For The Love Of Golf

Dan Walker has a confession to make… and it involves a rather unfortunate incident on the golf course! ⛳️

This week on For the Love of Golf, Dan tells Iona Stephen about the moment he accidentally hit another golfer with a golf ball.

What happened? How did everyone react? And what should you do when things go wrong on the course?

It's certainly one way to start the show!

With Iona joining from Dubai ahead of the DP World Tour Championship, there's also plenty of professional golf to discuss.

Jon Rahm has made history with a record sixth Rolex Series victory in Abu Dhabi, while Iona looks ahead to the Race to Dubai finale.

The pair also discuss the arrival of WTGL and what the new competition could mean for women's professional golf – including a rather unexpected conversation about Linn Grant's boots!

And that leads to one of the biggest questions facing the sport: how do we encourage more women and girls to play golf?

Inspired by a lovely listener story, Dan and Iona explore the importance of female role models, changing attitudes at golf clubs and what needs to happen to make the game more accessible and welcoming.

There's also plenty of reaction from the Golf Club, including messages from Sweden, and two new Golf Dogs to meet – Archie and Winnie! 🐶

Have you ever had a golfing disaster like Dan's? We'd love to hear your stories in the comments.

And keep sending us your questions, opinions and Golf Dogs. Remember, this is your Golf Club too!

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Are you making life harder for yourself on Par 5s? ⛳️

Dan Walker and Iona Stephen are back from their holidays and normal For the Love of Golf service has resumed!

After a proper catch-up on their travels and golfing adventures, it’s time to get into the big stories from the world of golf – and tackle a question from one of our listeners that might just help you save a few shots.

First up, the Race to Dubai is entering the home straight. With the DP World Tour Play-Offs beginning in Abu Dhabi, Iona looks ahead to two huge weeks of golf, with Rory McIlroy, Patrick Reed, Jon Rahm, Tommy Fleetwood and more battling for the season’s biggest prizes.

Dan and Iona also turn their attention to winter golf. With the colder months upon us, they discuss how to keep your game going through the winter, what goals golfers should be setting themselves and how to make the most of the off-season. We’d love to hear what you’re working towards this winter!

There’s also time for a chat about the Internet Invitational and the growing world of online golf content.

Then it’s over to the Golf Club, where listener Lee has a problem. Despite playing the rest of his round brilliantly, he dropped TEN shots on the Par 5s alone!

So, are amateur golfers approaching Par 5s all wrong?

Dan and Iona discuss course management, when to attack, when to lay up and why thinking of a Par 5 as a three-shot hole might be the key to better scores. Iona shares her advice for golfers trying to break 90, with a simple game plan you can take onto the course.

There’s also plenty of reaction to the podcast while Dan and Iona have been away, including a suggestion that the Golf Club should become a book club too!

And, of course, Golf Dogs returns!

This week we meet Scrumpy, Murphy, Merlin and the lovely Lexi & Ruby.

What are your winter golf goals? Are you working on your swing, trying to lower your handicap or simply hoping to keep playing through the colder months? Let us know in the comments!

And keep sending us your golf questions, stories, book recommendations and Golf Dogs. Remember, this is your golf club too!

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Should the Ryder Cup become a THREE-team competition? And what would Iona Stephen and Dan Walker happily banish from golf forever?



Dan and Iona are currently enjoying a well-earned break, so this week we’re bringing you the second of our pre-recorded Listener Q&A specials. They’ll both be back from their holidays next week when normal For the Love of Golf service resumes!



In Part 2, your questions get Dan and Iona debating some of the bigger – and slightly more dangerous – ideas in golf.



First up: could a three-way Ryder Cup between Europe, USA and an International Team actually work? Would it create an incredible new competition – or completely ruin what makes the Ryder Cup so special?



Then it’s mixed golf. Iona and Dan discuss what a genuinely compelling competition featuring the world’s best male and female golfers could look like, the formats that might work and who they’d choose as their dream mixed pairings.



There’s also an impossible choice: if you could play just ONE golf course for the rest of your life, where would it be?



And finally… welcome to Golf Room 101.



Dan and Iona are each allowed to nominate three things from the world of golf they would happily never see, hear or experience again – but they have to convince the other person that each deserves to go in the bin.



This is your golf club, so keep the questions, stories, Golf Dogs and debate topics coming. And after this episode, we definitely want to hear YOUR nominations for Golf Room 101 in the comments.



If you missed Listener Q&A Part 1, you can catch up on the channel now.



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How do you actually get better at golf? In Part 1 of our Listener Q&A special, you asked the questions and Iona Stephen and Dan Walker are here to answer them.



From cutting your handicap and curing the dreaded chipping yips to 411-yard drives and interviewing the biggest names in golf, this episode is all about YOUR questions.



Iona breaks down where a 15-handicap golfer can realistically find the shots to get down to 10, what a 6-handicapper should focus on to reach the low single figures.



Dan and Iona also go back to where their own love of golf began, revealing who first introduced them to the game and some of their earliest golfing memories.



Then it’s behind the mic to talk about what it’s really like interviewing the biggest names in golf and sport: the nerves, the difficult questions, the people who surprised them and the interviews they’re proudest of.



Plus: how many golf clubs are Dan and Iona actually members of? What did they shoot at the BMW Pro-Am? And, most importantly, does a 411-yard drive off an elevated tee and downwind really count?!



This is your golf club, so keep your questions coming in the comments and across our social channels.



And look out for Part 2, where we get into some of the biggest debates in golf, and send Dan and Iona into Golf Room 101.



For the Love of Golf is the golf podcast with Iona Stephen and Dan Walker, celebrating everything we love about the game.



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Champion Golfer of the Year Ryan Fox joins Iona Stephen and Dan Walker for a very special episode of For the Love of Golf – and he’s brought the Claret Jug with him.



Recorded last week, Ryan sat down with Dan and Iona for a wide-ranging conversation about life as The Open champion.



Ryan takes us inside his unforgettable victory at Royal Birkdale, where he claimed his first Major Championship and lifted one of the most famous trophies in sport.



He breaks down how he attacked the golf course, the mindset that allowed him to perform under the biggest pressure of his career and, in incredible detail, the closing stages of his final round – including the birdie at the 18th that won him The Open and the moment he realised: “Oh s***, this putt is to win The Open.”



Ryan also opens up about life as Champion Golfer of the Year: the messages from some of the biggest names in golf and sport like Jack Nicklaus and Kelly Slater, the reception back home in New Zealand and what it meant to make his dad, former All Black Grant Fox, proud.



The conversation goes deeper into the mentality behind winning too. Ryan reflects on lessons learned throughout his career – including from the late Shane Warne during their time playing together at the Alfred Dunhill Links – and how he can use the experience of winning the Claret Jug to contend for more Major Championships.



Plus, there are tales of travelling with the Claret Jug, his ambitions for the rest of the season, a potential run at the Race to Dubai and what winning The Open means for the next chapter of his career.



And sometimes it’s simply three people who love golf having a brilliant chat with one of the game’s good guys – with the Claret Jug sitting alongside them.



What would you ask the Champion Golfer of the Year? Let us know in the comments.



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