Episodes
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Ep.229 | Paul McBride talks HotelPlanner Promotion and Life on Mini Tours
On this week's edition of the podcast, Paul McBride jumps into the studio chair with Ronan to talk about the best season of his pro career to date. The 31-year-old won promotion to the HotelPlanner Tour via the Clutch Pro Tour and he talks about how it was maybe promotion or bust this year. There...
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Ep.228 | Liam Nolan Interview & PGA Cup Recap
On this week's edition of the podcast Peter and Ronan share in the winning feeling as victories come like buses for Irish golf with Liam Nolan and Paul McBride securing potentially career changing triumphs. McBride won the Clutch Pro Tour finale to seal a HotelPlanner Tour card while Nolan earned...
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Ep.227 | Presidents Cup recap & PGA Cup preview
On this week's edition of the podcast Peter and Ronan sit down to discuss another what could have been Presidents Cup for the Internationals as they buckled under the pressure of the Sunday singles allowing the USA to win for the eleventh successive contest. There was also matchplay in Sutton…
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Ep.226 | Lowry the Offaly Jesus caps off fortnight of a lifetime for Irish golf
On this week's edition of the podcast Peter and Ronan sit down to take stock on what a glorious fortnight for Irish golf it has been and for the county of Clare after Lahinch and Doonbeg were the stage for two famous days. Shane Lowry rewrote the narrative of his season with a clinical thumping...
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Ep.225 | Women's Irish Open recap & all eyes on Walker Cup
On this week's edition of the podcast, Ronan returns from EP to sit in the hot seat as Mark dials in from sunny Sligo! The lads react to the KPMG Women's Irish Open at the K Club which kicked off a very busy period of tournaments on the island of Ireland. Ireland will play host to stars of the...
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Ep.224 | Walker Cup team reaction & Women's Irish Open on horizon
On this week's edition of the podcast Peter and Ronan chat about what appears on the face of it to be an underwhelming Walker Cup after only Stuart Grehan was part of Dean Robertson's ten man GB&I team to face the USA in two weeks. Thomas Higgins and David Howard are both first and second…
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Ep.223 | Is the answer to the gap at the top under our nose?
On this week's edition of the podcast Peter and Ronan go full county board and dive into what could be done to help plug the talent gap at European level in Irish golf. The lads would like to see some aligned thinking between Golf Ireland and the PGA in Ireland where our aspiring professionals…
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Ep.222 | South of Ireland Recap & Positives for Maguire & Power + Jackson Koivun masterclass
On this week's edition of the podcast Peter sits down with Ronan who is fresh off a week in Lahinch for the South of Ireland Championship where a week that started with glorious sunshine turned sour with squally showers and an all Welsh final proving an anticlimax. Meanwhile, GB&I Walker Cup...
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EP.221 | Fantastic Fox Hunts Down Claret Jug
Peter and Ronan (fresh from Birkdale) are back in studio to review Ryan Fox's Open Championship victory. The New Zealander joined Michael Campbell and Bob Charles in earning a men's major victory with a thoroughly impressive display on the back nine where he reached out and grabbed the Claret Jug...
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Ep.220 | Irish hopes alive at Open + Bryson penalty
On a day where the major championship scoring record was equalled twice, day two of the Open Championship was all about Bryson DeChambeau who was assessed a two shot penalty for inadvertently improving his lie on the fifth. That caused a debacle not seen for many a year and it remains to be seen...
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Ep.219 | Stuart Grehan 2026 Amateur Champion
This week Mark caught up with Stuart Grehan to digest what a week he had just had after claiming the Amateur Championship at Royal Liverpool. Visit our website for your daily golf news: http://www.irishgolfer.ie Sign up for our Irish Golfer Event Series: http://www.irishgolfer.ie/events
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Ep.218 | Super Stuart Grehan & US Open Recap
The lads only do good news and Peter and Ronan are back in the saddle to wax lyrical about Stuart Grehan's Amateur Championship success at Hoylake over the weekend. The Tullamore native from County Louth GC became only the ninth Irishman to win the championship and in doing so books his spot in...
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Ep.217 | CJ Cup rant and what product do fans want to see?
