Send us a text Episode 277 Jeremy and Dan, we're both "unavailable" this week, so we had an old-school flashback with just Matt and Joe on the mics this week in a Memorial Day episode. The tragic passing of golf professional Grayson Murray hit everyone hard. So much could be said about this topic, and the guys chimed in and shared their thoughts with everyone. Our hearts and prayers go out to the Murray family. Joe is dealing with an injury that has him not playing as much golf as he'd like. Tha...
May 29, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Send us a text It's our first-ever Sunday podcast! What a way to celebrate five years of podcasting! The PGA Championship was great and we'll be talking all about it and the @VegasGolfNetwork Tourney that took place on Saturday! First off, we just want to say thank you to everyone who has tuned in anytime in the last five years! The podcast continues to evolve, and we're still stoked to bring you new shows each week! I (Matt) want to especially thank Joe for saying yes to coming on the show; had...
May 21, 2024•1 hr 28 min
Send us a text EPISODE 275 Welcome to our highly unsophisticated PGA Championship Preview show. After this one, you'll probably understand why a guest typically joins us for these shows. But fear not, the entertainment value was still present, even though our golf knowledge about the second Major of 2024 was severely lacking. Foodies rejoice. We went off the golf rails in this episode but still brought out local knowledge of the food spots to hit, including World of Wings! Eventually, we do get ...
May 16, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Send us a text EPISODE 274 So much to talk about on this week's show! Matt played in his first-ever Member/Guest at TPC Summerlin and forgot how to play golf. But the Tacos were amazing! The Vegas Golf Network was out at Reflection Bay this past weekend for the season's first Major. And, well, Reflection Bay is struggling with the new greens. Retail prices for golf merch and gear are at an all-time high. We're talking about $80 for a box of Titleist golf balls. Bandon Dunes celebrated its 25th a...
May 08, 2024•1 hr 10 min
Send us a text EPISODE 273 We're all over the map in this week's show! Matt and Joe headed south of Vegas to Bullhead City to play the very underrated Laughlin Ranch Golf Club . It's a hidden gem in the desert Southwest, and we talked about our day there. Dan is in Frisco, Texas, caddying in the PGA Professionals Championship . He shared details about the new PGA Headquarters and the courses he's been looping around the past few days. https://www.pgamediacenter.com/events/2024-pga-professional-c...
May 01, 2024•1 hr 15 min
Send us a text Scottie is unstoppable. Kelly Norda, err, Nelly Korda, is too. Jim Nantz, you bozo. We have much to talk about this week besides the PGA Tour. Expect to hear a lot about Popstroke, which just opened up in Vegas this week, and the VGN was put in Pahrump! We have a new partnership with The Golf Stop. Be sure to stop by their new facility and check it out! It's a great spot to practice, hang out, or get in some swings with the boys or the fam! https://thegolfstop.com/ Please check ou...
Apr 24, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Send us a text Episode 271 Wow, what a show this was; we invited a few friends of ours, Jenner Wilson and Cyrus Janssen , to come on and hang out. Why them? Well, both were in Augusta for the Masters and on-site during the tournament. They shared some great insights into what it is like being on the grounds at Augusta, from no cell phones to concession stands, the merchandise, the gnomes, and everything else you can imagine when it comes to being at The Masters. We typically like to run for abou...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 36 min
Send us a text EPISODE 270 Since we're very far away from getting a media invite to cove the Masters, we decided to try and bring some of the South, West, so we invited our friend and highly talented craftsman, Joel Leopard from Atomic Golf ( not the driving range, the OG Atomic Golf ) to hang with us and talk all things Augusta. Joel is based in Akin, South Carolina, which is about 20 minutes from the town of Augusta, Georgia. He's been around the Masters for YEARS and shared some great stories...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 22 min
Send us a text EPISODE 269 Back with more golf talk this week as we are ONE WEEK AWAY from The Masters! So much great talk on this week's show! Matt went into detail about the new phone app he found called Hello Birdie . Not for the Soul Golfer; this app goes into great detail about your round. From preround planning to in-round caddy options, it's backed to the nines with features. https://www.hello-birdie.com/en/ We were snubbed by either Shadow Creek, MGM Rewards, T-Mobile, the LPGA, or all o...
Apr 04, 2024•1 hr 16 min
Send us a text EPISODE 268 Another new golfing venue opened its doors this past weekend, and we were on-site at Atomic Golf Las Vegas for the Media event before the doors officially opened on Friday. Matt, Dan, and Joe were there, and there was a lot to talk about. Atomic Golf, a competitor to TopGolf, Drive Shack, and the other Golf Rangemertainment facilities, has some features we were excited to see and some we knew were going to be basic. https://atomicgolf.com/ A Yellow Golf Ball won on the...
