Australian Golf Show

The third round at the 2019 #AusOpenGolf was full of surprises with Matt Jones taking a three-shot lead into the final round. How did it all unfold? Join Andy Maher, Mark Hayes and Mike Clayton to find out.

The cut has been made at the 2019 #AusOpenGolf and we're back to discuss all the big name casualties - and who is in prime position to make a weekend charge at the Stonehaven Cup. Andy Maher is back, joined by Mark Hayes and Martin 'Adonis' Blake.

An amazing day one at the 2019 #AusOpenGolf is in the books and we've got Mark Hayes, Mike Clayton and Inside The Ropes debutant Rod Morri to run you through all the action. We discuss leading amateur duo Takumi Kanaya and Kevin Yu, as well as the fortunes of leading Australians Cam Smith, Marc Leishman and Adam Scott. We also cover the days of Sergio Garcia, Paul Casey, Louis Oosthuizen and a selection of the brilliant amateurs in the field... including Clayts' boss for the week, 17-year-old Elvis Smylie!

We're back for another week but this time we've returned to the studio! It's lights, cameras, action on Inside The Ropes this week with Ali Whitaker steering the ship. Presidents Cup Executive Director joins the show alongside Mark Hayes and Justin Falconer as we wrap a big weekend from around the world of golf. We dive into #AusOpenGolf fever with some predictions (and roughies) that we're sure will come back to haunt us. (16:50) Then, we welcome Aussie legend Marc Leishman before he jets back to Australia for a massive fortnight in Sydney and Melbourne. (32:40) We give the second ever Australian All Abilities Championship presented by ISPS Handa the credit it deserves as some of the world's most inspiring players make their way to Sydney. (46:45) To finish up, we run our eye over the latest news from the game back home.

On a wildly eclectic episode, we chat to Presidents Cup International team vice-captain Geoff Ogilvy (14:05), newly crowned Vic Amateur champion Grace Kim (32:20) and the soon-to-be-shaven Jack Wilson, who's bravely putting his famous locks on the line for kids with cancer. Co-hosts Mark Hayes, Martin Blake and Stacey Peters chat all things from European Tour Q-school to LPGA Tour Championship, from world amateur rankings to Jason Day's rapidly expanding collection of caddies and from our global wrap of the Aussies to the loss of the much-loved George Begg, who'll be sadly missed around golf media centres around the country.

With less than a month to the Presidents Cup, we chat to the man who's in charge of making Royal Melbourne sing as a golf course. Richard Forsyth is the man responsible for having the famous Composite Course in pristine shape when the world's best come calling. We chat to rising Sydneysider Doey Choi about her recent successes and what the summer holds for one of our brightest young talents, plus co-hosts Andy Maher and Mark Hayes throw down the gauntlet to corporate Australia to get behind our female champions on the LPGA Tour with some fair dinkum Aussie financial support.

First up, we cap an incredible weekend in Asia that saw wins to Nelly Korda and Rory McIlroy and another near miss for our own Minjee Lee. Friend of the pod Bryden Macpherson is on the line from Georgia, discussing some changes in his own game and the dynamic Australian golf landscape. We're joined by Japan Tour sensation Brad Kennedy, as he heads back to the Land of the Rising Sun to tackle the business end of the season. Plus, there's rules dramas at LPGA Tour Q School and we await this week's Presidents Cup captain's picks announcement. Andy Maher and Mark Hayes are joined by Justin Falconer.

On a week when Tiger Woods took another step into golfing immortality, he also almost certainly stamped his playing papers for his visit to Royal Melbourne in December. (2:49) Co-hosts Andy Maher, Mark Hayes and Stacey Peters are joined by guest panellist Brett Coletta throughout the show, with the young Aussie giving another cracking insight into life on the road after a fantastic first full season on the Korn Ferry Tour. (27:03) We then catch up with the title-hungry Sue Wooster who continues to add to her trophy cabinet at a frenetic pace around the world, this time with her second consecutive Australian senior crown. (50:36) Plus all the regular updates and information of Aussies playing around the world. (59:11)

This week, we go over some of the bizarre rules dramas in Europe and America and Clayts' recent change of direction. Then, we welcome Aussie golf legend Graham Marsh to chat about his time in the game as both a leading golf architect and a player. Finally, Tasmanian icon Lindy Goggin jumps on the line with her granddaughter Hallie Meaburn about their recent triumph together in foursomes at Royal Hobart. Andy Maher resumes his seat in the host's chair with Martin Blake and Mike Clayton by his side.

