Episodes
It was a thrilling Phoenix Open finish where the classy Canadian Nick Taylor birdied 5 of the last 6 holes to beat the wirey old veteran Charley Hoffman who played exceptionally for the last 36 holes out of nowhere but it was Taylor that made a clutch birdie on the 2nd play off hole to beat Hoffman to win his 4th PGA Tour title now & his 3rd in the last 4 years since Pebble Beach. On the DP World Tour it was a maiden victory for the talented Japanese player Rikuya Hoshino who became the...
Published 02/13/24
The Ladies European Tour returns this week in Kenya at Vipingo Ridge & who better to have on than the lead commentator of LET & media veteran Richard Kaufman.
In this episode we found out about Richard’s upbringing, taking on the job as a Runner that got his foot in the door of Media. Richard has worked for Sports Radio shows, Ceefax before getting the chance to be the voice of the Ladies European Tour coverage for Sky Sports Golf. Richard in his time at Sky Sports has commentated at...
Published 02/05/24
With the Ladies European Tour starting next week at Vipingo Ridge in Kenya I was joined by new LET card holder & Epson Tour card holder Ellinor Südow. In this episode we get to learn more about Ellinor's rise which is impressive seeing as she only took up Golf 13 years ago after 12 having been a successful athlete with Badminton & Gymnastics (Ellinor was Top 5 in the country at Badminton) we learn how at first she hated it as it was boring but over time more work at it she would enjoy...
Published 02/02/24
With Edwards unavailable Craig goes alone for the very first time so apologies if it's a poor quality episode. It was an interesting week with Matthieu Pavon becoming the 1st Frenchman in 117 years to win on PGA Tour with a fantastic victory at Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines winning with a ballsy 3rd shot to the Par 5 18th to defeat Nicolai Højgaard! At Ras Al Khaimah it was a super Thorbjorn Olesen performance to win by 6 shots at -27 to Rasmus Hojgaard at Al Hamra GC. That was...
Published 01/30/24
In this episode sponsored by Golf Tips Checker Craig was joined by the prolific winner from South Africa Shaun Norris who over a 22 year pro career has amassed a whopping 11 Professional Wins at all levels including a stunning 6 wins in Japan a country he deeply adores and looks forward to getting back there in March! We catch up with Shaun after a long break since Dunhill Champs at Leopard Creek as he explains the signs of fatigue that kicked in towards the end of the season coming from...
Published 01/29/24
In this latest episode of Chasing Pars Golf Podcast in association with Golf Tips Checker Craig is joined by Sunshine Your sensation & 2x winner Ryan van Velzen who phones in from on site of tomorrow’s Sunshine Tour event at Mediclinic Invitational where its a strong field with the likes of Jacques Kruyswijk, Oli Bekker, Danie van Tonder, Benjamin Follett-Smith amongst those playing on the Sunshine Tour this week. Ryan talks us through his journey to the Sunshine Tour via winning twice on...
Published 01/24/24
In the first tournament preview show of this year on Chasing Pars Golf Podcast in association with Golf Tips Checker Craig & Craig Edwards are back to preview this week’s events on the PGA Tour & DP World Tour with Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines tomorrow at time of recording where Craig had the 1-2 last year with Max Homa winning at 25/1 & Keegan Bradley finishing 2nd while Edwards also hd Max Homa win last year and has had likes of Jason Day win for him before. With a run...
Published 01/23/24
In this episode of the podcast which is sponsored by Golf Tips Checker Craig was joined by 2x Sunshine Tour winner & new 2024 DP World Tour card holder Pieter Moolman, a player with one of the saddest and devastating stories.
Pieter is from Ekerhulani in Gauteng just short of Johannesburg in South Africa, started playing Golf at 13 & would go be a member at Benoni Lake Golf Club. Pieter won 2009 South African Boys, competed at Duke of York Champions & was represented at every age...
