Todays Monday Mini is inspired from a voicemail from wolfpacker Asher in New Zealand who has a question about his irons.

Asher was listening to our recent ep where Kell was on and was missing to the left with his driver, and Asher is interested to know rather than cutting his shaft, does gripping down achieve a similar outcome?

Nick and Mark run through Asher's question and kick around grip techniques, and talk about some pros who grip down. Mark talks through swing weights and how to ensure that if you dod cut an inch off your shaft, how to ensure your club is weighted appropriately.

And we finish talking about a gun Tour Pro with perhaps the most unfortunate name in golf.

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Cos why not? We thought we'd smash out a quick weekend Talk Birdie Mini today.

Wolfpacker Andrew has an idea for a new tournament that he believes would match the Ryder Cup. It's a tri-series featuring three countries.

Nick and Mark hear Andrews idea, put it on the blocks and see how it could work in this hypothetical situation and run through the players that would be eligible for the teams, Could it match the Ryder Cup? It's a big call....do Nick and Mark agree?

A fun hypothetical weekend mini, enjoy your Sunday !!!

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The weekends nearly here, hope you've got some downtime, some family time, and some golf time planned! Today on our Friday Feedback pod we have a lot of fun, although we start with Mark thinking for some reason he is qualified to give medical advice and makes some observations on the cut that Dan has on his head from the kitchen cupboard. Helpful from Mark.

After we get through that, onto the golf chat....!

01:00Peter has some thoughts on bunker play to run by Nick and Mark.

02:00We chat about some of the great South African bunker players.

04:00We love Chooky Fowler, but he could occasionally play slow. If you've not seen our chat with him, google Chooky Fowler and Talk Birdie To Me and it will come up.

05:00A question about Nick and Marks fitness regime during non competition weeks when they were on the tour, and how did they manage their motivation.

06:30We talk about the importance, as a pro, of tapering.

08:00Nick talks about how Tiger would prepare for competition

09:00How Augusta get the course ready for The Masters in the weeks leading up, and how brilliant it is for the members.

10:30Plenty of feedback on our Claude Harmon 3rd show last week. It was a ripper, if you haven't listened or watched, well worth doing.

14:00Comment from a wolfpacker on Cam's putting when he won The Open Championship

15:00Some comments on LIV and where it's at, and its legacy.

After the turn:

18:00We put our next finalist in the draw to win. trip to Kangaroo Island to play 18 holes at The Cliffs with the architect Darius Oliver and Mark Allen.

20:00Phil has an idea on the policing of slow play, inspired by the Olympics, Nick and Mark are big fans.

23:00A wolfpacker gives mark a serve telling him to 'get over himself'

25:00A fun comment on a piece of commentary that a wolfpacker heard during The Open Championship a couple of months ago that they thought Mark particularly might enjoy. He does.

27:00And a spur of the moment top 5 'blinkered' players in tournaments.

A fun Friday Feedback show today, we'll have a bonus mini this weekend, it's a cracker so keep an eye out for that on Saturday morning - or Sunday, depending on if we're playing golf and couldn't be arsed coming in on Saturday.

Hit em well !!

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A fun mini ep today where Nick and Mark answer a couple of questions from wolfpacker Jeff about a conversation on last weeks main show.

Mark was talking about cutting the shaft on your irons, and Jeff is interested to hear Nick and Marks thoughts on running the same length irons in your bag across the whole set, the same as Bryson does. What are the advantages, what are the disadvantages?

We kick it around for a whole and discuss the pros and cons. Given Bryson is an obvious reference, he comes up, and Nick talks about playing with him when he (Bryson) was an amateur at Huntingdale, describing him at that time as unique, different, and with extraordinary length - Nick tells the story of Bryson monstering a short Par 4.

Great question from Jeff, and excellent short mini ep today to hook into!

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• Betr, the fastest and easiest betting app in Australia;
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HUGE show today. So much to discuss, and we start with some more inside info from Mark's LIV insider in the US, he reads the texts.

01:00 Info from inside LIV Golf from Marks LIV insider. He names four players who are definitely (according to his intel) leaving LIV, three players who are likely to be out, and one (not Bryson) who is all in.

02:30 The players who are bullish on LIV 2.0, are bullish pending access to the majors, in other words whether they get meaningful ranking points on LIV or not.

