My guest for this episode is Mike Carroll whose website/app Fit For Golf has become one of the most prominent golf fitness apps in the industry over the last few years. Mike who is originally from Ireland but now calls California home has created an amazing resource where golfers of all levels both golfing and fitness wise can get custom designed workouts to help you not only in the golf swing but also improve your every day fitness levels which we will gladly take as a bonus.  

Our first question in the POD looks at perspectives and with Mikes expertise in fitness this was a fun one to start. We move on to discuss where perhaps the club golfer can improve in relation to golf specific conditioning. To help you in choosing the right fitness professional for you we discuss some traits or skills you might want to take into account when making that choice. 

Moving into the coach’s section and we start with Mike perspective on the potential depth of knowledge that a golf coach can know or indeed should know when it comes to fitness and movement to his level.. We chat about Mikes pursuit of more speed in his own game and the learning path that has taken him down in terms of marrying physical capabilities to golf technique, forces and the like. Lastly Mike gives his views on coaching education and where to look to improve your knowledge as a golf coach and perhaps looking more outside the industry to gain that extra knowledge. 

I make no bones about it I am always immensely proud to have fellow Irish professionals on the show and especially ones who have created a successful career or platform. At the start of this Pod Mike gives us all an insight into his journey to get to where he is now both geographically and business wise and towards the end he gives us a glimpse into the future of the fitforgolf platform. When you hear the story you get a sense of how hard he has worked but what you wont really hear is how much time Mike has dedicated to learning the golf swing side of this equation. He already had the fitness knowledge but his pursuit of learning from golf experts like Sasho MacKenzie, Dana Dahlquist and many more is what impresses me the most. The best professionals in this sport are the ones who take their expertise in one field and apply it to achieve greatness in others. 

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My guest for this episode is Doug Lawrie. Doug is one of the premier Junior golf coaches in the country In recent seasons he has won the PGA of Ontario Coach of the year in 2022 as well as his players receiving numerous accolades season upon season with many now pursuing successful college scholarships in the states. 

In this podcast we start with some Junior perceptions which Doug sees when working with players. We discuss some of the tendencies of the club players in working on their own games and we chat the fast approaching winter season here in Canada and what are some drills and tips they can work on.

In the coach section we look at the areas Doug has developed from an education perspective over the last few year including speed and other areas and what peaks his interest moving forward. We discuss some of the challenges that we might face when coaching junior players and the teaming up with other coaches to not only help your players but also your own knowledge in the long term. 

We also look at the process of assisting your players when they graduate to college or university and how you can help them in the best possible way from both a lifestyle and a game perspective. 

There are many coaches that I encounter either through my education or indeed with this podcast and it is always interesting to see their skills and their passions and how they discuss both. I think when I look at Junior coaching it takes something else to be successful. Yes, you need to care about your players, well we all do that and yes you want performance or results at the end of the day but I believe when it comes to the best coaches there is an investment beyond those measurements. There is an unquantifiable commitment to the education and the development of the young person that has been intrusted to you. That education and development, like the young person themselves, is always ever changing and challenging but that is the role. I think Doug Lawrie not only accepts that role as part of his profession but is welcoming of the opportunity to not only help create great golfers but to also be part of creating great humans. 

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My guest for this episode is Michael Kennelly who is a young PGA qualified Golf Coach from Ireland. Now he may not be a name that you are familiar with but he is rapidly growing an impressive list of players many of which compete at the highest level of amateur competition in Ireland and some of whom currently are competing in D1 and D2 division college golf. 

For this Podcast we started with our perceptions question and Michael discusses two areas for us, firstly the short game and some great ideas on shot selection and practice and then into the long game. We move onto some advice Michael has for both elite and club players  in preparing for golf in the colder winter climate, for those who still play. We also discuss some practice and learning concepts and how player can possibly look to create some more long-term changes in their swing.

Into the coaching section and we first chat mentors and influences and the Journey Michael has taken so far in his learning process. We move nicely into his thoughts on golf swing and movement and the influence of, how he is as a person on his coaching strategies. We discuss some of the biggest learning points to date which takes into his walker cup coaching experience and lastly what skills or learning he is looking to develop as we move into 2024.

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Michael Kennelly

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My guest for this episode is Jeff Smith. Jeff is one of the top coaches in world golf having worked with numerous PGA tour winners and an abundant amount of talented young players. Jeff is also one of the hardest working coaches out there spending nearly 30 weeks a year actually out on tour and it was from this weeks, the RSM classic in sea island Georgia, that Jeff Joined us. 

