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Why can Robert di Vicenzo take credit for John Huggan's golf career? How did Bruce Young end up flying private in the US in the early 2000's? Did a local caddy really call the great Seve Ballesteros Steve? Find out all this and more - including a bit of Ryder Cup chat - in a great storytelling episode of the ISG podcast. (Also, for those wondering, Bruce Young's Twitter handle is @BruceYoung4)

Special Guest: John Huggan.

Professional golf is about so much more than playing the game. In fact, as Australian touring professional Mat Goggin once described it 'talent is just the entry fee'. So do the world's top players have a responsibility to the game beyond simply playing well? We discuss that -and who's good at media and who's not - as well as the merits or otherwise of the FedEx Cup, why Brooke Henderson is such an asset to golf and we get Bruce Young's thoughts on the $9 million Tiger Woods/Phil Mickelson match as well.

There has never been a bigger celebrity in golf than Tiger Woods. From the moment he won the 1997 Masters as a precocious 21-year-old the now 14-time major winner has been THE face of the game. While Woods' golf was other worldly it was his fall from grace in 2009, when his personal life unravelled with revelations of a string of illicit affairs, that has resonated with most. As Woods continues to build a remarkable comeback from spinal surgery thought impossible by most, the ISG Pod Book Club puts the Jeff Benedict and Aremn Keteyian biography of golf's most famous exponent under the microscope.

Special Guest: Justin Falconer.

Desmond Muirhead was one of the game's truly great characters and while he is remembered by too many only for some of his unorthodox later designs, his impact on the industry has been significant. From his work alongside Jack Nicklaus at Murifield Village to Australia's own Kooralbyn Valley in the Gold Coast hinterland, there was no project Muirhead would not take on. Close friends Tommy Naccarato and Forrest Richardson join Episode 72 of the podcast to give some insight into a man who is only now beginning to be recognised for being way ahead of his time.

Special Guests: Forrest Richardson and Tommy Naccarato.

Hannah Green is an ISG Podcast favourite and she makes a long awaited return on Epsiode 71. We chat with Hannah about her season, life on the LPGA Tour, this Beth Ann Nichols story on Inbee Park being asked to pay for clubs plus Hannah's take on TIger and the gripping finish to the PGA at Bellerive.

Special Guest: Hannah Green.

The Vic Open has proved a hit not only among fans but players as well and two time Ladies European Tour winner Felicity Johsnon tells us why it's such a favourtie with the pros. We also discuss what's good - and not so good - in the state of the game more broadly and it wouldn't be a golf podcast without a bit of Tiger chat and there's some of that near the end, too.

Special Guest: Felicity Johnson.

When the ISG Podcast Book Club launched in January this year Tom Coyne's A Course Called Ireland featured in our second episode. Fast forward six months and Coyne's recently released A Course Called Scotland is making waves in golf literary circles. Coyne joins the ISG Podcast this week to talk about the book but the discussion also turns in some fascinating and unexpected directions as we analyse the modern media environment, the place of books now and into the future and whether having an obsession with golf is healthy. Coyne is thoughtful and articulate and a superb guest whose love of the game is both obvious and infectious, as you'll hear.

Special Guest: Tom Coyne.

Francesco Molinari, somehow, continued to fly under the radar despite amazing form leading into the 147th Open Championship at Carnoustie. He proved what a mistake that was with a dogged victory Sunday, staring down an early charging Tiger Woods and hanging on to finish ahead of Rory McIlroy on a thrilling final day. Adrian Logue has been on the ground all week at Carnoustie and has some insightful first hand analysis of all the major players from a memorable week.

For many it's a pilgrimage and The Open is the perfect excuse to do it. A round at the Old Course at St Andrews is the Holy Grail for the golf architecture nerd and ISG Podcast co-host Adrian Logue is undoubtedly in that category. On episode 67 he joins us to discuss what makes the Old Course such a special and powerful experience and why a trip to The Open in Scotland

Australian golf fans will remember the 1975 Open at Carnoustie for the close call of Jack Newton but co-host Bruce Young and his then boss Graham Marsh weren't too far away from being part of the eventual play-off for the title. Bruce joins the podcast on Episode 66 to chat about his memories of that week as well as thoughts on the Tiger Woods/ Phil Mickelson proposed $10 million made for TV match, the play of Sei Young Kim and her record setting score in Wisconsin, the rising star of Ryan Fox and the Joel Dahmen/Sung Kang cheating incident from last week.