Golf Is Ruining My Life

The day has finally come. We've whittled nine Email Corner winners down to just TWO finalists who'll battle it out live on the podcast for the last place on the plane to Egypt with our friends at Golf Breaks. 🐪

The format? We open our own recent scorecards, find our worst hole on the front nine, and whoever's name sits at that number gets eliminated. Genuinely one man's double bogey at Porters Park ended someone's chances of a free golf trip. We're calling it genius. ITV, our line is open. 📞

EGYPT TRIP (15th -19th Nov we'll be there) 🐪⛳ - https://www.golfbreaks.com/en-gb/holidays/cairo/hilton-pyramids-golf-resort/packages/7dc84fcf-8016-4e82-8207-cb000d42ddf0/

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WE'RE BACK with a new episode of the Talk Birdie To Me Series and this week we're joined by Busted's Matt Willis, who might be the most golf-obsessed guest we've ever had on. 30 minutes of chat about going from zero to completely hooked in three years, why he burned through ten lessons in three weeks, and the day he broke 90 and called it one of the happiest moments of his life. 🏌️

We also find out how he sat down with his tour manager seven months in advance and secretly routed an entire Busted tour around golf hotels (the band thought they'd just lucked into spa breaks 😅), how golf fits into his sobriety, and why teeing off in front of one bloke with a camera was more terrifying than playing the O2 the night before.

Plus the raffle addiction that's quietly getting out of hand, his grip overhaul ahead of Wentworth, and his DREAM four ball. 👀

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TP has become That Guy. He's ditched tees entirely, chucks the ball straight down on the deck and hits three wood off it, and reckons it's the coolest thing in golf (very John Daly coded, apparently). We get into why compressing a three wood feels so much better than releasing a driver, and whether he's onto something or just going through the cycle every golfer goes through.

We also put the Shot Scope LM1 through its first proper session (still not sponsored, still raving about it 🤷), and it sparks a proper generational divide: does anyone remember pacing out yardages from the 150 marker before GPS existed? TG flatly refuses to believe it ever happened. Settle it for us in the comments. 👀

Next Thursday we start picking the winners for Egypt with a live head-to-head on the show. Don't forget your alignment sticks. 🐪⛳

And the l⁠⁠imited edition GREY hoodies ⁠⁠

EGYPT TRIP (15th -19th Nov we'll be there) 🐪⛳ - https://www.golfbreaks.com/en-gb/holidays/cairo/hilton-pyramids-golf-resort/packages/7dc84fcf-8016-4e82-8207-cb000d42ddf0/

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Alright Par Pals

TP has been booked in for a 6:46am tee time at and it's sparked a proper debate: when is an early tee time actually TOO early?

We've also got the new Ping iDi driving irons on their way to us, and TG explains exactly why he needs one. He shot an 83 while topping it off the tee six times, so if he can just find a club he trusts off the tee, he reckons there's a 77 in there.

Plus: TP has seen Tom Cruise land a helicopter at Richmond Golf Club (a brand new anecdote, somehow never told before 🚁), why driving through a golf course to reach the clubhouse is one of life's great pleasures, and the Belfry trip where he's going all that way and NOT playing the Brabazon. 😩

And in the penultimate Toast or Roast with our friends at England Golf⁠⁠⁠⁠, Ashley finally breaks 100 but only by getting away from his home course entirely.

And the l⁠imited edition GREY hoodies ⁠are on the website now. 🧥

EGYPT TRIP (15th -19th Nov we'll be there) 🐪⛳ - https://www.golfbreaks.com/en-gb/holidays/cairo/hilton-pyramids-golf-resort/packages/7dc84fcf-8016-4e82-8207-cb000d42ddf0/

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Alright Par Pals 👋

Jon Rahm is heading back to the PGA Tour, and we get into what it actually means: the reported fine, the Ryder Cup implications, whether Tyrrell Hatton follows him, and what's left of LIV if the purses can't stay where they were. Plus the question still hanging over all of it, what on earth does Bryson do now? 👀

Elsewhere, Tom Green is finally back online (proper internet, no more Aggie poses 🙏) and TP took three golf clubs to the south of France, played zero golf in 38 degree heat, and brought them all home again. Painful.

In the email corner, James hits the greatest drive of his life in front of an admiring gallery and the ball simply vanishes off a bone dry fairway 😩, Lee's shot at a club majors hat-trick comes down to four cruel shots, and an 80-year-old man in Pembrokeshire pulls a 50-year-old photograph out of his wallet that stops everyone in their tracks. ⛳

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EGYPT TRIP (15th -19th Nov we'll be there) 🐪⛳ - https://www.golfbreaks.com/en-gb/holidays/cairo/hilton-pyramids-golf-resort/packages/7dc84fcf-8016-4e82-8207-cb000d42ddf0/

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