Chasing Pars Golf Podcast

(Ep 106) Colin Ramsay (A Golfer’s Bucket List of Scottish Golf Courses)

In the 2nd episode of the week I am joined by Colin Ramsay the Author of the best selling Golf Book 'A Golfer's Bucket List of Scottish Golf Courses'. Colin tells us how he started playing the game back in 1971 & still going strong at 67 years young! Colin explains how the idea of the book came from a constant phrase said at all the different Clubhouses of that's another Golf Course ticked off the list. Craig tests Colin's knowledge on Regional parts of Scotland and asks for top 2/3 courses in that region with a great discussion also about St Andrews and the current state of it being pretty much overpowered! I absolutely loved doing this one and I absolutely love Colin's enthusiasm for the game still. At a whopping 282 courses played over Scotland in 550+ courses I wish Colin every success in achieving his goals of playing every single golf course in Scotland!
I hope you enjoy it!

(Ep 105) Alfred Dunhill Championship (Craig Edwards)

We are back doing tournament previews after a couple months away from doing it and Craig is joined for the first time by former Snooker pro & now Golf Writer & Tipster Craig Edwards @EdwardsTips on X. The 2 Craig's go at it about Burmester & Niemann winning in South Africa & Australia respectively while looking at how the LIV players are getting easy exemptions back onto the Tour that they walked away from. We discuss the massive talking point of World #3 Jon Rahm now confirmed going to LIV Golf and we discuss how that might play out along with going over some of the new DPWT graduates from Challenge Tour & DPWT Q School Finals as we say who we fancy to go well out of the graduates and who we think will be a first time winner in 2024 on the DP World Tour! We then make our picks for Alfred Dunhill Champs this week at the iconic Leopard Creek in Malelane, Mpumalanga the home of Kruger National Park.
Be sure to Follow @ThomsonGolf94 on Twitter for more. Thank you Craig for a fun episode!
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(Ep 104) Alan Tulleth (DP World Tour Caddy)

After a 2 month extended break due to a few issues & reasons Chasing Pars returns for your enjoyment as Craig is joined by DP World Tour caddy Alan Tulleth who is the current caddy for Englishman on the DPWT 2022 Challenge Tour Race to Mallorca Champion Nathan Kimsey. Craig & Alan have a laugh and joke about all things as we find out how he got the call from David Law to caddy on the Challenge Tour to getting the nod to become the caddy of Nathan Kimsey a month or 2 before the season ending win in Mallorca to finding out about Alan's experience of caddying for the number 1 ranked Amateur player in the world Gordon Sargent at this year's Walker Cup event at Alan's home course of St Andrew's.
Definitely recommend this episode as we figure out the bond between a player & caddy!
Thanks Alan welcome back any time & I hope you all enjoy!

(Ep 103) Monday Q Info (Ryan French)

In this 2nd episode of today I am joined by the well renowned figure Ryan French also known as Monday Q Info. We talk about Ryan's journey into setting up Monday Q Info page and with it becoming an incredible amount of success covering stories of players that some people might have never heard of & explaining how hard the Monday Qualifying system actually is to get a chance at qualifying for a PGA Tour event. We learn about how players view Ryan's coverage of them & majority of them seem to appreciate the support given! Towards the end Craig gives a run down of this week's Solheim Cup being played at Finca Cortesin in Malaga we dive into the teams & the team profiles ahead of the return of the biennial team competition!
Thanks to Ryan for coming on
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(Ep 102) Cazoo Open de France with Mike Miller

It was a dramatic win by the vastly improving Ryan Fox to become the 1st Kiwi to win BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth in this becoming a Rolex Series winner! Fox showed great grim & determination from a triple bogey on Sunday at the 3rd to birdieing 8 of last 13 holes to become champion. On the PGA in the 1st regulation season event at Fortinet Championship it was a maiden PGA Tour win for the popular Sahith Theegala who played brilliantly throughout to win by 2 from S.H. Kim! This week Craig is joined by the popular figure of Mike Miller @SmartGolfBets who has built a reputation over the past decade for being a dedicated form addict and provide you with form sheets from around the tours. Craig & Mike go over this week's Open de France which was the scene last year of one of the best approach shots at 18 you will ever see from Guido Migliozzi to win by 1 to Rasmus Hojgaard! This track in Guyancourt is notoriously one of the toughest courses on the DP World Tour schedule with accurate irons and good scrambling the key to success in Paris! The host of 2018 Ryder Cup won by Europe and the 1994 Eisenhower Trophy as well as the host course next year for the 2024 Olympics Le Golf National has well known reputation & is multiple players favourite golf course on tour including previous podcast guest Jorge Campillo!
Thanks to Mike for coming on, enjoy the show

(Ep 101) BMW PGA Championship preview with Bryan DeCorte (Axis)