We're back better than ever for Episode 124, starting off by covering all things PGA Tour, Lucas Herbert, Min Woo Lee & David McKenzie. Then, Presidents Cup Executive Director Matt Kamienski is in studio to look ahead to one of the best weeks of the year at Royal Melbourne. (16:10) And Karen Lunn joins the show to discuss how the ALPG is getting more women involved in the game in Australia. (35:20) Andy 'Kipchoge' Maher is joined by Martin 'Gazelle' Blake and Matt 'Moneghetti' Cutler!

We met Jack Trent last week, but little did we realise the Queenslander amateur would make a PGA Tour debut splash sufficient for such a quick return visit. (09:20) Co-hosts Mark Hayes and Alison Whitaker chat to our bright new prospect, then we bring in Christian Hamilton, the mastermind of the Australian All Abilities Championship which returns this year with another huge leap forward, a first female player. Said player, Daphne Van Houten, joins us online from the Netherlands to chat about her historical moment. (27:30) Later, we discuss the elephant in the room - was Hannah Green robbed without a "Don" nomination? (56:30)

There's nothing more important in Australian golf than the health of clubland, so we're rapt to welcome back Chyloe Kurdas fresh from her roadshow to all states and territories promoting equality and our Vision 2025. We also welcome back the revelation that is Maverick Antcliff to discuss his epic three-win season on the China Tour. And then there's ITR newcomer Jack Trent, another Queenslander in college in Nevada who's earnt a PGA Tour start this week in Las Vegas where he'll tune up with a legendary Aussie who rocked his world with a surprise phone call last week. All this plus the latest news and views from around the world as co-hosts Andy Maher, Mark Hayes and Martin Blake play Ernie Els and make their captain's picks for the Presidents Cup International team.

We welcome to the studio a very special co-host this week in Lukas Michel, the new US Mid-Am champion who's en route to the Masters and US Open next year. His story is a cracker, not to mention some next-level tomfoolery at St Andrews. In one of the most eclectic shows we've ever had, regular co-hosts Andy Maher, Mark Hayes and Mike Clayton also hear from two of our Asia-Pacific Amateur hopes - David Micheluzzi and Blake Windred - from China, Bryson DeChambeau's preparations for the Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne and Rory McIlroy's wild plan to put the Australian Open on a global stage again. We pay tribute to Kate Nolan and in a special interview, we welcome newly crowned Australian Blind Open champion Glen "Juicy" Niciejewski to the show to celebrate his first national title. All that and more on a jam-packed episode #121.

It's nearly the Aussie golf season and we take great pride in announcing two more star additions to the#AusOpenGolf line-up in Sydney this December... Hosts Andy Maher, Mark Hayes and Stacey Peters chat with Alison Whitaker from Scotland to relive the epic Solheim Cup. (11:20) We finally track down Ewan Porter to chat about his golf career before and after the microphone! (25:30) We also catch up with Elvis Smylie after he and Tyler Duncan returned from Florida to live out their Cameron Smith Scholarship prize. (52:10)

To kick things off this week we run the "pub test" over the latest Matt Kuchar drama, with rules guru Simon Magdulski offering a far more balanced opinion than our hosts Andy Maher, Mark Hayes and Mike Clayton. There's nothing we like more than guests who speak openly about dramatic moments in their golfing lives. So we couldn't be happier than to have had a great chat with Sydney's Jamie Arnold, who enjoyed the best season of his career despite agonisingly missing out on his PGA Tour card. We then chat with a genuine legend of Australian golf - Brian Twite, the legendary club pro at Metropolitan who, at 93, joins us in studio to chat all things from how he came to leave England for Melbourne sight unseen, his experience at Royal Portrush in the 1951 Open Championship ... and his dislike for golf carts. All that and the complete rundown of Aussies in action around the world.