Talk Birdie To Me

Tour Pro's Nick O'Hern and Mark Allen talk golf every week on Talk Birdie To Me. The latest news, issues, and stories from Australia and Worldwide. As two golfers who played at the highest level, they tell it like it is, and take you behind the scenes to get an inside look into the world of golf. Nick O’Hern reached #16 in the world rankings and is the only player ever to beat Tiger Woods twice in matchplay. Mark Allen is a former Touring Pro of 15 years - played a British Open at Carnoustie, and in his career has hit 12 hole in ones.....you can see the video of one of them here . Together, they host Talk Birdie To Me each week from Titleist and FootJoy Headquarters. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on YouTube. A huge thanks to our Talk Birdie To Me partners: Hostplus - the official retirement partner of Talk Birdie To Me; BMW - luxury and comfort for the 19th hole; Titleist - the #1 ball in golf; FootJoy - the #1 shoe and ball in golf; The Golf Clearance Outlet, they beat everyone's prices; Betr, ahead of the game Find My Player - track any player on any tour in seconds. And Southern Golf Club. Follow, subscribe and listen or watch Talk Birdie To Me here: https://linktr.ee/TalkBirdieToMe Executive Producer: Kaizen Media . Sound Design: Loud Zebra . For enquiries click here . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Talk Birdie To Me

  Friday Feedback: Mark Allen - 'We'll never see anything like LIV Adelaide again, and it will leave a huge hole in our Summer'

  Aug 20, 202630 minS4

  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 ! We're live from Titleist and FootJoy HQ thanks to our great partners: Hostplus, Talk Birdie To Me's official retirement partner BMW, luxury and comfort for the 19th hole; Titleist, the #1 ball in golf; FootJoy, the #1 shoe and glove in golf; 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; And Southern Golf Club. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Mini: The Weirdest and Strangest Putting Styles of Tour Pros through the years

  Aug 19, 202614 minS4

  A bonus Talk Birdie To Me Mini today, which comes following a question from wolfpacker Dave who wrote: Hi Nick and Mark, Watching the Wyndham Championship, I noticed Tony Finau putting one-handed. Apparently he struggles with short putts and he tried it based on Tiger's well-known one-handed practice drills. He made the cut so I guess it worked! I thought it might make a good discussion - weirdest putting styles of Tour Pros. Here's one for starters:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSd0a2Njftk Love the pod! Thanks, Dave. So we decided to kick it around on the show. And oh boy there were plenty! Golfers we talk about: Bernhard Langer, Chris DiMarco, Sammy Snead, Bobby Locke. We also discuss the proliferation for a while there of Broomsticks, and of the Claw, and the 'Matt Kuchar' putting technique. Other players: Isao Aoki, Vijay Singh, the great man Jack Nicklaus, Paul Runyan, Retief Goosen, Robert Garrigus, and Raymond Floyd. And we wrap this Mini with a couple of fun things. Nick and Mark each choose the putting technique that they would have, if they could choose anyones, and have that for the rest of their life. And Nick tells us what it was like playing with the legendary Ben Crenshaw!! Happy Monday! We're live from Titleist and FootJoy HQ thanks to our great partners: Hostplus, Talk Birdie To Me's official retirement partner BMW, luxury and comfort for the 19th hole; Titleist, the #1 ball in golf; FootJoy, the #1 shoe and glove in golf; 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; And Southern Golf Club. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #218

  Ep218: Is LIV Cutting Prizemoney this weekend? An Insider says yes. We read the message. Scheffler tears up the field. And more on Slow Play.

  Aug 18, 20261h 2mS4

  Big show today, and a massive story out of a LIV insider that we reveal for the first time. We'll get to that in about 15 minutes or so. 01:00Mark is 'heartbroken' over the US Amateur Championship from the weekend at Merion. He explains why. 02:00Nick and Mark discuss the player in that tournament whose putting technique breaks all the rules. 04:00Why Merion was rivetting. 05:00We discuss the Australian amateur tournament, from back in its hey day when it was huge. 09:00If the US Amateur can plot their courses for the next ten years, why can't we, Mark speculates about the kind of courses it would be great at. Mark says that what the US has done is a plus for golf, thanks to Hostplus. 14:00Nick talks about how good the Master of the Amateurs at Southern Golf Club 15:00Massive LIV rumour from someone in the know. To do with this weekends tournament in Indianapolis. This is news that even the LIV players have not been informed of yet. 17:00Have LIV players been paid following Bedminster? 19:00Is the investment that has been talked about with LIV from an investor, or from someone providing a loan. Two quite different scenarios. 20:30The two biggest LIV names are obviously Rahm and Bryson. Nick and Mark discuss where Rahm, should he leave, might end up. 25:00Nick and Mark call it, saying Rahm will play the DPWT next year, and that will be the end of LIV. 27:00Scottie Schefflers performance at the weekend. Nick wants to get Jonathan Yarwood on to discuss Schefflers' swing. 31:00Our BMW Touch of Class goes to Whitney Hillier for her words about Jessica Bang who passed away suddenly last week. After the turn 33:00The Top 5 things that Golf Australia has gotten wrong over the years, according to Mark. Which ones does Nick agree with? 41:00Nick runs through the Global Results highlights 46:00Feedback starting with a possible serious copyright infringement from Kmart. We consider calling Denis Denuto to advise. 47:30Rakepod update following a scathing critique of the rakes at a club particularly close to Mark's heart. Awkward. 48:30Does AI have a role in golf coaching? And can it work? 51:00Slow play and officials. Nick and Mark name a couple of the slowest players that they played with. Mark reiterates his view that officials should targeting slow players. 54:00We discuss a slow play hypothetical sent in by a wolfpacker in NZ. 55:00A couple of messages regarding the recent passing of Nick McCormack. 57:00And a great masterclass from Nick on the 'fairway finder'. A massive show today, we had fun, hope you enjoy it as well ! We're live from Titleist and FootJoy HQ thanks to our great partners: Hostplus, Talk Birdie To Me's official retirement partner BMW, luxury and comfort for the 19th hole; Titleist, the #1 ball in golf; FootJoy, the #1 shoe and glove in golf; 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; And Southern Golf Club. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Guest: Claude Harmon III: His Coaching Philosophies, Coaching Cam Smith, Watching His Dad Coach Tiger and The Shark.

