How is Golf NZ Promoting Participation?
Our hosts talk to Thiem Nguyen, Manager of Participation for Golf New Zealand about the new ways in which the lead organisation for the sport in this country is working to be more inclusive and raise the number of people playing the game casually and as members of a club.
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What’s Up at Gulf Harbour?
Gulf Harbour Country Club, site of the 1998 World Cup of Golf, and one of the most scenic courses in New Zealand, has been up and down. At one stage, members were forced to buy the club off its discredited owner. Our hosts talk with current Director of Golf, Frazer Bond, to find out where things are at today.
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Ryan Fox Speaks!
Top Kiwi professional Ryan Fox, back from playing a European Tour event in Saudi Arabia, and looking ahead to the Open Championship in July, talks about what it’s like to be a travelling golf professional in the Age of Covid-19
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The Joy of Golf with John Hart
Former All Black coach, now on the Board of the Super Rugby Auckland Blues, talks about what golf means to him and what he gains from playing the game, no matter his score.
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The Art of Caddying with Steve Williams
The world’s best known golf caddy, Steve Williams, voices his opinion on the PGA Tour’s proposed use of distance finders that, in theory, would take away the traditional role of caddies from stepping off distances and generally doing the work golf caddies are known to do.
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The Death of Oreti Sands
Oreti Sands, a links course at the very bottom of the South Island, often called “the southern most golf course in the world” and one highly praised by both domestic and international golf writers, closed for good two years ago. After various attempts to re-open, the club is no more. Our hosts talk to Andy Fraser, a former member and one of the last remaining volunteers, to find out what happened.
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The Rangatira Golf Club
What’s unique about the Rangatira Golf Club? Our hosts speak with greenskeeper and club record holder (65) Richie Nimmo about a feature on the 18th hole unlike any in the rest of the country. As well, they find out what’s going on at the club and how they managed an upgrade, demanded by council, that cost them $150,000.
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2020: Was it All Bad for Golf?
Our hosts look back at 2020 and consider the impact of Covid-19 on golf in New Zealand and around the world. Certainly professional tours lost their galleries and it was strange watching television coverage without the usual fan reactions. But then recreational golf experienced a mini-boom in the second half of the year. Meanwhile, individual stars had their ups and down, none more so than Tiger Woods.
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New Sir Bob Charles Biography
Our hosts conduct an extended conversation with Geoff Saunders, the author of the first comprehensive biography of New Zealand’s greatest golfer, Sir Bob Charles, and to review the book and find out why it took 15 years to complete.
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How to Design a Golf Course
Greg Turner, once New Zealand’s best player on the European PGA Tour, has become New Zealand’s foremost golf course designer whose projects include the expansion of Millbrook Resort into a stunning 27-hole layout. He talks to Brendan Telfer about his design approach and what it takes to build a beautiful golf course for all handicappers.
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