This episode begins with an update in women’s professional golf from Abby, including the LPGA Drive On Championship, women’s tournaments in Saudi Arabia (with her candid thoughts on it) and some lighter news about Upper Deck golf trading cards.The Ladies of Golf feature is Jill Spiegel, who is a cool, calm and inspiring leader as Senior VP of Merchandising at PGA Tour Superstore. Abby and Jill discuss her path to PGTSS, how golf played a part in her career, discovering new golf brands, golf equipment and apparel offerings for women, and advice for those who want to hold leadership positions.

We're officially Rachel Mabee stans. She's a rockstar for the PGA of America, working as a program specialist for the PGA Works initiative, which is a strategic initiative designed to diversify the golf industry's workforce. We learned more about the PGA Works program, Rachel's journey with golf beginning in Puerto Rico, how golf can diversify its workforce and players, and so much more.

Our next Ladies of Golf feature is Beth Ann Nichols, a senior writer for Golfweek who has covered the sport since 2002. Beth Ann has a wealth of knowledge about the game at all levels and we appreciated her perspective and candor on the variety of topics we covered in this conversation from: Golf in the Olympics, women’s golf internationally versus within the U.S., the potential of mixed events and so much more.

Ladies of Golf returns with Nora Dunnan, who serves as Chief Operating Officer for Five Iron Golf and leads the company’s expansion plans and day-to-day operations. As a co-founder of Five Iron, she has shaped the company since its inception in 2017 and fostered an environment that flips standard golf culture on its head, making the game appealing to everyone - including Fore the Ladies participants, shout out Chicago!

Today we're excited to introduce you to Ashleigh McLaughlin, vice president of marketing and communications for Youth on Course. After playing college golf at Florida State University, Ashleigh realized she could combine her passion for marketing and business with her love for golf in a career. We talk about her experiences at the LPGA, golf as the "final frontier" for social equity and racial diversity, the amazing opportunities Youth on Course is bringing to junior golfers nationwide, and so much more.

Ladies of Golf is live from the U.S. Open! Okay, so not exactly live, but we had such a good conversation with some of this week's digital content creators at the U.S. Open at Winged Foot.

Golf personality Tisha Allyn, Discovery Golf's Hally Leadbetter and USGA correspondent Kira Dixon joined Abby for a conversation about women in golf media, social responsibility, converting fans of the men's game to women's professional golf and more.

Annie Giangrosso is our next Ladies of Golf feature, just in time for the women’s next major championship at the ANA Inspiration. Abby kicks off the episode with some details about the ANA and who will or will not be competing this week.

Annie and Abby discuss Annie’s role as a manager of rules and competitions, the misconceptions about female professional golf, course setup and so much more.

It's a short episode following Labor Day weekend with our all of our Ladies of Golf sharing their advice women who are new to golf. Hear suggestions from Amanda Balionis, Tari Cash, Taylor Stern, Ashley Mayo, Molly Mesnick, Mackenzie Mack, Nora Dunnan, Shannon Bardy, Ashleigh Mclaughlin and Megan LaMothe.

Ladies of Golf welcomed Taylor Stern of the Dallas Cowboys Digital Media team to talk about her experiences with golf. Taylor started playing the game 2018 after helping Cowboys player Dak Prescott acquire a set of clubs.

We talk about her journey to learning how to play, from finding a place to play to taking lessons and her challenges along the way. Taylor shares with us why she enjoys watching golf now that she plays and some of the intimidation factors when playing the sport.

Our next Ladies of Golf interview is with Amanda Balionis, but before we get into the interview, Abby shares a quick update in women's professional golf (a new segment we're adding to the pod!). Amanda joined CBS Sports in 2017 as a reporter for the Network’s golf coverage, working select tournaments, and joined the team full time in 2018. She also serves as a sideline reporter for select NFL ON CBS games and CBS Sports Network college football games. We discuss Amanda's path to CBS, covering golf vs. football, athlete activism and so much more. Enjoy the conversation!