Inside The Ropes

With less than a month to the Presidents Cup, we chat to the man who’s in charge of making Royal Melbourne sing as a golf course. Richard Forsyth is the man responsible for having the famous Composite Course in pristine shape when the world’s best come calling.We chat to rising Sydneysider Doey Choi about her recent successes and what the summer holds for one of our brightest young talents, plus co-hosts Andy Maher and Mark Hayes throw down the gauntlet to corporate Australia to get behind our female champions on the LPGA Tour with some fair dinkum Aussie financial support.

First up, we cap an incredible weekend in Asia that saw wins to Nelly Korda and Rory McIlroy and another near miss for our own Minjee Lee.Friend of the pod Bryden Macpherson is on the line from Georgia, discussing some changes in his own game and the dynamic Australian golf landscape.We're joined by Japan Tour sensation Brad Kennedy, as he heads back to the Land of the Rising Sun to tackle the business end of the season.Plus, there's rules dramas at LPGA Tour Q School and we await this week's Presidents Cup captain's picks announcement.Andy Maher and Mark Hayes are joined by Justin Falconer.

On a week when Tiger Woods took another step into golfing immortality, he also almost certainly stamped his playing papers for his visit to Royal Melbourne in December. (2:49)Co-hosts Andy Maher, Mark Hayes and Stacey Peters are joined by guest panellist Brett Coletta throughout the show, with the young Aussie giving another cracking insight into life on the road after a fantastic first full season on the Korn Ferry Tour. (27:03)We then catch up with the title-hungry Sue Wooster who continues to add to her trophy cabinet at a frenetic pace around the world, this time with her second consecutive Australian senior crown. (50:36)Plus all the regular updates and information of Aussies playing around the world. (59:11)

This week, we go over some of the bizarre rules dramas in Europe and America and Clayts' recent change of direction.Then, we welcome Aussie golf legend Graham Marsh to chat about his time in the game as both a leading golf architect and a player.Finally, Tasmanian icon Lindy Goggin jumps on the line with her granddaughter Hallie Meaburn about their recent triumph together in foursomes at Royal Hobart.Andy Maher resumes his seat in the host's chair with Martin Blake and Mike Clayton by his side.

We're back better than ever for Episode 124, starting off by covering all things PGA Tour, Lucas Herbert, Min Woo Lee & David McKenzie.Then, Presidents Cup Executive Director Matt Kamienski is in studio to look ahead to one of the best weeks of the year at Royal Melbourne. (16:10)And Karen Lunn joins the show to discuss how the ALPG is getting more women involved in the game in Australia. (35:20)Andy 'Kipchoge' Maher is joined by Martin 'Gazelle' Blake and Matt 'Moneghetti' Cutler!

We met Jack Trent last week, but little did we realise the Queenslander amateur would make a PGA Tour debut splash sufficient for such a quick return visit. (09:20)Co-hosts Mark Hayes and Alison Whitaker chat to our bright new prospect, then we bring in Christian Hamilton, the mastermind of the Australian All Abilities Championship which returns this year with another huge leap forward, a first female player. Said player, Daphne Van Houten, joins us online from the Netherlands to chat about her historical moment. (27:30)Later, we discuss the elephant in the room – was Hannah Green robbed without a “Don” nomination? (56:30)

There’s nothing more important in Australian golf than the health of clubland, so we’re rapt to welcome back Chyloe Kurdas fresh from her roadshow to all states and territories promoting equality and our Vision 2025.We also welcome back the revelation that is Maverick Antcliff to discuss his epic three-win season on the China Tour.And then there’s ITR newcomer Jack Trent, another Queenslander in college in Nevada who’s earnt a PGA Tour start this week in Las Vegas where he’ll tune up with a legendary Aussie who rocked his world with a surprise phone call last week.All this plus the latest news and views from around the world as co-hosts Andy Maher, Mark Hayes and Martin Blake play Ernie Els and make their captain’s picks for the Presidents Cup International team.

