A Good Talk Spoiled Golf Podcast

On the show this week, Rory sues Horizon who sue him back.  The PGA Tour caddies sue the PGA Tour.  Sky Sports whip out the comedy sized chequebook and buy the rights to show The Open Championship from 2017.  

We look back at The Commercial Bank Qatar Masters, Human Challenge, Omega Dubai Desert Classic (a.k.a. The Rory Show) and the madness of the Waste Management Phoenix Open.  

And we wrap things up by looking ahead to next week with The Maybank Malaysian Open and The Farmers Insurance Open from the epic Torrey Pines.

This week we discuss what has a been a very odd week in the world of golf. We look back at Matt Every's DQ, Robert Allenby's kidnapping, Bhavik Patel's suspension, Tiger losing his tooth and look back at Dustin Johnson's first appearance since his leave of absence. 

We then review what was a disappointing tournament for Martin Kaymer but a breakthrough one for Gary Stal and a fantastic performance by Jimmy Walker. 

And finally, we look ahead to the Qatar Masters on the European Tour and the Humana Challenge on the PGA Tour. 

As an added bonus, we have loaded up the full interview with Steve Bamford from www.golfbettingsystem.co.uk. In this extra download, Steve also covers off the Race to Dubai preview, FedExCup, PGA Tour Money List and we couldn't leave him without getting his views on Tiger. 

This week we are fortunate enough to be joined by Steve Bamford from www.golfbettingsystem.co.uk in order to understand their approach to gambling, how to spot winners and most importantly to look ahead to the 2015 majors. 

We also have brief review of Christmas in the Podcast Presenter's households and look ahead to the main events on the PGA Tour and the European Tour this weekend. 

This week we spoke to John McGuire CEO of GAME GOLF about his brilliant automated shot tracking system and reveal how you can win one just in time for Christmas and play with the same technology as GMac, Westwood, Furyk and The President of the USA!

We look back on Jordan Spieth's exceptional final round and win in The Emirates Australian Open and Irishman, Niall Kearney's win in The PGA Playoffs in Turkey.

We sat down for a chat with Dermot Byrne, caddy to Shane Lowry and he gave us a wonderful insight into life on Tour, their most successful year together & cracking the World's Top 50.

And finally...TIGER IS BACK at The Hero World Challenge. We talk about his swing, his clubs, his coach and excitedly await his tee time on Thursday.  We also go Down Under to The Nedbank Golf Challenge in Sun City South Africa where the lucky field of 30 assemble for a big payday before Christmas.

This week we talk about Tiger's new "swing consultant", Webb Simpson's putting problems, European Tour Q School results and the final European Tour Event - The DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.

We then announced the final results of the top 200 and we also do the next piece in our series with American Golf discussing what to consider when buying a new putter and the importance of fitting. 

We then hand out our season end awards for 2014 giving out the awards for Player of the Year, Round of the Year and our Favourite Major of the Year amongst others. 

This week we were fortunate enough to sit down with @AGDundrum to discuss Ping's latest offering in drivers. 

We also review the Global Golf Awards, Rickie Fowler playing the Irish Open and Tiger's latest confrontation with the media. 

We enter our final week of the #top200 tournament and we go through the scenarios required. 

We also look back at the Turkish Airlines Open, the OHL Classic at Mayakoba and then we look ahead to this week's Q School events and the season ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.

This week we have plenty to talk about. We discuss Mickelson's new role as Arizona State University "interim assistant", Bubba's dramatic victory in China, Nick Taylor's career defining victory and Padraig Harrington's frustrations.

We then look at Sky Sports panellists' selections for PGA Players to Watch Out for in 2015 along with our own fancies for next year. 

We wrap up the episode with a look ahead to the Turkish Airlines Open and the OHL Classic at Mayakoba in Mexico. 

This week we are a bit short on team members but not so on news. 

We talk Luke Donald, multiple holes in one, cheating in the PGA Tour China, Padraig Harrington and Darren Clarke spreading the word about golf, Sergio Garcia, Adam Scott and The Ryder Cup team potentially winning awards.

We also look back on last week's golf events, Marcel Siem winning the BMW Masters and Ryan Moore successfully defending the CIMB Classic and look ahead to next week's events - the exciting WGC HSBC Championship and the Sanderson Farms Championship.

This week we discuss the decision to sack Ted Bishop as President of the PGA, Rafael Nadal's golf swing and his handicap, the weekend's tournaments including the Perth International, McGladrey Classic, the Asia Pacific Amateur Championship from Royal Melbourne and most importantly, the Crazy Golf World Championships from The Seafront Crazy Golf Course, Hastings, England.

We then look back on our own seasons briefly looking at the highs and lows of our seasons and how our handicaps went. We also look at our winter training and any gadgets we can add in. 

And finally, we look ahead to next week's events - the BMW Masters in Shanghai and the CIMB Classic in Malaysia.