Shamrocks and Shanks

A chat with 5 time European Tour Winner Barry Lane. Barry discusses his entry into golf and how the love affair began. We chat about his memories of interactions with such legends as Bob Torrance,  Seve and Bernhard Langer. He gives us some detail on what is helping him get his game back in shape for the 2022 season and also some advice for the club golfer out there and how changing your mind set and your perception might be the quickest way to improve. A walk back through the career with a nod to the future success. 

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In this episode I got to chat with Dr. Karl Morris who is one of the elite sports performance coaches in the world. Client list in the Golf world includes Lee Westwood, Graeme McDowell, Darren Clarke, Louis Oosthuizen to name a few. 
Karl discusses how we as players are constantly creating opinions on our games rather than dealing more with facts, how we can improve our game by creating simple thoughts and attaching it to imagery and also how we should be asking ourselves questions to create the required intention before each shot. This is a Podcast for everyone to start looking at their Golf game and the way they view it in a little bit of a different light. 

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A chat with short game coach to LPGA and PGA players, Gareth Raflewski. Gareth has over 75 wins as a coach on both tours combined and joined us to chat about his coaching philosophy, what he looks for when helping golfers of all abilities and his venture in to the putting training aid market and how that started to really help his students. 

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Chat with PGA Tour putting coach and Irishman Stephen Sweeney about his journey to the PGA  tour from Donegal, his work with PGA  players like Joaquin Niemann, Aaron Wise, Wyndham Clark and his recent addition to that list in the form of an Irish Major Winner Shane Lowry......Stephen also gave us some good fundamentals to work on our own games and chatted about his upcoming creation of a new Indoor Putting facility in Palm Beach...

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A chat with Dr. Will Wu PHD about understanding motor learning and how we can use that understanding to potentially enhance our practice time. How to create a structure in our practice so we are practicing to improve rather than for the sake of practicing full stop and also how coaches can look more at the art of learning and guided practice to assist students in their environments when away from the guidance of their coach. 

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I got to chat with Coach Doug Lawrie about his path to becoming one of the premier coaches in the country, his views on junior golf in Canada and some other fun topics that came up. Enjoy

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