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Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 169) Danielle Thwaites (was Masters)
In this latest episode I was joined by former Ladies European Tour professional Danielle Thwaites who was Danielle Masters when she played on tour. First thing's first please subscribe and listen into Danielle's new venture Birdies n Banter on YouTube where you will see interviews with former colleagues, range swings and golf clothing! Danielle played golf at an early age believe it or not with left handed clubs to start with then eventually had to change over to right handed clubs. Danielle represented England at various tournaments alongside the likes of Sophie Walker and was...
2025-04-02
1h 12
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 144) Isabella Fierro
In the 21st player episode of 2024, Craig was joined by current LPGA Tour Rookie Isabella Fierro who calls in from Ohio to discuss life on LPGA Tour so far after winning her LPGA card finishing 9th overall on the Epson Tour last year! Inspired & mentored by the legendary 27x LPGA Tour winner, former world number 1 & LPGA Hall of Famer Lorena Ochoa, Isabella talks about what Lorena's influence has had on her and for Mexican Golf in general! Isabella is from Ciudad del Carmen in Mexico and took up Golf at the age of 4 Inspired by...
2024-08-17
1h 07
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 140) Amundi Evian Championship (with Ryan Ballengee)
We have reached the summer and the peak of the beautiful game! This week we are back in Evian-les-Bains, Haute Savoie by Lake Geneva for the 4th Major of the Year for the Major that by fellow pros still gets a lot of slander for its suitability to host a biggie. It's Evian week! One of the most beautiful places on earth with picturesque views of Lake Geneva but a very hilly and tricky Golf course at Evian Resort! I am joined by Ryan Ballengee of Golf News Net to go over everything you need for the...
2024-07-10
1h 18
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 137) US Open Championship (with Chris Callow)
It's the 3rd Major of the Year this week for the US Open Championship at the iconic Pinehurst Number 2! This truly great Donald Ross design measuring 7,500 yards with a Par 70 this week is a true brute of a Golf Course with absolutely lightning fast Greens for this week set for Pinehurst. Craig & Chris Callow @shallowcalgolf deep dive into the odds board where we discuss who can potentially put in the greatest threat to the Undeniable Best Player in Planet Golf in Scottie Scheffler! Could we see a shock winner this week or will it be a formality for the...
2024-06-11
1h 36
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 136) The US Women's Open (with Scott Mader)
We have arrived at the 2nd Major of the year in the Women's game this week as the players head to Pennsylvania for the 79th US Women's Open at the fantastic Lancaster Country Club! It is the 2nd time that the US Women's Open has been hosted at this William Flynn classic design where it hosted the tournament in 2015 where a 20 year old In Gee Chun would win the first of her 3 Majors and maintains a special affiliation with Lancaster! With Nelly Korda winning 6 out of her last 8 events including the first major of the year at C...
2024-05-29
1h 34
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 134) PGA Championship & Mizuho Americas Open (with ShallowCal)
Hello & welcome to the 2nd Major Championship of the year for PGA Championship at Valhalla where we have an enthralling Major to look forward to with the 3 Golfing juggernauts of Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy & Brooks Koepka all coming into this year's PGA Championship with a victory! We also have the generational talent Ludvig Åberg, the ever consistent Xander Schauffele & 2x Major Champion Jon Rahm looking to topple the mighty trio! I was joined by a friend of the show this week in Chris Callow (@shallowcalgolf) to give a detailed preview on what to expect at Valhalla this we...
2024-05-15
1h 48
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 133) ISPS Handa Championship - Japan
We are back this week to chat ISPS Handa Championship at Taiheiyo (Gotemba) course with the picturesque Mount Fuji in the backdrop as the DP World Tour returns after a break. We discuss the domination of the 2 World Number 1's Scottie Scheffler & Nelly Korda who have won 9 of their last 10 events together including 2 Majors in that time with Stephan Jaeger being the only player to win in that sequence in Texas. Craig also has a bit of a discussion about the direct lack of coverage on the LPGA Tour recently even with a Major Championship last week...
2024-04-23
1h 03
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 131) The Masters Preview
It's that time of year again it's the Azaleas, it's Pimento Cheese Sandwiches, it's AUGUSTA NATIONAL. Craig is rejoined by Craig Edwards to preview everything about this year's Masters tournament. Can anyone stop the relentless World number 1 Scottie Scheffler? We give you our picks and views on what is going to be an unpredictable Masters! Listen in and give some support by listening in on Podbean, Apple & Spotify!
2024-04-08
1h 06
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 130) James Nicholas
In this episode Craig is joined by new DP World Tour card holder for 2024 James Nicholas who phones in from New York after his first 5 events in Qatar/Kenya/South Africa & India after gaining DP World Tour card by a shot at Final Stage of DP World Tour Q School at Infinitum! A student at Yale University, James turned professional at beginning of 2020 and made starts on the Korn Ferry Tour finishing with a best T13th at Lincoln Land Championship where he would also get a couple of invites on the PGA Tour at Rocket Mortgage...
2024-04-02
1h 02
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 126) Genesis Invitational
It was a thrilling Phoenix Open finish where the classy Canadian Nick Taylor birdied 5 of the last 6 holes to beat the wirey old veteran Charley Hoffman who played exceptionally for the last 36 holes out of nowhere but it was Taylor that made a clutch birdie on the 2nd play off hole to beat Hoffman to win his 4th PGA Tour title now & his 3rd in the last 4 years since Pebble Beach. On the DP World Tour it was a maiden victory for the talented Japanese player Rikuya Hoshino who became the 4th Japanese player to win on the the...
2024-02-13
35 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 123) Pebble Beach Pro-Am/Bahrain Champs
With Edwards unavailable Craig goes alone for the very first time so apologies if it's a poor quality episode. It was an interesting week with Matthieu Pavon becoming the 1st Frenchman in 117 years to win on PGA Tour with a fantastic victory at Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines winning with a ballsy 3rd shot to the Par 5 18th to defeat Nicolai Højgaard! At Ras Al Khaimah it was a super Thorbjorn Olesen performance to win by 6 shots at -27 to Rasmus Hojgaard at Al Hamra GC. That was Olesen's 8th victory on DP World Tour & 3rd since 2022 a c...