On this week's edition of the podcast, Peter and Ronan have an in-depth discussion on what makes a good product on the PGA Tour? After the birdie fest that was the CJ Cup Byron Nelson the lads wax lyrical over the PGA Championship a fortnight ago and what makes a proper test at the top level of...
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Ep. 216 | Irish Amateur Open Champion Patrick Keeling
On this week's edition of the podcast Ronan is joined by Flogas Irish Amateur Open champion Patrick Keeling after he clinched his maiden championship at Seapoint Golf Links a fortnight ago. The Roganstown star sat down to talk through his win and dove deep into how finding faith in Christ has...
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Ep. 215 | Irish Amateur Open Special - Gary Murphy & Dylan Keating
The podcast comes live from Seapoint Golf Links ahead of the Flogas Irish Men's Amateur Open Championship getting underway on Thursday. Ronan takes the mic and he is joined by Managing Director of Flogas, John Rooney, Flogas ambassador and current Legends Tour player Gary Murphy and Seapoint's…
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Ep. 214 | Young Dominates Doral & McBride Back in Winners Circle
On this week's edition, Pete and Ronan catch up on a snore fest at Doral where Cam Young went wire to wire. The lads discuss why Signature events are not working and how the PGA Tour need to buck up its ideas and fast. With the Challenge Tour kicking off again after over a month off due to the…
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Ep.213 | Masters memories, LIV future & Heritage recap
There was a lot to pack in after two weeks which saw Ronan take in his first Masters and deliver an Irish winner in Rory McIlroy. There was no sense of a lull after the first major of the year as the golf news space was rife with rumours of LIV Golf's demise. Peter and Ronan dive into Rory…
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Ep. 212 | Rory takes full control and it's only half time!
Ronan dials in from Augusta National as he and Peter wax lyrical about Rory McIlroy's 36-hole performance which has given him the largest Masters lead at this stage in history. A blistering four closing birdies and six birdies in seven holes on the back nine have Rory six shots clear on...
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Ep 211 | Ronan reaches Augusta
From storm Dave, US Border Control and then a hotel fire, Ronan has had quite the year trying to get to the Masters. He has finally made it and jumps on a call with Pete to go through his experience so far and everything he has seen at Augusta National on Monday and Tuesday.
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Ep. 210 | Tiger Woods reaction + West of Ireland Preview
On this week's edition of the podcast, Peter and Ronan react to the good news and the bad news in America. Gary Woodland produced the comeback story of the season with his sensational and inspirational win at the Texas Children's Houston Open for his first win since 2019 and his first win since...
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Ep 209 | Cian Branagan on building the KPMG Women's Irish Open
With Charley Hull, the latest star name to be added to the 2026 KPMG Women's Irish Open at The K Club, Peter sat down with Tournament Director Cian Branagan to discuss how the event has grown and its big plans for the future.
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Ep 208 | Players drama + McIlroy schedule queries
On this week's edition of the podcast, Peter and Ronan reflect on a Players Championship that simmered for a long time before boiling over in dramatic fashion as Cameron Young held off Matt Fitzpatrick after both players found themselves in a heavyweight battle down the stretch as Ludvig Åberg…
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Ep 207 | Rory injury update + PGA Tour changes + Players preview
On this week's edition of the podcast, Peter and Ronan react to the PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp's state of the nation address ahead of the Players Championship. Rolapp announced six key pillars as part of the changes he would like to implement on the PGA Tour going forward, which include a…
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Ep 206 | The Lowry postmortem + mini tour encouragement
On this week's edition of the podcast, Peter and Rónán try to make sense of Sunday night as Shane Lowry snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in an unthinkable fashion at the Cognizant Classic. Lowry led by three strokes with three to play but back to back double bogeys compounded a disastrous...
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Ep 205 | Rory runner up + Sam Murphy's winning interview
On this week's edition of the podcast, Peter and Ronan are bullish about Rory McIlroy's form despite going trophyless in the first two months of the season as the Florida swing begins and we enter the countdown to the Masters in April. It's only February but we have already had an Irish winner on...
