Thank you for your support in 2024. It has been another successful year, and we are heading into 2025 with a growing community of avid golfers. Here are some of our 2024 Nest Member highlights:



Visit your member profile to update your address and get another 

 raised for charities via No Laying Up and Roost events

Nest Member-supported content, including 

 and a new Strapped season filmed earlier this month (for release in February of 2025). 

 With over 8,000+ responses, you can expect a TikTok dance from D.J., Randy, and me before the end of the year!

Below, you'll find sections outlining the current benefits of your membership and some things we are excited about — and want to get better at — heading into 2025. 

If you want your 2024 Nest Member Gift, please update your

A FREE, STACKABLE code and fun surprise is waiting for you in the discount section...

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All Nest Members who signed up or renewed at any point in 2024, will receive their member gift in late January of 2025.

We won't tell you what the member gift is, but if you are looking for some entertaining content, the 

A big priority in 2024 was working with NLU partners on Nest exclusive discounts, sweepstakes, and giveaways. We had 6 total this year, and I'd like to double that number in 2025. Here are a few holiday promos you should consider this month: 

 for those that check and update their address!

Offer good with a future order while supplies last

The Refuge is a lot of things: free-flowing, overwhelming, and distracting, but in the end, rewarding and real are the two words that always come to mind for me. As a Nest Member, you get full access to the Refuge (warts and all), so here are a few threads that may be worth your time:

 (great place to find golfers in your area)

On top of the Nest discount in the pro shop, we have a 

 available in the pro shop. Our limited edition 

 is our newest Nest Member apparel, but my favorite Nest only item in 2025 is a toss up between 

. We will continue releasing limited inventory to Nest Members one or two days early. The best place to find updates on new apparel drops: 

If you are having trouble accessing the Nest Collection:

 in the pro shop with your Nest-associated email address (DO NOT select the "Forgot Password" option). 

This week we enter year six of our Nest Membership. Overall, we are very happy with the membership growth (15% year over year in 2024), and the low churn rate (under 1% over the last 12 months). Our goal is to overdeliver on what's promised and keep adding to that list of member promises in a sustainable way. We don't do much marketing for the Nest. I love that people find it organically and end up sticking around! That said, it is not lost on me that over 70% of Census respondents said they joined the Nest "to support NLU as an independent media company." That is both deeply gratifying and somewhat frustrating because I want people to see tangible value in core deliverables! What I can guarantee in 2025 is that we will not raise the price of the Nest membership, and we will work hard to continue adding value to the offering. Below are some areas where I think we need to improve: 

A Nest "brand refresh" in early 2025 as well as upgrades to our technical stack to make using your Nest Member perks easier across different parts of our business.

Improvements to our Nest exclusive merchandise in the Pro Shop. We want to refresh the Nest collection and release items thoughtfully and consistently in 2025. We will also continue releasing limited inventory and new arrivals in the Pro Shop to Nest Members first throughout the year.

More organization, support, and promotion of Roost events throughout the year.

Writing: Written work is worth paying for, and we have plans to move most of NLU's written content behind the paywall (with non-Nest Members receiving 5-10 free articles before they need to become a member). This isn't really an addition to the Nest membership, but I think it symbolizes our desire to continue investing in written work and tying that back to Nest Member support.

More partner discounts throughout the year to add tangible, monetary value to your membership. We got better in this area in 2024 but still have room to improve.

More Nest podcast with 3-4 team members diving into discussion topics

We don't have any significant changes planned for the Refuge, but we will be devoting some resources to organizing threads and making the platform a little easier to navigate.

We'll be recording a review of the 2024 Census on the November Nest podcast this Friday. I will also send out the Census results and summarized thoughts via email next month. Thank you for your support, and we look forward to seeing you in the Nest in 2025! 

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The State of the Nest 2024

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During your GT test drive with a Titleist Fitting Specialist, you’ll discover what makes these new drivers a massive technological step forward and how they can improve your game. 

Also, club fittings are really fun. I had one earlier this week, and it's an excellent opportunity to evaluate your game without messing with your swing. I felt like I'd been hitting the ball too low. It turns out I was right (5-degree launch angle). By switching to a new 11-degree GT3 driver, I could consistently see my launch angle above 9 degrees, which led to 15 yards of additional carry distance. The best part is that a Titleist fitting specialist is on hand to talk through all these numbers so you can better understand how to maximize your golf swing. 