We opened with a question on perceptions and understandings and Jeff’s answer creates a lovely insight into the club golfers learning and swing change process. We discuss the how been aware of our physical abilities in so important when looking at possible swing or technique changes. We highlight Jeff’s work with Sports box AI, one of many new 3D apps available to all players and how he feels it can help golfers to learn through an improved feedback loop. 

For the coaches we chat about the ability to translate all your knowledge base and PHD level discovery into simple terms for our player. Jeff discusses his work with Scott Piercy and the approach he takes to working with elite players. 

We move on to Jeff’s real passion of working with junior and Collegiate golfers and some of the challenges that coach’s may face having players in the collegiate system and what is the most important aspect of your role at that point. 

There is a quote attributed to Albert Einstein that reads “if you cant explain it simply, you simply don’t understand it” . In my opinion Jeff Smith is a master at this skill. For the most part elite coaches can recognize the same issues or movements that we would like to adapt but that skill, to tell a player something, they heard a hundred times before, but in a way they understand it fir the first time, that I believe is the true genius of Jeff Smith. 

Jeff was one of the first coaches I message to ask if I could spend time shadowing them, ironically enough it was through a podcast on my good friend Jason Suttons show where Jeff said hey if you want come watch just reach out and so I did… I didn’t know a lot back then but jeff was so welcoming for the whole day and so patient with this Irish Lad that was in way over his head. I will never forget that experience and the reason I tell that story is there are, like all professions, those who feel they are above giving back or paying back and above helping others climb the same mountain upon which they too once looked up at……….. 

I really believe that Jeff is the complete opposite and genuinely cares about not only about the progression of his players but also any coach that wants to learn….. As he mentions in this pod he wants to pay it forward and I think most would agree that debt is paid and then some…

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My guest for this episode is Ryan Mouque. Ryan is one of the up-and-coming golf coaches in world golf. Originally from New Zealand but now located in Australia Ryan has been establishing himself as one of the top coaches in online coaching through the skillest app platform while working with the full spectrum of players from the weekend golfer all the way through to the tour professional. 

In this episode We cover Ryan's experience on the club golfers potential misunderstandings, how to navigate all the available content, some goals to take away from coaching sessions and much more. 

In the coaches’ section we discuss Ryan's thoughts on the technical aspects of the swing so how he sees movement and golf swing from a hierarchal perspective. 

We chat about his coaching style evolution and how it was influenced by now being predominantly online with his coaching. 

Ryan brings us through some of the main lessons he learned during his educational trip to the states last year where he got to spend some time with some of the best coaches in the world and lastly some advice for those coaches looking to improve their skills and craft. 

In the modern landscape of todays communication, it can be very easy to become a sharer or transporter of information, to simply repeat what you have seen or heard and pass this off as a knowledge. In a way it is knowledge but surface level at best. Ryan Mouque is one of the coaches who is the complete opposite. From his  social offering there is information similar to others but there is a dept and knowledge there that can only be learned, not by watching tik tok and repeating, but by reading, listening, travelling and mostly by working your ass off. Ryan is one of the coaches who is not happy to be surface aware and that’s the key to the success of this man. From his website, socials, online teachings each one of these aspects exudes depth, professionalism and knowledge and add to that the hunger and eagerness to be one of the worlds best well you will see why he is fastly becoming one of the best new coaches on the golf scene. 

Ladies and Gentleman Ryan Mouque

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My guest for this episode is Martin Chuck. Martin is one of the most respected golf teachers in world golf and has worked with numerous elites and tour players including Mike Weir, Darren Clarke and Nick Taylor to name a few. As well as working with these elite players Martin operates the Tour Striker Golf School which is located at the Raven Golf Club in Phoenix Arizona and is one of the most successful golf school in North America. . 

The name Tour Striker might ring a bell with a few of you as that brand is synonymous with some of the best golf training aids on the market. Along with his wife Stacey, Martin uses his interactions with the every day player to bring to life objects and training aids that we can all use to improve our games and im sure at some stage we have all encountered on his designs on the lesson tee.  

In this podcast we open the discussion on club players by talking about how you hold the club and Martin highlights the reasons he is so adamant on a good grip

We chat some other low hanging fruit for the club player by talking about set up and routine and how we can learn about this from the GOAT Tiger Woods.