2024-01-30
55 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 122) Shaun Norris
In this episode sponsored by Golf Tips Checker Craig was joined by the prolific winner from South Africa Shaun Norris who over a 22 year pro career has amassed a whopping 11 Professional Wins at all levels including a stunning 6 wins in Japan a country he deeply adores and looks forward to getting back there in March! We catch up with Shaun after a long break since Dunhill Champs at Leopard Creek as he explains the signs of fatigue that kicked in towards the end of the season coming from Japan & SA. We find out how Shaun's preparations are going on...
2024-01-29
1h 05
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 121) Ryan van Velzen
In this latest episode of Chasing Pars Golf Podcast in association with Golf Tips Checker Craig is joined by Sunshine Your sensation & 2x winner Ryan van Velzen who phones in from on site of tomorrow's Sunshine Tour event at Mediclinic Invitational where its a strong field with the likes of Jacques Kruyswijk, Oli Bekker, Danie van Tonder, Benjamin Follett-Smith amongst those playing on the Sunshine Tour this week. Ryan talks us through his journey to the Sunshine Tour via winning twice on Big Easy Tour as an amateur while turning pro in 2021. While first coming on the Sunshine Tour...
2024-01-24
1h 01
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 120) Farmers Insurance Open & Ras Al Khaimah
In the first tournament preview show of this year on Chasing Pars Golf Podcast in association with Golf Tips Checker Craig & Craig Edwards are back to preview this week's events on the PGA Tour & DP World Tour with Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines tomorrow at time of recording where Craig had the 1-2 last year with Max Homa winning at 25/1 & Keegan Bradley finishing 2nd while Edwards also hd Max Homa win last year and has had likes of Jason Day win for him before. With a run of 200/1, 400/1 & 350/1 winners in the first 3 events we are pretty certain that...
2024-01-23
1h 00
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 119) Pieter Moolman
In this episode of the podcast which is sponsored by Golf Tips Checker Craig was joined by 2x Sunshine Tour winner & new 2024 DP World Tour card holder Pieter Moolman, a player with one of the saddest and devastating stories. Pieter is from Ekerhulani in Gauteng just short of Johannesburg in South Africa, started playing Golf at 13 & would go be a member at Benoni Lake Golf Club. Pieter won 2009 South African Boys, competed at Duke of York Champions & was represented at every age group from 16 for Eastern Gauteng. Pieter is a 2x Sunshine Tour winner having won 2022 Fortress...
2024-01-18
1h 19
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 118) Luca Filippi
In another player exclusive interview for Golf Tops Checker Craig was joined by 2x Sunshine Tour winner & current Sunshine Tour OOM #4 from Cape Town Luca Filippi. In another fantastic episode we find out what Luca has been up to after a 2 week break with his partner in Thailand while Snorkelling and petting Elephants. We find out stuff about Luca through the quick fire round then later find out about his amateur successes and later Sunshine Tour successes in 2023. Cape Town born Luca originally played Tournament Golf at Age of 9 at Atlantic Golf Club having played all of...
2024-01-17
1h 07
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 116) David Drysdale
In another player interview of Chasing Pars Golf Podcast sponsored by Golf Tips Checker Craig was joined by Scottish veteran & current Asian Tour professional David Drysdale who was phoning in from freezing cold Cockburnspath. David has spent an overall 21 seasons on European Tour now DP World Tour & has amassed over 575 starts with 4 2nd's/5 3rd's & 29 Top 10's overall with the most notable 2nd coming at Education City for 2020 Qatar Masters where David would miss a 15ft birdie chance on the 72nd hole to win on his 498th European Tour start. What transpired from there in a playoff with J...
2024-01-16
1h 17
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 115) Maja Stark
In another Chasing Pars player exclusive interview sponsored by Golf Tips Checker I was absolutely delighted to be joined by 1x LPGA Tour winner, 5x Ladies European Tour winner & 2023 Solheim Cup star Maja Stark who becomes my 25th Professional Player interview. In this brilliant episode with Maja we find out about her background growing up in the village of Abbekås in Sweden growing up with an older brother they would play competitively in most things against each other. We find out that Maja was in the same year & went to the same school as no...
2024-01-14
1h 28
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 112) George Bloor
In this next player episode of Chasing Pars Golf Podcast in association with Golf Tips Checker Craig was joined by 2023 Clutch Pro Tour/Mizuno Next Gen Order of Merit winner & now Challenge Tour card holder George Bloor who calls in a couple of days before he jets out to Dubai for 3 weeks in hot weather preparation for the start of the 2024 Challenge Tour season in South Africa. A very hard working Golfer with Lazer focus that is always trying to get better & better George has made a name for himself on the Pro-Ams in Portugal & t...
2024-01-09
59 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 110) Jim Herman
In the 2nd episode of today Craig was joined by 3x PGA Tour title winner & 1x Korn Ferry Tour winner & long time PGA Tour pro Jim Herman who gives in his own words a brilliant analogy of his long 23 year pro career from the highs and the lows of a PGA Tour professional. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio Jim turned pro in 2000 is the winner of 2010 Moonah Classic on the Nationwide Tour (KFT) in Australia beating Chris Kirk in a playoff, the winner of 2016 Shell Houston Open defeating 2016 Open Champion Henrik Stenson by 1 shot his 1st win...
2024-01-08
1h 07
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 109) Benjamin Follett-Smith
We are back for the start of the Player Interviews again on Chasing Pars Golf Podcast in association with Golf Tips Checker. In this episode Craig is joined by current Challenge Tour/Sunshine Tour pro and a 2x winner of the Cape Town Open Zimbabwean Ben Follett-Smith! We start off finding out what Ben likes to do in his down time off from the Tour life which includes Pints & Coffee. We find out what life was like back in Harare, Zimbabwe growing up while Ben picked up Golf because of his Dad at Age of 2/3. Ben would...
