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Alex Buckner is one of the best short game coaches working with professional golfers, helping them to understand and improve not only their technique but thinking over short game. We talk about how Alex made his way from player to coach and how he wants to improve himself so that he can pass that knowledge onto his students.

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Curtis Knipes turned Pro at the age of 19 with a handicap of +4.4. Before turning Pro, he qualified for the 148th Open Championship at Royal Portrush Golf Club. His amateur career was filled with successfully defending his Essex Amateur Championship title, becoming the England Champion of Champions.

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Jordan Godwin is a qualified PGA Professional who also has a budding playing career within the PGA ranks as well as narrowly missing out on final qualifying of the 149th Open. We talk how he got into golf, coaching and his experience of playing for the PGA Cup team in America.

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Toby Graves turned Pro in 2018 and also runs his own Sports Events company called TPG Sports Events. We talk about his career so far, how he went to University in the US to play golf with his twin brother and what it's like to caddie for Ben Evans on the European Tour.

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This week I had the pleasure of speaking to Rob & Lizzy Prior. Rob & Lizzy (The Prior's), are both professional golfers, brother and sister, both forging their own career within golf. Rob is here in the UK playing on the EuroPro Tour, looking to move up to the European Tour and Lizzy is over in America playing on the Symetra Tour making her way on to the LPGA.

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This weeks episode is with Taylor Carter. We talk about his amateur career, playing on the Mena, Jamega and EuroPro tours, plus what it's like to work with ex top players such as Zane Scotland and Simon Kahn.

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This week, Joe Kelly talks to me about his journey from weekend golf, turning pro off a handicap of 4 and how his first few events were a huge learning curve. Now he's playing on the EuroPro Tour and forging an exciting career.

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Next on the podcast is Challenge Tour player, Alfie Plant. Alfie came to prominence by winning the Silver Medal, as the leading amateur, at the 2017 Open Championship. Also, in 2016 he won the Lytham Trophy with a score of 284 to win by seven shots. Recently he finished the 2019 PGA EuroPro Tour season 4th in the Order of Merit to gain a place on the 2020 Challenge Tour.

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Ben Firth turned Pro in 2020 just before the start of the pandemic when he was out in South Africa earning his Sunshine Tour card. We talk about his career to date, the times when he was a youngster and then his journey to South Africa. 

You can contribute to Ben's success by joining his 100 Club, visit his website https://www.benfirthgolf.com/100-club.html and see how you can get involved.

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Elizabeth Schultz is currently playing on the Symetra Tour over in America, which is the Road 2 LPGA (similar to the LET Access Tour in the UK). We talk about how a family friend got her into the game and then how she qualified for the 2013 Women's US Open after only 3 years of picking up a club!

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