We welcome to the studio a very special co-host this week in Lukas Michel, the new US Mid-Am champion who’s en route to the Masters and US Open next year. His story is a cracker, not to mention some next-level tomfoolery at St Andrews.In one of the most eclectic shows we’ve ever had, regular co-hosts Andy Maher, Mark Hayes and Mike Clayton also hear from two of our Asia-Pacific Amateur hopes - David Micheluzzi and Blake Windred - from China, Bryson DeChambeau’s preparations for the Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne and Rory McIlroy’s wild plan to put the Australian Open on a global stage again.We pay tribute to Kate Nolan and in a special interview, we welcome newly crowned Australian Blind Open champion Glen “Juicy” Niciejewski to the show to celebrate his first national title.All that and more on a jam-packed episode #121.

It’s nearly the Aussie golf season and we take great pride in announcing two more star additions to the#AusOpenGolf line-up in Sydney this December...Hosts Andy Maher, Mark Hayes and Stacey Peters chat with Alison Whitaker from Scotland to relive the epic Solheim Cup. (11:20)We finally track down Ewan Porter to chat about his golf career before and after the microphone! (25:30)We also catch up with Elvis Smylie after he and Tyler Duncan returned from Florida to live out their Cameron Smith Scholarship prize. (52:10)

To kick things off this week we run the “pub test” over the latest Matt Kuchar drama, with rules guru Simon Magdulski offering a far more balanced opinion than our hosts Andy Maher, Mark Hayes and Mike Clayton.There’s nothing we like more than guests who speak openly about dramatic moments in their golfing lives. So we couldn’t be happier than to have had a great chat with Sydney’s Jamie Arnold, who enjoyed the best season of his career despite agonisingly missing out on his PGA Tour card.We then chat with a genuine legend of Australian golf – Brian Twite, the legendary club pro at Metropolitan who, at 93, joins us in studio to chat all things from how he came to leave England for Melbourne sight unseen, his experience at Royal Portrush in the 1951 Open Championship … and his dislike for golf carts.All that and the complete rundown of Aussies in action around the world.

You want the stars of world of golf? Well you've come to the right place!We kick things off by celebrating Cam Davis's brilliant finish to the 2019 season and his imminent return to the PGA Tour (01:00). Then, Friend of the show Christina Lance from the LPGA grabbed our very own Hannah Green just moments after the 22-year-old won her second title of the year at the Cambia Portland Classic. (08:30)Ep 118 is a Solheim Cup special as we're joined by Team Europe's Azahara Munoz (26:30) and American duo Lizette Salas and Angel Yin. (36:00)Aussie legend Bec Artis jumps on the phone to break some news (48:30) and we hear from Queensland's Cam Smith ahead of his announcement that he'll be back for a full card of events over the summer of golf!Last week went off without a hitch, so we've recalled the trusty trio of Andy Maher, Mark Hayes and Ali Whitaker.

Co-hosts Andy Maher, Mark Hayes and Ali Whitaker chat with regular guest Christina Lance from the LPGA Tour about a couple of Solheim Cup shocks (18:15).Then, we celebrate the against-the-odds return to the PGA Tour of ever-likeable Aussie, Cam Percy (29:00). But at the opposite end of the megabucks spectrum, we discuss the merit – or otherwise – of the uber-lucrative Tour Championship.Plus, hear from first-time Australian PGA Tour winner Brett Rankin about what that means in his life (51:00). All that and a wrap of the Aussies around the world, from Hira Naveed to China Tour machine, Maverick Antcliff

As Presidents Cup teams and selections become the talk of the town, we listen to Tiger Woods discuss the big issue – will he or won’t he play in Melbourne?Hosts Andy Maher, Mark Hayes and Martin Blake dissect Adam Scott’s take on the distance debate, then chat with Curtis Luck from Idaho where he he’s hoping to add to the one toe back he already has back in the PGA Tour.And while we’re on the drama of secondary tour heroics and dramas, we relive a nightmare finish for another Aussie, Jamie Arnold, who dropped his own golden PGA ticket cold in the closing holes on Sunday.Throw in the new Golf Australia chairman, Asian Tour winner Andrew Dodt, Karl Vilips, Karis Davidson and more, and it’s another action-packed episode.