2024-01-08
1h 16
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Season 2024 & 2023 Recap
Hello and Happy New Year from a new look Chasing Pars Golf Podcast where Craig & new co-host Craig Edwards go over what type of players we are looking at for Kapalua Plantation Course for this week's The Sentry as well as go over the LIV events of 2023/Majors of 2023/Make some predictions for Majors in 2024 & name a few DP World Tour players we ate looking out for in 2024. Craig Edwards is an experienced Golf Bettor/Tipster with a host of experience in Golf Betting Articles & Golf Journalism and I'm looking forward to seeing what we h...
2024-01-03
1h 19
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 108) Manuel Elvira
In this latest player journey episode of Chasing Pars Podcast where Craig was battling through the flu. Craig was joined by recent DP World Tour card holder Manuel Elvira who graduated from the Challenge Tour last season with 10 Top 10 finishes with 3 2nd place finishes including in last seasons sparkling run resulting in finishing 3rd overall on the Race to Mallorca standings gaining his DP Tour Card for 2024 season. We look back at how Manuel got into the game, the challenges of having an older brother 9 years senior (DP World Tour winner Nacho Elvira), how he made the decision to go...
2023-12-19
1h 00
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(Ep 107) Martin Simonsen
In tonight's episode Craig is joined by DP World Tour & Challenge Tour professional Martin Leth Simonsen calling in from holiday in Texas! Martin is a pro since 2015 playing from Aalborg in Denmark the same place as Lucas Bjerregaard & a graduate of the University of Texas El Paso playing in the same fields as the likes of Jon Rahm, Jordan Spieth & Bryson DeChambeau. We learn of how Bryson would just come out with the most random stuff! A 2x European Am Team member for Denmark in 2014 at Linna in Finland & 2015 at Halmstad GC in Sweden losing in the final to Scotland...
2023-12-06
1h 24
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...
2023-12-05
1h 09
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(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...
2023-12-05
1h 15
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(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...
2023-11-23
58 min
Good Place
From Toronto to The Hague: A Rapid Relocation Story - Craig Thomson
Connecting with another neighbor, meet Craig Thomson, originally from Toronto, Canada, but who moved to The Hague within 3 months, because his wife got a great job opportunity over here. An interesting conversation about what 'home' is, how life has changed, meeting new people, and how our perspectives change over time, across different chapters in life. Enjoy the episode! In this episode, we explore rapid relocations and the incredible stories behind them. My neighbor Craig Thomson and his wife, moved from Toronto to The Hague in just three months due to a career...
2023-09-28
33 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(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...
2023-09-19
43 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(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...
2023-09-19
1h 23
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
(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...
2023-09-12
1h 27
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
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...
2023-09-05
1h 39
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
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...
2023-08-29
1h 46
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
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...
2023-08-15
36 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
ISPS Handa World Invitational (with GolfNutter3)
The DP World Tour returns this week after it's 4 week layoff after The Open Championship at Royal Liverpool and the Barracuda at Tahoe. While I've been busy with player interviews it's good to have the main reason we do this back and that is chat DP World Tour golf! This week I am joined for the first time by Nigel who is better known on Twitter as @GolfNutter3 calling in all the way from Brisbane, Australia to chat this week's ISPS Handa World Invitational presented by AVIV Clinics in co-sanction with the Ladies European Tour at Galgorm Castle in Antrim...
2023-08-15
1h 49
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Marcus Helligkilde
In this episode Craig is joined by 3x Challenge Tour winner in the calendar year of 2021 & 3x Nordic Golf League winner Marcus Helligkilde. Marcus joins us en route to do some work before the DP World Tour returns in Northern Ireland next week at Galgorm! A Turkish Amateur Champion at 19 years of age Marcus would also play as part of Team Denmark with John Axelsen at El Camaleon in Cancun which is the home of the Mayakoba (Scottie Scheffler, Viktor Hovland, Bob MacIntyre, Grant Forrest & Maverick McNealy were part of the 2016 Eisenhower Trophy). Marcus is also a 2 time European Amateur...
2023-08-10
1h 00
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Jorge Campillo
In this episode Craig is joined by 3x DP World Tour winner & winner of the Triple Crown at the University of Indiana, Jorge Campillo! We go through his time as an amateur participating in the Palmer Cup for Europe 3 consecutive years in 07, 08 + 09 even playing Dustin Johnson in the singles in 07. Jorge was also a participant in the 2008 Eisenhower Trophy with Team Spain. Jorge would turn professional in 2009 competing on the Challenge Tour from 2009-11 as well as a few limited European Tour starts. Jorge would finish 2nd twice at the Acaya Open + The Rolex Trophy to make it to the...
2023-08-08
1h 17
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
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...
2023-08-01
1h 14
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
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...
2023-06-13
1h 36
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
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...
2023-06-06
1h 13
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
The Memorial & Porsche European Open (With Tom Ford)
Well what a week it was last week for the start of the revamped pod with a consensus 60/1 + 55/1 winner with Pablo Larrazabal and a 80/1 winner with Emiliano Grillo for Tom. Craig also had a 2nd runner up in LPGA Matchplay with 20/1 Ayaka Furue & a 3rd place at 150/1 with Deon Germishuys! In this episode we discuss Pablo and his 9th DP World Tour win aswell as go over The Memorial Tournament on the PGA Tour & Porsche European Open on the DP World Tour! Billy Horschel & Kalle Samooja are this week's defending champions at Muirfield Village & Porsche Nord Course at Green Eagle...