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Nest Member Exclusive: Titleist GT Fitting Events

When you’re young, particularly if you grow up in an environment of stability and privilege, you don’t realize that much of the world is made up of damaged, broken people.

My father was a lawyer and politician; my mother worked as a newspaper editor, then eventually became a journalism professor. We were not rich — in fact, there was a time, shortly after I was born when my parents had very little money — but the life I led growing up in Missoula, Montana was almost entirely absent of strife or drama. When I watched things like The Cosby Show or Family Ties, I saw reflections of my own day-to-day experiences: Stern but loving parents; annoying but earnest siblings. There were vacations with sing-a-longs, arguments that ended in hugs, bills that were paid on time and family portraits at Christmas. My friends seemed to live a similarly idyllic existence. We understood that addictions and infidelities existed. They just weren’t present in our lives (as far as we knew).


Partially because of that privilege, The Jerry Springer Show, which became nationally syndicated when I was a freshman in high school, offered a window into a world that was as foreign as it was fascinating. I cannot pinpoint when it became appointment television for my friends and I, but I vividly recall dozens of teenage afternoons when we leered and gawked at the parade of misfits Springer welcomed on his show, people willing to shamelessly reveal their torrid affairs, and brawl over the fallout.

It felt more like a trip to the zoo than it did an afternoon talk show most of the time. I’d never seen a lion in the wild, just like I’d never seen a stripper confess she’d been having an affair with her husband’s brother, but I could observe each from a safe distance and suffer no lasting damage. If you were home sick, the episodes could feel oddly comforting, a quick dose of mindless escapism or schadenfreude to pass the hours as you nibbled on toast or Saltine crackers.

There was no humiliation that seemed beneath the show. A man once showed up to confess he’d married his horse. Hillbillies fought each other, shirtless, over unpaid utility bills. Strippers appeared out of nowhere like summer squalls, wreaking havoc and ripping out weaves, upending countless (already doomed) relationships. Sometimes a virgin got catfished, or a serial cheater was exposed as being neck-deep in baby mama drama. Furniture was frequently thrown. Tops got ripped off. More than once, a Nazi or Ku Klux Klan member got his ass kicked, which is especially satisfying considering, in 2023, the same kind of people get to befriend Kanye West and wave around tiki torches without catching a beating.


It was America’s weird underbelly exposed for entertainment, and Springer — a man who was once the mayor of Cincinnati, and whose parents escaped the Holocaust during World War 2 — seemed to float above it all. He was never the draw of his own messy circus, he was merely the master of ceremonies, gently nudging his damaged and somewhat-deranged guests to spill their tea so the audience (both in the studio and those watching at home) could sneer with glee or disgust, then chant his name when the inevitable eruption occurred. My friends and I enjoyed it so much, we paid for a VHS version of “Uncensored Jerry Springer Tales!” to be shipped to our house. My one recollection was that we found it mildly disappointing, our expectations raised too high by the promise of mayhem and chaos unsuitable for television.


Was it exploitative? Without question. Even though the guests signed on to be willing participants and air their messiest laundry, Springer certainly preyed on Americans’ bottomless appetite to be famous, if sometimes for the strangest reasons. The frequency that trans people were cast as the driver of relationship drama was, at best, abhorrent. Supposedly the show offered counseling to any guest who wanted it, though it’s hard to imagine many took them up on it. The point of Springer was to be the messiest version of yourself on screen, not go on the show with the expectation that any of your problems would be fixed.

Springer, to his credit, never seemed interested in judging his guests or their choices, he believed he was offering a stage to the kind of people that television wanted to ignore. He didn’t traffic in celebrity worship. He instead shined a spotlight on the kind of people who fill out every city and every town in the world, people who are trying to get by and live with — or hide — their desires or their mistakes.


“We didn’t have any celebrities on our show, just regular folks with no fame, little if any wealth, and very little influence,” Springer 

said on the program’s 25th anniversary.

 “It’s folks just taking a moment, which they rarely if ever get, to let the world know something about what they are thinking, feeling or doing. Admittedly it’s often crazy or outside the norm of accepted behavior, but what I’ve learned over our quarter century of shows is that deep down we are all alike. Some of us just dress better.”

