour season finale.

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The Internet Invitational has taken YouTube and the golf world by storm. We will have a heated discussion about the event and if Brad Dalke could play on the PGA Tour.

Aaron Rai won in Abu Dhabi over Tommy Fleetwood with a birdie on the first playoff hole. Rory McIlroy fired a -10 in the final round to almost get into the playoff but fell a shot short at the 2nd to last event of the DP World Tour season.

Ben Griffin, using a new putter this week, earned his 3rd tour victory of 2025, joining only Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy in doing so this year.

We will talk about all of these things and more on this episode if the Break80 Podcast.

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This week the golf world got a new villain. At the Internet Invitational hosted by Barstool Sports and Bob Does Sports, some of the best & worst of the YouTube golfers came together for an event.

Luke Kwon, one of YouTube golf's best players slept in and missed his tee time, which set off a frenzy as players on his own team could not believe it and Kwon was not apologetic and got the villain name attached to him.

On a slow week in golf, this was perfect timing for the event and the drama, as it has already pulled in over 5 million views.

All that and some other random happenings in a slow week in golf. Subscribe to the Break80 Podcast on Apple & Spotify for weekly golf content.

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Well, the podcast played in the rain and cold during a 4-man scramble and things did not go as well as expected. We will have some laughs and tell all about the Twin Cities Golf Scramble at Highland National in St. Paul, MN.

Michael Brennan puts on a driving display for the ages at the Bank of Utah Championship at Black Desert. Brennan, playing in his first PGA Tour event as a professional cruised to victory and into the top 50 in the world rankings.

With the Louvre heist in the news, we talk about the most expensive golf memorabilia out there and what we do with it if stolen.

All of that and TGL changes and an epic hole out eagle on the DP World Tour for a player to secure his tour card for next year.

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Tommy Fleetwood kept his late season run going with a win on the DP World Tour in India. The win vaults him all the way to number 5 in the OWGR. We will discuss where he goes from here and if he is the third best player in the world.

Good Good Golf announced that they will be sponsoring a PGA Tour event next fall in Texas. We will try to make sense of how they are able to do this (with investors likely) and how it benefits both the PGA Tour and Good Good Golf.

Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy both had epic 2025 seasons. We will talk about whose was better and whose was more dramatic.

All that and Tim walks off on a round of golf and the USGA Mid-Am slowly becoming a former professional tournament.

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In this episode, Mike and Tim head to the Ayrshire region on Scotland's west coast. While there they stayed and played at Dundonald Links and Trump Turnberry.

Dundonald Links has hosted both the mens and womens Scottish Opens in the last decade and is also used by the R&A for final qualifying for the Open Championship. We were able to play the course and stay in one of their newly built lodges.

At Trump Turnberry, we played one of the top rated courses in the world with the Ailsa course. Home to some of the most famous moments in golf history, Turnberry Ailsa is loaded with history and the course did not disappoint. We also played the Robert the Bruce course and stayed at the Turnberry hotel and will tell all about it.

All this and some other shenanigans on this episode of Travel Talk Scotland.

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