Mar 27, 2024•59 min
Send us a text Episode 267 Matt has tried but still hasn't made it through season 2 of Full Swing on Netflix. This sparked a great conversation about how the show could be better for true golf fans. The Players was epic, which was exactly what the PGA Tour needed as we entered the Major season. It didn't hurt that a hurting Scottie Scheffler did his thing and became the first-ever back-to-back Players Champion. Matty G gave us the weekend FOREcast for the VGN event at Primm Valley, and we shared...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Send us a text EPISODE 266 It's The Players Week, and we invited our friend and Florida native, Trey Sanders, to come hang with us and talk some golf. The Legacy Golf Club got a lot of press this week. Matt, Joe, Jeremy, and Trey all played there on Sunday, and for Trey, it was his first time around the course. It was nice to hear Trey, who could be considered a course snob, have some nice things to say about The Legacy. It's a fun course with a great routing and some very challenging holes. Nex...
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Send us a text Episode 265 Jeremy had to call off this evening, so Matt, Joe, and Dan handled the heavy load in his absence. Matty G was up first with a positive look at this weekend's Golf Forecast. The PGA Tour kicked off its Florida Swing. And another first-time winner, Austin Eckroat, earned the victory on a Monday finish. LIV Golf took place on the other sid of the planet in the dead of night and the past stat Anthony Kim did what we all thought he would do. Remember, kids, Stay in School; ...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr
Send us a text Episode 264 This is "The Sickly" episode. Matt's struggling with a head cold that's completely affected his ability to talk and to think straight, thanks to some high-quality sleep deprivation. But the show must go on! Even with a slow week in the golf space. The 2024 VGN Season kicked off, and the guys talked about what 3 out of 4 thought were terrible greens out at Las Vegas National. There were three new champions crowned on Sunday and one lucky member won his 2024 Membership! ...
Feb 28, 2024•1 hr
Send us a text Episode 263 Well, that didn't go as planned. Tiger Woods was briefly back on the PGA Tour. It was his first appearance since Augusta last year, and it certainly didn't live up to the hype again. But can you blame Tiger? People get sick, even the greatest golfers on the planet. Not everyone is immune to the Double Double like we are! That should have led the show this week, but instead, we had some fun with TPC Sunrise, aka The Ditch, aka Desert Rose, aka Winterwood Golf Club, aka ...
Feb 21, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Send us a text Episode 262 Well, LIV Golf made its first-ever appearance in Sin City this past weekend, and we were on-site to check out the circus. That's not meant as a derogatory statement. It's a fun, loud, entertaining event, much like a circus. We all chimed in on what we liked, what we didn't like, and how it all compared to a PGA Tour event. I think you'll be surprised at what we had to say. After that discussion, we hopped on the bashing the Waste Management Open train as the shit show ...
Feb 14, 2024•1 hr 10 min
Send us a text Episode 261 We've been on fire with guests so far in 2024, and this episode continued that trend. Tyler Munds, an incredibly passionate golfer from the PNW, also known as @fadenandfairway, hopped on with us this week to talk some golf. We covered a lot of topics in the show. LIV Golf, PGA Tour, Social Media Trolls, Tinkering, Playing Better, Tournament Golf, Sock and Roses ???? We also got into his podcast, "The MidAm Podcast," and chatted about what they were up to and why they s...
Feb 07, 2024•1 hr 39 min
Send us a text What a conversation this was! Professional Golf Photographer and RGV World Record Setter Patrick Koenig joins us to talk about his last year traveling the country and other parts of the world to set a world record for the most 18-hole rounds of golf ever played in a calendar year. He shared so many great stories and dropped a few shockers as well. Like 3 of his top 5 courses he played can be found in Nebraska! Joe also found himself a new member of the Soul Golfer Legion, as Mr. K...
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 30 min
Send us a text Loop Golf . Remember that name because there is a 100% chance if you're reading or listening to this episode, you are going to be a user unless you are an Andriod person. We welcomed Thomas Reinholm and Mike Bartels , aka Barrels, from Loop Golf to talk about their, to put it in golfers terms, SICK ASS APP. This episode could have seriously gone on for at least another hour, but in the hour and a half they were with us, we covered a lot about the app and hopefully answered some qu...
Jan 24, 2024•1 hr 35 min
Send us a text It was episode 25, way back in January 2020, when Tim last joined us to talk about Athalonz . A lot has changed with the shoe company based in the Phoenix Valley. After they did a fantastic job getting their shoes into the hands of some of the best athletes on the planet, when it comes to the Champions Tour and Long Drive competitions, a little thing called Covid happened. There were a lot of small brands, like Athalonz, that didn't make it through Covid. But as a smaller, direct-...