When the news trickled out that Springer died this week at age 79, I realized I hadn’t thought about him in years. No one in 2023 needs a sick day if they want to tap into cringy drama; they can pull it up on their phone in seconds while waiting for their Starbucks order. Some people are convinced Springer opened the door to the further degradation of society, but the truth is, he more likely revealed than inspired it. Instead of the Jerry Springer Show, we have Instagram, Twitter or Reddit at our fingertips. People now embarrass themselves daily, and for free, hoping it will lead to bigger things.


Springer’s passing did allow me to revisit my naive teenage innocence and all the messes I’ve lived through since. I don’t know anyone who married his horse, but my friends and I — the same people who watched Springer regularly with bemused curiosity — now know a little about divorce and addiction, about heartbreak and drama. I’ve lived through some things that would make a decent episode of voyeuristic television. (Most of us have, by the time we reach a certain age.) When you become an adult, you grasp that no one’s life is the Cosby Show. Even the Cosby Show feels more sinister than Springer, considering what we now know about its creator.

Jerry Springer was not a philosopher or a sage. That would give him far too much credit. He was a uniquely 90s creature who endured even as the world around him grew more comfortable with the exploitation of relationship drama. But he also understood we’re all a little broken, and we’re all carrying baggage. Whenever a brawl would break out, he’d drift to the edge of the stage and fold his arms across his chest like a disappointed school teacher as he waited for things to simmer down. Then he’d ask the guests if there was any way they could reconcile or work through their issues.

As stupid as it was, as staged as it often felt, there was something endearing about his desire to stand there, amidst these peculiar people with an assortment of problems they were eager to share, and listen.

Nest Exclusive: Jerry Springer Was Here to Listen

Editor’s Note: We’ve heard a lot in recent years about how much middle-aged sportswriters are infatuated with Bruce Springsteen, so when our own middle-aged sportswriter KVV (something of a Springsteen agnostic) joined Casey Landman and her husband Jon for one of Springsteen’s performances in Philadelphia, we sent him to the show with an assignment. Write about what Bruce means to you, and explain why so many weirdos of your generation (and so many Big-Js in your profession) adore this man, even if you’re not exactly one of them.

I can’t say why, exactly, just that he’s never been a mythic figure to me. Yes, I’m familiar with the standards. I vaguely remember Ronald Reagan’s campaign misusing “Born In The USA,” thinking (like many who weren’t listening to the lyrics) that it was uplifting and patriotic instead of a broken man’s wail; a lament about feeling left behind. I laughed when The Sopranos slipped in a line from “Born to Run” and made Stevie Van Zandt sit there stone-faced. I have, when I was a cosmic kid in full costume dress, left a bar at 2 am with friends and walked the streets while belting out some mangled, not-sober version of “Thunder Road.” But I can’t name most of the albums. I have never 

pulled over to the side of the road and cried during the saxophone solo in “Jungleland.”

 I know sportswriters of a certain age are supposed to treat Springsteen’s songs the way orthodox scholars treat the study of the Talmud. It has become one of those cliches that is grounded in a lot of truth, but it has never fit in my case. I have friends who write (brilliantly) to his music, who would skip their kid’s birthday party to see him play in a football stadium. I’ve had bosses who have spent more time in the front row of Bruce’s shows than some of his roadies. It’s just never been my thing.

I am not indifferent — I enjoy The Boss for all the reasons you are supposed to enjoy him — but I have a theory that we only love the artists who find us at the right time, the right age, the midst of the right angst or heartbreak. For whatever reason, Bruce Springsteen missed me when I probably needed him the most.

I became a Jason Isbell person, which is a little like saying you prefer Max Homa to Tiger Woods. The whole world knows who Bruce and Tiger are. They are important pieces of Americana, icons to even casual observers of culture. Isbell and Homa are the artists you feel like you discovered when no one was there, and now you still feel a little protective of them, proud they climbed the ladder to find mainstream success, but deep down you’re a little annoyed you have to share them with the world. You were there when shit was bleak, but it still felt like they were speaking to you.

Some people may have that connection with Bruce, but I take a contrarian pride in the fact that I’m not one of them.

