Podcast – DimpleHead

Josh discusses the merits and drawbacks of the two early season swings first with Dr. Robin Kelly of West Texas A&M University and then with Ryan Ballengee of Golf News Net and the Billy Casper Golf Digital Network.

Josh and his guests discuss the venues, fields and overall cache of each of the West Coast and Florida swing events.

John Kim, coordinating producer of PGA.com, joined Josh to recap the 2014 PGA Merchandise show in Orlando. They discussed some of the hot products at the show and John shares his story of one of the most over-the-top products he’s ever seen at the show.

Steve Elling from The National, an English-language newspaper in Abu Dhabi, joined Josh to talk about the DP World Tour Championship, aka the finale of the Race to Dubai on the European Tour. Josh and Steve also discussed the impact of the wrap-around schedule on global golf and who deserves the worldwide player of the year.

Fox Sports Senior Golf Analyst Robert Lusetich joined the podcast to discuss the Presidents Cup and the recent news about the World Golf Hall of Fame reviewing induction criteria. You can read Robert’s take on the Presidents Cup and find all of his coverage of the event here. You can also search for and subscribe to the DimpleHead Podcast on iTunes.

This week’s podcast features Geoff Shackelford. Josh and Adam chat with Geoff about The Presidents Cup, end of year PGA Tour awards, the Web.com Tour Finals, the start of the 2013-14 wrap-around early season events and the lack of big-name Europeans at the Seve Trophy.

Josh and Adam wrap-up Henrik Stenson’s big payday in Atlanta with the Fed Ex Cup and Tour Championship. The guys also hand out their end of season awards, rank the best players in golf right now and who is becoming golf’s version of Skip Bayless?

Adam was on-site for Zach Johnson’s win at the BMW Championship at Conway Farms last week and he gives a full recap of the action from the third leg of the Fed Ex Cup Playoffs. Josh and Adam also talked about Tiger’s rules imbroglio, Jim Furyk’s 59, and Suzann Pettersen’s win at the Evian Championship.

Shane Bacon of Yahoo Sports’ Devil Ball Golf blog joins Adam and Josh in the off week of the PGA Tour Playoffs. The guys discussed the Captains Picks for the Presidents Cup, The FedEx Cup, Player of the Year , the Evian Championship and the Walker Cup. Find it on iTunes as well.

This week, Josh chats with Shoshana Agus-Kleinman, contributor to weiunderpar.com and TheGolfNewsNet. Shoshana was on the ground at TPC Boston for the Deutsche Bank Championship and shared her thoughts on the event, Henrik Stenson’s victory, Tiger Woods’ performance, the race for Player of the Year, The Presidents Cup and her work at the US Amateur last month.

Josh and Adam discuss Adam Scott’s win at The Barclays, the impact of Tiger Woods’ back issues, The overall FedEx Cup Playoffs, The Player of the Year race on the PGA Tour, The Presidents Cup (Jordan Spieth as a Captain’s Pick!) and the continued great play from Lydia Ko.