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Ep. 204 | Redemption for Anthony Kim + Pebble Beach drama
On this week's edition of the podcast, Peter and Ronan start off down under and reflect on what will surely be the golf story of the year as Anthony Kim rolled back the years and won for the first time in 16 years at LIV Adelaide capping off a sensational comeback journey. There was also huge…
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Ep 203 | Hurley heroics, crowd heckles + WM Phoenix Open & Qatar recap
On this week's edition of the podcast, Peter and Ronan wax lyrical over the WM Phoenix Open as Chris Gotterup stole the title from Hideki Matsuyama for his second win in three weeks to move up to 5th in the world. However, the fireworks might be outweighed by more crowd disturbances at this...
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Ep 202 | LIV get OWGR points + Harrington's 500 club + evergreen Rose
On this week's edition of the podcast Peter and Ronan chew the fat off the bombshell that LIV Golf have received Official World Golf Ranking points but are unhappy at being restricted to the top-10 players per event. Pádraig Harrington makes his 500th DP World Tour appearance at the Qatar Masters...
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Ep. 201 | Reed an example to follow, Scottie grabs another win + TGL nightmare
On this week’s edition of the podcast Peter and Ronan discuss the fallout from the respective victories of Patrick Reed and Scottie Scheffler. As Scheffler hits the record books with Tiger and Jack after his 20th win, is Reed an example to follow for what a potential world tour could look like?…
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Ep 200 | James Sugrue making up for lost time
On this week's podcast, Ronan sits down with Mallow's finest James Sugrue as he looks forward to an exciting 2026 campaign. Sugrue burst onto the scene in 2019 winning the Amateur Championship at Portmarnock before playing in all four majors including the 2020 Masters where he met Tiger Woods!...
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Ep 199 | Gavin Tiernan - Chasing that 1% every day
After a spectacular 2025, Gavin Tiernan joins Ronan in studio to go through his season. From British Amateur to Walker Cup and everything in between, the Co. Louth man delves into his mental approach, summed up by his wrist tattoo reading "Kaizen" and his pursuit of marginal gains and that 1%…
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Ep 198 | McIlroy growing the game + card battles Stateside
On this week's edition of the podcast, we reflect on the Australian Open that saw Rory McIlroy tee it up down under as he ended brought the curtain down on a sensational year that literally saw him take his game around the globe as he looks to grow the game worldwide. Tom McKibbin also completed…
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Ep 197 | Caolan Rafferty
Move over Rory McIlroy, there’s a new slam winner in town! Caolan Rafferty recently etched his name into Irish golfing history as the first amateur to conquer all four provincial championships, completing the coveted 'Provincial Slam' with a dramatic North of Ireland win at Portstewart in...
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Ep 196 | The gap at the top
On this week's edition of the podcast we discuss the DP World Tour Q-School results and why Ireland seems to be struggling to produce players ready for Europe's top level after three successive years of no cards. The DP World Tour reaches its finale as Rory McIlroy chases a seventh Race to Dubai...
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Ep 195 | McKibbin Master Class + Status Ups and Downs
On this week's edition of the podcast, we sit down to wax lyrical about Tom McKibbin's superb victory at the Hong Kong Open as he steamrolled to a seven-shot win. This was no ordinary victory, as he secured a Masters debut and a third Open Championship appearance. Meanwhile, Liam Nolan's season...
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Ep 194 | Penge for Augusta, McKibbin motors on + crunch time for card hopefuls
On this week's edition of the podcast, Peter and Ronan laud Tom McKibbin's consistency after a fourth-place finish at the Spanish Open, highlighting the consistency he has shown over the last two seasons and why a win surely can't be too far away. It's also crunch time this week for Conor…
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Ep. 193 | Dunhill Recap + Irish PGA season draws to a close
On this week's podcast, Pete and Ronan dig deep into the weekly news from around the world of golf. From Bob MacIntyre's win on home soil at the Dunhill to the McManus and Desmond legacy continuing in the team event. Post the Sutton 9-hole matchplay event, the PGA in Ireland season drew to a…
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Ep 192 | Lowry the hero. Tempers flared. This Ryder Cup went to the brink.
This week, we sit and discuss Europe's amazing win at Bethpage. Ronan and Pete dig into everything from Lowry's heroics to McIlroy's abuse, a toothless golf course and the tale of two very different captains. Enjoy!