2. When my friend Jon texted me to say he had an extra ticket to Bruce’s show in Philadelphia, I couldn’t resist saying yes, despite all the words I typed in the previous section.

It was not a cheap ticket, even with Jon acquiring it at face value through his work in the industry. But there is something to be said, I think, about choosing to spend your money on experiences instead of items. Someday Bruce Springsteen will be gone, much like Tom Petty. I never understood how much I missed Tom Petty until I no longer had the chance to have him in my life. In my basement, there are thousands of dollars worth of golf clubs I no longer play, and books I’ll never get around to reading. There are piles of things I once cherished but no longer remember why I purchased them, and one day my children will throw them in a dumpster when I’m gone, or give them to Goodwill if they don’t smell like mildew.


There is something about the perniciousness of STUFF that is slowly suffocating. I don’t have many philosophical tenets, but one I do try to remind myself of is that experiences require zero storage.


3. He looks like an incredibly fit grandfather.

This was what struck me most of all when he burst onto the stage to sing “No Surrender,” the opening number. It’s not that he doesn’t look 73. He does. In recent years, he’s grown less vain, apparently accepting that there is a dignity to letting (much of) his hair go gray. He jogs and fist pumps and zooms around stage like he’s trying to inhale every last bit of whatever time he has left, but you’re also left with the unshakeable truth. He doesn’t have many of these left. This is the winter of his performing life. A finite number of shows remain. How many? No one wants to speculate. Why ruin the illusion that it can go on forever?

When you’re a massive Springsteen fan, I suspect you see him so frequently — in interviews, concerts, political campaigns, album covers — that the gradually aging process that every last one of us is tethered to doesn’t shock you. He is a part of your life, always. The coolest uncle. He ages, sure, but he’s immortal.

But if you’re like me, and he’s this nebulous concept that you don’t obsess over but still appreciate, he was frozen in the amber of your mind at a younger age. He is forever That Dude, wearing jeans that look like they were painted on, a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up like he’s a Jet in West Side Story, 

yanking Courtney Cox (and her bob haircut)

 up on stage so he can sashay back and forth, two beautiful people radiating youth, possibility, energy.

It makes no sense, but I did not expect to see a man on the stage in Philadelphia who could benefit from scheduling regular colonoscopies. This is the curse of being beautiful once, of epitomizing youth and possibility. You are not allowed to be mortal. You’re supposed to be a photograph, a Greek god, eternal. Instead, he is the same age as my dad, I realize now. When each of them was born, Harry Truman was President.

4. The people in the audience at the Wells Fargo Arena are not broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

They are not the working class characters that populate Springsteen’s songs. They are mostly white, mostly upper middle class, mostly in their 50s and 60s. They drive nice cars and have 401ks. I was, I can say this confidently, one of the younger members of the audience. (Not the youngest, but certainly in the youngest third.)


None of that is any kind of revelatory observation, nor is it a particularly new critique. It’s easy to poke fun at the tone-deaf privilege of Springsteen audiences these days, to point out the hypocrisy of paying thousands of dollars for a ticket to a show so you can cosplay in the lives of characters who exist on the fringe of society, who are one busted engine or factory layoff from permanent misery. A lot of fans in recent years have been understandably pissed that Springsteen gave in to the allure of Ticketmaster’s predatory dynamic pricing model, meaning you essentially have to fork over a mortgage payment to see him perform these days. (The fact that we allow Ticketmaster to operate like a mob boss remains one of the most baffling choices in American life.) Backstreets, the fan magazine that has been covering The Boss for 43 years, 

announced in February that it was shutting down

, at least in part because so many hardcore Springsteen fans feel they’ve been priced out of his shows.


I have a hard time, however, blaming the fans who can afford to go to his shows, regardless of whether or not they’ve been gouged. To call them hypocritical kind of misses the mark. What is the dream, after all, of every working class stiff but to escape the gravitational pull of their broken hometowns, and will themselves into a better life somewhere else? These are the people who got out. (Or, just as likely, their parents got out.) A part of them never wants to forget that it could have gone another way.


They used to be cool and now they are not. But in the arena, they still get to feel cool. This is what Bruce reminds them of, a time when they weren’t rich and didn’t have to think about doing yard work on the weekends or saving up to make college tuition payments. They are IT managers and lawyers, dentists and software developers (and sportswriters!) and they have kids that roll their eyes when they sing along to “Hungry Heart” as they wipe down their fancy kitchen countertops.

