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

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

Professor Wolfie welcomes Big Randy into the classroom for a history lesson on the Solheim Cup: its namesake, format, the greatest Solheim Cup players of all time, and the current state of the Solheim Cup. 

Beginning in 1990, two 12-women teams comprised of the best professional golfers in the United States and Europe would go head-to-head in a biennial competition within three days.

Office Hours: Solheim Cup

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.

…for golf in any condition…any time…anywhere. 

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

George Gankas returns to the pod to chat with Soly about swing mechanics and how intricate and varied the golf swing can be, his work coaching players of all skill levels, working with Matt Wolff through his recent struggles, how he observes his players from TV coverage, his own aspirations of playing competitively, and more. 

Watch highlight interviews from the No Laying Up podcast.

George Gankas Podcast

Cody and Neil are back with this month's Nest pod featuring NLU Young Hitter Lauren Coughlin. We kick off the episode with some event updates and Refuge awards before bringing LC on board (16:15) to discuss her recent top ten finish in Vancouver, her progress and improvements on various aspects of her game and, as custom, a trip into the Funk Tank for some grab bag questions.

2023 Nest Podcast

Episode 46: August 2023 

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

NLU Film Room: Marco Simone

Wolfie welcomes DJ into the classroom to run through the history of the Walker Cup, the format, the venues and why it's his favorite event in golf. 

Office Hours: The Walker Cup

Wolfie scans through his collection of polos and Tervis Tumblers to come up with a pile of golf logos worth discussing. 

Office Hours: Golf Logos, Part 1

2023 BMW Championship recap show present by High Noon. Top 30 make it to Atlanta as Scottie, Fitz, Young Viktor and more go low on the North Course at Olympia Fields. Plus: LPGA, DP World Tour, Asian Tour and more.

Live Shows 2023

Live from the Kill House: 2023 BMW Championship

Neil spent his week in Liverpool at The FootJoy Open Championship camping village. Check out this unique experience and his week of activities at the 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool.

No Laying Up goes to a lot of places, near and far - here are a few one-off videos from our travels that don't fit into other series.

Mixed Bag: Travel 

Open Season: Neil's Week At The Open Championship

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

Soly visits with legendary sports gambler Billy Walters ahead of the release of Billy's book Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk. 

In addition to the well-publicized partnership Billy had with Phil Mickelson, we cover his upbringing in Kentucky, his first exposure to gambling, his road to becoming of the most famous sports bettors in the world and a ton more.

Billy Walters Podcast Interview

The 2023 AIG Women's Open Championship/FedEx St. Jude Championship joint recap show presented by High Noon.

Live from the Kill House: Women's Open & FedEx St. Jude Recap

No Laying Up Live Show recapping Round 1 and 2 of the 2023 AIG Women's Open Championship from Walton Heath Golf Club outside London.

Big Randy and Cody report from Walton Heath with TC joining stateside for a Friday recap of the first two rounds of the Women's British Open where Ally Ewing leads by five shots. We break down Ewing's first two rounds, the rest of the contenders, those who we expected to contend that are heading home after two days, plus our experiences as members of the Women's Open Radio crew and a look ahead to the weekend.

Live from the Kill House: 2023 AIG Women's Open Championship (Fri)

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

Located in some of the country’s most beautiful destinations, Omni’s collection of over 50 hotels and resorts includes 28 iconic golf courses designed by award-winning and iconic golf architects. Visit 

NLU Film Room: Big Randy vs. Poosh at Omni Barton Creek Resort

It's a battle in the Allegheny Mountains. Tron and Neil face off at the #1 Public Course in Pennsylvania. 


Located in some of the country’s most beautiful destinations, Omni’s collection of over 50 hotels and resorts includes 28 iconic golf courses designed by award-winning and iconic golf architects. Visit www.omnihotels.com/golf for more details.

NLU Film Room: Neil vs. Tron at Omni Resorts Bedford Springs

With most of NLU on vacation this week Neil calls in Mr. ChickPhilA, a.k.a Jon Landman, for this month's Nest podcast. After a quick events/awards update, Jon takes us through all aspects of his work in the business side of the music industry as well as the changes he's seen over the course of his career. We close with music themed editions of "over, under or properly rated" and the "dead or alive" game.

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