The Golf Insiders

PODCAST NOTE: Listeners can tune in to iHeart Radio 740 The Game or listen in the Orlando area on FM 96.9 Wednesdays from 6-7 p.m. to hear The Golf Insiders live. Add The Golf Insiders podcast to your iPhone as an app. Click here and go to the bottom of the device's screen to create the "Quick Launch" icon for the Golf Insiders. Once you've done this it will add The Golf Insiders podcast as an App to your home screen. 

Holly G, Host and Producer of The Golf Insiders, and Social Media Expert, EVVUS, Will Perry, are in the studio.

In the final segment of the show, Holly and Will discuss Bryson DeChambeau considering switching to side-saddle putting.

Sam Snead was the most famous golfer using side-saddle. 

A company producing side saddle putters is L2 Putters. John Ambrose, CEO and President of L2 Putters, calls in to talk about the lateral line and side saddle putter.

The lateral line was the catalyst that got him started. John is a retired as a commercial airline pilot. The concept of being able to look at the hole while you are putting really intrigued John.

This style gives your dominant style hand free reign on the putter. John said that lateral lines is the purest, and simplest way to putt but not the easiest.

Will asks John if Bryson DeChambeau's tinkering with this newer style would bring more players to try it? Most people who think outside the box look into this style of putting.

John said that the number one nemesis in putting is our need to control the putter so badly. We think we need to steer the ball to the cup instead of trusting your line and feeling the distance. He said it's not like throwing a ball like a lot of people say because the ball is on the ground.

Holly mentioned that DeChambeau did use side-saddle putting when he was an amateur and was successful. 

L2 Putters has a more conventional putter that they offer the consumer, the MOI MAXX, which has the largest sweet zone spot with the largest MOI. John said he designed the MOI MAXX head so you don't have to look at the ball when you are putting. I truly believe that looking at the ball while you are putting is the biggest waste of your talent. Your eyes are your depth perception and it's where your touch and feel comes from. 

Oversize grip and a square grip. The big thing about the MOI MAXX is that it stands up by itself to allow you see your line better. 

PODCAST NOTE: Listeners can tune in to iHeart Radio 740 The Game or listen in the Orlando area on FM 96.9 Wednesdays from 6-7 p.m. to hear The Golf Insiders live. Add The Golf Insiders podcast to your iPhone as an app. Click here and go to the bottom of the device's screen to create the "Quick Launch" icon for the Golf Insiders. Once you've done this it will add The Golf Insiders podcast as an App to your home screen. 

Holly G, Host and Producer of The Golf Insiders, and Social Media Expert, EVVUS, Will Perry, are in the studio.

In the third segment of the show, Jeff Babineau from Golfweek, calls in to talk about the some of the items making headlines in the golf world. One is that a portion of the 408 here in the Orlando area could be named after Arnold Palmer. Also the push to have the PGA Tour logo changed using Palmer's silhouette.

Jeff, Will and Holly talk about the start of the season and how tough it is to win on the Tour, referring to Paul Casey who has been playing well but only has one win on the Tour. It's all about putting yourself in a position to win on Tour and then doing something when you get there.

Holly mentions that Carlota Ciganda wins for the first time on the LPGA Tour. Also they discuss the Race to the CME Globe. The two move on to talk about the Champions Tour including Davis Love III winning on levels of the Tour. Jeff said that Davis Love is a great ambassador for the game and deserving of the Hall of Fame.

PODCAST NOTE: Listeners can tune in to iHeart Radio 740 The Game or listen in the Orlando area on FM 96.9 Wednesdays from 6-7 p.m. to hear The Golf Insiders live. Add The Golf Insiders podcast to your iPhone as an app. Click here and go to the bottom of the device's screen to create the "Quick Launch" icon for the Golf Insiders. Once you've done this it will add The Golf Insiders podcast as an App to your home screen. 

In the second segment of the show, Holly G, Host and Producer of The Golf Insiders, and Social Media Expert, EVVUS, Will Perry, are joined by Bob Harig, ESPN.com, for first time since the Ryder Cup win for the USA.

Bob says that the competition should be more even than it has been. The Task Force allows the players to have more input and more of a say than in the past. It's much like the European model. Some of the same coaches will be involved with the President's Cup team.

Holly says kudos to Phil Mickelson for bringing attention to the USA's Ryder Cup captaincy and team overall. Bob and Holly discuss that it was a pretty successful Ryder Cup all the way around with the exception of a few fans. It looks like the Ryder Cup is in good shape moving forward for both sides.

Bob and Holly talk about the start of the new season and how important these first events on the PGA Tour are and what winning them means for the players.

PODCAST NOTE: Listeners can tune in to iHeart Radio 740 The Game or listen in the Orlando area on FM 96.9 Wednesdays from 6-7 p.m. to hear The Golf Insiders live. Add The Golf Insiders podcast to your iPhone as an app. Click here and go to the bottom of the device's screen to create the "Quick Launch" icon for the Golf Insiders. Once you've done this it will add The Golf Insiders podcast as an App to your home screen. 

Holly G, Host and Producer of The Golf Insiders, and Social Media Expert, EVVUS, Will Perry, are in the studio talking about Brendan Steele's win at the Safeway Open. It was Steele's first win in several years. 

Holly also talks with Will about the 2017 Hall of Fame Class announcements that included 2016 Ryder Cup winning Captain Davis Love III, two-time European Tour player of the year Ian Woosnam, LPGA standouts Lorena Ochoa and Meg Mallon, and noted newspaper and TV commentator Henry Longhurst. 

Will and Holly catch listeners up on golf headlines from around the globe including Tiger Woods' new Tiger Woods Ventures brand.