Chasing Pars Golf Podcast

In this episode Craig is joined by DP World Tour player & 2021 Challenge Tour graduate Niklas Norgaard Moller. Niklas talks about how he has adjusted to the step up from Challenge Tour to DP World Tour, his upbringing in Copenhagen, how he managed to decide Golf was the way forward. Niklas turned pro before 2016 starting out in the Nordic Golf League where a couple of years starting out there he managed to gain a handful of Challenge Tour starts which proved to be good experience as in 2019 Niklas would go onto having 13 Top 10 finishes in Nordic Golf League including a win at Race to HimmerLand at the end of 2019 aswell as 6 2nd placed finishes and 6 finishes between 4th & 10th to ultimately win the 2019 Nordic Golf League Order of Merit to gain status on Challenge Tour. Another win back in Denmark at Esbjerg Challenge back on Nordic Golf League followed in 2020 before a strong finish to limited 2020 schedule. In 2021 it was a great year as Niklas would have good finishes in Sweden, Czech Republic aswell as a 8th at Made in HimmerLand tournament in limited DPWT start this, a strong finish to the season would happen to ensure that after the final event in Mallorca on the Challenge Tour Norgaard Moller would win his full DP World Tour Card finishing the 2021 season in 16th place to earn promotion to the 2nd biggest tour in Golf. We also talk about the Danish revolution of players currently on show aswell as giving a couple of picks for Masters this week at Augusta. We want to wish Niklas all the best for the rest of the year! All the best! Listen if you could thanks! Enjoy!

It was another semi decent week for the podcast last week with a 100/1 shared place for Craig with Troy Merritt T4th, Adam Hadwin gave shared place at 33/1 while at the first major of the year at Chevron Championship it was 28/1 & 40/1 places for Ryan with Celine Boutier and Hannah Green. It's the best week of the calendar year this week with the return of Magnolia Lane, Chaos of Amen Corner and the fresh smell of the Azaleas it must of course mean it is the return of Augusta National Golf Club for The 2022 Masters event. Jamie & Ryan are joined by Matt Tizzard from @WaggleDuff to go over the first men's major of the year and provide useful insight into who will Master Augusta and who will end up winning the coveted Green Jacket. Be sure to read @Js_GolfingTips EasyOdds article for Augusta & also take part in Matt's terrific Waggle Duff fantasy Golf game. Buzzing for it, let's go! Enjoy!

It was a great week for the podcast as Ryan had the winner of WGC Matchplay in Scottie Scheffler at 16/1 that win in Austin takes Scheffler to the summit of World Golf becoming the new World Number 1 Golfer after winning 3 of his past 5 events on PGA Tour. Jamie had Kevin Kisner finish Runner up at 66/1 along with another T2nd in Dominican Republic with 40/1 Alex Smalley at Corales Puntacana where Chad Ramey gained his maiden PGA Tour title. On the DP World Tour in Qatar it was victory for the Scots as the supremely talented Scot Ewen Ferguson battled back bravely from the heartache of Kenya to win his first professional title at Qatar Masters winning at -7 in a brutal contest at the weekend in Doha. This week it is the first major of the year as the Ladies of the LPGA & LET Tours flock to Mission Hills Golf Club in Rancho Mirage, California for Chevron Championship formerly known as ANA Inspiration. Patty Tavatanakit was the winner last year at -18. Measuring just over 6,800 yards Mission Hills is an iconic venue in the Women's game with world's best such as Jin Young Ko, Inbee Park, Lexi Thompson and Annika Sorenstam all lifting this Major Championship. Craig & Ryan go through how we feel the first major will play out and we both have a consensus value pick at 20/1. On the PGA Tour we stay in Texas this week as we head to San Antonio for Valero Texas Open the last stop on Tour before The Masters next week! 7,464 yard Par 72 Greg Norman designed TPC San Antonio (Oaks Course) takes Centre stage as Jordan Spieth returns to defend his dramatic title win last year. This event throws up surprises so don't be surprised to see a triple figure winner win this week. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @ChasingPars_Pod, @ThomsonGolf94, @GolfTipster5 & @Js_GolfingTips. We would appreciate if you gave listen this week. Enjoy!

