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783 - LPGA 2024 Season Preview Jan 18, 2024

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As the LPGA season kicks off Thursday at Lake Nona we fire up the first of many LPGA focused podcasts in the new year.

Ahead of the Tournament of Champions, our crew of Randy, Tron, Cody and Jordan go 24 for (20)24 with two dozen questions to be answered over the course of the upcoming season, including:

Our favorite venues and events on the 2024 schedule including a breakdown of the courses that will host the Women's PGA, US Open and Open Championships
The season outlook for Lilia Vu, Nelly Korda, Linn Grant, Lexi Thompson, and several other big names on the LPGA Tour
Our predictions for movement in and out of the Rolex Top 10, potential first-time winners in 2024, Player and Rookie of the year awards.
Early thoughts on the 2024 Solheim Cup
A look at the ANWA and NCAAs
Off-course rumblings around the rumored LPGA-LET merger.

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782 - Brian Harman Jan 17, 2024

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The Champion Golfer of the Year, Brian Harman joins the pod to talk through his win at Royal Liverpool, how his life and playing schedule look after winning a major championship, his experience in Rome as a Ryder Cup rookie and a ton more.

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781 - Sony & Dubai Recap with KVV and Shane Bacon Jan 15, 2024

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With the boys off filming the latest season of Tourist Sauce, KVV steps into the captain's chair along with our pal Shane Bacon for this week's recap episode.

After a special cameo in our show open, we start with the Sony where Grayson Murray wins in a playoff over Keegan Bradley and Ben An. We talk through Murray's play in Hawaii and his personal struggles in recent years, plus Carl Yuan's....... interesting...... TIO ruling on 18 (32:40) and Gary Woodland's emotional return to the tour after brain surgery in September (47:00).

Then it's on to Dubai (50:30) for Tommy Fleetwood's dramatic birdie-birdie finish to beat Rory McIlroy by a shot. We prognosticate on the rest of 2024 for both Tommy and Rory and then look at the off-course news of both Martin Slumbers and Keith Pelley stepping away from their respective roles at the R&A and the DP World Tour.

We wrap with some thoughts on the end of Tiger's Nike contract (1:21:00) and the numerous legends across other sports - players and coaches - who have recently retired or are reaching the end of their competitive careers.

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780 - Beau Welling Jan 10, 2024

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Golf course architect Beau Welling joins the pod to talk through his design career which began under Tom Fazio and how his business made it through the financial crisis of the late 2000s. Plus, we detail his views on the current golf boom and how much of a role the pandemic played in the rise in golf participation. We also cover his work at the new Omni Frisco PGA Resort, working with Tiger Woods on some of his design projects, designing short courses, his thoughts as an architect on the distance debate and a ton more.

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779 - Sentry Recap Jan 08, 2024

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Chris Kirk kicks off the 2024 PGA Tour season by winning the Sentry at 29 under par after a bogey-free 65 on Sunday. We look at Kirk's week at Kapalua with a clip from his prior appearance on the pod - NLU Episode 326 - detailing his struggles with anxiety and alcoholism (8:10).

We also cover the close calls for Sahith and Spieth (21:00), what to make of Scheffler's week (30:00), Kisner's broadcasting debut (40:30), Rahm lurking on Maui (49:30) and Jason Day's new look (53:00).

In the final half hour, we look at the off-course news including the Rory interview from this week and various reactions to his comments, the curious schedule for the PGA Tour's rookie orientation, some early dubs for us in 2024, and more.

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778 - Sentry Happy Hour Preview Jan 03, 2024

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We're back with new shows in the new year, kicking off our first "Happy Hour" presented by High Noon as we debrief on a Twitter spat with Brandel, hand out some more superlatives from 2023, revisit our 2023 predictions, make our predictions for 2024, catch up on Rory's interview, and of course, try to remember who won PGA Tour events in 2023.

Thanks to everyone who tuned in live. You can view the show in its entirety on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/RVqz2wfsd4k?si=BCYTq9e-9toCsWTX

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777 - 10 Year Oral History Dec 26, 2023

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We are ten years into No Laying Up, a text thread among college friends that's turned into more than any of us could have imagined. Come along for a three hour conversation about the origins of that initial text thread, the website (21:30), the first podcast (35:00), Justin Thomas marking the first podcast appearance from a tour pro (55:30), the first detonation of golf television coverage (1:09:00), our Rory-DT news scoop (1:23:00), the first Tourist Sauce (1:50:30) and Strapped seasons (2:14:00), and a ton more.

A more extensive list of some of our favorite web posts, tweets, and other moments from the last decade will be available soon on the No Laying Up website.

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776 - 2023 Holiday Medley Dec 23, 2023

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Our annual holiday tradition returns with a medley of clips from our 2023 podcasts. Thanks for supporting what we do at No Laying Up, and we hope you enjoy reliving some of our favorite moments from the past year. Guests featured on this episode include:

Jon Rahm, Lee Trevino, Scottie Scheffler, Jordan Spieth, Max Homa, Will Zalatoris, Steph Curry, Lilia Vu, Padraig Harrington, Hunter Mahan and more.

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775 - PNC Recap Dec 18, 2023

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Tiger and Charlie Woods once again starred at the PNC while Bernhard Langer and his son Jason took the top spot in Orlando. We start this weekend's recap pod elsewhere with a recent ESPN report about the potential imminent private equity investment into the PGA Tour from a combination of US-based investors and the Saudi PIF. We also look back at some critical decisions from the tour over the last 3-4 years and play some revisionist history (17:00).

We also get into Rahm's public silence since his LIV move (52:00), the mule uprising (55:30), Finau staying put (1:02:45) and potential talent changes at NBC (1:04:45).

Then it's time for the on-course update portion of the pod (1:07:00) with the PNC, Q-School and then we close with a 2023 Superlatives game (1:13:15). Awards handed out include: Shot of the year, mule of the year, best major championship hole of the year and more.

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774 - 2023 LPGA Season Review Part Two Dec 14, 2023

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Randy, TC, Cody and Jordan are back with part 2 of our LPGA 2023 recap. In this episode we discuss the past twelve months on an individual basis for some of the biggest names in the women's game including Nelly Korda, Linn Grant, Rose Zhang, Leona Maguire and more.

(Editor's note: you'll find a thorough discussion on Lilia Vu's year in part 1 of our LPGA review podcast).

From there we delve into the off-course news (51:40) of potential Saudi PIF investment into the women's game and take stock of year two for LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan.

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