Gabi Ruffels’ spectacular US Women’s Amateur triumph catches the eye of co-hosts Andy Maher, Mark Hayes and Jo Charlton, but they also confront the explosive developments that the slow-play saga took around Bryson DeChambeau’s (in)actions.Dual major champ and Presidents Cup vice-captain Zach Johnson refuses to take Hayesy’s bait around spilling Tiger’s secrets, but does buy into the pace of play issue.Oh, and play along with Andy as he confronts an impromptu pictorial quiz (see our Twitter account to play along at home!).

Without full status as the year began, Sydney’s Matt Jones has made a great fist of the 2019 PGA Tour season and has secured his card for next year. We catch up with the former Aussie Open champ in New York on the eve of the FedEx Cup playoffs. This signifies the start of the end on several tours, so we assess what happens now for the likes of Curtis Luck, Cam Davis, Brett Coletta and others in coming weeks.And our own Joey Charlton has tracked down Charlie Robbins, Australia's newest Ninja Warrior!Hosts Andy Maher, Mark Hayes and Matt Cutler also marvel at the extraordinary story of Women’s British Open champ Hinako Shibuno who stunned the world in wrapping up the LPGA Tour’s major season with a breathtaking win.Throw in the usual banter, our wrap of Aussies around the world and a nod to the Jarrod Lyle book launch, and episode No.114 is at breaking capacity!

In an eclectic episode #113, we revel in the feats of Australia’s “Golfing Ninja”, Charlie Robbins and the fiasco around Lexi Thompson’s passport between European majors. Co-hosts Andy Maher, Mark Hayes and Jo Charlton marvel at Brooks Koepka’s training regime, before regular guest and lateral thinker Bryden Macpherson goes one step further and questions exactly how many “hard-working” lies have been told by the game’s elite through history. We also touch base with Porter Cup winner Aiden Didone, and acknowledge separate amazing feats by Aussies Dave McKenzie and Geoff Nicholas at the Senior British Open.

There have been many moving moments around the late Jarrod Lyle on ITR and today we add to that list with a great and frank chat with his wife, Briony Lyle. As the launch of Jarrod’s book nears, host Andy Maher turns the mic on co-hosts and joint authors of that book, Mark Hayes and Martin Blake, who along with Briony share some funny and emotional insights into the book’s inner workings.We also turn the spotlight on the Open Championship, the enormous success that it was for not only Shane Lowry, but Northern Ireland and Ireland more broadly; this also includes a particularly critical assessment of JB Holmes’ slow play.There’s also a string of great results in the United States, not least of which was the epic finale of the time-honoured North & South Amateur at Pinehurst fought out between Melbourne’s Gabi Ruffels and Sydney’s Doey Choi.

On episode #111, it’s Open Championship week, and we look at all the Australian chances as the fabled, old tournament goes back to Northern Ireland for the first time since 1951.Our own man on the spot Justin Falconer has exclusive interviews for ITR with Queenslanders Cameron Smith, who expresses his love for Royal Portrush, and with Jake McLeod, the 24-year-old having his first Open Championship start.Meanwhile Blakey talks us through the ins and outs of ‘Open Championship’ versus ‘British Open’ and admits he finds the proper name a little pretentious.We also talk to Sport Australia’s Andrew Larratt about funding of golf and the way forward for the game from the Federal Government’s perspective.

On episode #110, we finally track down Won Joon Lee and chat to one of the great mystery men in Australian golf after his epic win in the Korean PGA Championship. We also touch base with Matt Cutler fresh from the high performance camp in Texas where Minjee Lee made her first appearance in a spanking new Porsche! We touch base with all the Aussie results, the meteoric rise of Matthew Wolff, our love of Irish and Scottish links and the important pay rise for competitors in the Women’s British Open.

On Episode 109 the legends of Australian golf keep coming, with 9-time PGA Tour winner Stuart Appleby in studio!The Victorian joins Andy Maher, Ali Whitaker and Mark Hayes as we recap Nate Lashley's incredible PGA Tour win at the weekend, wins from Aussies Won Joon Lee and Maverick Antcliff at the weekend and where his own game sits as he takes aim at the Champions Tour. (0:02:00)We also look back at Stuart's incredible career at home and abroad and cast our eyes ahead to this year's Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne where he's taking on a fascinating role.And as if that's not enough, young gun Cassie Porter joins the show from the Queensland Boys' & Girls' Amateur! (1:00:20)