Chasing Pars Golf Podcast

Ep 52 DP World Tour Championship

It was jubilation last week for Chasing Pars Pod as we got our 7th winner of 2021 in the form of 50/1 Joachim B Hansen (Craig) who was sensational in winning Aviv Dubai Championships defeating Francesco Laporta to win a 2nd European Tour title. On PGA Tour the newly found winning machine now that is Jason Kokrak was victorious at Houston Open at -10 at a brilliant Memorial Park GC to win his 3rd PGA Tour title in last 27 starts. This week our sole focus is the always epic season ending DP World Tour finals where the top 50 players in season long Race to Dubai standing will tee it off at the 7,600+ yard Greg Norman designed monster of Earth Course at Jumeirah Estates. Last year Matt Fitzpatrick was the victor in this event beating Lee Westwood although Westy would win the overall Race to Dubai rankings for yet another time in his wonderful Golf career. The best 50 playing to end a wonderful campaign on European Tour schedule. Craig & Jamie are joined by a friend of the podcast in Bradley Todd aka King of the Mini Tours to round out season 2020-2021 in style. Great chat, great guest, great laugh, solid claims and a always great event! It should be a cracker! As always we appreciate your support, follow our socials @ThomsonGolf94, @Js_GolfingTips and @ChasingPars_Pod on Twitter as we continue to gradually progress and gain more attention! Season 2021 Over & Out! Enjoy!

Ep 51 Aviv Dubai Championship & Hewlett Packard Enterprise Houston Open

Fresh off a good week for the page with 80/1 full place for Carlos Ortiz in 2nd place for Craig and T7th place returns for EasyOdds article for Jamie, it's back as a twosome this week as Jamie is back for first time in 2 weeks to join Craig in going over this week's action in Dubai and Houston respectively. In this episode we talk Viktor Hovland's dominating performance at Mayakoba Classic to go back to back wins at El Camaleon and win a 3rd PGA Tour title at just 24 years old and funnily enough all 3 wins have came on Paspalum grass surface. We give props to Thomas Pieters who won for the first time in 2 years at Portugal Masters to win a 5th European Tour title beating the Danish duo of Lucas Bjerregaard & Nicolai Hojgaard. We also give shout-out to Dean Burmester for winning South African PGA Championship a prestigious event to win for any African golfer. Craig & Jamie pick out who we are looking forward to the most from the new 20 Challenge Tour graduates to European Tour. In Dubai this week Antoine Rozner defends his title at Jumeirah Estates (Fire Course) while Carlos Ortiz defends his Houston Open crown at Memorial Park GC in Texas. An interesting week ahead on both Tours we both have strong fancies & considerations this week. Hopefully pick off where we left off last week. Please keep following our Twitter page @ChasingPars_Pod and Chasingparspodcast on Instagram we would love you to keep generating our following! Enjoy!

Ep 50 World Wide Technology at Mayakoba + Portugal Masters

This is it guys & girls we have reached our 50th episode! At the start of this episode I name every single person that's come on the podcast in some way shape or form and personally thank them. In this special episode with Jamie unavailable it's left to Craig to deliver the show, he is joined by making his 2nd Chasing Pars Golf Podcast appearance the former Australian Amateur Number 1 golfer Austin Bautista! Craig & Austin speak about what has been going on since Austin's last appearance discussing his upcoming Qualification process for the Latino America Tour and playing well but narrowly missing out on 2nd Round of Korn Ferry Tour Qualifiers. Craig goes over Tournament info this week on the PGA + European Tours for Mayakoba + Portugal Masters respectively. Austin fancies a certain little Mexican to get the job done again in Ancer, while Craig fancies a trio of players to go well with Billy Horschel, Will Zalatoris and Keegan Bradley backed to go well along with Carlos Ortiz and Chris Kirk. In Portugal this week although there is plenty star names in the field Craig fancies a wirely old veteran in Mikko Korhonen as the value play this week. Austin fancies his old mucker Min Woo to come up trumps at Dom Pedro for another European Tour victory. It was great to have Austin on again we love him! Follow Austin Bautista on Instagram @GiggleswithAustin where you can keep upto date with Austin's ventures. Be sure to follow us on Twitter I am @ThomsonGolf94, Jamie is @Js_GolfingTips and our podcast Twitter handle is @ChasingPars_Pod. Be sure to also follow our new Instagram page @Chasingparspodcast. It's been a pleasure to bring you all 50 episodes here's to the next 50 and more 🖖 thank you guys for all your support it means the world!

