EPISODE · Jun 15, 2026 · 1H 4M
Brian Got Banned From Every Golf Forum. So He Built His Own | Ep. 3
from No More Lies · host Funnel Golf
Before YouTube. Before Instagram. Before anyone was farming golf tips for engagement, the real arguments happened on message boards at 2am. Brian Manzella was there for all of it.In this episode, Brian and Sam trace the strange, scrappy history of golf instruction online, from a clunky Macintosh in 1996 to the forum that genuinely changed how the game gets taught.What's inside:Why Brian got banned from forum after forum for one heretical idea: the clubface, not your path, is what makes you sliceThe six-page Teacher of the Year application he dropped into a thread to settle the credentials argument (it got him banned again)The David Toms story at English Turn: a towel, a hurdle drill, and a mishit that rolled straight through David Duval's legs on the next bay. Toms went on to lap the field at Quail HollowHow Brian built his own forum and watched it hit 30,000 membersSam discovering the whole thing from across the pond as "Slammin' Sam 2"The Golfing Machine wars, the Atlanta school that fell apart the same week as Katrina, and why the best ideas usually won anyway.No gurus. No patented systems. Just two guys who lived inside the game telling you how it actually went down.New episodes every week.
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Before YouTube. Before Instagram. Before anyone was farming golf tips for engagement, the real arguments happened on message boards at 2am. Brian Manzella was there for all of it.In this episode, Brian and Sam trace the strange, scrappy history of golf instruction online, from a clunky Macintosh in 1996 to the forum that genuinely changed how the game gets taught.What's inside:Why Brian got banned from forum after forum for one heretical idea: the clubface, not your path, is what makes you sliceThe six-page Teacher of the Year application he dropped into a thread to settle the credentials argument (it got him banned again)The David Toms story at English Turn: a towel, a hurdle drill, and a mishit that rolled straight through David Duval's legs on the next bay. Toms went on to lap the field at Quail HollowHow Brian built his own forum and watched it hit 30,000 membersSam discovering the whole thing from across the pond as "Slammin' Sam 2"The Golfing Machine wars, the Atlanta school that fell apart the same week as Katrina, and why the best ideas usually won anyway.No gurus. No patented systems. Just two guys who lived inside the game telling you how it actually went down.New episodes every week.
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