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in Archives, Blog, PGA Championship, Podcasts, Shows on May 25, 2021 by Jeff Waters

Talking Golf With The Golf Guy-Season 6 Episode 8 With 2021 PGA Champion, Phil Mickelson

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…

in Archives, Blog, Podcasts on May 4, 2021 by Jeff Waters

Talking Golf With The Golf Guy-Season 6 Episode 6 With Paul Pugmire

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…

in Blog, Podcasts on August 11, 2020 by Jeff Waters

Talking Golf With The Golf Guy-Season 5 Episode 19 With 2020 PGA Champion Colin Morikawa

Major championship golf has returned to the American sports scene with a vengeance. The 102nd PGA of America’s 2020 National Golf Championship was contested this last week at San Francisco’s Harding Park. A municipal golf course that anyone can play, the course was built in 1925 by the same architects that constructed the nearby ultra-private…

in Blog, Podcasts on August 4, 2020 by Jeff Waters

Talking Golf With The Golf Guy-Season 5 Episode 18 With Zach Johnson

The 102nd edition of the PGA Championship will be conducted August 6-9, 2020, at San Francisco’s Harding Park Municipal Golf Course. It now becomes, because of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the first Major Golf Tournament of the year, and the first Major to be contested in over 382 days, the longest such interval since World War…

in Blog, Podcasts on July 28, 2020 by Jeff Waters

Talking Golf With The Golf Guy-Season 5 Episode 17 With Kelsey Chugg

When Kelsey Chugg, the Utah Golf Association’s Female Player of the Decade, won the United States Golf Association’s Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship in 2017, she joined an exclusive group of Utah Golf Royalty. With that victory, she became only the 8th player in history with Utah ties to win a United States Golf Association event, and…

in Blog, Podcasts on July 21, 2020 by Jeff Waters

Talking Golf With The Golf Guy-Season 5 Episode 16 With Jon Rahm

In 2016, when Jon Rahm was a fourth-year senior at Arizona State University and winning the Pac-12 Championship at the Country Club in Salt Lake City, he was also the #1 ranked player in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. A position he held for total of 60 weeks, an all-time record. He also won the…