It's the flagship event on the DP World Tour where all the top European players of the world including every single member of the 12 for Team Europe for Marco Simone flock to the well renowned Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey for the next edition of BMW PGA Championship where Shane Lowry held off Rory McIlroy & Jon Rahm last year to add a Rolex Series crown alongside his Claret Jug! Who will win this epic event? Craig is joined for the first time by Bryan Decorte also known as Axis DFS on Twitter calling in from Michigan! Craig & Axis go over Vincent Normann's victory at Irish Open what the future holds for Swedish Golf (Aberg & Normann winning back to back weeks) as well as talking Rory McIlroy before going into BMW PGA Championship where it's such a stellar field event this week!
The PGA Tour also returns for the first event of the new fall season in Napa, California at Silverado for Fortinet Championship which last couple of years has been dominated by Max Homa who is in the field again to try win it for 3rd time in a row!
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Chasing Pars turns 100!! (Irish Open preview)

It's been a long time coming some great times, some good times and some really tough times but Chasing Pars Golf Podcast has finally reached 100 episodes! In this 100th EP special back to where it all started out Craig is joined by former co-host Jamie Broadhurst @Js_GolfingTips to celebrate this landmark as well as going in depth into this week's Irish Open on the DP World Tour at the beautiful Palmer North Course at K Club in Straffan, County Kildare. This Arnold Palmer design was designed for 2006 Ryder Cup which Ian Woosnam's European side demolished USA and also host to 12 years of the European Open until 2007 & the venue for the 2016 Irish Open which was won by Rory McIlroy at -12. This week is a really good field with Ryder Cuppers coming over as well as interesting players such as the extra motivated Adrian Meronk after his brutal Ryder Cup rejection! It should be a great event but want to say to make it to 100 episodes is something I never thought I'd get to so I am remarkably proud of myself and Jamie/Ryan/Tom for getting us there!
Enjoy it everyone!

Omega European Masters & US Ryder Cup team reaction with Ryan Baroff (RB)

It's one of the most wonderful times of the year in the calendar and that is Crans-sur-Sierre GC in Crans Montana for the yearly stop at Omega European Masters a course and location of such prestige & beauty! Every golfer's dream! In this episode Craig is joined by well known member of the Golf Twitter Community Ryan Baroff often known to followers as RB. In this bumper episode Craig & RB discuss Hovland's wonderful 2 weeks, Clements win at Czech Masters while we also dive into today's finalised 12 picks by Zach Johnson for the American Ryder Cup team with a lengthy discussion about a few players in the team as well as a few surprised omissions! We go into this week super event in Switzerland as we have 3 consensus picks together including 2 we absolutely love for this week. A good variety of players picked between both of us and everyone that has either good iron play, short game or Greens in Reg percentage this season for this quirky sub 7,000 yard gem of a course that we know is played at Altitude.
Thanks to RB for coming on for the first time, was great to have your expertise on to discuss all things Golf
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D+D Real Czech Masters with Nigel (GolfNutter)

In the return of the DP World Tour it was a comprehensive runaway victory for Englishman Daniel Brown who went wire to wire to win ISPS Handa World Invitational by 5 shots after having a 6 shot lead in both R3 & R4 it was a first win as a pro for Brown while on the PGA Tour at BMW Championship it was an incredible 61 from Viktor Hovland that including a back 9 of 28 shots to win by 2 heading into East Lake. It was a naff week with only Marcus Helligkilde sharing a place at 40/1 in T4th alongside 4 others while Rasmus Neergaard Petersen challenged after 36 holes then faded away slightly over the weekend!
Moving onto this week where it's a good field for D+D Real Czech Masters with big permutations for the Ryder Cup seeing the likes of Lowry, Aberg, The Hojgaard's, MacIntyre & Yannik Paul all playing as they look to impressive captain Luke Donald this week at Albatross Golf Resort. Albatross is a long golf course mainly focused on Driving Distance which is massively advantageous while other shorter hitters with amazing short game can also compete. I am again joined by Nigel @GolfNutter3 to go over this week's event in Prague as we go over the top of the market which includes an invitation for the Belgian sensation that is Adrien Dumont Du Chassart. Listen in to see what we think this week!
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Brandon Robinson Thompson (BRT)

In another player interview today I Craig am joined by this year's winner of the Irish Challenge on the Challenge Tour Brandon Robinson Thompson who calls in from the site of this week's ISPS Handa World Invitational event from Galgorm Castle where Brandon would win The Country Garage BMW Northern Irish Open at Galgorm Castle defeating Mitch Waite to secure an invite into the ISPS Handa World Invitational. It's been a monumental rise in the summer this year for Robinson Thompson having finished 2nd in Open Qualifying at Royal Porthcawl to qualify for the 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool where he would make the weekend and finish T59th a memory that still leaves good memories for Brandon the week before winning the Irish Challenge with his fiancée on the bag!
While actively searching for invites this year Brandon would start this year on the MENA Tour where in his 2nd start there he would win Egyptian Swing No.2 at Madinaty Golf Club followed by successful trips T8/T5 in Malaysia Swing at Els Club then a T7th in Thailand! Then would earn 8 starts on the Clutch Tour winning 3 times in 8 events winning at Tandridge, County Garage BMW NI Open at Galgorm & at Machynys in Wales. In this short episode we speak about his last 2 events at Newmachar for Scottish Challenge (T3rd, 64 on Sunday) and the challenges of British Challenge at St Mellion (T30th, 78 on Sunday) as well as how he is feeling ahead of this week event in Northern Ireland where Brandon is in bullish mood quietly fancying his chances.
Let's show some support for BRT & I wish him all the best for the rest of the season!
Enjoy!