Irelands top golf podcast is back in your eardrums with a fantastic conversation with Paul McCanny, Director of Golf at Portmarnock Links & Hotel. He tell’s us of his life getting into golf, 20+ years at Killeen Castle, the move and vision at Portmarnock Links and how he isn’t even the best golfer in his own house! If you enjoyed the episode, please share it with your family and friends. For episodes and more, check out www.PaddyTalksGolf.com PaddyTalks Golf is POWERED by ForeGolf Custom. Ge...
Dec 12, 2022•37 min
A motorcycle accident took his leg, but Gareth McNeilly professes “I was lucky” given his on-bike decision to “Abandon Ship” and his friends quick first aid thinking led to saving his life that day. Pre accident he was a keen golfer, but having re-discovered golf post accident has opened up a different world for Gareth, now Team Captain for the victory is EDGA Golf Ireland Team who romped to the victory at this summers European Championships and he is keen to share the golfing world and bring mo...
Oct 24, 2022•50 min
North of Ireland Champion 2022. South of Ireland Champion 2022. Runner-Up in the Irish Close and the 2022 US Mid Am. Bridgestone Order of Merit winner, #1 in Ireland, 2022. A season of all seasons. It was superb to catch up with Hugh to have a chat about his year, where his focus has been and his plan over the next few months. Make sure you check him out on the upcoming “The Grind” series by The Firepit Collective crew stateside. Check out other episodes and more at www.paddytalksgolf.com If you...
Oct 17, 2022•36 min
In this week’s inaugural Quick 9 Series episode, we’re returning to episode 3 with Matt Adam’s. A golf industry veteran of more than 25 years, host of “Fairways of Life” golf show, multiple-time New York Time best selling author, has been called “the best interviewer in golf,” having interviewed virtually every living legend of the game from Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Tom Watson to Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. Matt discusses advice he gives young people especially in not asking for permis...
Oct 08, 2022•13 min
Matthew McClean is if anything, a chilled out individual. A chilled out individual playing amateur golf at an incredibly elite level. Having been pipped to the post a couple of times this year, namely at the North of Ireland Championship (by Hugh Foley), Matthew gained sweet revenge at a tournament that wasn’t even on his schedule at the start of the year! Whilst working most of the year and representing his golf club, province and country around the world playing golf on various teams, Matthew ...
Oct 03, 2022•47 min
After nearly 20 years in the golf industry Enda McLoughlin combined both his experience as a competitive golfer and as a PGA coach working with hundreds of golfers over many years, to design a putter grip specifically designed to match up the putter shaft and forearms and then went on to create the world’s first fully adjustable ball marker. We chat early golfing memories, why Enda felt the time was right to come out from behind the pro shop desk and his true reason for creating great products. ...
Sep 17, 2022•1 hr
Ireland’s top ranking Golf Podcast is back for another week! This week we have CEO of Carr Golf Travel on the show, Marty Carr himself. With some great stories of growing up in a golf and business mad household, golf in Old Head with Arnold Palmer and how his impact on the Carr’s meant plenty of beans on toast! Listen to the show and more at www.PaddyTalksGolf.com PaddyTalks Golf is powered by ForeGolf Custom. For your tour level custom fitting session hit this link: www.ForeGolf.ie/booking Host...
Sep 10, 2022•57 min
We are back! After a little hiatus, holidays, we are back with a bang, literally! Swifts Forge is a small family run business based in Northern Ireland. Hand-forging all of their putters and pride themselves on the craftmanship, quality and unique design of our clubs. The traditional handforged nature of the putters and the 15+ years of blacksmithing experience gives Aaron & Kathryn an understanding of the grain structure within the metal that gives their putters an unprecedented feel that y...
Sep 03, 2022•39 min
Stories from The Open. Your Stories. Thanks to Andy Gray, Paul O’Neill and Andy Smyth for coming on the show this week, it literally couldn’t have happened without you! I’d love for you all to get involved in the show every week so head over to www.paddytalksgolf.com and send me a message in the contact me form. Send me your stories. What your friends, family and fellow golfers have done this week or in the past that is funny as hell! I’ll read them out each week at the start of the podcast in t...
Jul 16, 2022•43 min
Possibly the greatest show in Golf. Period. 10 of the World’s Top 12 Golfers. Tiger Woods. Over €140 million raised for charities in the mid West region of Ireland. 40,000 Spectators each day. Tom Fazio designed course with the Calendar Building that is Adare Manor almost visible from every part of the estate. This week’s episode looks to cover the JP McManus ProAm from cover to cover. The History, how JP amasses such a field, The Manor itself, The Course, The Tournament Schedule, The Event Form...
