Golf Channel Podcast with Rex & Lav

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**Golf Channel Podcast with Rex & Lav**

GolfChannel.com senior writers Rex Hoggard and Ryan Lavner discuss and debate the latest news from around the golf world.

Latest Episodes:

Does the fight for Tour survival make for compelling TV? Jul 06, 2025

Show notes

0:00: How is Brian Campbell now a multiple winner this season?!

08:00: Bubble Watch officially kicked into high gear at the Deere. Was it good TV?

14:00: Out of nowhere, Max Homa shows signs of life

20:00: Sky Sports' Jamie Weir joins the show!

45:30: Gary Woodland is a Ryder Cup vice captain

48:00: Tour tweaking the FedExCup bonus structure

49:30: Listener questions: Keegan Bradley the right captain pick, and what are the best pies?!

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Open qualifying makes us wonder: Do we need Golf's Longest Day 2.0?! Jul 02, 2025

Show notes

0:00: Looking at the top storylines from Open final qualifying

05:30: 'Monsoon of credit' for 52-year-old Lee Westwood getting through

10:00: Coming in 2026: A one-round, on-site qualifier for The Open?!

14:00: The transformation of the John Deere field, and why it's the new norm

21:00: Rex is off to Scotland early, and we need your listener questions!

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The game's biggest hitter (and potential star?) takes the next step in Detroit Jun 30, 2025

Show notes

0:00: Aldrich Potgieter -- at just 20 years old! -- now is a PGA Tour winner

07:00: The most exciting part about Potgieter: There's still room for improvement

12:00: The Tour's sleepy summer schedule

18:00: Colorblind Lav is having a hard time with this new predictive miss/hit fairway tracer

23:30: Arron Oberholser joins the show!

39:00: New Tour CEO Brian Rolapp is making the rounds on Tour

42:30: Patrick Reed wins LIV Golf Dallas; Sergio Garcia locks up an Open berth

46:00: Listener questions: Young hotshots, media angst, Collin Morikawa

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Keegan Bradley, for now, wants to be 'just the captain.' But should he? Jun 25, 2025

Show notes

0:00: The guys have been all over your TV screens for the last few days

01:30: Keegan Bradley says, as of now, he wants to "just be the captain"

12:30: Lots of drama for Collin Morikawa: another caddie change, in addition to a media dustup

22:00: LIV heads to Dallas for the first of two Open warmup events

26:00: Got questions for Sunday's show? Hit us up!

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The U.S. Ryder Cup captain just won a big event. Now what? Jun 23, 2025

Show notes

0:00: How Keegan Bradley authored one of the finishes of the year at the Travelers

04:00: Why Bradley's Ryder Cup captaincy just got even more complicated

12:00: How the American Ryder Cup team looks, right now

17:30: What went wrong for Tommy Fleetwood on Sunday

27:00: Amy Rogers joins from the Women's PGA, where there was player gumbling about course setup

38:00: Were the 2025 signature events a success?

46:00: Both Jordan Spieth and Viktor Hovland exit with injuries

48:00: Wyndham Clark's non-apology apology after Oakmont

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The PGA Tour has a new leader. Here's what you should know Jun 18, 2025

Show notes

0:00: Rex was on the ground for the Tour's unveiling of its new CEO, Brian Rolapp

05:00: How Rolapp's past at the NFL could inform the future of the Tour

11:00: What Tour players are saying about their new boss

17:30: The biggest challenges for Rolapp in the next few years

23:00: Jay Monahan will hand over day-to-day operations soon, and he's out entirely by late 2026

27:30: Two solutions to the Tour's signature-event model

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Chaos! Carnage! Controversy! And the clutch shots to win the 2025 U.S. Open Jun 16, 2025

Show notes

0:00: What the heck did we just witness at Oakmont?

05:00: How J.J. Spaun rallied to win the U.S. Open

14:00: What we're writing for GolfChannel.com after the final round

18:30: Which players will be stinging the most after their Sunday performances?

28:00: Love It or Lav It: Oakmont as a Open venue, Rory's media explanation, Adam Scott's Hall of Fame candidacy

46:00: Final thoughts from the 2025 U.S. Open

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U.S. Open Saturday: Who will prevail on the final day at Oakmont? Jun 15, 2025

Show notes

0:00: Biggest takeaways from a better scoring day at Oakmont

03:30: How Sam Burns has kept himself in the lead at the U.S. Open

08:30: On the brink of the Hall of Fame, Adam Scott plays his way into the final group

14:00: The different paths to this point for J.J. Spaun and Viktor Hovland

19:00: Rory McIlroy (finally) meets the media

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U.S. Open Friday: Forget the trends – heading into the weekend, it's wide open Jun 14, 2025

Show notes

0:00: History tells us you better be in the top 5, so who do we trust?

04:00: Insight into Sam Burns and Viktor Hovland as we head into the weekend

07:30: For those just on the outside, a few big names have our attention

11:30: A bunch of big names (here's looking at you, Bryson) are headed home early

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U.S. Open Thursday: Midway through a lost year, big-game Brooks Koepka reemerges Jun 12, 2025

Show notes

0:00: Rex issues a mea culpa -- sort of!

02:30: Where was all of the carnage at Oakmonster?

05:30: Brooks Koepka wakes up just in time for golf's toughest test

10:00: Scottie Scheffler makes 6 (!!!) bogeys in Round 1

13:00: Bryson DeChambeau, Rory McIlroy left disappointed by their starts

15:30: PGA Tour Enterprises has a new CEO. What does it mean?

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