Martin gives some advice on how he likes to set up a practice session to get the most out of your time including a ten-minute trickery section and the lastly, we discuss distance and the one thing he sees that holds players back from creating more distance potential.

For the coaches we discuss some of the difference Martin sees when working with elite players versus perhaps the weekend golfer,

We chat about his mentors in golf including George Knudson and Moe Norman and how he uses the information learned in the right way to help his players.

Lastly, we discuss his communication style and how he has worked to develop it and continues to assist his coaching team in learning those same skills…

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My guest for this episode is the Tour Player Greg Chalmers. Greg is a longtime player on many tours across the globe including PGA tour, Korn Ferry Tour and the Australasian Tour. Having won on the PGA tour and won his home open, the Australian PGA , twice he is no stranger to success. 

As usual we start with some advice for the club golfer and there is some quality perspectives in here from Greg. We talk about Greg's upcoming bid for Champions Tour golf and how he is staying fit in body to help get ready for the challenge and how looking at the fitness side of things might be a necessity for not even to change your swing inn the future but even for it to remain the same. 

We discuss Greg's view on the common things holding club golfers back from improving their games and a look at the traits he sees in the great putters that maybe we could look to implement. 

Greg make some great points on practicing and using your time in a more efficient manner and then illustrates some great examples and ideas for that player who perhaps gets a bit anxious on the course to relax and remove some of that anxiety.

Moving on to the coaches’ section we chat about Greg's playing experience and how he views his playing history as an advantage or a disadvantage as he delves into the coaching realm,

We talk about some of his own experiences moving into the coaching world like where he has encountered some challenges and discuss how he tries to help players the most by looking for the area that will have the most benefit with change, as opposed to that aesthetic change.

The last subject we discuss in this podcast is probably the most important one. Some years ago, Greg and Nicole's son Max was diagnosed with Autism. After realizing how expensive all of the treatments were for their son, they knew many families wouldn’t be able to afford them.  They wanted to do their part to help and had a vision for a charity that would raise funds for other families going through the process, create an outreach for parents to get advice, help or even just to chat and help the children going through the same journey as Max. We all are tested in life by various challenges but those who encounter challenges and difficulties and then use that experience to embrace helping others is truly special…….. 

This podcast, chat, interview was one of the most enjoyable to date as Greg is truly one of the nicest people I have encountered. It’s a free-flowing honest chat with an incredibly talented golfer and an equally humble human…. If you root for one player on the champions tour this season .. 

Ladies and Gentleman 

Make it Greg Chalmers. 

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My guest for this episode is Sean Foley. Sean is widely recognized as one of the premier golf coaches in world golf having worked alongside some of the smartest professionals in the golf world and then using those experiences while helping some of the worlds best players to realise their own existing potential. 

In this episode we start by chatting about how Sean would best describe what it is that he does and indeed whether the path to get there has been a conscious one of more born from merely the ever-changing experiences of life and indeed the challenges and the failures that it provides us all. 

We discuss his perspective on how the club golfer can improve their practice or learning experiences and leading on from that we chat about the new learning aid that he has created with his fellow Canadian golf coach David Woods. With the mention of the Pro Sendr learning aid we get a chance to delve into some technical discussion on how the device works and indeed some discussion on the role of that trail arm and wrist in golf swing. 

We talk about breathing and its discussion in golf. 

For the coaching section we discuss his view on protecting players against his preferences in sessions and what might be a more player beneficial approach and Sean gives some advice to coaches out there in creating relationships with experts in certain fields to really improve or hone your craft. 

When starting to edit this podcast I felt this was one of my poorer hosting displays. I have known about Sean for nearly 4 years now and gotten to known him for the last two of those. Some of the most poignant, significant career developing moments in my last 4 years have been learnings from Sean either in person, through messages or from a post or podcast etc.  My want for this podcast was to try and give you all a similar experience and I felt I really didn’t ask the right questions to create that learning experience for you all. 

Aside from that I think what comes across to me is how comfortable Sean is in who he is. He is without doubt one of the smartest people in golf, in terms of knowledge and the knowledge to keep learning from others, yet there never seems to exist a need to advertise that fact. I said at the start of this Podcast that his influence affected me as a person more than a golf coach and the more I delve into the hierarchy of golf coaching, the more I realise they are equally important to be successful in this field.