(Those kids will understand one day, I promise, when they’re humming Taylor Swift songs or Kendrick Lamar songs in an underground climate-safe bunker, or in a colony on Mars, and their own kids feel a mixture of love and embarrassment.)

The people in the audience at Bruce shows used to be the kind of romantics who would tuck a cigarette behind their ear in a smoke-filled bar and make eyes at a person standing near the jukebox. They are the Marys and Wendys, the Bobbys and Eddies from Bruce’s songs who had the audacity to grow up. To keep living. It happens to a lot of us.


We ain’t a beauty — at least not anymore — but yeah we’re alright.

To a Bruce fan, this must feel like one of the most obvious sentences ever written. 

Wait, you’re telling me one of the best-selling artists of all time has many, many songs that are great? What a brave take.

But I was struck, in the arena, by how many songs I have absorbed into my bloodstream over time and can hum along to, even if I don’t know the lyrics. How ridiculously good is your catalog if 

 is maybe your 10th best song? Why was I, someone who would previously have described his Bruce Springsteen fandom as residing somewhere between admiration and polite indifference, playing an imaginary air piano during 

6. There are so many members of the E Street Band!

I know, technically, everyone on stage isn’t an official member. I will leave it to actual Springsteen fans — Bruce Tramps, I see they are sometimes called — to educate me on who is worthy of the designation and who is an interchangeable part. I’m not sure what I expected, other than Van Zandt dressing like an aging musketeer, but it wasn’t 

 on stage. “I think E Street is more like an avenue or a parkway these days,” my friend Jon quipped. Between back-up singers, roadies, keyboard players, a drummer, horn players and his wife (also a singer and guitarist, but absent for the Philly show), he has to be close to the 50-employee threshold where the law requires you to offer health insurance. (Just kidding! I’m sure various loopholes and shell companies have been invented to prevent this very thing.)

I couldn’t help but feel a little mesmerized by Jake Clemmons, the saxophone player of the E Street Band and also the nephew of Clarence Clemmons, the man who had that role from 1972 until his death in 2011. What a blessing and a burden it must be to live with the ghost of a family member on your shoulder every night.

It’s like Hamlet, except every night you have to nail the solo in Thunder Road.

7. Speaking of Thunder Road, I think it’s bombastic, embarrassingly earnest, a bit too operatic and also goddamn perfect.

I know “Born To Run” is supposed to be the better song, the American anthem that Springsteen wrote as a young man when he was trying to change his fate and also go down in history. It’s going to be the first line of his obituary, and it deserves to be. Rolling Stone named it 21st on their list of all-time greatest songs. But I love “Thunder Road” more, and for all the reasons I listed above.

I love it because even though you shouldn’t use the word “redemption” in a song about redemption, Bruce does. It perfectly captures the angst and longing of wanting to be SOMEBODY and be loved by SOMEONE but having no idea how to get there other than driving your car very fast toward the edge of town, hoping there is adventure beyond the swamps of New Jersey. (Or in my case, the mountains of Montana.)


I can remember listening to “Thunder Road” late in college, getting ready to leave my hometown. I was going to drive across the country and make it in the big city. Unlike the main character in “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight),” the record company had not given me a big advance, but a newspaper in Baltimore had given me an internship, which in my eyes might as well have been the same thing. So I was going to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair. This is, I think, the enduring power of Springsteen. Most of us have these earnest, operatic moments at some point, moments where we’re trying to bust free of invisible chains we can feel but can’t properly describe. I didn’t feel like my town was full of losers but needed to escape to figure out who I was.


Twenty-three years have come and gone since that moment. There are lines in “Thunder Road” that hit differently now, like being scared and thinking that maybe I ain’t that young anymore. These days, I like the 

acoustic version of the song where it’s just Bruce and piano

. The same lines that felt like a youthful howl of defiance can also read like a sad lament if you slow everything down and let your hair go a little gray, which is another reason the song rules.

But the operatic version is still magic. When Bruce sang “Thunder Road” late into his encore, nobody felt old. We were all belting out the lines of the song like idiot kids, trying to remind ourselves that, hey, we know it’s late, but we could still make it if we run.