  Aug 17, 20261h 2mS4

  Well this is a bit exciting. Earlier this year Cameron Smith joined with Claude Harmon III to turn his performances around, and since doing so there have been some significant changes. Today, for Hostplus, we speak with Claude about his career, some of the great players he has worked with and been around his famous Dad working with, and how the relationship with Cam came about and what they're working on. 01:00Nick and Mark give a background to how Cam got to the point of deciding to look at a new coach. 02:00We welcome Claude and get his background, surprisingly he was never a golfer, however with his family pedigree he feels that he has been on tour since he was 2-weeks old! 03:00His approach to golf coaching given he was not a player. 04:00Claude talks about whether golf is a simple game (or not?) 06:00He chats about his family history and some of the huge golfing names that the family has worked with, and he has been around 08:00Claude tells us why his Dad was 'brutal' about Claude's early coaching sessions 09:00How he video'd his Dad working with Tiger and what he learned from it. 10:00Nick talks about what he witnessed when he saw Butch Harmon, Claude's Dad, working with players 11:30How Claude disconnects from golf and how he uses that in his coaching 12:30Claude explains his 'domino' theory. 13.30Does golf coaching have something in common with the TV Show The Bear....you'd be surprised. Claude explains. 15:00Why he focuses on 'quality of strike', the contact, and why he feels it is the main ingredient. Mark asks if that applies to all golfers Claude has worked with? 18:30Claude says that golf coaching is similar to training a dog. 20:00On working with Ernie Els, how it came about and what he said to Ernie when first asked for a critique of his swing 22:00The one thing for all golfers to focus on for the rest of the year. After the Turn: 27:00He explains how it came about that Cam asked him for some swing thoughts. 29:00 Claude credits Cam's prior coach Grant Field with getting Cam to such a high level.speaking of cams old coach grant fields 30:00Mark shows some stills of Cams' swing and what he is seeing. 31:00Claude talks about Cams' driving. 31:00He says that all great players have a superpower 32:00Adam Scotts' putting 35:00His Dad working with Tiger and what he learned from that 37:00The one thing that he and Cam have worked on since mid April, and the drills they've been doing. 39:00Cam has a short window to take advantage of 40:00On watching his Dad work with The Shark 41:00The surprising thing that he and Cam used as a training aid in the rain in Korea 42:00The drill that his Dad would do with Tiger, and Claude's role in it, that he now gets Cam to do. (Tiger hated it) 43:30The 3 phases of the golf swing, and the 1 phase that he believes everyone ignores 46:00What he and Cam did prior to the PGA 47:00Nick on Cams' swing development, swing positions, and why giving advice in different ways helps 49:00The moment Claude says was a huge one for Cam in their relationship 51:00Numbers vs Feel, and how Claude uses data. 53:00Cams' short game is ridiculously good 56:00Why the ceiling is really high for Cam 58:00What's next for Claude, where does he see himself in a few years? 59:00Claude bumped into Nick's old caddy Wilbur recently! A fantastic chat with Claude Harmon ||| for Hostplus, Claude certainly is a plus for golf, and we loved this conversation. If you've not had a listen to Claude's podcast Son of a Butch, it's a ripper, you can listen to it wherever you get your podcasts, Spotify and Apple links here: Listen to Son of a Butch on Spotify. Listen to Son of a Butch on Apple. We're live from Titleist and FootJoy HQ thanks to our great partners: Hostplus, Talk Birdie To Me's official retirement partner BMW, luxury and comfort for the 19th hole; Titleist, the #1 ball in golf; FootJoy, the #1 shoe and glove in golf; 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; And Southern Golf Club. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Monday Mini: What is Pod Listener Aaron doing right, and wrong, with his swing? Nick and Mark analyse it.

  Aug 16, 202611 minS4

  A Monday Mini today and today Nick and Mark are looking at a wolfpackers swing, he is having some issues and is keen for some input from the boys. So although the swings are on video and therefore visual, on the pod Nick and Mark talk through what they're seeing, and what some areas to look at are, so whilst it's visual, the audio version of the show is very easy to follow and get some takeaways from. Aaron from Perth is having issues with his swing, he's just finished up with his coach, who has left coaching, and hasn't found a new one yet. Nick and Mark analysis 4 swings of Aaron's and give their insights into what they like, and what can be worked on. And Mark talks about the importance of practising the way you play. A short Monday Mini, about 10-minutes today so a quick listen ! We're live from Titleist and FootJoy HQ thanks to our great partners: Hostplus, Talk Birdie To Me's official retirement partner BMW, luxury and comfort for the 19th hole; Titleist, the #1 ball in golf; FootJoy, the #1 shoe and glove in golf; 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; And Southern Golf Club. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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