Chasing Pars Golf Podcast

Martin Vorster

In another special episode of Chasing Pars we welcome on 2021 South African Amateur Strokeplay Champion, 2020 African Amateur Strokeplay Champion & current Sunshine Tour professional Martin Vorster as we speak about his stellar amateur career winning 8 times at Amateur level as well as participating and winning the 2019 Junior World Cup for South Africa in Japan! Martin also got selected for the International team for the 2019 Junior Presidents Cup side alongside his good friend Jayden Schaper. We speak about the rise from amateur to how life is as a Professional golfer on the Sunshine Tour and his first experience of travelling alone in Europe as part of the Challenge Tour! Martin is a super upcoming talent coming from playing with the likes of Deon Germishuys, Wilco Nienaber, Casey Jarvis, Jayden Schaper & Christo Lamprecht.
Follow Martin @Martin_Vorster57 on Instagram and let's give him a big amount of support as he tries to making it as a Professional!
I hope you enjoy!

Wyndham Championship (with SportsGuyTy)

It was a pretty non eventful 3M Open for us with runaway leader Lee Hodges claiming a first PGA Tour title in impressive fashion by 7 shots to JT Poston after Postman tripled the 72nd hole after going straight at the par 5 for eagle resulting in it hitting a rock and into the water. This week we move onto a classical golfers for classical PGA oldies usually it's Sedgefield CC for the final regulation event on the PGA Tour season at the Wyndham Championship where the top 70 this year in a format change qualify for the Fedex Cup Playoffs instead of the normal 125. Several good players hover around or outside the top 70 including Justin Thomas, Shane Lowry and Billy Horschel who all need good weeks to reach the playoffs next week!
I'm joined by @SportsGuyTy from Playing the Tips podcast (formerly Right Click, Print Money podcast) to offer his advice on how Sedgefield will play and the type of players that we target for this week!
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John Axelsen

In this episode of Chasing Pars, I am joined by current Danish DP World Tour player John Axelsen who joins me back home from Tølløse in Denmark as he looks forward to returning to the DP World Tour after the mini break. John is a multi talented player with 4 wins on the Nordic Golf League, 1 win on the Danish Golf Tour as well as an illustrious Amateur Career where he reached 15th in the World Amateur Golf Rankings and 2nd on European Amateur Golf Rankings winning 8 times as an Amateur. John would also along with Hojgaard twins win the 2018 Eisenhower Trophy the biggest Team event trophy in Amateur Golf as well as being a record 3x Danish International Amateur Champion (2014, 2017 + 2018) and being a part of the 2014 Junior Ryder Cup team!
John won 3 times on the Nordic Golf League in the calendar year of 2022 and topped the Order of Merit to gain a card on the Challenge Tour but after finishing 9th next to a close buddy in Christoffer Bring at Q School he managed to gain his tour card for the DP World Tour in Nov 2022. We discuss about the difficulties of adjustment to your life and all the different cultures aswell as look back at some of his recent good form shown on the DPWT!
Thank you John for coming on and we wish you all the best!
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Andreas Kali (Golf Coach)

In this episode of Chasing Pars Craig is joined by Golf Coach Andreas Kali who is he coach of DP World Tour player Marcus Helligkilde and Rasmus Neergaard, Challenge Tour players Sebastian Friedrichsen and Fredrik Birkelund as well as few other Nordic Golf League players and Juniors. Andreas is a former professional player in his own right finishing as high as 17th in the Nordic Golf League rankings. Taking his own experience into Golf coaching he takes pride in helping other amateur and junior players reach their goals of making it to the professional ranks! We speak about the upcoming rose of the young talented Sebastian Friedrichsen and his time on the Challenge Tour! We also go at length about the rise of Marcus Helligkilde from Nordic Golf League winner to 3x winner on 2022 Challenge Tour with 2 2nd's too to his steady couple of seasons on the DP World Tour combinating in a career best finish of 2nd at Korea Championship won by Pablo Larrazabal! We go at length about why Danish Golf is in such a good place at the minute!
Thanks to Andreas for coming on to chat.
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The Open Championship

It's here the last major of the year at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, Merseyside for the 151st Open Championship. Royal Liverpool makes its return to the Open rotation for the first time since Rory McIlroy won it in 2014 from Rickie Fowler & Sergio Garcia. This should be a wide open Open Championship we talk the big 3's chances whole we also go through the first 12 or so names in the market for (Chances or Fade) while we also go over fav mid range plays aswell as long shots and look at specials markets! We give you our full insight into this week's Open Championship!
Let's go with the last major of the year!
Enjoy.

