963: Pro golf thrills and delights, plus Thomas Detry on the process of winning

D.J., Randy, and Neil fire up the pod as we ask ourselves to come up with three things that thrill and delight us in pro golf, and we fire up our listener voicemail line (33:30).

On tonight's Back Nine (1:01:00), we recap Joe Highsmith's win at PGA National, the significance - or lack thereof - of Jake Knapp's 59, LPGA, DP World Tour, TGL, PGA Tour HQ layoffs, and in honor of tonight's Oscars, Pro Golfers as Best Picture nominees.

We also hear from Soly who catches up with Thomas Detry (1:36:30) to relive his win in Phoenix and the challenge of closing out a PGA Tour tournament before we close out with some housekeeping (1:53:30) ahead of a busy week of #content.

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We're back with the second installment of our personal golf spotlight series as Tron gives us his current What's In The Bag, relives his days as a junior golfer, and the process of learning and appreciating golf course architecture before and during his time with NLU. Then, for the main event, we pin TC down and force him to name his Top Ten Favorite Courses (subject to change, of course).


962: NLU Personal Golf Spotlight - Tron

In this edition of NLU Special Projects, KVV brings us a deep dive on the life and career of Calvin Peete. From the famous story of the fall that broke his arm as a boy to his career on tour where he won twelve times including the 1985 Players, we hope you enjoy this look at one of golf's most remarkable stories you might not have heard before.

961: NLU Special Projects - Calvin Peete

330: 6th Annual Oscars Extravaganza (with Timothy Simons)

D.J., Randy, and Tim Simons are back for one of the best TrapDraw traditions: the Oscars Extravaganza! Live from Los Angeles, the boys tackle a whole host of movie-related topics upfront before turning their attention to the Best Pictures. Beginning at the 1:24:00 mark, they reveal their consensus rankings of the ten Best Picture nominees, culminating with their choice for the industry's top honor. 

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960: Power ranking the Masters, Ryder Cup check-in, Vidanta World, Tour/PIF negotiations in DC

On this weekend's pod, we recap a wild playoff in Mexico that saw Brian Campbell defeat Aldrich Potgieter after an incredible bounce to avoid out-of-bounds off the tee on the second and final playoff hole.

Then we offer some early Masters picks as the Tour begins the Florida swing next week and an early guess at the US and Euro Ryder Cup team rosters.

For our Back Nine segment tonight we review the latest rumblings on the PIF-PGA Tour meetings, the LPGA Thailand and DP World Tour's Magical Kenya Open, TGL, the Rory vs. Johnson Wagner beef and more.

960: Power ranking the Masters, Ryder Cup check-in, VidantaWorld, Tour/PIF negotiations in DC 

959: Yealimi Noh + LPGA Asian Swing Preview

Fresh off her win at the Founders Cup, Yealimi Noh joins Randy and Cody to recap the weekend battle with Jim Young Ko, her putting struggles and return to form over the past year, some recent equipment changes, her decision to skip college and turn pro and a ton more. Before our interview with Yealimi, we preview the upcoming Asian Swing with some other news and notes from on tour.


329: The BallKnowers - Post Super Bowl Wrap Up

The Eagles are champs and the BallKnowers have convened to offer some Mea Culpas and have an open and honest discussion around Super Bowl LIX MVP Jalen Hurts. From there, we look ahead to the 2025 Regular Season and some early thoughts on the Eagles, Chiefs, AFC North and more. We close the pod with the BallKnowers Top 10 QB power rankings - a compilation of our own personal rankings - to see who we feel is the best signal caller in pro football.

We've often discussed courses we want to play one day and, for this pod, we decided to formalize our lists and see what can be accomplished in 2025. Soly, DJ, Tron and Neil all divided our individual lists into five categories: one hour from home, day trips (34:30), Golden Age (51:30), Wild Cards (1:01:30), and a personal top five Bucket List (1:12:00).


958: Courses To Play In 2025

957: Ludvig wins the Genesis at Torrey, Joaco at LIV Adelaide, Jeeno at Saudi Ladies

Ludvig Åberg wins the Genesis! Join us as we recap the week in golf: Ludvig's win at Torrey, Joaquin Niemann at LIV Adelaide, and Jeeno Thitikul at the PIF Saudi Ladies International. We will break down everything from Torrey Pines, talk LIV, news and notes, fun segments, and more. Presented by High Noon.

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Neil and Cody return to the TrapDraw for our first Booth of 2025 with Randy joining as a special guest. We open with mea culpas before offering a thorough review of the Super Bowl - the game itself, Kendrick Lamar's halftime performance, the Fox TV broadcast and more.

We then open up the TrapDraw listener line for some long-neglected voicemails from our beloved Trapezoids.

328: The Booth Vol. 19 with Big Randy + Listener Voicemails

No Cat for the third Signature Event of the year as we roll back to Torrey Pines South. Join us as we run down some news and notes, One-and-Done picks, play some trivia, audience questions, and more.

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956: Happy Hour, 2025 Genesis at Torrey

KVV and Soly take us back to 1999 for another majors deep dive as we relive Jose Maria Olazabal winning his second green jacket, Payne Stewart's epic triumph at Pinehurst (52:30), Paul Lawrie's unlikely victory at Carnoustie after Jean van de Velde's 72nd hole meltdown (1:41:00) and Tiger's duel with Sergio at Medinah (2:18:15).

955: 1999 Majors Deep Dive

Today was a day for blowouts. Long before the Chiefs were taken to the woodshed by the Eagles, Thomas Detry lapped the field at the Waste Management to win by seven shots for his first career tour victory.


We break down the action from Scottsdale and then make the turn for our Back 9 (54:00) to talk LIV Riyadh, Tiger's return, DT's potential involvement in the merger process, LPGA news, Charley Hoffman's letter, Lucas Glover's Aimpoint comments and more.

954: Detry Dominates in Scottsdale

Randy, Cody and Jordan are back with our first LPGA podcast of 2025. We take a look at the LPGA and women's amateur event schedules, play a few rounds of buy-sell-hold with some of the biggest names in women's golf, and then make our predictions for some of the biggest events in 2025.

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953: 2025 LPGA Season Kickoff

Tron and Randy are back chopping it up this week. There's an extended mea culpa section, a girthy selection of news stories to monitor, and then some sports and travel talk. Enjoy!

327: TC & Randy Chop Session

USGA CEO Mike Whan makes his return to the pod on the heels of today's announcement about a LIV exemption into the field for the 2025 U.S. Open.

We will start our discussion on recent comments from various pro golf stakeholders about the golf ball rollback before getting into the LIV - U.S. Open announcement and the USGA's rationale for creating the exemption. We close with some thoughts on upcoming venues for USGA championships - including Cypress Point for this year's edition of the Walker Cup.

952: USGA CEO Mike Whan on U.S. Open's LIV exemption, recent rollback comments and future USGA venues

Rory McIlroy wins the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, finishing two ahead of Shane Lowry. Join us as we break down the results across the world of golf, dig into our week at Pebble, run down the leaderboard, news and notes, and more! Presented by High Noon.

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951: Rory wins at Pebble

For the second year in a row, we’re live from Pebble Beach! Friends of the program AT&T CEO John Stankey and Masters Champion Trevor Immelman pop into the show, KVV joins for a special AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am trivia, news and notes, laughs and more.

950: Live at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (Thur)

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