2023-05-30
1h 15
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Charles Schwab Challenge & KLM Open
Welcome back to Chasing Pars Golf Podcast for the first time in a year we are back doing what we do best, bet golf and chat rubbish about golf! Joining me this time round will be Tom Ford @Fordysgolfpicks on Twitter. Listen in to find out what myself & Tom think of this week's tournaments Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial CC & KLM Open at Bernardus Golf. Sam Burns & Victor Perez are the defending champions in their respective events! We also gloss over Brooks Koepka's superb win at Oak Hill winning his 5th major Championship! Our socials are as follows: Craig (ThomsonGolf94) ...
2023-05-25
1h 41
The Accelerators Club
Captivating Copy Secrets: Discover the Copywriting Mastery of Craig Garber as He Shares His Direct Response Marketing Secrets Part 2
Captivating Copy Secrets: Discover the Copywriting Mastery of Craig Garber as He Shares His Direct Response Marketing Secrets Part 2 Meet The Masters Series: Craig Garber My next guest is Craig Garber known as the king of copy. If you’d asked Gary Halbert, usually referred to as the world's greatest copywriter, if there was another copywriter out there who writes as well as he does, he'd say, no, but there's someone I know who actually has more natural direct response writing talent than I do. And his name is Craig Garber. Craig is one of...
2023-03-27
21 min
The Accelerators Club
Captivating Copy Secrets: Discover the Copywriting Mastery of Craig Garber as he Shares His Direct Response Marketing Secrets - Part 1
Captivating Copy Secrets: Discover the Copywriting Mastery of Craig Garber as He Shares His Direct Response Marketing Secrets Part 1 Meet The Masters Series: Craig Garber My next guest is Craig Garber known as the king of copy. If you’d asked Gary Halbert, usually referred to as the world's greatest copywriter, if there was another copywriter out there who writes as well as he does, he'd say, no, but there's someone I know who actually has more natural direct response writing talent than I do. And his name is Craig Garber. Craig is one o...
2023-03-20
21 min
In Context
Episode 25 - Temperature Regulation & Sleep with Dr Craig Heller
For this episode I was joined by Dr. Craig Heller, Professor of Biology at Stanford University and world expert on the science of temperature regulation. We discussed the benefits of ice baths and cold showers, how to offset hyperthermia and hypothermia and how cooling technology discovered and engineered in his lab led to dramatic performance improvements of athletes and how it can eliminate delayed onset muscle soreness. This is episode is sponsored by The Struggle For Meaning Newsletter, a weekly newsletter in which I send out every Sunday a short article concerning embracing struggle and how to...
2022-07-26
1h 03
Business Owners Radio
LEADERSHIP | How to apply the wisdom of global industry, diplomacy, and advocacy to entrepreneurial success. w/Hamish Thomson
Hamish Thomson, seasoned global executive, board director, start-up adviser, and author, shares insights from his latest book: "It's Not Always Right To Be Right," an autobiographical account of business and personal insight from 30 years of corporate experience. Learn leadership lessons from 17 leading international business experts you can apply to be more successful n business and life.Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher. Website | Facebook |
2022-06-13
24 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 80 Charles Schwab Challenge
Justin Thomas was the deserved victor as he tamed Southern Hills Country Club to defeat Will Zalatoris in a playoff to win his 2nd PGA Championship title. This week the PGA moves back to Fort Worth, Texas for Charles Schwab Challenge at the classical test known as Colonial Country Club. Jason Kokrak was crowned champion last year defeating a spirited Jordan Spieth to cap off his remarkable 18 month trophy turnaround! Other champions at Colonial include Daniel Berger, Kevin Na, Justin Rose, Jordan Spieth & Chris Kirk. This 7,209 classical Perry Maxwell Par 70 design is a really tough test of Golf for the...
2022-05-24
1h 00
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 80 Charles Schwab Challenge
Justin Thomas was the deserved victor as he tamed Southern Hills Country Club to defeat Will Zalatoris in a playoff to win his 2nd PGA Championship title. This week the PGA moves back to Fort Worth, Texas for Charles Schwab Challenge at the classical test known as Colonial Country Club. Jason Kokrak was crowned champion last year defeating a spirited Jordan Spieth to cap off his remarkable 18 month trophy turnaround! Other champions at Colonial include Daniel Berger, Kevin Na, Justin Rose, Jordan Spieth & Chris Kirk. This 7,209 classical Perry Maxwell Par 70 design is a really tough test of Golf for the...
2022-05-24
1h 00
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 79 PGA Championship (2nd Major)
With Jamie preparing for his holiday to sunny Portugal & Ryan with family commitments Craig is joined by former guest of the pod Adam Watson @AdtheVillan on Twitter to preview this year's 2nd Major PGA Championship which is being held at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We give our in depth guide to who we fancy this week. Who are you choosing to win the Wanamaker Trophy? It should be a great week of Golf! Enjoy guys and appreciate the love and support especially for major weeks! Let's go!
2022-05-17
1h 19
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 79 PGA Championship (2nd Major)
With Jamie preparing for his holiday to sunny Portugal & Ryan with family commitments Craig is joined by former guest of the pod Adam Watson @AdtheVillan on Twitter to preview this year's 2nd Major PGA Championship which is being held at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We give our in depth guide to who we fancy this week. Who are you choosing to win the Wanamaker Trophy? It should be a great week of Golf! Enjoy guys and appreciate the love and support especially for major weeks! Let's go!
2022-05-17
1h 19
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 78 AT&T Byron Nelson
After a magnificent week coming back from a brilliant Betfred British Masters at The Belfry where all 3 of us went on the Saturday to watch some top action Jamie & Ryan are back on PGA Tour duty this week to cover AT&T Byron Nelson tournament as KH Lee returns to defend his title as TPC Craig Ranch returns for the 2nd year in a row as the tournament host course. Lee managed to win at -25 last year maintaining his liking for TPC Courses. Jamie & Ryan go through their fancies with some surprising & some not so surprising picks! Enjoy the...
