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.

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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)

For the second year in a row, we’re live from Pebble Beach! Special guests, new segments, revived favorites (shoutout to Baluga's Big Board), news, notes, and much more!

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949: Live at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (Wed)

326: The BallKnowers Conference Championship Roundtable

The BallKnowers (minus Poosh) all in the same room together! Join KVV and special guest Neil as they try to hold TC and Randy accountable for a season's worth of takes. Plus, we break down Conference Championship weekend and make final picks for the Super Bowl.

In a truly electric NLU podcast debut, Joe Mayo joins Soly and KVV to break down his working relationship with Viktor Hovland, the early days of using launch monitors to aid in his instruction, competing philosophies and misconceptions around what he teaches and a ton more. We really enjoyed having Joe on and know you'll enjoy our chat.

948: Joe Mayo

947: Harris English flushes it at the Farmers

Harris English comes out on top at Torrey on a week marred by slow play and sickness among the field. Plus, JT takes tour members to task over a need for more cooperation with TV partners to improve the tour telecasts after some less-than-ideal ratings numbers from the Amex.

Then it's on to the Back 9 (52:00) where we discuss Seth Waugh's interview with Eamon Lynch, comments on the rollback from new PGA of America CEO Derek Sprague, TC on the Cleeks rebrand and other LIV news from the week, feedback on KVV's podcast on Bethpage tee times, and a ton more.

For this episode, we debut a new concept with the Personal Golf Spotlight - a biographical journey through the golf game of a member of our team. In this first episode, Neil takes center stage with DJ and Soly getting the Czar's WITB update, his story of learning to play as a kid while tagging along with TC, and his growth over recent years as his handicap has ticked towards the low single digits. We close the pod with Neil sticking his neck out with a personal list of the top ten courses he has played.

946: NLU Personal Golf Spotlight - Neil

Randy is back from honeymoon and chopping it up with TC! They unpack recent travels, offer mea culpas, hot on some sports topics, and go through their monitoring list. Enjoy!

325: TC & Randy Chop Session

945: NLU Special Projects - The Mystery Behind Why Bethpage is Always Booked

For our second edition of NLU Special Projects, we continue to look at the unbelievable difficulty of booking tee times at certain public golf courses as we head to Long Island and Bethpage State Park - the host of this year's Ryder Cup, as well as the 2002 & 2009 U.S. Opens and the 2019 PGA Championship.

NLU Podcast Ep. 944: AmEx Reaction + TC's Return from Argentina

Sepp Straka wins at Mr. Dye's Stadium Course in La Quinta with JT coming in second by two shots. We talk all things Amex, some notable WDs, the Genesis moving from Riv due to the LA fires, Tyrrell winning in Dubai, Hovland's quotes, and the DP World Tour's viral social video from earlier this week.

Then, it's on to our Back Nine of the episode highlighted by TC's trip to Argentina (49:00), LIV's TV deal and new CEO, a new segment highlighting someone in golf that Not Enough People Talk About, TGL's week three and DJ closes our the Back Nine with an amazing Bob Uecker story (1:40:00).

As a sign-off - we have a midweek NLU Special Projects episode coming from KVV about tee times at Bethpage which he and DJ tease ahead of the episode's release which will hit your feeds on Wednesday morning.


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944: AmEx Reaction + TC’s return from Argentina

943: A TGL beat down, "Food on Tour" with Keith Mitchell

Tonight we break down Tiger's return in the second iteration of the TGL which saw the Cat, Kevin Kisner and Max Homa get wrecked by Team Rose, Morikawa and Sahith.


Then TC and DJ are joined by PGA Tour resident foodie Keith Mitchell for an all-encompassing look at the best restaurants on tour, some of the less desirable stops on the calendar, and a special treat - Keith's Hall of Fame Caesar Salad List.


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TC goes to the bullpen for this chop session as Neil and D.J. step in for Big Randy for the latest mea culpas, a healthy list of items we're monitoring, and some air travel talk as well.

324: Tron, Neil and D.J. Chop Session

942: A fun finish in Hawaii and RIP to the PIP

On this weekend's recap pod, we recap a sleepy start in Hawaii before a frantic finish that saw Nick Taylor win the Sony in a playoff. We also look at the 2024 PIP and eulogize the end of the program, plus some initial thoughts on the TGL and our own TGL-inspired golf hole designs, Creator Classic changes, LIV schedule news and more.

323: The BallKnowers Pre-Playoffs Roundtable

With Big Randy away on his honeymoon, the rest of the BallKnowers gather to recap our preseason teams draft standings, atone for our bad takes, rank MVP candidates, play some rapid-fire buy/sell with some miscellaneous NFL topics and make some predictions for the upcoming playoffs.

941: LIVE Reaction to TGL Match #1 + Max Homa

LIVE Tuesday episode as we break down the inaugural match of TGL, New York vs The Bay. We get into what worked and what didn't as we all followed along to watch The Bay beat NYGC 9-2. Plus, Jupiter Links star Max Homa joins us for his week 1 reaction and more!

Hideki can putt! Matsuyama closed with an 8-under 65 to beat Collin Morikawa by three at The Sentry. Join us as we are LIVE and in person from TC's garage. We talk Kapalua, run down the leaderboard, talk some TGL and more. Presented by High Noon.

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940: Hideki wins The Sentry, TC visits Waffle House, and TGL 

We are so back! Kicking off the 1st of 18 Happy Hour Live Shows of the year at The Sentry. We will run down some news, notes, and injury (LOL) updates before we do a special Buying or Selling segment to kick off the year. Plus, the start of our One-and-Done picks, audience questions, and more.

939: Sentry Happy Hour

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