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Ahead of the 2024 Women's British Open, D.J., Soly and Tron play a relay race on The Old Course while two-time LPGA winner Lauren Coughlin watches on. 

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The Old Course at St. Andrews Ft. Lauren Coughlin | No Laying Up Film Room

Roger Steele and Tron preview the BMW Championship at Castle Pines Golf Club as Roger seeks vengeance on "The Rat" from a previous match. 

Roger Steele vs. Tron Carter at Castle Pines | No Laying Up Film Room

For the finale of our Bandon Dunes series, Max Homa is our sherpa through Soly's round at Bandon Dunes as the Seamsters Union attempts one last comeback in their match against the Ball Knowers. Thanks to 

Max Homa Watches Soly's Round at Bandon Dunes | No Laying Up Film Room

D.J. embarks on a testy round through Old Macdonald, while Randy watches alongside and commentates on a round at his favorite golf course at Bandon Dunes. 

D.J. Plays Old Macdonald | No Laying Up Film Room

The Ballknowers vs. Seamsters Union at Bandon Dunes continues, and this time, we're following Tron as he battles through Bandon Trails to maintain the pair's advantage. 

Bandon Trails with Tron | No Laying Up Film Room

We spent some time up at Bandon Dunes with our good friend Poosh (Micah Pueschel) and had him take us through a day out at one of his favorite courses, Pacific Dunes, as he partnered up with Tron against Soly and D.J. 

Pacific Dunes with Poosh | No Laying Up Film Room

Ahead of the 2024 British Open, the C-Suite takes on Royal Troon accompanied by Challenge Tour player and guide Michael Stewart. 

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Royal Troon Golf Club - Soly Vs. Tron | No Laying Up Film Room

Neil and Ben square off in a straight-up match at the 2024 U.S. Open venue Pinehurst No. 2. 

NLU Film Room: Pinehurst No. 2 (Neil Vs. Ben)

Cam Young and Cody team up to conquer the newly redesigned Omni La Costa North, the new home of the NCAA Championships. 

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Alternate Shot with Cam Young at Omni La Costa North

Soly returns to the Gasparilla Invitational for the fifth time, and he and Neil join forces to review the tape from Palma Ceia. Having entered his dad-back era, watch Soly compete and relive it all.

NLU Film Room: 2024 Gasparilla Invitational

When Ben was crowned "best golfer at NLU" by KVV, Soly took that personally. Soly, sitting at a 0.2 handicap, challenged Ben, a +2.4, to a grudge match at the Composite Course at Royal Melbourne right after the 2023 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship. Who really is the best golfer at NLU? Watch along with commentators Neil and TC to find out.

To hear more about Ben and Soly's week in Australia, check out the recap 

they recorded after the 2023 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.

NLU Film Room: Ben vs. Soly at Royal Melbourne Composite Course

The final installment of our Western Scotland series was the first stop on Tron and Jim's trip: Dunaverty. Watch as the two of them face off on this sub-5000 yard funhouse. On the heels of last week's film release (When Revelation Comes), we thought it best to give a deeper look into Jim's favorite golf course with an intimate, peaceful look at all 18 holes on a calm, quiet spring morning. 

Hopefully, you'll get to know Jim and Dunaverty better through this episode of Film Room, featuring Jim's one-liners and some light-hearted competition. Presented by Footjoy. Dunaverty Golf Club is situated by the village of Southend in a glorious setting on the south coast of the Kintyre peninsula. The course plays to 4,799 yards and a par of 66. Sanda Island, Ailsa Craig, and Northern Ireland are all visible in the distance. 

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NLU Film Room: Dunaverty Golf Club

Following the death of his son Jordan, Jim Hartsell recounts a lifetime of trips to Scotland and shines a light on the faraway people and places that helped him put his world back together. Presented by FootJoy.

Trailer: "When Revelation Comes" | A Film by No Laying Up

Tron's second stop in the Western Scotland series is Shiskine Golf and Tennis Club on the Isle of Arran. Watch as Tron tries to break par on this 12-hole gem Presented by Footjoy. 