2022-05-10
52 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 77 Betfred British Masters
After another semi decent week for the pod with 4 places across both tours with Hennie du Plessis T6 at 50/1 for Craig, Brandon Wu T2 at 110/1 & Aaron Wise T6 at 30/1 for Jamie and Cam Champ 40/1 T6 for Ryan. This week we turn our attention the iconic Belfry Brabazon Course for The British Masters where Richard Bland defends his crown after last year's iconic win defeating Guido Migliozzi in a play off to make history becoming the oldest first time DPWT winner at the age of 48 winning on his 478th start on Tour. This week Blandy defends on his 500th start on...
2022-05-04
1h 15
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 76 Vidanta Villarta Mexico Open & Catalunya Championship
After a 3 week break Jamie & Craig are back to preview 2 new tournaments at both Vidanta Villarta Mexico Open & Catalunya Championship. Although the course in Mexico is quite unknown, the course at PGA Catalunya has hosted 3 Spanish Open's (Open De Espana in 2000, 2009 & 2014) as well as hosting European Tour Q School Finals until 2016 & as part of the yearly schedule for Nordic Golf League on back to back weeks in February for Mediter Real Estate Masters & PGA Catalunya Resort Championship both at PGA Catalunya Stadium Course. Jon Rahm is the overwhelming favourite in Mexico at 5/1 followed in by Abraham Ancer, Tony Finau & Gary...
2022-04-26
1h 33
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 75 Niklas Norgaard Moller
In this episode Craig is joined by DP World Tour player & 2021 Challenge Tour graduate Niklas Norgaard Moller. Niklas talks about how he has adjusted to the step up from Challenge Tour to DP World Tour, his upbringing in Copenhagen, how he managed to decide Golf was the way forward. Niklas turned pro before 2016 starting out in the Nordic Golf League where a couple of years starting out there he managed to gain a handful of Challenge Tour starts which proved to be good experience as in 2019 Niklas would go onto having 13 Top 10 finishes in Nordic Golf League including a win...
2022-04-05
1h 33
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 74 The Masters
It was another semi decent week for the podcast last week with a 100/1 shared place for Craig with Troy Merritt T4th, Adam Hadwin gave shared place at 33/1 while at the first major of the year at Chevron Championship it was 28/1 & 40/1 places for Ryan with Celine Boutier and Hannah Green. It's the best week of the calendar year this week with the return of Magnolia Lane, Chaos of Amen Corner and the fresh smell of the Azaleas it must of course mean it is the return of Augusta National Golf Club for The 2022 Masters event. Jamie & Ryan are joined by...
2022-04-05
1h 23
Shot And Shield Wargaming Podcast
Craig Thomson, Khartoum & Soviet Propaganda
In this episode of the Shot and Shield Supercast, Scott welcomes Craig Thomson from @tinyterrain to talk about his WW1 in Persia project, painting techniques, and Back of Beyond. Also included in this episode is a Scenario Builder that was inspired by Scott's conversation with Gurinder Singh Mann about his book The British and the Sikhs: Discovery, Warfare and Friendship 1700-1900. Last episodes Top 5 will be revealed and a new Top 5 question will take its place. The Charleston Heston 1966 Classic movie, Khartoum will be reviewed, Scott will engage in another critically acclaimed Watch-a-Long from the 1946 Soviet Propaganda Classic movie...
2022-04-01
1h 41
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 73 Chevron Championship & Valero Texas Open
It was a great week for the podcast as Ryan had the winner of WGC Matchplay in Scottie Scheffler at 16/1 that win in Austin takes Scheffler to the summit of World Golf becoming the new World Number 1 Golfer after winning 3 of his past 5 events on PGA Tour. Jamie had Kevin Kisner finish Runner up at 66/1 along with another T2nd in Dominican Republic with 40/1 Alex Smalley at Corales Puntacana where Chad Ramey gained his maiden PGA Tour title. On the DP World Tour in Qatar it was victory for the Scots as the supremely talented Scot Ewen Ferguson battled back...
2022-03-29
2h 02
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 71 Deon Germishuys
In this latest episode of the podcast. Craig is joined by 2018 South Africa Amateur Champion & Current Sunshine Tour star Deon Germishuys as he joins us in his home from Johannesburg to talk to us about last week's event at Pecanwood Estate where he narrowly missed the cut while playing good golf at -5 Deon also gives us a nice insight to how it will play this week at Steyn City a course he has played a couple of times before with it set to rain on Wednesday it should yet again be a scoreable test with the greens soft & receptive...
2022-03-15
1h 27
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 70 The Players' Championship
In a week full of places with Jamie having T2 Horschel & T6 Kirk at 40/1 & 66/1, Craig having Tarren T5 in Puerto Rico 80/1 & Ryan having Hatton T2 at 33/1 was another step in the right direction for the podcast. This week Jamie has the daunting task of going solo this week in a short but sweet episode for the flagship event of PGA Tour that being The Players' Championship at TPC Sawgrass designed by The Dye's often described as 'The 5th Major' it's the one event everybody on the PGA Tour roster wants to add to their CV it's so prestiged. Justin Thomas...
2022-03-08
34 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 69 Arnold Palmer Invitational & Magical Kenya Open
After a fantastic viewing spectacle at the ever exciting PGA National for Honda Classic after all the trials, tribulations, thrills and spills it was the year of the Sepp with Sepp Straka winning his 1st PGA Tour title at -10 to become the first Austrian born PGA Tour title holder defeating Shane Lowry in the rain in Florida and the biggest Daniel Berger collapse we have seen. This week we are back to historic Bay Hill Club & Lodge at Arnie's place for this year's Arnold Palmer Invitational where Bryson DeChambeau bomb & gouged his way round to win at -12 last...
2022-02-28
1h 29
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 68 Honda Classic
It was a non entity week really for the picks for Jamie & Craig but a nice 20/1 T2nd with Morikawa & 150/1 T3rd with Tom McKibbin places for Ryan as keep the current streak of places going. What a fantastic performance by the talented Chilean Joaquin Niemann who blitzed The Riv away in spectacular fashion eventually winning by 2 shots at -19 although did get to -21 at one stage but nonetheless very impressive from a player with a big future. This week Craig is joined by Owen Vrabel of Draws n Fades Podcast to go over Honda Classic as we arrive...