Published 01/18/24
In another player exclusive interview for Golf Tops Checker Craig was joined by 2x Sunshine Tour winner & current Sunshine Tour OOM #4 from Cape Town Luca Filippi. In another fantastic episode we find out what Luca has been up to after a 2 week break with his partner in Thailand while Snorkelling and petting Elephants. We find out stuff about Luca through the quick fire round then later find out about his amateur successes and later Sunshine Tour successes in 2023.
Cape Town born Luca...
Published 01/17/24
In this episode sponsored by Golf Tips Checker I was joined by recently new DP World Tour card holder Sam Jones who discussed the crazy journey of a DP World Tour Qualifying School where Sam would qualify through First Stage on the dot in Bristol to finishing T4th at 2nd Stage in Spain to then finishing T6th at Final Stage at Infinitum Golf to secure a full DP World Tour card for 2024 only 2 weeks after turning Professional after the Asian & Pacific Amateur Champs at Royal Melbourne, a...
Published 01/16/24
In another player interview of Chasing Pars Golf Podcast sponsored by Golf Tips Checker Craig was joined by Scottish veteran & current Asian Tour professional David Drysdale who was phoning in from freezing cold Cockburnspath.
David has spent an overall 21 seasons on European Tour now DP World Tour & has amassed over 575 starts with 4 2nd’s/5 3rd’s & 29 Top 10’s overall with the most notable 2nd coming at Education City for 2020 Qatar Masters where David would miss a 15ft birdie...
Published 01/16/24
In another Chasing Pars player exclusive interview sponsored by Golf Tips Checker I was absolutely delighted to be joined by 1x LPGA Tour winner, 5x Ladies European Tour winner & 2023 Solheim Cup star Maja Stark who becomes my 25th Professional Player interview.
In this brilliant episode with Maja we find out about her background growing up in the village of Abbekås in Sweden growing up with an older brother they would play competitively in most things against each other. We find out...
Published 01/14/24
In this next episode of Chasing Pars Golf Podcast which is proudly sponsored by Golf Tips Checker I am absolutely delighted to say I was joined by one of the best players in the world in Women’s World Ranked Number 14, 1x LPGA Tour winner & 3x Solheim Cup participant for USA Megan Khang to discuss a brilliant career so far from the Amateur days being Low Amateur at 2012 US Open at the age of 14 years old to going 5-0 at 2015 Junior Solheim Cup to finishing T6th at LPGA Qualifying...
Published 01/11/24
In this latest episode of Chasing Pars Golf Podcast which is proudly sponsored by Golf Tips Checker I was joined by 2x Sunshine Tour champion & 4x DP World Tour runner up as I give you the remarkable story of Justin Walters. In a really deep, honest, meaningful at times tough not to feel emotional chat Justin goes at length about how career struggles affected him, the heavy loss of both parents with remarkable bravery to recover from such adversity to being a main stay on the DP World...
Published 01/10/24
In this next player episode of Chasing Pars Golf Podcast in association with Golf Tips Checker Craig was joined by 2023 Clutch Pro Tour/Mizuno Next Gen Order of Merit winner & now Challenge Tour card holder George Bloor who calls in a couple of days before he jets out to Dubai for 3 weeks in hot weather preparation for the start of the 2024 Challenge Tour season in South Africa.
A very hard working Golfer with Lazer focus that is always trying to get better & better George has...
Published 01/09/24
In this sponsored episode of Chasing Pars Golf Podcast in association with Golf Tips Checker, I am joined by Australian Tour professional Jay Mackenzie who joins from just outside of Melbourne in preparation for the 2nd half of the Australian Tour season. We have a lot of laughs about different things in this episode as Jay is a down to earth laid back character.
Jay is a 1x champion on the Australian Tour winning 2022 Western Australia PGA by 2 shots to his good friend & former podcast...
Published 01/09/24
In the 2nd episode of today Craig was joined by 3x PGA Tour title winner & 1x Korn Ferry Tour winner & long time PGA Tour pro Jim Herman who gives in his own words a brilliant analogy of his long 23 year pro career from the highs and the lows of a PGA Tour professional.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio Jim turned pro in 2000 is the winner of 2010 Moonah Classic on the Nationwide Tour (KFT) in Australia beating Chris Kirk in a playoff, the winner of 2016 Shell Houston Open defeating 2016...
