Start from Scratch

To celebrate our 10th episode we have a fantastic guest who quite literally left us all speechless. We welcome Zach Gould a.k.a Dr Golf on to the show to discuss his glittering amateur career as a young golfer, and his online training platform that will help all golfers get the most of their body and their golf potential. to introduce the show we are treated to recollection of the time Josh lost a match 9&8... Yes, 9&8. Our weekly discussion was based on GOLF.com's Tweet asking followers who they thought would win "on their day" between Tiger and Rory.

We’ve more or less made it... or in our eyes we have. This week we’re joined by European Tour and Ryder Cup star Jamie Donaldson! A fantastic experience just to chat golf with a top pro and top guy. He talks to us about life in lockdown and what’s next for him as he plans his way around the next few Tour dates. In the intro we discuss our decisions to find golf coaches to help us improve! We’re obviously going to need even more help for us to get better, it’s becoming a joke!

This week saw us try us genuinely help people improve - we got Josh to give free golf advice! We share a small treasure that Eddie found in a golf analysis spreadsheet which we'll be using over the next year to compare and analyse parts of our golf against each other. Our scratch golfer this week is Dewi Caughter, a previous Welsh Amateur semi-finalist and County Golf stalwart over the years! We end with a discussion on Tony Jacklin's opinion that Sergio Garcia is the biggest underachiever in world golf... ouch!

How the three of us reached a 7th episode, we will never know! This week Trist & Eddie get to strike back at Josh by analysing his game, it doesn't make for pleasant listening. We interview Marcus Mohr, a Touring Professional of four years who has played two years on the Alps Tour and one year on the Challenge Tour. Despite only starting golf at 15 years old, he's overcome plenty of set-backs and has shown what pure mental strength can do! To close, we ask Josh where he sees similarities between himself and a Touring Pro...

This week we allowed Josh the opportunity to analyse Trist and Eddie's games in detail during the introduction and in typical fashion, he didn't hold back!! Apparently there's work to do. We interview Lee Jones, an Honorary Member and Green Keeper at Conwy Golf Club, who has informative about how we can improve but also open and honest about his decision not to turn professional off a +4 handicap. As usual, we find ourselves disagreeing to end the show - this time about Taylormade's Driving Relief Charity fourball match between Rory, DJ, Ricky and Wolff.

This week was a good week for Start from Scratch as we celebrated 600 downloads! We needed a good guest to mark this occasion so we drafted in Matthew Tottey, winner of over 100 PGA sanctioned events, a Challenge Tour regular and has two appearances on the European Tour under his belt. Tristian quizzes Eddie and Josh with a tailor-made 'how addicted to golf are you?' quiz which listeners can also score themselves on. To end we discuss our favourite players outside of the 'superstars' of the game today. 

We're lucky enough to have an hour of JR's time as he imparts his wisdom on us, but more specifically Josh! JR Jones has been a 5 x Welsh Champion, 12 x County Champion and represented his country 85 times. He is now an Elected Member of the R&A and Open Championship referee and shared some brilliant stories of his time walking the fairways with the best players in the game. Me and Eddie go through Josh's bag with him... fascinating! To end this week we ask Josh what he's learned so far, and it goes exactly as expected.

In episode 3 we attempt to reach out to our new followers in France and the US of America! We read a pretty damning review out for Josh who is determined to prove this reviewer wrong...watch this space! Josh wasn't done there either, he proceeds to tell us about a time he lied about his handicap and told a University Golf Team that he played off scratch. We're joined by a scratch golfer and friend of ours for some more great insight on what where we've been going wrong. We also discuss the price of playing golf these days and we welcome all opinions on this matter!

We made a second episode after some encouragement! In this episode we discuss Eddie's somewhat strained exchange with Marc Player (son of Gary Player) on Twitter and our 'home golf practice' as we're still in the lock-down. We also chat with Mathew Wharton, a teaching professional who provides us with some insightful tips as well as a brilliant story about the time he blagged his way into following Tiger around Hoylake! We end this week with a brief discussion about whether or not the Ryder Cup should be played without fans.

In our first podcast we introduce ourselves, set out our audacious plans for the podcast, and overcome some slight audio issues in the first section as we find a way of podcasting during this "unprecedented" time! However we manage to overcome it and we are joined by a friend of ours Sion Thomas, whose achievements so far include winning the Club Championship, County Championship AND Regional Championship in the same year! Our weekly discussion sees us chime in on a fairly controversial Padraig Harrington quote and we beg any potential listeners to ... like us?!