Jul 10, 2022•47 min
I’ve been meaning to cover Women’s Golf as a whole since I started the podcast. Not women golfers, I try and do that as best I can (Hazel Kavangh, Beth Coulter, Lauren Walsh, Mary Doyle, Rebecca Codd, Olivia Mehaffey etc) I mean the whole area of womens golf in golf clubs and in the golf industry itself. The reasons why women don’t generally play. How do golf clubs and culture need to change. What do men do that annoy women golfers. Why women are better than men at golf. Questions women have bef...
Jun 25, 2022•52 min
A few days after winning the Irish Women’s Close at Grange Golf Club and fresh off the camogie field, Beth Coulter joined me for a great, insightful chat. Growing up in a non-golf household, what being from the country actually means (I have a test for that!), looking forward to the Women’s Amateur Championship next week and pretty much beginning a new life as a Sun Devil in Arizona State University in August there is plenty of interest to talk about when Beth Coulter is about! I hope you enjoy ...
Jun 18, 2022•35 min
LIV Golf is not about growing the game. It is not about those golfers doing best for their families. It is not about golf at all. It’s a PR crusade for a country looking to avert the eyes of the world from their home atrocities. So this week’s episode IS NOT about LIV Golf. It’s about pure golf. You cannot get purer golf then that of the amateur game. This episode in fact should rightfully be laid out at the start of the calendar year! Note to self! There is a superb Amateur event on this very w...
Jun 11, 2022•20 min
“We don’t do stuffy” is proclaimed in the About Us section of the Dingle Golf Club website. What they are as a community is incredibly proud, which they should be given the insanely good product they have created on the most westerly point for golf on the Wild Atlantic Way. They are indeed, custodians. Custodians of golf, of the Irish language, of Irish culture and craic, actually custodians of the game and are growing it insanely quickly in this pocket of Ireland known as the Dingle peninsula. ...
Jun 04, 2022•54 min
Adam chases his passion. It transpired in this episode the day job is just as much a passion as his phenomenal Golf Course Photography. We get stuck into the what compelling events drove him to pick up a camera and how he goes about getting the optimum golf hole snap! For more check out www.PaddyTalksGolf.com PaddyTalks Golf is Powered By ForeGolf Custom. Book your tour level golf club fitting today on www.ForeGolf.ie/booking Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 28, 2022•52 min
It’s here! The first, second episode of the week! The Road to the South series will focus in on my own game improvement, areas of development, what I’m doing and why I’m doing it. I’ll look to cover topics that are interesting to more than me too! Course Management, Practice methods, Preparing for Golf, Tournament / Competition reviews and more. I am very keen to involve you, the listener, as much as possible especially on Wednesday episodes. I’d love to have some of you on too to discuss certai...
May 25, 2022•22 min
A full time job. A married man. A father, yet still an elite golfer on this island of Ireland. Colm Campbell rolled back time and captured his second Irish Amateur title last week at The Island Golf Club. We chat about fitting it all in, his mindset when the pressure was on and whether Celtic Symphony is still his walk on song! For more check out www.paddytalksgolf.com PaddyTalks Golf is Powered By ForeGolf Custom. Get your tour level golf club fitting experience at www.ForeGolf.ie Hosted on Aca...
May 21, 2022•25 min
Eric Stepanian loves golf and loves Irish Golf amongst others. He and his friends created The Fliers Club a number of years ago designing experiences for a collective of golfers who are inspired by the discovery of diverse courses, cultures and time-honoured traditions of the game. For more check out www.paddytalksgolf.com Check out Membership of the Fliers Club here: https://www.thefliersclub.com/membership-opportunities Paddy Talks Golf is Powered by ForeGolf Custom. Book your tour level custo...
May 14, 2022•45 min
Multiple New York Times best seller, senior editor and podcast host at The Golfers Journal and has written for multiple other sports publications including Sports Illustrated and Golf Magazine. We discover in this week’s episode Tom has been coming to Ireland since his early teens and continues to bring groups of golfers to these shores each year as well as keeping up with his writing! For more check out www.paddytalksgolf.com PaddyTalksGolf Podcast is Powered By ForeGolfCustom, get your tour le...
