Presenting Office Hours with Michael Wolf (@bamabearcat).

Office Hours

Watch some of the highlight interviews from the No Laying Up podcast.

Interviews

FanDuel Tournament Previews

A closer look at some of the unique golf courses No Laying Up visits.

Crash Course

Nine hole exhibition matches showcasing interesting golfers, golf courses, and competitive formats.

Wild World of Golf

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

The Mixed Bag

In-depth features capture a week in the life of compelling personalities in golf.

A Week in The Life

Game Improvement

Tourist Sauce

Nest Podcast

Recap shows following events, presented by High Noon.

Live Shows

City Tour

Strapped

NLU Film Room

Feature

The NLU crew receives playing lessons in this new series.

Playing Lessons

In a journey to achievement (and accountability, of course) NLU crew convenes to conduct a review our 2024 Golf Goals. 

Founded in 2014, No Laying Up is a company built around the goal of entertaining, informing and connecting a community of avid golfers around the world. 

What started as a group text among college friends has now grown into one of the most popular podcasts in the game of golf, and our archives include appearances from the biggest names in the sport. From profiles featuring some of the biggest stories in the game, film rooms featuring world-class courses, to our very own “Strapped” buddies trip series, No Laying Up has something for everyone’s golf appetite.

All the golf adjacent videos from No Laying Up!

Mixed Bag: Golf Adjacent

NLU House Meeting: 2024 Golf Goals

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.

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.

How did No Laying Up's Tourist Sauce begin? The man behind the camera remembers | GOLF.com,

No Laying Up highlighting Michigan golf during new season of 'Tourist Sauce' debuting Wednesday | WXYZ Detroit,

Ireland

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

2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the Players Championship — and Professor Wolfie invites TC and PGA TOUR Editorial Lead Sean Martin to unravel the quirky and profound history of the "fifth" major. Presented by Holderness & Bourne.

Office Hours: The Players Championship

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.

2024 Nest Podcast

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, 

Louisiana 

Strapped: Louisiana Outtakes

Soly, Neil, D.J. and Tron embark on The Hay at Pebble Beach, the redesigned par 3 course by Tiger Woods and Beau Welling. Watch the guys play a scotch foursome format within its exciting design and captivating views. Presented by AT&T.

Pebble Beach's Par 3 Course: The Hay | No Laying Up

Ahead of the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, the guys fired a bunch of questions at Jordan Spieth and his caddie Michael Greller.


A Bunch of Questions: Jordan Spieth and Michael Greller

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)

Cardio 3 x a week - walking golf counts! - (150 workouts)

Make/Craft something every month (12 things)

Continue my DuoLingo streak (sitting at 49 days right now in Italian)

Read 6 books this year (I tend to just read a bunch of articles - need to get back into some long form reading)

10 new golf courses overall (five outside Maryland)

Charge my phone on a different floor than sleeping at least 5 nights a week

Spend two hours per month with Molly and Sophie

Plan/take one trip with my wife to new city

Get back to 0.0. But realistically be low enough to qual for US Am

Coach the Pink Panthers to the league title

Episode 51: January 2024

Soly and Ben spend a week at the 2023 Asia Pacific Amateur Championship, hosted at the Royal Melbourne Composite Course, one of six annual men's amateur events with a Masters invitation on the line. 

Unique to the APAC is its field in which players from various countries across Asia Pacific vie for a life-changing opportunity. The two meet many faces with rich backstories, witness a three-way playoff, and watch a local underdog get it done.


A Week at the Asia-Pacific Amateur

A fan favorite returns with our annual goals podcast as Soly, Tron, DJ, Neil and Randy pick our team's "Year of the _____" for 2024, review our individual goals from 2023 (27:00), and lay out our personal goals for 2024 (1:07:00).

Watch highlight interviews from the No Laying Up podcast.

TrapDraw Episode 270: 2024 Goals 

We close out the year with the December Nest pod featuring some spirited dental care discussion before a look back at some of our favorite trips, events, creations, rounds and more from 2023 plus a look at what we're #monitoring for 2024.

https://www.amazon.com/MANIAC-Benjamin-Labatut/dp/0593654471

https://www.amazon.com/Korean-American-Food-That-Tastes/dp/0593233492

https://www.amazon.com/Four-Foundations-Golf-Build-Lifetime/dp/B0B3RYB7ZF/ref=sr_1_1[…]1&keywords=the+four+foundations+of+golf&qid=1703792375&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Outlaw-Ocean-Journeys-Untamed-Frontier/dp/0451492943

https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Bullfrog-Leadership-Made-Simple/dp/1538707942/ref=sr_1[…]books&sprefix=wisdom+of+the+bullfrog%2Cstripbooks%2C89&sr=1-1

https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049/ref[…]1703792456&s=books&sprefix=the+tiger%2Cstripbooks%2C99&sr=1-1

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023349-juicy-tomatoes-with-parmesan-olive-bread-crumbs

2023 Nest Podcast

Episode 50: December 2023 

Editors Note: Timestamps originally built for audio only version. There could be a slight time shift for this video. 

We are ten years into No Laying Up, a text thread among college friends that's turned into more than any of us could have imagined. Come along for a three hour conversation about the origins of that initial text thread, the website (21:30), the first podcast (35:00), Justin Thomas marking the first podcast appearance from a tour pro (55:30), the first detonation of golf television coverage (1:09:00), our Rory-DT news scoop (1:23:00), the first Tourist Sauce (1:50:30) and Strapped seasons (2:14:00), and a ton more.

A more extensive list of some of our favorite web posts, tweets, and other moments from the last decade:

https://nolayingup.com/blog/murder-suspect-caught-pounding-balls-in-pga-superstore

https://patch.com/georgia/woodstock/woodstock-murder-suspects-plead-guilty-get-prison-time

https://x.com/NoLayingUp/status/621377723177533440?s=20

July 2017: The Sistine Chapel of Tourist Sauce: 

https://x.com/NoLayingUp/status/889533605273382912?s=20

NLU Podcast, Episode 777: 10 Year Oral History

Kevin Van Valkenburg joins host Michael Wolf to unpack the experimental history of made-for-TV golf events, which have produced some of the silliest moments in pro golf. 

Office Hours is presented by Holderness & Bourne: 

Office Hours: Made-For-TV Golf Events

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

After a full year with new gear, the whole NLU squad got together to talk about what is in each of their bags. Thanks to our friends at Titleist, FootJoy, Vokey and Scotty Cameron for all the support in 2023!

What's in the Bag: Full No Laying Up Team

This month's Nest pod features Cody, Neil and KVV as we recap the NIT, provide an update on the future of the Killhouse, and a look ahead to navigating the holidays with young children.

Episode 49: November 2023 

Probably the top name on our bucket list of podcast guests, Lee Trevino joins the pod to tell as many stories as you can fit into two hours. Over the course of two hours, we cover Lee's unlikely story of overcoming poverty and hardship in his youth, his introduction to the game, military service in the Marine Corps, money game matches and introduction to the pro tour, winning majors, competing against Nicklaus, Palmer and Player and a ton more.

Lee Trevino Tells All

Armchair architecture experts Tron and Office Hours host Wolfie walk through their lists of their five favorite clubhouses in the world, spanning across the U.S. and far beyond.

 Myopia Hunt Club, Shoreacres, Valley Club of Montecito

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