On todays Monday Mini we have a question from wolfpacker Ben. Now Ben has been working on getting his handicap down, and he is currently down to 14, and trending in the right direction. However, he feels that if he can flight his wedges more effectively he can go lower, so he's asked Nick and Mark for some tips, and of course they're happy to oblige.

Mark talks about the impact of shortening your backswing, how he was taught to do it, and what it did to his game.

Nick discussed why he is an advocate for matching your backswing and your follow through, and he gives some excellent chipping tips.

A short but sweet Monday Mini today with some excellent tips on flighting your wedge shots.

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A Friday Feedback show today and Mark, not for the first time, gets lined up.

On todays show we have a message from one person calling Mark 'uneducated', and we have a myriad of wolfpackers criticising Mark over some recent behaviour....we'll get to that through the show.

01:00Mark is back on the fashion advice path...seriously...

01:30Wolfpacker Alex heard the No Laying Up guys having a crack at Australian Mens golf on a recent episode, he gives his view and asks Nick and Mark for theirs.

02:00Nick and Mark discuss what solutions might help to grow the performance of the Australian men.

06:00Dan follows up Marks promise to get Andrew Langford-Jones on the show...Mark needs to do some work on it.

07:00Wolfpacker Dean on club championship structures and the challenge for him as a FIFO

08:20Ralphy has written about some of Mike Clayton's design work, which Mark has at times been slightly critical of, Ralphy likes Mike's work and wrote in to say so.

09:00A message calling Mark uneducated when it comes to the place of Tea Trees on Melbourne golf courses. Mark responds with a surprising level of restraint at being called uneducated....No of course he doesn't !!! He lines up this particularly commenter! Did you seriously think Mark would restrain himself after that?

11:00Wolfpacker comments on a cracking idea from a golf course in Alabama, that more clubs should adopt.

After the turn.

14:00Firstly we deal with some appalling behaviour of Mark at Nudgee Golf Club. The reaction from the Wolfpack was (largely) brutal and deservedly so. Details in this ep.

15:00Anthony with a comment on Nick's idea of the Presidents Cup becoming a mixed event.

16:00Mark tells a great story about the charity component of the Presidents Cup in years past, specifically how one Tour Pro took advantage of the lack of oversight of what the charities were.

17:00Discuss Bruce Devlin

19:00Wolfpacker Mark has a crack at Mark Allen over a classic 59 that he has not put up in lights, and our wolfpacker believes it should be.

20:00Robert from Melbourne has a wet weather day question for Nick and Mark

After that we need a pickle and a pitcher of beer and a lie down!

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• Hostplus, Talk Birdie To Me's official retirement partner
• BMW, luxury and comfort for the 19th hole;
• Titleist, the #1 ball in golf;
• FootJoy, the #1 shoe and glove in golf;
• Golf Clearance Outlet, they beat everyone's prices;
• Betr, the fastest and easiest betting app in Australia;
• The Find My Player app - follow every player on every tour;
• And Southern Golf Club.

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Bonus ep today as we catch up with wolfpacker, friend of the show, passionate golfer, and occasionally in his spare time Hollywood superstar Michael Peña, who played in the Dunhill Links Championship last weekend in Scotland....we wanted to find out about the experience, so we gave him a buzz.

02:00 Michael tells us how it felt playing there, and his feeling of 'wow this is where golf started'

04:00 How did he actually get to play? How did the invite come about?

05:00 The perils of those pesky Scottish pot bunkers....

06:00 Michael talks about the etiquette of the amateurs, the rules, around letting the Pros do what they need to do

09:00 Did he learn anything from watching the Pros close up in their 'natural environment'?

10:00 Why he plans to visit Australia and New Zealand annually to play golf

11.00 What courses he played in Melbourne last year when he was there filming 'All Her Fault' with Aussie star Sarah Snook

12.00 And he explains why (spoiler alert) his fantastic character in Landman was killed off after one episode, much to Mark's disappointment!

Great to have Michael on the show again!

We're live from Titleist and FootJoy HQ thanks to our great partners:

• Hostplus, Talk Birdie To Me's official retirement partner
• BMW, luxury and comfort for the 19th hole;
• Titleist, the #1 ball in golf;
• FootJoy, the #1 shoe and glove in golf;
• Golf Clearance Outlet, they beat everyone's prices;
• Betr, the fastest and easiest betting app in Australia;
• The Find My Player app - follow every player on every tour;
• And Southern Golf Club.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.