Apr 30, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Over drinks, some friends and I had a good debate over what is acceptable to wear when golfing. With Tyrell Hatton winning in a hoodie, Justin Thomas and many more embracing the golf jogger whilst the ladies game has always had a fashion forward sense of style. If we were talking about it, I thought it might be of value to put a little solo episode together taking in some of your opinions and get a synopsis of what is deemed suitable on the fairway in 2022. If you have enjoyed the episode please...
Apr 23, 2022•32 min
This week we speak with Bert McKay, General Manger at Castlerock. It’s been one hundred and twenty one years since the formal inauguration of Castlerock. Harry Colt made it the links we play today, albeit more recently refreshed and updated by Martin Hawtree in 2017. A golf course played in the landscape not on the landscape, it is indeed a fine hallmark Colt design. Hollows, rises, banks, plateaus, pot bunkers and greens varying in sizes all contribute to an incredible links experience just twe...
Apr 16, 2022•37 min
Shame on me for not knowing about Rosslare Golf Links sooner. Soon, everyone will know about it! Over 115 years of history, designed by one of the best architects that lived, a classic links situated just over an hour from Dublin and very close by to the Irish Open hosting Mount Juliet, Rosslare Golf Links ticks all the boxes. I hope you enjoy the episode as we all learn a bit more about the course and this part of Ireland. For more visit www.paddytalksgolf.com PaddyTalksGolf Podcast is Powered ...
Apr 09, 2022•41 min
“You can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed”, Napoleon Hill Brendan Lawlor has not only been copiously successful in his rise to World #1 Disability Golfer, but every step of the way he has passionately spoken about how other disability golfers should be afforded the opportunity to play, compete and included in the game of golf. That passion is bearing fruit, as the world’s outlook on inclusion is changing and looking to personalities, demographics and sport to put their supp...
Apr 02, 2022•49 min
Gareth McCausland grew up in the midst of “The Troubles” on Shankill Road, didn’t pick up a golf club until he was 15 and now finds himself in quite an alternative world on the Inishowen peninsula at Ballyliffin. I hope you enjoy this episodes, leave a review if you do! Please share the show with your family and friends. For more golf content check out www.PaddyTalksGolf.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 01, 2022•42 min
If you have not been lucky enough to have played Ardglass then you don’t know what your missing! In a land made for golf a spirit awaits at Ardglass Golf Club. A cliff-top, castle and canon protected links in County Down, the first few holes are truly memorable whilst the water can be seen from all 18 holes. Having grown up in the community and now Director of Golf at Ardglass, Paul Vaughan is Ardglass personified. Remarkable, personable and an all round great guy. I hope you enjoy this episode....
Feb 21, 2022•35 min
"That’s the thing about books, they let you travel without moving your feet", Jhumpa Lahiri David Kearney has done over 20 years of travelling, has kept journals along his travels, is exceptionally well-read and know has shared his life and travels documentation with us in his book, The Golfing Buddha. For more check out www.PaddyTalksGolf.com Click here to buy the book: https://sigmoidsports.com/shop/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 16, 2022•30 min
With 32+ Years in promoting Irish Links golf around the world, John McLaughlin and his team offer both tour operators and the general public a top class product, value for money and excellent customer service in delivering unforgettable vacation packages for their clients. From the passionate way John speaks about his team and work with clients, golf tourism is in good hands. For more visit www.PaddyTalksGolf.com Book your Irish Golf Trip at www.northandwestcoastlinks.com Hosted on Acast. See ac...
Feb 12, 2022•32 min
International Pairs is a worldwide golf competition for amateur club golfers with a recognized golf handicap and is arguably the World’s largest amateur pairs golf competition. Thomas Hughes looks after the series on the island of Ireland and walks us through the concept and how to get involved! Check out www.PaddyTalksGolf.com for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 05, 2022•31 min
The Final instalment of our wrapped series is with Jamie McConnell the Director of Instruction at Claude Harmon Performance Academy in Dubai. It was great to have a chat with Jamie as he spent some time home in Ireland over the Christmas period for some much needed Irish mammy care! For more checkout www.PaddyTalksGolf.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 01, 2022•20 min
ForeGolf began in 1997 when Derek opened a golf shop in Naas Co Kildare. Now based out of Killeen Castle, Derek and Don (his Dad), Christine (his Mum), Jill (his sister) with Dave Williams provide a tour level service with a wealth of experience and custom fitting knowledge. Derek and Dave are trained to Tour level and have overseen 10,000+ fittings for golfers of all abilities. Derek is no stranger to the podcast making his hat-trick appearance! We reviewed his year, share some good stories and...
Jan 12, 2022•21 min
