Sean and Jordan wrap up the NCAA college season with some final thoughts on the men's Division 1 national championship at Grayhawk. They look through the PGA Tour U grads and try to project what their first 12-18 months might look like. Then they discuss Rose Zhang's pro debut victory along with amateurs who qualified for the Men's and Women's U.S. Open.

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Sean and Jordan are joined by David Tenneson (@CGolfBook) to react to Rose Zhang's individual National Championship and Wake Forest's match play triumph. They also have some flowers for USC who made it to the final match.

Then, at the 12:30 mark, they turn their attention to the men's national championship. David outlines the work he's doing to collect the history of college golf dating back to 1896. He gives us some incredible trends he's noticed over the last decade, too.  They talk about the regional shocks and surprises and pick out some storylines they are looking forward to following. Of course they wrap up predicting the 8 teams that will make match play and who will be the national champions.

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Sean and Jordan talk storylines at Grayhawk for the women's NCAA National Championship. 
They also try to put Rose Zhang's two years at Stanford into perspective and discuss her place in the pantheon of great college athletes in any sport.

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Jordan Perez and Sean Melia share some of their favorite storylines leading into the men's NCAA Division 1 regional stage and also try to pick some teams that might surprise us and make, or miss, nationals at Grayhawk.

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Jordan Perez and Sean Melia dive into some of the storylines that have piqued their interest in the lead up to the NCAA Women's Regional.  Then they see if they can identify teams that might crash the party and leap the top five seeds in the regions and punch their ticket to Grayhawk.

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Jeronimo Esteve recently won the 2023 Coleman, it was, in his words, “his biggest victory” and he joined us to share his thoughts on the event. He gives some incredible descriptions of holes and shots at Seminole that made my palms sweat.

Over the years, Esteve’s name has been at or near the top of some elite amateur leaderboards. From the Gasparilla to the Crump Cup to the U.S. Mid-Am and The Coleman, he enjoys the competition and gives some excellent insight into his mindset as he came down the stretch at Seminole battling Stewart Hagestad and Evan Beck. Recently, Esteve has also helped launch a Mid-Am event in the Dominican Republic. The Devil’s Elbow grants an exemption to the PGA Tour’s Corales Punta Cana Championship.

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Jordan Perez and Sean Melia open the pod by discussing amateurs at Chevron, Florida's SEC victory, other college results.

Then (27:00), Marcus El of Golfstat joins to discuss life as the Director of Ops for the company, its connection with college golf, and then we pick his brain about the current college scene as conference championships wrap-up and regionals and nationals loom on the horizon.

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Heather Daly-Donofrio’s role as the USGA Managing Director for Player Relations and Development has kept her quite busy over the last year. She has spearheaded the creation of the USGA’s National Player Development. A program that many felt was a long time coming. After research and discussions with people around the world, Daly-Donofrio and her team rolled out their plan this winter. Daly-Donofrio is a perfect fit for this job, as she started playing the game at 15 and managed to find her way to college at Yale and then played on the LPGA Tour. She has an understanding of the challenges of finding a pathway as a junior golfer, especially having started the game a little on the late side for someone that did play professionally. 

Daly-Donofrio speaks about the process for rolling out this program, the challenges and the benefits. It’s all very new and very fluid, and it’s exciting to imagine how the program grows over the next 5-10 years as players make their way into and through the program. 

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Meghan Stasi is the youngest individual ever inducted into the Florida State Golf Association (FSGA) Hall of Fame. To date, she has won 17 FSGA titles, including two Florida Women’s Amateurs and five Florida Women’s Mid-Amateurs. Stasi is an eight-time FSGA Player of the Year. On top of that, she competed in the 2008 Curtis Cup at St. Andrews and has won four U.S. Women’s Mid-am championships from 2006-2012. 

Next year, she will captain the Curtis Cup team in England when the event is held at Sunningdale. Stasi talks about how she got into the game, her college experience, the choice to remain an amateur and coach college golf at Ole Miss, and her incredible memories from the 2008 Curtis Cup. Scotland holds a very special place in Stasi’s heart, and she explains that it’s more than just because of the golf. We wrap up talking about Stasi's responsibilities as Curtis Cup captain. 

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Jordan Perez hops on the phone on her way back from a week at ANWA  to talk about Rose Zhang's victory, the event's growth over the years, and pleasant surprises from the tournament. 

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