Founded in 1896, Shiskine Golf and Tennis Club is a 12-hole links golf course located on the western side of the Isle of Arran and designed by the 1883 champion of the Open Championship, Willie Fernie. Originally a 9-hole layout, architect Willie Park Junior was brought in to expand it to an 18-hole design. World War I made its completion fall by the wayside, rounding it out to a 12-hole track heavily featuring par-3s and captivating cliffside views.

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NLU Film Room: Shiskine

In the first installment of our Western Scotland series, Tron explores the remote and rugged Machrihanish Golf Club in Western Scotland. We'll have plenty more content to come from this trip, which occurred in late April 2023. Presented by FootJoy.

NLU Film Room: Machrihanish

D.J. and Soly visit Rome, the Italian Open and play the 2023 Ryder Cup course Marco Simone.

NLU Film Room: Marco Simone

Hobbled at The Homestead by Kevin Van Valkenburg (in the style of iconic golf writer Dan Jenkins)

Stoop-shouldered and moderately handsome, looking like he’d slept last night on the floor of the laundromat of life, Kevin Van Valkenburg arrived at the Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, Virginia in search of something.

Was it redemption? Or perhaps absolution?

That’s the problem when you have a golf swing that closely resembles an adult male gorilla trying to tune a Stradivarius. The search for answers only leads to more questions. You can marvel at the attempt, or you can look away in horror, and wonder why anyone would ever hand someone so oafish instruments so delicate and expect anything resembling music to emerge.

Despite those shortcomings, the irascible and pugnacious KVV came to the Old Dominion state looking for a match, his first as member of No Laying Up, and Dennis Piehowski, the company’s cagey match-play artiste, was happy to oblige.


Legend has it that the great Sam Snead used to make birdies by the bushel in these parts, with a backswing so fluid it might as well have been a sonnet.

I wish I could tell you these two boys played golf with Snead’s grace, but that would be a lie bigger than Van Valkenburg’s handicap. Folks, I saw pillow fights between Zeta sorority gals at TCU that had more animosity and athleticism than what I witnessed at the Homestead.


But the generous giving a putts did feel like a nod to Snead’s gentlemanly nature, and though it was clearly a tactical error by KVV to concede a 5 footer to DJ on the 4th hole when the Pie Man was taking on more water than the Edmond Fitzgerald, it was keeping with the spirit of day.

It was, after all, Virginian Woodrow Wilson who said friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. I wonder if ole Woodrow still would have felt that way if he’d have known he’d be canceled a century after he died.


As Piehowski often does, he found some magic in the middle of his round, kind of like the way a Grateful Dead song fills you with warmth and wonder just as you’re suspecting you’re about to be bored to death.


An artist, much like a tennis ball being hit against a wall, can’t make magic against an opponent who gives nothing in return.

But a true maestro like Piehowski knows how to create even when conditions are dire. His birdie on the Par 5 12th hole to take control of the match for good was as surgical as any of Tiger's various medical procedures, and meanwhile, KVV was busy splashing around in the sand like a husky Laurence Oliver.

The Cascades Course may have been the place where Van Valkenburg’s love of golf was born, but it might also go down as the place where his short game truly died. I like to think this was rock bottom, but I’ll instead focus on the three birdies Piehowski made after the match was over. The encore, it turns out, somehow exceeded the set list.

But in this land of country ham and oysters, no man is an island, entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away at sea, then Virginia is the less.

Piehowski, like any man of letters, knows this well, which is why there were hugs at the end of the match, and a promise to share a beer on what is, perhaps, the nation’s greatest front porch. Did he win 4&3? Or was it 5&4? It hardly matters.

There would be plenty of time, as the sun sank low in the sky, to gaze through the uneven darkness and begin to sort out the winners from the losers.

Dan Jenkins was a long-time writer for Sports Illustrated and Golf Digest.

You can read some of his most famous game stories 

(A couple of the lines in this piece are overt references to one of Jenkins most famous stories, a profile of Joe Namath. The theft — or homage — is intentional.)

Kevin Van Valkenburg is the Editorial Director of No Laying Up.

NLU Film Room: D.J. vs KVV at Omni Homestead Resort Cascades Course

Big Randy and Poosh Daddy from the band Iration play their first match on camera at Omni Barton Creek Resort Fazio Canyons Course. 

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