Talking Golf with the Golf Guy

Phil Mickelson has been making sports history his entire life, ever since he burst on the scene as an amateur golfer while attending Arizona State University, winning three NCAA individual championships, three Haskins awards as the outstanding collegiate golfer, while also leading the Sun Devils to the NCAA team title in 1990. He won 16…

Bill Roland was a young man in Akron, Ohio, following his golfing hero, Tony Lema on the back nine of the 1966 PGA Championship at Firestone County Club, when a chance encounter with the golfing legend led to a lifelong fascination of the Major Championship winner and budding superstar, resulting in Roland’s researching and publishing…

There are some who derisively, and maybe with just a touch of covetousness, sometimes proclaim, “If you can play, then you play. If you can’t, then you teach.” A simplistic statement that often does no justice to the individual in question. Great teachers and administrators often possess extraordinary skills that are unique to the lessons…

With over forty years of broadcasting athletic events in the LA and Southern California Radio Market, Ted Sobel has covered every sport and interviewed every luminary to have graced the fields, courts, courses, and arenas of Professional and Amateur competitions.

His new book, Touching Greatness, features just a few of the interviews, stories, and achievements he has been a part of in his award-winning career.

Join Ted and the Golf Guy, PGA Master Professional Jeff Waters. as they discuss some of the highlights of Ted's remarkable career.

With over forty years of broadcasting athletic events in the LA and Southern California Radio Market, Ted Sobel has covered every sport and interviewed every luminary to have graced the fields, courts, courses, and arenas of Professional and Amateur competitions.

His new book, Touching Greatness, features just a few of the interviews, stories, and achievements he has been a part of in his award-winning career.

Join Ted and the Golf Guy, PGA Master Professional Jeff Waters. as they discuss some of the highlights of Ted's remarkable career.

The winners of the Annual Golf Writers Association of America writing contest are littered with many of the great names in sports journalism. Jenkins, Kindred, Sirak, Achenbach, Callahan, Diaz, Kessler, Reilly, Rosaforte, Boswell, Tayor, are some of the masters of composition whose monikers grace the walls in the pantheon of outstanding golf literature.  But none…

The winners of the Annual Golf Writers Association of America writing contest are littered with many of the great names in sports journalism. Jenkins, Kindred, Sirak, Achenbach, Callahan, Diaz, Kessler, Reilly, Rosaforte, Boswell, Tayor, are some of the masters of composition whose monikers grace the walls in the pantheon of outstanding golf literature.  But none…

You could be forgiven if a trace of cynicism enters your thoughts when discussing Augusta National Golf Club’s long history of exclusion, racism, misogyny, and believing its membership was motivated by magnanimity and not a selfish, self-interest and concern over their international branding when their exclusionary policies were relaxed and their membership rolls expanded late…

It’s Masters week, and who better to talk about it than forty-year broadcast veteran and 37-year attendee of the Masters than radio broadcast legend, John Patrick, the Morning Show co-host of NewsTalk WGAC in Augusta, Georgia. One of the great and legendary broadcasters in all the Southern States, whose distinctive voice, witticisms, and banter have…

The Shivas Irons Society is an international organization based in Southern California that promulgates the message and teachings contained in Michael Murphy’s seminal masterpiece, “Golf In The Kingdom,” first published in 1972.” The semi-autobiographic novella is a magical retelling of the novelist’s interactions with an aging Scottish Golf Professional, Teacher, Seer, and Philosopher, Shivas Irons,…