04:00 The insider says LIV will file for bankruptcy in the next 3-weeks, however there is a 'whale' in the background ready to invest in 2.0

05:00 Staff will be exited mid-September, with some rehired following the restructure

07:00 Mark says that LIV has proved that golf starved areas will respond with big crowds and the PGAT will have noticed this.

10.30 We discuss Brysons comments after the weekends LIV tournament.

12.30 Nick says Bryson is a content dream and great for golf

15:00Mark has an update to his watchlist, with a player making a move following the weekend.

17:00We watch the video of Wyndham from the weekend....should he be penalised?

20:00Nick - we need a shot clock in golf.

21:30Mark has found himself on Golf Australia's watchlist after last weeks Top 5 where he listed 5 things he reckons GA have gotten wrong.

22:00We chat to Heath McLeod, Tournament Director of the PGA tour of Australasia who addresses Marks comments about playing in pairs at weekend in the AO. He explains why the AO had 3-balls at the weekend last year.

26:00For Hostplus, our plus for golf this week from Mark goes to Rory McIlroy....Mark explains.

28:30And for BMW, Nick awards his touch of class to Scottie Scheffler, when compared to Rory McIlroy.

After the turn:

31:00We put our 6th person in the draw to play The Cliffs at Kangaroo Island with Mark and course architect Darius Oliver....two more people to go! Link to enter on our socials.

32:00For Betr, Nick's Top 5 good, bad, and whacky things that LIV has given us.

38:00Onto feedback....we start with a question about LIV players and the Presidents Cup

40:00A comment on last weeks chat about some players being 'scared off the leaderboard'. Nick and Mark talk about playing in Canada and how much they loved it.

42:00Comment on our 'weird and wonderful' putting strokes conversation from last week.

43:00Comments on Aaron Baddely, and Mark talks about his irons and how unusual they were.

45:30Last week Mark said most members of clubs wouldn't mind giving their course over to a major tournament, one listener disagreed and explains why.

46:00Mark talks about the calibre of courses juniors used to play on in qualifiers years ago.

48:00An interesting message on our hypothetical 'fast 3-ball vs slow 3-ball' concept from last week.

49:30Plenty for Nick to discuss in the Global highlights.

51:30And the boys got a message from Tour Pro Zach Murray who enjoyed the chat with Claude Harmon 3rd last week....if you haven't seen Zach's YouTube channel, do yourself a favour it's a ripper. Check it out here.

59:00Mark saw a video from Jason Day last week with him trying something - Mark gave it a crack at the weekend and it worked well. He explains it for us for the Golf Clearance Outlet in todays masterclass.

Big show, touch longer than usual, too much golf to discuss !!!!

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Paul from Wollongong enjoyed the Claude Harmon III show last week, and took one piece of advice from Claude and applied it to his game at the weekend. Did it work? Paul tells us in this quick voicemail.

If you've not heard or watched Nick O'Hern and Mark Allen's chat with Claude, it's well worth it.

Watch here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zWZSn0n5cMk

Listen here on Apple Podcasts: https://tr.ee/4KZrvO

Listen here on Spotify: https://tr.ee/603nLP

And if you have a voicemail with a comment or a question for Nick and Mark, you can leave it here using either your phone or computer.

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• Betr, the fastest and easiest betting app in Australia;
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A Talk Birdie To Me bonus ep today, with a special guest dropping by - the world's premier golf course photographer, Gary Lisbon. Gary has a new book out today (August 25) called 'Great Golf on the Melbourne Sandbelt', it is a panoramic book and perfect for anyone who loves the Sandbelt, or as a fathers day gift for a golf-lover.

Nick and Mark chat with Gary about why he believes that 'pound for pound the Sandbelt is the best golf course region in the world'.

Mark asks if golf course photography has changed much over the last 20-years, and Gary says it absolutely has, and there are two key reasons why, which he explains.

Gary explains what 'golden hour' is and why it is important.

Nick asks Gary to name the most under-rated Sandbelt golf course

Does Nick or Mark have a better eye for photography? Gary picks one of the boys out.

Gary talks about the US course that imported a sand profile from Royal Melbourne in order to replicate the bunkering, and the sand, at that course.

And he talks us through an enormously fun webpage where every hole from the 10 official Sandbelt courses are listed, with photographs of course, and you can create your very own composite course. The great thing is that if you do, and share it on your socials, you'll go in the draw to win an autographed copy of Gary's new book.

The website to build your own composite Sandbelt course is here.

And to order your very own copy of Gary's new book 'Great Golf on the Melbourne Sandbelt' visit the site here.