2022-02-22
51 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 67 Genesis Invitational
Scottie Scheffler was triumphant for us last week in Phoenix to win Waste Management Phoenix Open at 28/1 to take the win tally for the pod so far in 2022 to 4 wins! Scheffler thoroughly deserved his maiden PGA Tour victory defeating the form player in the world Patrick Cantlay in a play off. In a spectacular week on and off the course last week in Arizona Craig & Ryan go over the major talking points from TPC Scottsdale as we gloss over the pandemonium of the 16th hole witnessing 2 hole in ones at 16 in the same tournament with Sam Ryder & Carlos Ortiz making...
2022-02-14
1h 46
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 65 Ras al Khaimah Championship
After a gutting play off defeat to Viktor Hovland at Dubai Desert Classic it was a valiant effort from the evergreen Richard Bland who placed for Craig at 100/1 to have another profitable week on DP World Tour. In the 3rd event of DP World Tour season we stay in Dubai for part 1 of Ras Al Khaimah at Al Hamra GC it is a 7,325 yard par 72 Peter Harradine design. It played 3 times on Challenge Tour from 2016 to 2018 with Jordan Smith (2016), Jens Dantorpn (2017) & Adri Arnaus (2018) the winners. Bernd Wiesberger is the clear favourite at 10/1 with Jordan Smith, Bob MacIntyre, Romain Langasque & Adrian...
2022-02-01
1h 31
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 63 Diane Knox Balas
In this episode Craig is joined by Golf Broadcaster Diane Knox Balas. Diane talks about her upbringing in Inverness starting off in Media working for local Moray Radio for 6 years before moving to Glasgow working for Clyde 1 & sometimes Forth 1 stations as a Sports Broadcaster for another 6 years always having a special place for Golf. Diane's younger brother is none other than 2x PGA Tour & 2x European Tour winner Russell Knox! We speak about her favourite moments with Russell whether that be out supporting him on the course or spectating winning tournaments from his first win at WGC event in China...
2022-01-26
1h 02
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 62 Slync.io Dubai Desert Classic
After Thomas Pieters won Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in a brilliant tournament at Yas Links for us at 33/1 & Rafa Cabrera-Bello finishing T2nd for an 80/1 place it was a dream start to the year on the DP World Tour for the pod! This week Craig is joined by the lads from Fairway Finders Podcast Donnacha & Steve to talk us through their trip to Dubai and go through some picks for this week's Dubai Desert Classic at Emirates GC at Majlis Course. It is a 7,424 yard Karl Litten design which requires strong OTT and T2G game! Paul Casey is the...
2022-01-25
1h 03
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 59 The American Express
It was a nice week for the podcast last week with 3 places all round with Louis Dobbelaar finishing in 3rd in Australia at 55/1, Seamus Power finishing T3rd at Sony Open at 45/1 for Craig & short course specialist Kevin Kisner also finishing T3rd at 40/1 for Jamie. In this week's PGA Tour episode of the podcast Jamie & Ryan go over this week's event in La Quinta, California for The American Express formerly known as Bob Hope Classic or Desert Classic where is a triple figure priced paradise coming from the previous winners of this event. Jon Rahm & Patrick Cantlay are joint...
2022-01-17
52 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 58 Sony Open in Hawaii
With Jamie having a week off to try to fully recover after being floored by Covid recently Craig & Ryan are joined by host of Right Click Print Money podcast and former multiple guest on the show Ty Allushuski @SportsGuyTy on Twitter as we discuss Kapalua Plantation Course with various talking points from Course setup to Cam Smith record breaking tournament score win of -34 beating World Number 1 Jon Rahm over 2 days and a remarkable record breaking weekend performance from experienced Australian Matt Jones who shot -23 62 & 61 over the weekend for his last 36 holes to make history on PGA Tour. This...
2022-01-11
1h 19
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 57 Sentry Tournament of Champions
Welcome back to Chasing Pars Golf Podcast as we return for the first time in 2022 to preview this week's opening event of the year at Tournament of Champions at Kapalua in Maui, Hawaii. Usually a low scoring birdie event it can on occasion be a slight challenge with the wind coming off the coast. Nonetheless it's nice to have the Golf back on our screens as we aim to replicate and better a successful start up year last year! With more incentive to go better, less faffing about and a new addition to the team in Ryan Hamilton @GolfTipster5 who...
2022-01-03
1h 07
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 56 2021 Season Review & Looking into 2022 Season
In this episode Craig & Jamie give their thoughts on the 2021 season on PGA Tour and European Tour. With 40 events played on European Tour this year along with 50+ on PGA it certainly was a long but fun season with plenty highlights. We also make some predictions for the Majors in 2022 along with Rolex Series events and we both go over our 5 players each to watch on both Tours for 2022. It's been a great start up year so thanks everyone that supports us! Enjoy
2021-12-21
1h 21
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 55. Aaron Cockerill
With Jamie enjoying a much deserved night out. In this episode Craig is joined by DP World Tour pro from Canada Aaron Cockerill. Aaron discusses the latest DP World Tour takeover going forward, the whole sorry episode of Joburg Open in South Africa where it took Aaron 4 days to get home to Canada!! We also gloss over some amateur results, starting over on Mackenzie Canada Tour, Q School for Korn Ferry Tour, moving over to European Tour for Q School, spending a full season on Challenge Tour learning his trade & also getting some limited starts on European Tour. I'd like...
2021-12-12
1h 45
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 53 Wil Besseling
In this special episode of Chasing Pars Podcast Craig & Jamie are joined by current European Tour (now DP World Tour) Professional player Wil Besseling. We firstly like to thank Wil for coming on the podcast after his 2 weeks trip to South Africa got cancelled due to the newly Red Zoned South African travel restrictions we are extremely grateful. In probably one of the most open & honest player interviews we have done so far Wil describes his career in the game in his own words from winning Dutch Amateur Match Play Championship as a 15 year old in 2001 to competing in European...
