Golf: next on the tee

Looking to improve your game, well hear three of the Top Instructors in the game on this episode of Next on the Tee: Tom Patri, Dave Stockton Jr., and Scott Hamilton. Tom Patri's mantra is Short Game, Short Game, Short Game so we get some tips to score better from 100 yards in. We also talk about balance, stance on wedge shots and how to adjust for those in-between iron shots. Dave Stockton Jr. is one of the best putting instructors on the planet. He share insights on how to read greens better so we can make more putts. Scott Hamilton is ranked 26th by Golf Digest in their Top 50 Teachers in America and the #2 Instructor in the game according to the Tour players. Scott once made 2 hole in ones in the same round. The odds on that are 67 million to 1. We'll hear that story plus hear about the players he's working with and get some tips on confidence as well.

2011 US Senior Open Champion Olin Browne, Golf Positive Founder Debbie O'Connell, the Author of Zen Golf & Zen Putting Dr. Joe Parent, and long lost cousin PGA Professional John Mascari Join Me.

I'll get Olin's thoughts on the PGA Tour Champions season restarting and what he expects the rest of the season to be like. We'll also talk about the 59 he shot while qualifying for the 2005 US Open. I'll talk with Debbie O'Connell about the mental game and how to keep a positive mindset on the course after we've hit a couple of wayward shots. I'll delve deeper into the mind and mental game with Dr. Joe Parent. We'll talk about Mindfulness and how to not get ahead of ourselves when we're on the cusp of a great round.. Then I'll round out the show with Cousin John and we'll talk about his stay at home series "Tips from John's Backyard" and what piece of new technology that he's excited to use when he can get back out on the course.

This week we'll get you game ready with tips and insights from former PGA Tour Pro Bob Friend, Par 4 Success Founder and expert in Physical Therapy expert Chris Finn, plus Caddy For A Cure Founder and former Caddy for Bernhard Langer, Russ Holden.

Top Instructor Eric Johnson talks about the state of golf plus tips for hitting the ball solid first...he'll fix curve second, plus what the new normal may look like for golf instruction going forward.

Paul Levy shares his insights on what this season could like look like on the PGA Tour including the notion of a fanless PGA Championship and Ryder Cup.

Shaun Micheel and I revisit his 2003 PGA Championship victory and perhaps the greatest approach shot to the 72nd hole in major championship golf...that he didn't see until he got up to the green. Shaun also shared the story of the raging fire that broke out just a few yards from where he and other players were playing when trying to qualify for the Hoag Classic on the Champions Tour earlier this year.

We get more tips and drills you can do at home from Top Instructors Jim Estes and Tom Patri. Jim also talks about the great work that he and his team do to teach the game to wounded military Veterans via the Salute Military Golf Assocation (www.smga.org). Tom Patri helps reconstruct my swing from the ground up via the V1 Golf app.

PGA Tour Champions Pro Donnie Hammond shares his thoughts on what a November Masters might be like plus what life as a PGA Tour Pro is like off the golf course.

2012 Senior Players Champion Joe Daley, Top Instructors Andy Traynor and Tim Cusick, plus Fairbault Woolen Mill CEO Paul Grangaard join me. I'll talk with Joe Daley about his run to the 2012 Senior Player Championship. He went head to head against Fred Couple and Tom Lehman and won the tournament by 2 strokes. We'll hear what it was like sleeping on the 54 hole lead in a major and the mile worth of putts he sank in the final round to beat Couples, Lehman, and Bernhard Langer that day. I'll also get some playing lessons from Plane Truth Master Instructor Andy Traynor and Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor Tim Cusick. I'll round the show will a visit from good friend and Fairbault Woolen Mill CEO Paul Grangaard. Fairbault and the Minnesota Twins have teamed up to turn the Twins Homer Hankies into face masks for local hospital employees. We'll get that story from Paul.

On this edition of Next on the Tee, I'm joined by Top Instructor Tom Patri, the Host of the Augusta Golf Show John Patrick, and 2019 Champions Tour Player of the Year and Charles Schwab Cup winner Scott McCarron. Tom Patri shares his thoughts on The Golf Channel programming and what a Masters in November could be like. I'll get John Patrick's memories of what it was like be on the grounds of Augusta Nation for the '86 Masters, which collapse was harder to watch Greg Norman's in 1996 or Jordan Spieth's in 2016. I'll also get his thoughts on what to expect from the Masters if it's played in November. I'll round out the show talking with Champion's Tour Player of the Year Scott McCarron. We'll talk about how he got started in golf, his college golf days at UCLA, his 3 wins here in Atlanta at the old BellSouth Classic on the PGA Tour and at the Mitsubishi Electric Classic on the Champions Tour plus the incredible finish to last year's Charles Schwab Cup race.

Legendary Broadcaster Ben Wright shares stories from Masters past plus thoughts on Tom Weiskopf, Gary Player, and Seve Ballesteros. Matthew Laurance and Keith Hirshland talk about the rescheduled majors plus why The Golf Channel is replaying last year's tournaments instead of historical programming. Top Instructor Bill Abrams shares drills you can do at home to stay sharp. Hear all of that and much on this edition of Next on the Tee.

Three of the Top Instructors in the game, Jason Hase, Paul Ramee, and Tom Patri help you work on your game while you're stuck at home on this segment of Next on the Tee. We'll talk tips and drills you can do in your back yard or in your livingroom. In the absence of live golf tournaments, we hear their Top 5 favorite tournaments of all-time and the economic impact the coronavirius is having on them and PGA & LPGA Professionals around the world.

Two of the Top Instructors in the game, Kevin Roman and Keith Jarvis join me. We'll talk about tips and drills you can work on while you're stuck at home plus some of their favorite historical golf events that they're watching in place of live golf. We'll also get some driver set up tips, ball position and short game chipping instruction so we can get it close to the hole from tight lies around the green.