Genesis Scottish Open

It was an emotional win for Rasmus Hojgaard winning in a mammoth 6 hole playoff at Made in Himmerland to win his 4th DPWT title at the age of 22! Meanwhile over in the States it was Austrian Sepp Straka that won John Deere Classic with a final round 62 to win by 2 to win for the 2nd time on PGA Tour.
This week we are back in Golf Country with the Scottish Open again being a star studded field ahead of next week's Open Championship at Hoylake, again it's taking place at Tom Doak's The Renaissance Club in North Berwick (30 mins outside of Edinburgh). Xander Schauffele is the defending champion after winning by 1 at -7 to Kurt Kitayama! Myself & Tom give our thoughts on what is always a great week in the calendar.
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John Deere Classic + Made in Himmerland (with Tom Ford)

Welcome all to this week's episode where we are in Farso (Denmark) + Silvis (Illinois) respectively for Made in Himmerland on the DPWT where Oliver Wilson is the defending champ after a 7 year wait for a 2nd title last year defeating Ewen Ferguson & on the PGA Tour we have John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run where JT Poston is the defending champion. We also have the US Women's Open at Pebble Beach to look forward to that should be a great event!
Last week Tom got the winner with Rickie Fowler winning for his 6th PGA Tour title and first since 2019 at Rocket Mortgage Classic in dramatic fashion defeating Adam Hadwin & Collin Morikawa in a playoff while Daniel Hillier fulfilled his current form and put in an outrageous close of Eagle Birdie Eagle Par to win by 2 at The British Masters on a tricky Sunday at -10 to win his 1st DP World Tour title in epic fashion.
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Betfred British Masters (with Duncan Campbell of GBC)

Hi all welcome to The Belfry week for this year's British Masters! For me one of the most anticipated events on the DP World Tour calendar. This week I am joined by Duncan Campbell from Golf Betting Club to discuss this week's event in Sutton Coldfield just outside of Birmingham! Myself & Duncan give our thoughts on what to expect from the iconic Brabazon Course this week at The Belfry and we have a few consensus picks this week including a 80/1 that seems massive value! I will be there with Jamie on Saturday at the course to view the action live and hopefully see some of you down there! As well as British Masters this week we have Valderrama taking centre stage on the LIV Golf Tour this week for the first time as well as a slightly Wesker field on the PGA Tour for Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit!
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US Open Championship (with Tom Jacobs)

Well what a week for Golf with all the surrounding controversy with the mergance of PGA Tour, DPWT & LIV Golf. We had 2 different stories to the events this week with 14 year tour pro and former Pod guest Dale Whitnell winning his maiden DP World Tour title at the Scandinavian Mixed in an incredible display while Nick Taylor became the first Canadian in 69 years to win his home open with an incredible 72ft putt sunk in the playoff against Tommy Fleetwood to win Canadian Open and his 3rd PGA Tour victory.
This week it is the US Open Championship at LA County Club which was designed in 1921 by George C Thomas the designer behind Riviera CC it was overseen by well known Gil Hanse who has hands on likes of Winged Foot, Southern Hills and Aronimink. This week we were joined by Lost Fore Words anchorman, Oddschecker US writer and star of DP World Tour Picks & Bets show Tom Jacobs as he comes on to give us his take on what should be a fascinating US Open Championship!
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PGA Tour, DP World Tour & LIV (PIF) Merge Together! What happens next?

In this pod we gloss over last week's tournaments where Viktor Hovland was the winner of The Memorial at Jack's place defeating Denny McCarthy in a playoff to finally win in America. 20 year old sensation Tom McKibbin won his first event on the DP World Tour in style at The Green Monster for the first of many titles and special props to the sensational Rose Zhang who made history on the LPGA Tour winning on his first start as a professional after an unbelievable College & Amateur career!
The main focus on the pod this week was today's shocking news that the PGA Tour, DP World Tour & LIV Golf are to merge together to join forces for 'the good of the game'. We discuss the effects of this historic announcement and what we think happens going forward. We speak about the players that found out the news on Twitter and the internet aswell as what it means going forward for PGA Commissioner Jay Monahan, DPWT boss Keith Pelley & LIV commissioner Greg Norman.
This is a really special & lovely episode please be sure to listen, subscribe, spread the word as it means the world going forward!
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