Ep 49 Butterfield Bermuda Championship & LET Dubai Moonlight Classic

In this episode Craig is joined by well renowned star of European Tour Picks and Bets show on Mayo Media Network, Oddschecker USA Columnist/Previews and the host of the popular podcast Lost Fore Words Tom Jacobs @TomJacobs93 on Twitter also follow his co-host Jason Daniels @Thirtysixholes and listen, subscribe and review on Lost Fore Words Podcast. Tom and I talk Hideki's win at Zozo in Japan, Jeff Winther's win in Mallorca, Jin Young Ko's 4th LPGA win in last 7 starts moving to World Number 1 in the process overtaking Nelly Korda. We also try to talk through the now farcical Tournament this week on the island of Bermuda for the Bermuda Championship where Brian shocked the world and won at 48 years young last year. After 15 lots of player withdrawals and Alternate pullouts and withdrawals it's fair to say the field is very weak to say the least but we try out best to pick out some value in Bermuda. The Ladies European Tour returns to Dubai this week for the annual and very unique Omega Dubai Moonlight Classic tournament under the lights on the Arabian Gulf. Spectacular spectacle it usually is and Craig is high on 2 talented female players at 33/1 and 50/1 this week. Follow us on Twitter @ChasingPars_Pod or follow and like our new Instagram page 'chasingparspodcast'. Appreciate Tom taking time out of his busy scheduling to come talk with us. Remember to give Lost Fore Words a listen with a a brilliant duo making it worthwhile. 👍

Ep 48 ZoZo Championship

In this episode Craig & Jamie are joined by Chris Callow @Shallowcalgolf on Twitter one third of the Right Click, Print Money podcast which you can listen to. We talk about last weeks action with Matt Fitzpatrick securing a 7th European Tour title at the best event in the world Andalucia Masters at Valderrama and Rory McIlroy won at -25 in Vegas to win the CJ Cup @ The Summit collecting his 20th PGA Tour title on doing so. We get into a fiery rant about weekend's TV golf scheduling and terrible coverage. This week we are at Narashino Country Club in Japan for Zozo Championship which last played at this course in 2019 won by Tiger Woods. Patrick Cantlay won at -23 last year when it was in USA at Sherwood CC in California, Collin Morikawa and Xander Schauffele are single priced favourites for this week. European Tour finishes it's Spanish swing with a visit to Mallorca for Mallorca Open where Thomas Pieters, Beef Johnston and Laurie Canter are the top 3 in the market this week. Poor fields this week but as ever the show must go on, Craig, Jamie & Chris all dive in head first into Zozo this week looking for any value! Enjoy!

Ep 47 Jason Sobel

In this episode Craig is joined by former Golf Writer, ESPN, Golf Channel and current host of PGA Tour Live on Radio and Action Network's Jason Sobel. Craig & Jason talk about Jason's journey into Golf Journalism industry came about talking about his time with ESPN and getting involved in Golf Writing. In the episode we also talk a little bit about current role within Action Network, Favourite Memories on Tour which includes a Tiger Woods story, Ryder Cup and how the US side will fare in 2023 at Marco Simone in Rome. We finish off with a story about one of Jason's good buddies Phil Mickelson with a story about a more softer side to the legendary Lefty! Cracking episode, hope you enjoy it!

Ep 46 CJ Cup @ The Summit

It was a 2nd place finish from Matthew Wolff last week at Shriners Open to place for Craig while Aaron Wise grabbed a late 70/1 place for Jamie in T8th. This week we are at the CJ Cup which is staying in Las Vegas at new first time PGA Tour course in the form of The Summit Golf Club which is a 7,400 yard plus desert track at altitude. John Haslbauer also known on Social Media as PGA Tout joins Jamie and Craig to discuss CJ Cup picks in an event which Dustin Johnson, Xander Schauffele and Justin Thomas are 12/1 favs. Jason Kokrak is the defending champion having won at Shadow Creek Golf Club last year. Thanks John and enjoy! ⛳

Ep 45 Andalucia Masters at Valderrama

The week I have been finally waiting weeks for has arrived! The unbelievably tough test of golf that is Real Club Valderrama is back this week to bring more pain and misery to some players while bringing joy to others. Can John Catlin defend his 2020 Andalucia Masters crown? Can the world number 1 light up the Valderrama course? Are we going to have +2 win the golf tournament again? All of the above remains to be seen but Ryan Hamilton joins Craig to discuss the best plays of the week for this fantastic event where we both have a squad of 5 players we think are capable of challenging. Really appreciate the listens etc this week for my favourite event in the calendar!

Ep 43 Louise Duncan

Hey guys and welcome to this Chasing Pars Pod special with the current reigning Women's Amateur Champion Louise Duncan. In this episode Craig & Louise discuss the historic T10th finish as an amateur at AIG Women's Open Championship at Carnoustie which propelled Louise to super stardom, we also go into The 2021 Curtis Cup at Conwy GC in Wales Louise also participated in. We take a look back at her amateur career to date looking into some of the most significant results so far in Louise's young career. A super talented golfer with the whole golfing world at her feet. Thank you to Louise for taking time out busy schedule to chat with us. Enjoy!

Ep 42 Alfred Dunhill Links Champs & Sanderson Farms

Well after an American domination of Europe 19-9 at Whistling Straits to regain the Ryder Cup, we are back to regular PGA Tour and European Tour golf as this week where once again joining myself and Jamie is Ryan Hamilton @GolfTipster5 on Twitter to preview this week's events at Sanderson Farms at CC Jackson and Alfred Dunhill Links Champs over in Scotland between The Old Course at St Andrews, Kingsbarns & Carnoustie. Sergio Garcia & Victor Perez are the defending champions. Enjoy the golf!