2021-12-01
1h 23
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...
2021-11-15
59 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
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...
2021-11-09
1h 27
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
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...
2021-11-02
1h 05
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
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...
2021-10-26
1h 42
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
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...
2021-10-19
1h 50
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
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...
2021-10-14
42 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
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...
2021-10-11
31 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
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...
2021-10-11
58 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
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...
2021-09-30
49 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 40 Chris Hanson
In this Chasing Pars Golfing Pod special Craig had the chance to sit down and chat with former European Tour & Challenge Tour professional Chris Hanson. Chris speaks about how he got into the game, turning professional in 2006, 3 win in a year spell in 2011 on the EuroPro Tour gaining entry into the Challenge Tour in 2012. Chris also talks about qualifying for the 2014 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool for his first Major Championship appearance and gaining the 27th and final European Tour card for the 2016 season in Nov 2015 at Challenge Tour Q Finals. Craig & Chris also speak about coaching, 2020ProTour and speak...
2021-09-16
1h 04
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 39 Fortinet Championship
The PGA Tour season returns this week after a 2 week break for the start of the 2021-22 Season at the Fortinet Championship formerly known as Safeway Open which is at Silverado North. This week Craig & Jamie are privileged to be joined by Geoff Fienberg to preview this week's Fortinet Championship. For those that don't know Geoff he is best known for on Twitter as part of the weekly Golf show with Pat Mayo on the Mayo Media Network and co-writer for Oddschecker US. It was honour to chat to Geoff in what was a fantastic episodes with some really solid...
2021-09-14
1h 43
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 38 Gia Rhodes
In this Chasing Pars Golfing Pod special we are delighted have been joined by our first ever female guest and avid golfer in Gia Rhodes. In this chat Craig & Gia chat about different topics ranging from where Gia first started playing golf to being an ambassador for change in golf to openly chatting about dealing with Sexist remarks throughout her entire time playing the game of Golf and how she had the strength to come through the end of it. We also talk about Favourite & Dream Courses, other sports played while she was growing up and chatting some Solheim Cup...
2021-09-12
1h 38
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 37 Ryder Cup Picks (Team USA)
In this special episode of the Chasing Pars Podcast, Craig is joined by star of Right Click Print Money podcast Ty Allushuski (@SportsGuyTy) to discuss the 12 players selected by Captain Steve Stricker for the USA Ryder Cup team. We go into detail about each player, discussing their chances, discuss doubles possible partnerships and also discuss some of the players that briefly missed out on getting a call up to the team. The American side on paper is a very strong team with lots of strength and depth to it but we also discuss 'ego's'. Enjoy!
2021-09-11
1h 25
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 34 Omega European Masters
Hi guys and welcome to the best stretch of golf in Europe. After a 5 week lay off Craig returns with Jamie to preview this week's Omega European Masters at the prestigious Crans-sur-Sierre Golf Club in Crans Montana, Switzerland. Visibly one of the most picturesque and scenic golf course in the whole world this test of altitude should test the best of the European Tour this week while Bernd Wiesberger is the rightful 25/1 favourite Craig and Jamie look for value elsewhere in a pretty wide open exciting event. Welcome back to the Chasing Pars Golfing Pod thanks for the support and...
2021-08-23
1h 12
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 31 Wyndham Championship & Cazoo Classic
Congrats are in order as Abraham Ancer gave Jamie a nice 45/1 winner at the WGC St Jude Invitational narrowly defeating Sam Burns and Hideki Matsuyama in a play off to win his maiden PGA Tour title, that now brings the total outright wins to 4 for the podcast all at prices of 45/1, 66/1, 50/1 and 45/1. This week Jamie is joined by a familiar face in the form of past guest of the show Matt Phillips @fore_bet on Twitter. Matt fills in for Craig and gives Ty a break this week. Jamie & Matt go over this week's tournaments at Wyndham Championship at Webb...
2021-08-09
1h 24
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 28 3M Open & Cazoo Open supported by Gareth Bale
Another 2 places of Scheffler 45/1 & Macintyre 55/1 added to stretch the run of 8 weeks in a row of at least 1 place. With Craig on Hiatus, Jamie hosts the show alongside Ty Allushuski @SportsGuyTy on Twitter to preview this week's events of 3M Open and Cazoo Open supported by Gareth Bale where Dustin Johnson and Matt Wallace are favourites at 15/2 and 9/1 respectively.
2021-07-21
1h 16
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 28 3M Open & Cazoo Open supported by Gareth Bale
After another 2 places for the podcast for Scottie Scheffler 45/1 & Robert Macintyre 55/1 that now extends to 8 weeks in a row of at least 1 place return. With Craig on Hiatus due to ongoing problems Jamie takes lead role in hosting alongside Ty Allushuski @SportsGuyTy on Twitter kindly agrees to step in to help preview this week's events of the 3M Open and the Cazoo Open. Dustin Johnson and Matt Wallace are overwhelming favourites in both tournaments at 15/2 and 9/1 respectively. Please be sure to help us expand, thanks.
2021-07-19
1h 16
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Hiatus
On behalf of myself (Craig) I like to thanks for your continued support in the slowing growth surge in the podcast and to following us for 27 episodes, unfortunately my head isn't there just now and I am going to be take a months break off the podcast for personal reasons. Jamie will take over as ever and will see you all soon. Thanks
2021-07-18
18 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 27 The 149th Open Championship
After Hank Lebioda finished well to nab a place at 50/1 that makes it 7 weeks in a row of at least 1 place or win for the Chasing Pars Podcast. In what was a brilliant Scottish Open it was the highly talented Min Woo Lee who came out victorious beating Thomas Detry and Matt Fitzpatrick in a play off to win a Rolex Series event at the tender age of 22. Huge future ahead for the talented Aussie. In the John Deere Classic it was a 10 year win drought ended by Lucas Glover who won by a couple in the end. This week...
