On the heels of today's announcement of a proposed model local rule of the golf ball rollback for elite level players, we're joined by USGA CEO Mike Whan to explain the position of the USGA and R&A and what lies ahead in the process.  After our chat with Mike, we outline our reaction to the announcement, address some misconceptions about the proposed changes, and have some fun with listener questions as well.
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NLU Podcast, Episode 655: Mike Whan on the USGA's proposed distance changes

The No Laying Up Podcast is a fresh, funny and informative conversation on all things golf.
Founded in 2014, No Laying Up and its flagship podcast seeks to entertain and inform a community of avid golfers around the world. What started as a group text among college friends has now grown into one of the most popular podcasts in the game of golf, and our archives include appearances from the biggest names in the sport. Outside of the podcast, No Laying Up also produces multiple video travel series, best-in-class writing about the PGA Tour and LPGA, a robust social media presence, and a thriving community of friends and fans (The Nest).

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A double dip this week as we preview the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town, and the first women's major of the year at the Chevron. We talk course fit at both places, our favorite Harbour Town memories, what's changed at the Chevron, Nelly's run, and preview our travel series that debuts tonight. 
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NLU Podcast, Episode 824: RBC/Chevron Happy Hour

The ninth installment of Tourist Sauce premieres Wednesday night on our YouTube channel as we return to Australia where the first season of our travel series was filmed.  Our itinerary for our return down under:
New South Wales: 34:00
Bonnie Doon 43:00
Royal Adelaide: 53:45
St Andrews Beach 1:17:30
Lonsdale Links 1:30:45
Penn Kingswood 1:38:00
Cape Wickham 1:58:00
Ocean Dunes 2:23:10
Royal Melbourne 2:35:40
Kingston Heath 3:01:45
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NLU Podcast, Episode 823: Tourist Sauce Season 9 - Australia Preview

Randy, TC and Cody are back with an LPGA preview pod as we gear up for the first major of the women's season with the Chevron Championship.  To help us set the table for the week ahead, we call upon friend of the pod Justin Ray for some statistical research with his ten favorite stats from the dominant run of Nelly Korda who enters play this week winning her last four events.
After our chat with Justin we look at the schedule for the week, some of our favorite potential storylines at the event and close the show with our favorite dark horse and outright winner picks.  
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NLU Podcast, Episode 822: LPGA Chevron Preview with Justin Ray

Scottie Scheffler is now a two-time Major Champion, joining Tiger Woods winning The Players and The Masters in the same season and multiple times. He is the fourth youngest player to win his second green jacket (Tiger, Jack, Seve). We run through the day's events: Ludvig's solo 2nd at his first Major, a disappointing final 9 for Max finishing T3 with TommyLad, and Collin. Biggest stories of the week, a couple leaderboard rundowns, future Major predictions and more. We close it out with a lengthy menu from TC and KVV and we wish Soly all the best on his upcoming dream round.  
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NLU Podcast, Episode 821: Sunday Augusta Live Show

Scott Scheffler is leading the 2024 Masters Tournament through 3 rounds. D.J., Randy and Soly break down the day's action with special appearances from Tron and KVV. Plus we welcome special guest Johnson Wagner to break down Scottie, the chasers Collin Morikawa, Ludvig Aberg, and Max plus what weird stuff he saw Bryson do today. We close it out by picking winners and Jordan and Soly's Champions dinner menus.
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NLU Podcast, Episode 655: Mike Whan on the USGA's proposed distance changes

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