Jan 19, 2024•48 min
Send us a text Episode 257 It was an eventful weekend here in Vegas. All four of us from the shoe got out to Boulder Creek and played some golf. It was the first time we all tee'd it up in the same group since Black Desert back in July! Boulder Creek , as always, is in great shape for winter golf. The course is dry, firm, and fast, with some very receptive greens. Matt put his new LA Golf A-Series driver shaft in play for the first time and had a lot of good things to say about the shaft. He als...
Jan 17, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Send us a text Yep, Tiger broke the internet again! Welcome to our Steamyard Era! Some changes for the show are taking place as we try to enhance the podcast for our fans on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. Be sure to check out the show there if you want to watch us vs. just listening. The announcement of Tiger ending his run with Nike has everyone speculating what he'll be wearing when he appears from his bunker for the Genesis next month. And yes, we had our take! The "Not a Tournament of Cha...
Jan 10, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Send us a text Episode 255 - Where's Dan?? Like in the early days of last year, we only had three hosts for this episode. Dan was MIA, and we still don't know where he is. 😳 But we prevailed with some talk about golf here in town at Paiute and Angel Park. Angel Park, by the way, is looking GREAT these days! Matt told us all about the new Edel Iron he won in the FadeandFairway giveaway (Thanks, Tyler) as he played them while at Angel Park. The guys played "Guess What Putter" was under the new SW...
Jan 03, 2024•1 hr 10 min
Send us a text The 2023 year has come to an end, and we're looking back at all the great moments we had. And DAD IS BACK! The guys started off this week's show with some of the gold they played, and by they, we mean Joe and Dan out at Rio Secco. After some lengthy discussion about Matt's Mayor Of Tinkertown's credibility, the guys started with their top moments of 2023, where each of them shared their top 3 from 2023. A few other questions were asked as well: What is something you are looking fo...
Dec 27, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Send us a text Matt was out of town, so Joe took over once again, and he brought in one of our new golfing homies, Jameson France, from Blind Squirrel Golf . In this Soulful Golf episode, the guys talk about some of the current events taking place in the golf world, Tigers return, Charlie Woods, and ponder if Tiger is going to Greyson and much more. Joe was in the Phoenix Valley over the weekend and got in some golf at the stunning Ak-Chin Southern Dunes and then made a visit to our buddy Rhoden...
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Send us a text Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes in the world of professional golf? This eye-opening episode has all the answers. We've got the golf world covered from every angle - from the latest on Jon Rahm's departure from the PGA tour to Tony Finau's exciting decision to stay. We also dish out our thoughts on the upcoming PNC Championship and what Freddie Couples had to say about LIV. This revealing installment features esteemed guest, David "Doc" Rhoden from New Level Golf, who li...
Dec 13, 2023•1 hr 19 min
Send us a text Ready for an exhilarating ride through the world of golf? We've got you covered. Tune in as we dive headfirst into a myriad of compelling topics - from the possibility of Tiger Woods parting ways with Nike to the rise of innovative golfing apps like Loop Golf Club. We're also sharing our recent thrilling Southern Highlands experience with raffle winner Sean. And we've got a special treat for you - Jed, a podcast personality we deeply admire, joins us to discuss the latest golf new...
Dec 06, 2023•1 hr 52 min
Send us a text Buckle up, folks, for our epic 250th episode! In this week's show, we reminisce about our past guests, adventures, and favorite moments from our journey to 250! We’re graced by the presence of Kameron Kelly, the Persimmon Prince, who takes us on a heart-racing journey into the heart of F1 racing in Las Vegas. This show’s got it all - thrills, speed, and a balcony view that’s straight out of a movie. https://www.instagram.com/kmrnkelly/ And let’s not forget about golf - it’s our br...
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Send us a text Join us as we traverse the exhilarating world of golf, where we venture from the F1 racetracks of Las Vegas to the lush greens of Hawaii. Amidst updates on our personal golfing adventures and a tantalizing raffle announcement, we also ponder upon the much-anticipated return of the legendary, Tiger Woods. We delve into the highs and lows, the birdies and bogeys, and everything in between. Ever wondered why golf broadcasting fails to engage the younger audience? We sure have, and we...
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr 24 min
Send us a text Ready for a dose of golf talk? Picture this: a chill morning, the smell of freshly cut grass, and the sound of golf clubs hitting balls. That's where this episode takes you. We bring you right onto the green with us as we reminisce about our last game together and discuss some improvements made to the SoHi golf course. We also announced the winner of our raffle, Dave McMahan! You'll also be part of our lively debate about the challenges of playing with pins in tricky spots and Mat...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 13 min