Kevin Van Valkenburg is the Editorial Director of No Laying Up. Email him at kvv@nolayingup.com.

7 Thoughts From A Sportswriter Upon Seeing Springsteen For The First Time At Age 45

Neil, Tron, Cody and Casey team up to share some quick Nest Member updates before reviewing the results of the 2024 NLU Census. 

 to update your address and grab the Nest Laundry bag discount code.


 (feat. our slideshow of the 2024 Census results)

Nest Podcast

2024 Nest Podcast

Episode 61: November 2024

Neil and Cody welcome our 2024 NIT Champion Reinben on this month's podcast. We recap the 2024 NIT at Dobson Ranch before getting into Ben's story and what led to his win. Our 2024 census is out! Please take the time to fill it out so Randy has to do another silly dance. And the Donnybrook is back!

Lucas, Director of Magic at Liberty National GC

2024 Nest Invitational Tournament: Reinben Reigns Supreme

Episode 60: October 2024

We all saw the KVV Erin Hills tape. But a few months post-Club Championship, it's worth some self-reflection. Ben sits with KVV as they go through the day one footage from the 2024 NLU Club Championship, and helps dig into the "why" behind 

All the golf adjacent videos from No Laying Up!

All the other golf and golf adjacent videos from No Laying Up!

The Mixed Bag

Mixed Bag: Golf Adjacent

Nest Exclusive: KVV's Self-Talk and Swing Thoughts

Hand up! We missed the end of the month by a couple of days. But we are excited to bring this interview with NEST member Connor Belcastro. Connor graduated from Princeton University last Spring with a major in Philosophy while playing on the men's golf team. Since graduation, he has relocated to St. Simons Island, GA, to practice full-time in pursuit of his dream of playing on the PGA Tour. In his free time, Connor writes about the game he loves.


His latest piece for the website can be found here: 

Episode 59: September 2024

A little more from the adventures at Bandon Dunes: TC and Poosh team up with Squid against D.J., Soly and Joe in a best ball match at Shorty's, the brand-new 19-hole short course.

Nest Exclusive: Playing Shorty's at Bandon Dunes

Neil opens this month's Nest pod with some updates on the Roost Club Championship and the squads that have qualified in recent weeks. Then (19:50) TC visits with John Pond to relive Lauren Coughlin's road from surviving week to week as a young professional to her recent run of success winning both the Canadian and Scottish Opens and qualifying for her first Solheim Cup. We also get into John's career change and becoming a regular caddie on the LPGA Tour.

Episode 58: August 2024

For this month's Nest pod, Cody and Neil are joined by KVV to discuss the ins and outs of Big J's stuff. We dig deep into the Hovland and Shanks projects before we have some fun and make him do voice impressions.

Episode 57: July 2024

The team takes on the St Andrews Ladies' Putting Club, better known as The Himalayas. This 1867 Old Tom Morris design has stood the test of time, eventually expanding from the original 9-hole layout to the current 18. Enjoy! 

Nest Exclusive: WWoP - 2024 Himalayas Championship

For this month's Nest pod, Cody and Neil are joined by Titleist Tour Rep JJ Van Wezenbeeck to talk through the ins and outs of getting fit for the best golf clubs for your game and JJ's observations from working with some of the best players in the world.

Episode 56: June 2024

In this Nest exclusive behind-the-scenes video, the full team gets together to discuss the final match, highlights, and lowlights from season 9, including best and worst shots, favorite holes, and best Aussie sherpa. 

Thanks for tuning into Tourist Sauce this season!

In a completely new spin on a familiar adventure, the guys take on unconquered territory in a visually upgraded experience in Australia.

Nest members, share your thoughts on all things Tourist Sauce: Australia below! If you aren't a member of The Nest, consider joining 

 (Psst — you'll also get fun behind the scenes content for each episode!)

No Laying Up’s original travel series explores the history and beauty of golf around the world. A visually-driven exploration shows the crew playing and diving into the stories of some of the most unique golf courses in the golf world — with fascinating characters to match. From Oregon, Ireland, Scotland — the guys' next adventure could be anywhere. But no matter the setting, you can expect the same humor and fun-loving wit from the No Laying Up crew.

