EDGA GOLFERS FIRST PODCAST

Episode 31 of the EDGA Golfers First Podcast is the 21st Birthday edition. EDGA came of age on the 4th of March, 21 years since its formation in 2000. In this episode, we hear from players and officials who have stories from the early years and perspectives on where golf for the disabled is now.

As always, we play a short clip from this week's Player Profile, which features Manuel de Los Santos from The Dominican Republic. I have had the privilege to get to know Manuel and his wife Elena over the last ten years or so. In the interview for this story, we reached into areas that Manuel has never before discussed in public.

So let's get to Episode 31 of the EDGA Golfers First Podcast.

Episode 30 of the EDGA Golfers First Podcast is hosted by the Director of EDGA’s Eligibility Team, Dr Roger Hawkes together with Mark Smith senior member of the EDGA Core Eligibility Team.

In this episode, Roger and Mark discuss the direction of travel for EDGA player eligibility, outline some of the recent changes and explain how inclusion whilst retaining a level playing field is the Holy Grail of eligibility.

As always we play a short clip from this week's Player Profile, which features Masato Koyamada from Japan.

So let's get to Episode 30 of the EDGA Golfers First Podcast.

Episode 29 of the EDGA Golfers First Podcast is hosted by the Director of our Development Team Aimi Bullock and EDGA's Head of Development Mark Taylor. 

In this episode, Aimi and Mark discuss some EDGA development initiatives. There is a short recap of discussions that took place at the PGA show in Orlando (virtually of course), and mention some of the work we are doing to grow the number of women who are part of the EDGA family.

As always we play a short clip from this week's Player Profile, Chad Pfeifer's from the United States of America.

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Episode 28 of the EDGA Golfers First Podcast is hosted by the Director of our Tournament Team Manon Eggermont, together with her team members Rob Moss and Peter Fisher.

Manon explains where we are with the 2021 tournament schedule, Rob talks about an open invitation event which will take place at the Montado Golf Resort in Portugal, and Peter takes the listeners through some updates to the Modifications of the Rules and local Rules.

As always we play a short clip from this week’s Player Profile, where you will hear the story of Christian Nachtwey from Germany.

So let’s get to Episode 28 of the EDGA Golfers First Podcast.

Although the Christmas and New Year holiday period was likely very different than usual, I hope that it was still special for you and yours. All of us at EDGA wish you a healthy, happy and successful 2021.

After the break, we are getting back into the swing of things. For many, with New Years Resolutions to pursue, the change of year is an opportunity to move up a gear. I caught up with our head of development Mark Taylor and asked him what purposeful steps we could take in January to up our games.

As always we play a short clip from this week’s PING Profile. You will hear a much slicker production in this, the first episode of 2021 which features the ever-popular Ale Donati from Italy.

So let’s get to Episode 27 of the EDGA Golfers First Podcast.

Well as the clock nears its time to click over from 2020 to 2021 this is the last episode of this years EDGA Golfers First Podcast.

In this episode we hear from three of EDGAs departments, Roger Hawkes Director of Eligibility, Manon Eggermont Director of Tournaments and Mark Taylor, who Heads up Development.

We pay our respects to Peter Köhler, from the eligibility team who has sadly passed away.

And as always we play a short clip from this week’s PING Profile which unusually is not of a player, but rather features Kate Pollard, the mum of Australian golfer Cameron Pollard.

So let's get to Episode 26 of the EDGA Golfers First Podcast.

With just a couple of episodes of the EDGA Golfers Podcast to go before 2020 becomes 2021, I am reaching out to ask for your help. When we embarked on this journey, we committed to a few episodes, and here we are with 25 episodes completed.

Please take a few minutes to let us know your thoughts on what you would like to hear in 2021. You can send your feedback to [email protected]

In this episode, we announce a new research project with the support of MIA Sports Technology.

There is an opportunity to hear my thoughts on golf, inclusion and the opportunity for the golf industry that golf for the disabled offers. You can find the session at https://cp.golf/CPG-Podcast.

And as always we play a short clip from this week’s PING Profile which features Julien Mouchet from France.

So let’s get to Episode 25 of the EDGA Golfers First Podcast.

In this weeks episode we give you an update on the progress made in the Ukraine as part of EDGA’s 8 step development programme.

We announce and welcome our latest member federation, The Slovak Golf Association.

And as always we play a short clip from this week’s PING Profile which features Terry Kirby from England.

So let’s get to Episode 24 of the EDGA Golfers First Podcast.

This episode of the EDGA Golfers First Podcast drops on the day of the EDGA General Assembly. So in this weeks episode we some of the topics which we think will be of interest to the wider listeners.

EDGA Ambassador Nick Dougherty runs an Instagram Live session.

And as always we play a short clip from this week’s PING Profile which features Tony Coates from Australia.

So let’s get to Episode 23 of the EDGA Golfers First Podcast.

In this weeks episode, we give a short report from France where international golf for the disabled was back in Europe.

We have further announcements about the Mulligan film.

We publish the dates for the 2021 EGA European Championship.

And as always we play a short clip from this week’s PING Profile which features former amateur Jockey Nicky Weeks from England.

So let’s get to Episode 22 of the EDGA Golfers First Podcast.