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Ep 191 | Ryder Cup Preview and Rafferty complets amateur slam
On this week's podcast, the lads preview all things Ryder Cup in Bethpage. Can Europe get it done, and have we already out-prepared Team USA? We also discuss Caolan Rafferty completing the Irish Championship slam to become the first player to win all four provincial Championships.
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Ep 190 | Rory's Magic at The K Club
This week Pete, Ronan and Mark recap on another iconic Irish Open at The K Club. From Rory's magic eagle to Alex Maguire fist pumping 73's, The 2025 Amgen Irish Open had it all. We also dive into another Walker Cup disappointment at Cyprus Point. Enjoy....
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Ep 189 | RIP Tommy + Irish Challenge & Irish PGA recap
Tommy Fleetwood you’ve bested us again. On this week’s edition of the podcast the lads delve into Tommy Fleetwood’s latest PGA Tour heartbreak as Justin Rose aged like a fine wine and beat JJ Spain in a playoff at the St Jude Championship. There was glory for Robert Moran who chipped in on the…
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Ep 188 | AIG Women's Open recap + 115th Irish PGA Championship preview from Monkstown
On this week’s edition of the podcast, the lads are on site in Monkstown Golf Club for the Brown and Brown 115th Irish PGA Championship. Monkstown will provide a stern test of golf as the players prepare for the flagship event of the season. We have preview chats with Niall Kearney, Cormac…
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Ep 187 | Harrington the hero again, On site at LIV & South recap
On this week's edition of the podcast, the lads sit down to celebrate Pádraig Harrington's victory at the Senior Open as he became the fifth player to win both the Open and Senior Claret Jugs. Ronan is hot off the plane after experiencing a LIV (Maxi Golf League) event for the first time at JCB...
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Ep 186 | Scheffler cruises to Claret Jug
The Irish Golfer house hosts the last of the Open podcasts as the lads sit down to digest Scottie Scheffler’s procession to victory as he collected his second major victory of the season in Royal Portrush. Can anyone stop Scheffler’s dominance? How many majors will he end up with? Rory McIlroy is...
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Ep 185 | Sat at The Open - Scheffler takes control, Is this over?
Ronan and Mark sit down to digest Saturday at The Open. Scottie Scheffler holds a four-shot lead going into the final day as the world number one carded a third-round 67 to reach 14-under-par. Is this over or can one of the challenging pack chase him down? Rory is still hopeful that a fast start…
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Ep 184 | Friday at The Open - Lowry suffers harsh ruling as Scheffler takes control
Mark and Ronan recap Friday at the Open Championship as Pete took a significant fall!! Cut day served up plenty of drama, but none more so than Shane Lowry’s harsh ruling that saw him penalised two shots for accidentally moving his ball on the 12th. Rory McIlroy continues to fight with his swing,...
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Ep 183 | Wednesday at the Open - Best 99's on the Open rota with Padraig Harrington
It's Open Championship eve in the Irish Golfer house and the lads are giddy but also bracing themselves for an early start as they set their alarms for the crack of dawn to catch Pádraig Harrington's opening tee shot and find out where he bought his 99 ice cream. First tee pressures won't be...
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Ep 182 | Tuesday at the Open - All in on Rory
As the excitement builds for the 153rd Open at Royal Portrush, we share our Tuesday takes. From a surprise appearance by Rory dressed in his green jacket, to chats with Bryson, Rahm, and Scottie... and ice cream with Harrington.
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Ep 181 - Day one at Royal Portrush + Rory & Leona find form
On this week's edition, the lads have made their way up to The Open. Can Rory continue the form he found in Scotland? Is McKibbin one to watch? How will Lowry fare? Will Harrington be happy hitting the opening tee shot? All this plus a recap of all the weekend action, including Leona finding form...
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Ep 180 | KPMG Women's Irish Open recap + Purcell and Power miss opportunities
On this week's edition of the podcast, we recap the KPMG Women's Irish Open. How successful it has been in its four years and how it can continue to grow moving forward. There were also missed chances for Seamus Power and Conor Purcell on both sides of the Atlantic as they battle to retain cards…
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