2021-07-12
1h 46
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 22 2021 US Open Championship
It was another win to add to the recent collection at the Palmetto Championship with Craig's 50/1 winner with Garrick Higgo making it 3 wins in 3 weeks for the podcast after Kokrak 45/1 and Armitage 66/1 previous. This week Craig & Jamie are joined by Oddschecker golf betting writer Niall Lyons @Betgolfworld and James Redmond @JRSportsTipster to preview this week's 3rd major of the season as we returns to the South Course at Torrey Pines GC for the 2021 US Open Championship. Jon Rahm is the favourite at 11/1 followed in by Dustin Johnson 14/1, Brooks Koepka 16/1 and defending 2020 Champion Bryson DeChambeau 16/1. It should be a great event...
2021-06-14
1h 45
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 20 Porsche European Open
In the 2nd part of this week's podcast Craig & Jamie briefly go over this week's Porsche European Open in Winsen just outside of Hamburg. Craig has an 80/1 shot he really fancies to go well. We are playing at Green Eagle Golf Courses on the North Course which is ranked in the top 10 for longest courses in Europe playing over 7,000 metres. Paul Casey won this at -14 in 2019 by 1 shot defeating Robert Macintyre, Bernd Ritthammer and Matthias Schwab. Casey starts as very short favourite followed by Abraham Ancer and Bernd Wiesberger. Should be a weird event playing only the 54 holes.
2021-06-01
26 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 17 2021 PGA Championship at Kiawah Island
It's major week again with the 2nd major of the year taking place at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island in South Carolina for the 2021 US PGA Championship. In 2012 Rory McIlroy won the US PGA Championship by 8 shots to runner up David Lynn and a whole host of European names in the top 20. We are delighted this week to welcome Sam Harrop (Singer/Songwriter/Golf Parodist & ex Oddschecker golf betting writer) follow his YouTube videos on his channel Sam Harrop music. We are also joined by from Nevada in form golfing tipster Luke Walker know as @LukeSweatitOut on Twitter. We...
2021-05-18
1h 47
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 16 Betfred British Masters & AT&T Byron Nelson
This week Craig & Jamie are lucky to be joined by Skylar Hoke aka @SkyHookDFS on Twitter, if you haven't followed him yet on Twitter please do a very knowledgeable general fun guy who is host of FTN Daily Network and as a part Mayo Media Network where he co-hosts a European Tour picks & bets show with Lost Fore Words Podcast anchorman Tom Jacobs who is also on Twitter @TomJacobs93. We were grateful that Skylar took time out of his busy schedule to agree the join us in previewing this week's Betfred British Masters at The Belfry in Sutton Coldfield and...
2021-05-10
1h 26
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Ep 12 Dale Whitnell
Ahead of this week's Austrian Golf Open we got the chance to chat to European Tour pro and 1x Challenge Tour winner Dale Whitnell on his very interesting rise to the European Tour. Dale speaks about playing in the 2009 Walker Cup for GB & Ire against USA and what it was like to represent GB & Ire at the time. He also turned pro that year in 2009 starting out on the Challenge Tour from 2010-2013 then dropping back into local tours until getting his chance back on the Challenge Tour in 2019. Dale speaks about what it felt like to beat Laurie Canter...
2021-04-13
1h 20
Leaders Of Tomorrow Podcast
214 | Craig Whitten | Scaling and Growing a Real Estate Syndication Business to the Next Level
Ever wondered how successful real estate developers manage the different moving parts to ensure the successful fruition of large multi-million-dollar projects? On today’s show, we interview Craig Whitten, partner, Huntington Properties who shares with us his thoughts on core values, business strategy, and growth. Growing up, Craig was independent-minded and success-motivated. So, when he went through the Student Works internship, this further stoked his passion for business. Here, he got some lifelong lessons and transferable lessons in relationship-building and work ethic. After graduating from the University of Waterloo, Craig worked for a home...
2021-02-26
53 min
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Episode 3. Genesis Invitational
On this weeks's pod Craig and Jamie are joined by Matt Phillips to discuss previous week's Pebble Beach talking points from Molinari top shot to Streelman double to a Berger win. This week we go through the full field Genesis Invitational where Adam Scott is the defending champion.
2021-02-15
1h 33
Chasing Pars Golf Podcast
Episode 2. AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
This week Craig & Jamie look into this week's event at AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am where Dustin Johnson & Patrick Cantlay are the headliners. We also look back over the Saudi International and Phoenix Open where Dustin Johnson & Brooks Koepka were victorious.
2021-02-08
1h 29
Pure Fitbaw
Craig Thomson's Indecent Tackle
The national team, Kilmarnock and match analysis across the SPFL tiers are the focus for Owen and Gavin this week on the 38th episode of the Pure Fitbaw podcast. 1:40 - We pick our Scotland line ups for this week's matches against Russia and San Marino and Gavin gets a little angry about the squad, call offs and call ups. 21:40 - With Kilmarnock in good form we discuss results, tactics, players and future plans for Angelo Alessio's clean sheet masters. 39:03 - Finally we analyse three matches; Ross County v St Johnstone, Raith Rovers v Falkirk and Cowdenbeath v Edinburgh City. The...
2019-10-08
54 min
Best Russian Short Stories by VARIOUS
Episodes Review with Craig Thomson, Security Education & Awareness Manager
Observations and Take-Aways: Episodes Review with Craig Thomson, Security & Awareness Manager On this episode of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Bruce Hallas is joined by Craig Thomson, the Security Education & Awareness Manager at Nationwide Building Society. He is an experienced Education specialist with a demonstrated history of delivering impactful results in the Defence, Air & Space and Information Security arenas. He is skilled in the management of Training Programme and solution design using SAT and ADDIE methodologies to deliver engaging and meaningful training and communications that create measurable behavioural change. Craig values using effective emotional intelligence skills to develop teams and s...
2019-02-07
1h 15