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• Golf Clearance Outlet, they beat everyone's prices;
• Betr, the fastest and easiest betting app in Australia;
• The Find My Player app - follow every player on every tour;
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A Monday Mini today, and we chat with wolfpacker Kell who has a couple of questions for Nick and Mark.

Kell is from Sydney and was a junior at Moore Park, which has been in the news for the wrong reasons lately with the NSW government making some appalling decisions, and Kell starts with a fantastic snapshot of how he started learning and enjoying golf at Moore Park, and of his school holidays spent at the course. So good. Kell describes what has happened to Moore Park as 'really sad', Mark describes it as a 'shiteshow'. Both are correct and what has happened to Moore Park is nothing short of a disgrace.

But onto Kell's questions.

Kell watched Nick and Mark play The Lakes a few times, and followed them around, and his first question is around their early years as pros, and how they initially felt playing with the big guys, how they grew into feeling as though they belonged, and when they felt like contemporaries rather than the young guys making their way.

Mark explains his career trajectory onto the tour, and Nick talks through his - both were different. Nick identified three areas that he had to address when he turned pro, and he focused on them right away. He explains what they were and why they were important. He talks about 'levelling up' his golf, and 'sliding door' moments.

Mark talks about his first pro tournament, where he finished high up, and then proceeded to miss 13 cuts in a row, and had to turn that around (he did).

Both Nick and Mark kick around some of the wonderful tournaments that existed back then, and how much they loved playing them.

Kell's second question is about his driving, he's having trouble off the tee at the moment and he recently heard Nick talking about how much he loves his current Driver, and asks Nick about that, and his setup, Nick obliges. Mark discusses Driver technique, and talks about the difference length (of the driver) can make.

A fantastic Monday Mini with Kell today, keep your comments and questions coming in, we love them! Hit em well !!

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• Golf Clearance Outlet, they beat everyone's prices;
• Betr, the fastest and easiest betting app in Australia;
• The Find My Player app - follow every player on every tour;
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South Australian golfing legend, Nick McCormack, passed away a couple of weeks ago leaving a wonderful legacy. Phil left us a short voicemail with a memory of Nick's time as the local Pro in Goulburn, NSW.

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• Titleist, the #1 ball in golf;
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• Golf Clearance Outlet, they beat everyone's prices;
• Betr, the fastest and easiest betting app in Australia;
• The Find My Player app - follow every player on every tour;
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The weekend is thisclose and that means a Friday Feedback show. Some ripping questions and comments from you this week to discuss and debate.

01:00Firstly Beau Hossler is not exactly the fastest player around, and a wolfpacker noticed something funny in the Wyndham tournament last weekend to do with Beau.

02:00In our Main show this week we talked about a 'pursuit' style comp with Keegan and Cantlay vs Aberg and Ryan Fox. Today we extend the hypothetical to add Beau to the slow group, and Nelly to the fast group, and figure out how many holes the slow group would have completed by the time the fast group are done.

03:30A wolfpacker says that LIV collapsing would be a disaster for Australian golf

06:00Bit of talk about sandbelt bunkers lately, turns out not everyone likes them. One wolfpacker explains why he dislikes them

07:00Mark talks about how to improve your bunker play

09:00We've recently talked about great swings, and a wolfpacker reckons we missed Aaron Baddeley circa 98/99.

10:30A comment on our Graham Marsh special recently and what his OWGR would have been.

12:00And we head to the turn with a mea culpa on an error we made on the show last week, which was inadvertently disrespectful to the Elkington family. Our apologies.

After the turn.

14:00We put our 5th wolfpacker in the draw to win a trip to The Cliffs at Kangaroo Island...3 more entries left, if you've not entered, you can do it here.

16:30Following Marks introduction of his 'Talk Birdie Watchlist', a wolfpacker writes in with his own 'Anchoring' watchlist, and gives us three players to start with.

18:00Excellent question from Sutto who is keen for Nick and Mark to outline the different levels of pros, in short, the differences between a Top 10 player and a Top 200 player. Mark talks about increasing by 'levels', or 'level jumping'.

22:00Nick adds to it, he calls them 'slivers' and says that it is largely between the ears.

27:00And we finish with a fun one, a wolfpacker gives us his excuses for when he has a bad round.

A fun Friday Feedback show, have a great weekend !

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• Betr, the fastest and easiest betting app in Australia;
• The Find My Player app - follow every player on every tour;
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