Published 01/08/24
We are back for the start of the Player Interviews again on Chasing Pars Golf Podcast in association with Golf Tips Checker. In this episode Craig is joined by current Challenge Tour/Sunshine Tour pro and a 2x winner of the Cape Town Open Zimbabwean Ben Follett-Smith!
We start off finding out what Ben likes to do in his down time off from the Tour life which includes Pints & Coffee. We find out what life was like back in Harare, Zimbabwe growing up while Ben picked up Golf because of his...
Published 01/08/24
Hello and Happy New Year from a new look Chasing Pars Golf Podcast where Craig & new co-host Craig Edwards go over what type of players we are looking at for Kapalua Plantation Course for this week's The Sentry as well as go over the LIV events of 2023/Majors of 2023/Make some predictions for Majors in 2024 & name a few DP World Tour players we ate looking out for in 2024.
Craig Edwards is an experienced Golf Bettor/Tipster with a host of experience in Golf Betting Articles &...
Published 01/03/24
In this latest player journey episode of Chasing Pars Podcast where Craig was battling through the flu. Craig was joined by recent DP World Tour card holder Manuel Elvira who graduated from the Challenge Tour last season with 10 Top 10 finishes with 3 2nd place finishes including in last seasons sparkling run resulting in finishing 3rd overall on the Race to Mallorca standings gaining his DP Tour Card for 2024 season.
We look back at how Manuel got into the game, the challenges of having an...
Published 12/19/23
In tonight's episode Craig is joined by DP World Tour & Challenge Tour professional Martin Leth Simonsen calling in from holiday in Texas! Martin is a pro since 2015 playing from Aalborg in Denmark the same place as Lucas Bjerregaard & a graduate of the University of Texas El Paso playing in the same fields as the likes of Jon Rahm, Jordan Spieth & Bryson DeChambeau. We learn of how Bryson would just come out with the most random stuff! A 2x European Am Team member for Denmark in...
Published 12/06/23
In the 2nd episode of the week I am joined by Colin Ramsay the Author of the best selling Golf Book 'A Golfer's Bucket List of Scottish Golf Courses'. Colin tells us how he started playing the game back in 1971 & still going strong at 67 years young! Colin explains how the idea of the book came from a constant phrase said at all the different Clubhouses of that's another Golf Course ticked off the list. Craig tests Colin's knowledge on Regional parts of Scotland and asks for top 2/3...
Published 12/05/23
We are back doing tournament previews after a couple months away from doing it and Craig is joined for the first time by former Snooker pro & now Golf Writer & Tipster Craig Edwards @EdwardsTips on X. The 2 Craig's go at it about Burmester & Niemann winning in South Africa & Australia respectively while looking at how the LIV players are getting easy exemptions back onto the Tour that they walked away from. We discuss the massive talking point of World #3 Jon Rahm now...
Published 12/05/23
After a 2 month extended break due to a few issues & reasons Chasing Pars returns for your enjoyment as Craig is joined by DP World Tour caddy Alan Tulleth who is the current caddy for Englishman on the DPWT 2022 Challenge Tour Race to Mallorca Champion Nathan Kimsey. Craig & Alan have a laugh and joke about all things as we find out how he got the call from David Law to caddy on the Challenge Tour to getting the nod to become the caddy of Nathan Kimsey a month or 2 before the season...
Published 11/23/23
In this 2nd episode of today I am joined by the well renowned figure Ryan French also known as Monday Q Info. We talk about Ryan's journey into setting up Monday Q Info page and with it becoming an incredible amount of success covering stories of players that some people might have never heard of & explaining how hard the Monday Qualifying system actually is to get a chance at qualifying for a PGA Tour event. We learn about how players view Ryan's coverage of them & majority of them...
Published 09/19/23