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in Archives, Blog, Open Championship, Podcasts, US Open on June 27, 2023 by Jeff Waters

Talking Golf With the Golf Guy Season Eight -Episode Ten With the 2023 United States Open Champion Wyndham Clark

The United States Open Golf Championship returned to Southern California and the Los Angeles Country Club after a seventy-five-year hiatus to robust criticism from players and fans alike. Small galleries, lack of grandstands, forced carries, blind tee shots, and severely sloped fairways that ran off into gnarly fescue-protected island greens and rough marred the USGA’s…

in Archives, Blog, Podcasts, Shows, US Open, US Open on June 30, 2022 by Jeff Waters

Talking Golf With The Golf Guy-Season 7 Episode 6 With 2022 U.S. Open Champion, Matthew Fitzpatrick

Undoubtedly, the game and sport of Golf is an import from the British Islands. Conceived, developed, and propagated on the wind-swept Linksland of the Scottish coast, it slowly migrated to the eastern seaboard of the American mainland, where it indifferently spread amongst the blossoming and burgeoning middle class created by the industrial revolution of the…

in Blog, Podcasts on September 23, 2020 by Jeff Waters

Talking Golf With The Golf Guy-Season 5 Episode 20 With 2020 United States Open Golf Champion, Bryson DeChambeau

In Dick Schaap’s seminal recounting of the 1974 United States Open Championship, Massacre at Winged Foot, which Hale Irwin won at seven over par, lapping the field. Utah’s Bruce Summerhays was the first contestant off the tee Thursday on that cool morning in early June. It is irony indeed that forty-six years later, when the…

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 June 9, 2020 by Jeff Waters

Talking Golf With The Golf Guy-Season 5 Episode 10 With Sue Nyhus

In the long history of the United States Golf Association and its hosting of our National Championships, no one has competed in every USGA event available to her than Sue Billek Nyhus. A total of nine USGA Championships over a long and successful playing career. It is a performance that will never be matched nor…

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

Talking Golf With The Golf Guy-Season 5 Episode 4 With Jake Miller

Join PGA Master Professional Jeff Waters, as he interviews Jacob “Jake’ Miller, the Executive Director of the Utah Golf Association. Jake, aka “The Captain” has led a circuitous route on his journey to becoming only the seventh Executive Director in the long and storied history of the UGA. He joins a distinguish list of administrators…