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Tourist Sauce

Australia

Nest Exclusive: Tourist Sauce Australia, Episode 8 Behind the Scenes

In this Nest exclusive behind-the-scenes video, we've put together a compilation of all the outtakes and fun scenes that didn't make the final cut, highlighted by some commentary. In this one, TC and Soly reveal how the Rapigel prescription came to be, Neil and Randy's plunge, and some commentary on the big C-Suite match.

We'll be releasing a behind-the-scenes video corresponding to each new episode weekly, so be on the lookout!

Nest Exclusive: Tourist Sauce Australia, Episode 7 Behind the Scenes

TC and Cody go deep into all things Tourist Sauce on this month's Nest podcast answering Refuge questions about this season's episodes from Australia and the series in general.

Episode 55: May 2024

In this Nest exclusive behind-the-scenes video, we've put together a compilation of all the outtakes and fun scenes that didn't make the final cut, highlighted by some commentary. In this one, Neil and D.J. sit together (IRL!) to unpack their return to Melbourne, D.J. and Randy's visit to Aki at Fades and Blades, and break down the duel at Royal Melbourne East.

Nest Exclusive: Tourist Sauce Australia, Episode 6 Behind the Scenes

In this Nest exclusive behind-the-scenes video, we've put together a compilation of all the outtakes and fun scenes that didn't make the final cut, highlighted by some commentary. TC and Randy reminisce on the trip to King Island, including Randy's propeller plane anxiety, the windy day at Cape Wickham, and chef TC's kitchen.

Nest Exclusive: Tourist Sauce Australia, Episode 5 Behind the Scenes

In this Nest exclusive behind-the-scenes video, we've put together a compilation of all the outtakes and fun scenes that didn't make the final cut, highlighted by some commentary. For this director's cut, Soly and Neil recap separate off-day adventures at the Australian Open, a lens emergency and MULLET SZN.

Nest Exclusive: Tourist Sauce Australia, Episode 4 Behind the Scenes

In this Nest exclusive behind-the-scenes video, we've put together a compilation of all the outtakes and fun scenes that didn't make the final cut, highlighted by some commentary.  This time, Randy and D.J. offer some context on their split adventure to St. Andrews Beach.

Nest Exclusive: Tourist Sauce Australia, Episode 3 Behind the Scenes

Neil calls in Soly, TC, Randy and Cody for this month's Nest pod. After a quick check-in on our events and other announcements we explore the term "menace" which has become ubiquitous across NLU content. We identify some of our favorite people who definitely earned the title from their appearances on our podcasts, videos, events and the Refuge and we close by picking a first and second "All Menace Team".

Episode 54: April 2024

In this Nest exclusive behind-the-scenes video, we've put together a compilation of all the outtakes and fun scenes that didn't make the final cut, highlighted by some commentary. We'll be releasing a behind-the-scenes video corresponding to each new episode weekly, so be on the lookout!

Nest Exclusive: Tourist Sauce Australia, Episode 2 Behind the Scenes

Nest Exclusive: Tourist Sauce Australia, Episode 1 Behind the Scenes

KVV, Casey and Cody bring you this months announcements before jumping into the first LIVE airing of Nest Trivia. Thank you to the members who volunteered to jump on and have some fun!

Episode 53: March 2024

In this Nest-exclusive video, Neil goes back in time and provides some thoughtful commentary on a compilation of Tourist Sauce Ireland scenes across each day of the trip.

In Tourist Sauce Season 4, the No Laying Up crew takes their average golf game across the pond to experience the dunes, wind, and 'craic' on the West Coast of Ireland. They are joined by Author Tom Coyne, the authority on Irish Golf.

Ireland

Tourist Sauce Ireland: Director's Cut (Feat. Neil)

Neil and Cody kick off this month's Nest pod with a look at upcoming NLU content and events before we restart our Refuge member spotlight interview segment as we chat with Pete Couhig, the CFO of Wycombe Wanderers - an English football team currently in League One of the EFL system.

Pete talks us through the process of his family becoming owners of the club, the reception he's received as part of an American ownership group, the financials of the different tiers of English football and a ton more.

Episode 52: February 2024

Indulge in a throwback compilation of outtakes from the boys' adventure in the Bayou.

