No More Lies

Bryson DeChambeau went to the press and said AI helped fix his golf swing, name-dropping Google Gemini and tossing out terms like alpha torque, gamma torque, and passive squaring. Brian Manzella and Sam Osborne were not buying it.In Episode 5 of No More Lies, the two veterans break down Bryson's AI press conference line by line: what he got right, what he got wrong, and why the idea of "passive squaring" does not survive contact with the actual physics. Brian explains real 6D club kinetics. Then it gets bigger. The guys make the case that AI and swing apps will wipe out the middle tier of golf instruction within five years, why the top and the bottom of the market survive, and what that means for anyone teaching the game. Plus the gutting of Sports Illustrated's golf desk, why golf magazines always ducked the hard instruction stories, and a Jack Nicklaus equipment story that will stop you cold.Golf without the spin. Two veterans saying what golf media won't.Hosted by Brian Manzella, Golf Digest's #14-ranked teacher in America, and Sam Osborne, former touring pro. New episodes weekly.

Brian Manzella and Sam Osborne take on the loudest fight in golf: the distance debate. Both land on the same side, then explain why the people pushing hardest against a rollback are the ones with the most money on the line.In Episode 4:Why the pro game has outgrown its own golf coursesThe case that a shorter, spinnier ball brings real skill back (long irons into par 4s again)Why the "rolled-back ball still goes 375" story is marketing, not factA pilot program that would settle the whole argument with real data instead of noiseThe origin story: the D-plane video, the trip to Ping, Dr. Kwon's pressure plates, and the night Brandel Chamblee bet he could read TrackMan numbers off the ball, a dollar a ballNo gurus. No patented systems. Two veterans saying what golf media won't.New episodes every Monday. Watch, then tell us where we're wrong in the comments.#golfpodcast

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.

In Episode 2 of No More Lies, Brian Manzella and Sam Osborne open up the most contentious story in modern golf instruction: the Alpha War.Manzella traces 12 years of golf science, from the collapse of the Golfing Machine to the rise of club kinetics and Jacobs 3D, and names the names most teachers won't.Along the way: how the work rebuilt Padraig Harrington's career, why the PGA Tour looked like "a bunch of babies" during the LIV era, the gutting of Q School, and a broadcast booth that refuses to tell you what is actually happening in a golf swing.

Two veterans. Decades inside the game. Done biting their tongues. This is Episode 1 of NO MORE LIES.Welcome to the flagship talk show of Funnel Golf. With conversations about instruction, the teaching industry, the professional game, and the game at large—covering the parts of this industry nobody else is willing to say out loud. In Episode 1, we introduce ourselves, lay out why we’re doing this, and start exactly where you’d expect: with the truth.🎙️ HOSTED BYBrian Manzella – Golf Digest’s 14th-ranked Teacher in America and Top 100 Golf Magazine Teacher since 2010, with over 44 years of teaching experience from beginners to the pro game.Sam Osborne – Former touring pro, hand-picked as a junior by Bernard Gallacher for exclusive membership to the prestigious Wentworth Club, with 12 years as a pro before turning the page on the game he thought he knew.