This week is the return of the ever unpredictable lottery WGC Dell Technologies Matchplay in Austin, Texas where the world's top 64 players minus a few noteable withdrawals are battling it out over 5 grueling days to become Matchplay Champion. Billy Horschel was your winner last year defeating Scottie Scheffler 2&1 in the final to win his 5th PGA Tour title. Jamie & Ryan return this week as they dive into the Matchplay madness with some predictions while building their own brackets etc. We also have the Qatar Masters on the DP World Tour where Antoine Rozner is the defending champion as the players return to Doha GC after the last 2 years being played at Education City it's expected to be heavy winds at the weekend in Doha so should be fun ending. We also have the alternative event on the PGA Tour as we are back in Dominican Republic for the Corales Puntacana Championship where Joel Dahmen grabbed his maiden PGA Tour victory in breezy conditions. A lot of Golf this week, should be fun. Enjoy!

In this latest episode of the podcast. Craig is joined by 2018 South Africa Amateur Champion & Current Sunshine Tour star Deon Germishuys as he joins us in his home from Johannesburg to talk to us about last week's event at Pecanwood Estate where he narrowly missed the cut while playing good golf at -5 Deon also gives us a nice insight to how it will play this week at Steyn City a course he has played a couple of times before with it set to rain on Wednesday it should yet again be a scoreable test with the greens soft & receptive. With it playing longer than last week at Pecanwood, Steyn City should play at about 7,700 yards with over 1,350 metres of elevation above sea level. We also go over Germishuys' brilliant Junior & Amateur Career success with 3 wins at Junior level & 2 wins at Amateur level including the big one in 2018 winning South African Amateur Championship. Deon turned pro in 2019 after winning a card on Sunshine Tour at Q School he talks about the transition from Amateur career to playing competitively on the Sunshine Tour. Yet to win on Sunshine Tour I am sure it is only a matter of time before Deon wins his first professional title. It was great to have Deon come on the pod to chat with us, enjoyed it & I hope we have done a good job at pinpointing the growth and insane amount of talent South African Golf has at its disposal. Thanks Deon, Enjoy!

In a week full of places with Jamie having T2 Horschel & T6 Kirk at 40/1 & 66/1, Craig having Tarren T5 in Puerto Rico 80/1 & Ryan having Hatton T2 at 33/1 was another step in the right direction for the podcast. This week Jamie has the daunting task of going solo this week in a short but sweet episode for the flagship event of PGA Tour that being The Players' Championship at TPC Sawgrass designed by The Dye's often described as 'The 5th Major' it's the one event everybody on the PGA Tour roster wants to add to their CV it's so prestiged. Justin Thomas is the defending champion this week after a clinical masterclass of a performance last year gave him win number 14 for him as a professional. Follow us on Twitter @ChasingPars_Pod, @ThomsonGolf94, @Js_GolfingTips & GolfTipster5 for all our picks & thoughts while following @chasingparspodcast on Instagram & be kind to follow our brand new Telegram page dedicated to the DP World Tour with lots of info going up on the app in the next few weeks or so. Let's carry on, Enjoy!

After a fantastic viewing spectacle at the ever exciting PGA National for Honda Classic after all the trials, tribulations, thrills and spills it was the year of the Sepp with Sepp Straka winning his 1st PGA Tour title at -10 to become the first Austrian born PGA Tour title holder defeating Shane Lowry in the rain in Florida and the biggest Daniel Berger collapse we have seen. This week we are back to historic Bay Hill Club & Lodge at Arnie's place for this year's Arnold Palmer Invitational where Bryson DeChambeau bomb & gouged his way round to win at -12 last year. A notoriously tough golf course measuring around 7,500 yards it is one of the longest & toughest on Tour. Craig & Jamie are back to talk all things Bay Hill with both having picks we feel have plausible chances to fulfil their destiny of winning the prestigious API title. It always is a cracking event and this should be no different. The DP World Tour is back this week as we are in Nairobi, Kenya for Kenya Open where it is being played at Muthiaga GC which lasted hosted the event on the Challenge Tour in 2018 where Lorenzo Gagli defeated Jens Fahrbring in a play off at -11. In a weakened field there is still some value to be had as the DP World Tour returns. Shout-out to Sporting Life don Ben Coley for mentioning our podcast in his recent Sporting Life column for Kenyan Open in regards to our player interview with Wil Besseling. We appreciate it alot and we hope Besseling goes well for you this week! All the best & enjoy!