No Laying Up’s original video series highlighting the search for budget golf, interesting people, and good times all over the USA. Season 3 takes Neil & Big Randy through Baton Rouge and down to New Orleans with good food, good golf, and good people all along the way. 

No Laying Up’s Big Randy and Neil search for budget golf, interesting people & the mega bonus all over the USA. Challenged with a rigid budget, the duo embarks on a more familiar version of the golf world. Discovering hidden gems in your backyard and the obscurities of the world doesn't require being a part of the C-Suite. Neither does remembering why the guys love golf, from the laughs and lessons learned in between...and the friends they made along the way, of course.

From Iowa, Arizona, Southern California, all the way to Peoria — 

'Why don't we lean the other way?': How 'Strapped' became a YouTube cult hit | Golf Digest, 

Monday Finish: Homa's Secret, Sergio's future, No Laying Up's triumph | GOLF.com,

Golf vlog 'Strapped' airs its episodes shot on courses in Peoria, Pekin | Peoria Journal Star, 

Strapped

Louisiana 

Strapped: Louisiana Outtakes

Cody leads this month's Nest pod with Ben, KVV and Casey as we welcome the newest member of NLU to the Nest pod.

We then look at the Roost lineup with some new chapters joining the family and the events scheduled for the upcoming year. After that, we dive into the 2024 Trap Draw Goals podcast with some critiques and observations from the goals the guys put forward (29:40) before unveiling our own personal goals for the year ahead.

Facilitate 3 friends group hang out sessions

Handicap down to 15 (currently 18.1) - stretch goal 14 - super stretch 13

Find a coach to see regularly once moved (anyone have any Vegas coach recomendations that are not Butch Harmon?)

Bring scoring average of posted rounds down to 90 - in 2022 scoring average was 98.6 over 73 posted rounds, 2023 average was 95 over 80 posted rounds. Looking for 100 posted rounds in 2024 with the move to a year round golf area.

Do short game practice at least 30 times (30 minutes)

Play in at least 2 non-NLU/refuge competitions

Eat less meat/dairy - aiming for 800 plant based/vegan meals (approx 73%)

Strength training average 1 x a week (52 workouts)

The Nest

Writing

The State of the Nest 2024

Nest Member Exclusive: Titleist GT Fitting Events

Nest Exclusive: Jerry Springer Was Here to Listen

7 Thoughts From A Sportswriter Upon Seeing Springsteen For The First Time At Age 45

Videos

Episode 61: November 2024

Episode 60: October 2024

Nest Exclusive: KVV's Self-Talk and Swing Thoughts

Episode 59: September 2024

Nest Exclusive: Playing Shorty's at Bandon Dunes

Episode 58: August 2024

Episode 57: July 2024

Nest Exclusive: WWoP - 2024 Himalayas Championship

Episode 56: June 2024

Nest Exclusive: Tourist Sauce Australia, Episode 8 Behind the Scenes

Nest Exclusive: Tourist Sauce Australia, Episode 7 Behind the Scenes

Episode 55: May 2024

Nest Exclusive: Tourist Sauce Australia, Episode 6 Behind the Scenes

Nest Exclusive: Tourist Sauce Australia, Episode 5 Behind the Scenes

Nest Exclusive: Tourist Sauce Australia, Episode 4 Behind the Scenes

Nest Exclusive: Tourist Sauce Australia, Episode 3 Behind the Scenes

Episode 54: April 2024

Nest Exclusive: Tourist Sauce Australia, Episode 2 Behind the Scenes

Nest Exclusive: Tourist Sauce Australia, Episode 1 Behind the Scenes

Episode 53: March 2024

Tourist Sauce Ireland: Director's Cut (Feat. Neil)

Episode 52: February 2024

Strapped: Louisiana Outtakes

Episode 51: January 2024

TrapDraw Episode 270: 2024 Goals

Episode 50: December 2023

NLU Podcast, Episode 777: 10 Year Oral History

Episode 49: November 2023

Episode 48: October 2023

Episode 47: September 2023

Episode 46: August 2023

Episode 45: July 2023

Episode 44: June 2023

Episode 43: May 2023

Episode 42: April 2023

Episode 41: March 2023

Episode 40: February 2023

Behind The Scenes - Tourist Sauce: Oregon