 I have spent more than four years learning from Sean about love, respect and been a good human all the while in the background waiting for the day to learn more about his swing preferences, his thoughts on downswing etc. On closer reflection perhaps my beliefs in what I needed to learn from him was not aligned with how he felt he could best help. 

Sean has always insisted you have to go through it to get to it so I really do hope as you all go through this podcast you do get something out of it that helps you as a golfer, coach and person.  

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My guests for this episode are Andy Matthews and Brian Stolman. Boht Andy and Brian work for a company out of Michigan called Neuropeak Pro, Andy  is Director of golf performance for Neurpoeak Pro and Brian Stolman is a Peak performance coach. 

Now Neuropeak Pro is a company that has been helping people to improve their lives through helping them optimize their brain performance and breathing for quite some time. The reason that we have them on our podcast is many of those same people are athletes playing in some of the best leagues in world sport including NFL. MLB , NHL and of course for our purpose today on Professional Golf Tours around the world. Two clients that might be familiar in the golf world would be Jordan Spieth and Bryson Dechambeau.  The exact reason for having Andy and Brian on the show was to discuss breathing… now yes we all breathe and we all know that its pretty much an essential but the question is how much do we really know about it. Are we breathing the right way for example mouth versus nose breathing. Does how we breathe affect our performance? Should we be breathing slower when under pressure? What’s this fight or flight response everyone talks about?? 

We discuss how athletes in general need to be looking at how they breathe irrelevant of what sport we are really participating in. 

We get into some terms that you might have heard around breathing discussions including Precision breathing training, Heart rate Variability or HRV and how they might be affecting you as a golfer. 

If you are that arrive at the course nervous player who just hopes to hit it well to relax Andy creates some nice ideas about how you can use breathing in your warm ups for your round or even before you get to the course

We then chat about the Ntel belt that Neuropeak Pro use in assessing clients breathing. Its is the first of its kind real time precision breathing device which shows heart rate data and real time respiration data as you train. 

We then move on to the coaches section of our Podcast. So if you are a coach who has been looking at breathing training for your players or even if you have not we chat about how a coach might recognise the need in a player to look at their breathing patterns and how to introduce it to your players. 

We discuss the recent creation of the Neuropeak Pro coach certification. So what does the certification entail and how we can use this for our own education as coaches and indeed what the plans are for enhancing this education for those who perhaps want to deeper dive. 

If you are interested in performing better this will be a really interesting soft introduction to breathing viewed from a scientific and sports perspective. 
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My guest for this episode is Robbie King. Robbie is a PGA Qualified Teaching Professional at one of Scotland's leading golf resorts, The Carrick Golf Club on Loch Lomond and is quickly becoming one of the premier young golf coaches. Robbie's clients range from newcomers to the game all the way through to Touring professionals so his skills and ability  in dealing with issues of all levels is quite extensive. 

In this pod we start by discussing some of the myths Robbie has encountered during his career in coaching to date, we discuss his process of assessing golf swings and how he might suggest the club golfer at home assesses their own action. 

We chat a bit about improvement in your own game and perhaps starting to remove the sole gaze on technical aspects and focusing more on playing the game so how we learn or practice and some course management strategies. 

IN the coaches section of the Pod we talk about Robbie’s own journey to career development, so what was the incentive to travel to events like Doctors 4 in Virginia , what or whom has been his biggest influence to date in that journey and what are some of the challenges that he has faced as he sought out information from different sources. 

We chat about Robbie's involvement in skill development and on course learning and finally his goals for the future while on this educational journey. 

The hidden sub conscious qualification to be on this podcast has been that I personally have been impressed with your information and feel it would be of benefit for the everyday golfer or other coaches to know. That is in a nut shell is life experience as we can only learn from what we experience however what struck me first when contemplating asking Robbie to be on the show was I knew quite little about what he teaches, what his swing philosophy or his coaching experiences. All I really knew was he had travelled over 3,500 miles from Glasgow to Virginia to spend 3 days learning information to help his players and that really was enough.. I realised very quickly when starting to chat and in this podcast how special, dedicated and talented this young coach is right now and more importantly how bright the future is for him. If you are not following along on his journey I suggest you do. I couldn’t think of anyone more perfect to launch my new series of “ The New Breed” ..

Ladies and Gentleman 

Robbie King 

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