It was a non entity week really for the picks for Jamie & Craig but a nice 20/1 T2nd with Morikawa & 150/1 T3rd with Tom McKibbin places for Ryan as keep the current streak of places going. What a fantastic performance by the talented Chilean Joaquin Niemann who blitzed The Riv away in spectacular fashion eventually winning by 2 shots at -19 although did get to -21 at one stage but nonetheless very impressive from a player with a big future. This week Craig is joined by Owen Vrabel of Draws n Fades Podcast to go over Honda Classic as we arrive at the start of the Florida Swing for the better part of PGA Tour season starting at PGA National (Champion Course) which historically is won between -6 & -12 so it is a very firm test for players. It's just a shade over 7,045 yards originally designed by Fazio's then took a redesign by Jack Nicklaus in 2014 including the gruelling 3 hole stretch from 15-17 known as 'The Bear Trap' which I one of the toughest stretches on Tour. Follow & listen to Owen & co-host Matt on Draws n Fades Podcast on Spotify & Apple Podcasts. Follow us on Twitter @ChasingPars_Pod & @chasingparspod on Instagram. Enjoy!

Scottie Scheffler was triumphant for us last week in Phoenix to win Waste Management Phoenix Open at 28/1 to take the win tally for the pod so far in 2022 to 4 wins! Scheffler thoroughly deserved his maiden PGA Tour victory defeating the form player in the world Patrick Cantlay in a play off. In a spectacular week on and off the course last week in Arizona Craig & Ryan go over the major talking points from TPC Scottsdale as we gloss over the pandemonium of the 16th hole witnessing 2 hole in ones at 16 in the same tournament with Sam Ryder & Carlos Ortiz making aces to absolute set the fans into a frenzy in what is a notoriously noisy hole regardless of that. We also go over the fallout from Charley Hoffman rants at PGA Tour while insinuating Saudi money along with Phil Mickelson & Bryson DeChambeau, getting blocked on Twitter by the easily offended Phil. This week we are back in California at the traditional Riviera CC in Pacific Palisades where traditional one of the tougher scoring events in the PGA Tour circuit. Tight narrow fairways, tough fast greens it should be a cracker this week. Enjoy!

Welcome ladies & gentlemen to the scene of where this podcast started in February last year at Waste Management Phoenix Open. It's been a whirlwind of a year doing this but we have enjoyed bringing you content every week plus some specials! We appreciate your support! Firstly give us a follow on Twitter @ChasingPars_Pod & on Instagram @Chasingparspodcast. You can follow us on Twitter @ThomsonGolf94 @Js_GolfingTips & @GolfTipster5. So this week we are back at Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale in Arizona for Waste Management Phoenix Open which was designed by Tom Weiskopf & Jay Morrish in 1987. Traditionally this event is won by a high calibre player that is playing in the field. Brooks Koepka won last year and is a 2 time winner, Hideki Matsuyama is a 2 time winner while likes of Webb Simpson, Gary Woodland & Rickie Fowler have also won this event in the past which is famed for the rowdiness of the Par 3 16th hole which is possibly the noisiest hole in Golf. Brooks Koepka chipped in at 17 last year to steer his way to a victory last year after sudden collapses from Xander Schauffele & Jordan Spieth. Superb field, should be a good event. On DPWT this week we stay yet again in United Arab Emirates at the same course as last week in Al Hamra GC for Ras Al Khaimah Classic where last week Nicolai Hojgaard was sensational winning by 4 shots at -24 to win his 2nd DP World Tour Title at age of 20. Nicolai Hojgaard, Jordan Smith, Adri Arnaus, Robert MacIntyre & Adrian Meronk are your top 5 in the market for this week! Enjoy!