Talk Birdie To Me
Tour Pro's Nick O'Hern and Mark Allen talk everything golf every week on the most popular Golf podcast in Australia, Talk Birdie To Me. The latest news, issues, and stories from Australia, Asia, the USA, Europe and from the PGA, LIV, DPWT, and everything in between. As two guys who played at the highest level internationally, they tell it like it is, and take you behind the scenes to get an inside look into the world of golf, and we chat to listeners about what they're seeing, thinking about golf and about their own game. Nick O’Hern reached #16 in the world rankings and is the only player ever to beat Tiger Woods twice in matchplay. Mark Allen is a former Touring Pro of 15 years - played a British Open at Carnoustie, and in his career has hit 12 hole in one's.....you can see the video of one of them here! Together, this is their podcast - Talk Birdie To Me - coming to you live each week from Titleist and FootJoy Headquarters. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. A huge thanks to our Talk Birdie To Me partners: Titleist - the #1 ball in golf; FootJoy - the #1 shoe and ball in golf; PING, they'll help you play your best, you can see your local golf shop or professional for a PING club fitting; The Golf Clearance Outlet, great prices on the best gear. See them instore in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide or the Sunshine Coast, or online here. And Betr, the fastest and easiest betting app in Australia. Now that's Betr. And the watchMynumbers app, and Southern Golf Club. Follow Talk Birdie To Me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or TikTok. And see us on YouTube here. Executive Producer: Kaizen Media. Sound Design: Loud Zebra. For enquiries click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
The most common question that comes in for Nick O'Hern and Mark Allen at Talk Birdie To Me is along the lines of 'what should I practise', 'how should I structure my practise', 'what tips can you give me to ensure my practise is effective in converting to results on the course'.
So this week when we received this email from Wolfpacker Matt, we thought we'd do a short bonus pod discussing it. Here's Matt's question:
"Hi Nick a...
Welcome to another feedback pod, these are the episode where you control the topics and we read out your questions and feedback (good and bad)!
We start with a chat about Mark's comments last week that the Rory shot on 5 was the greatest shot ever made. Some wolfpackers have a different view - we won't read them out today, but we'll wait until Nick is back in the studio next week (he's in Cathedral for the school holidays) and w...
Today, Mark is in studio at Titleist and FootJoy HQ, Nick is at Cathedral in Central Victoria. We start the show with Nick mentioning that his wife Alana has just had her best round ever. He is very proud!
We talk about the RBC Heritage Tournament on Hilton Head. Nick says that Harbourtown, which he played many times, was his favourite course on the PGA Tour and explains why. He also says that it has one of the worst driving ran...
We're getting plenty of feedback and questions coming in, sometimes we take a bit of time to get to them, but we're trying to work through them all as we can. Today on the pod we start by talking about a photo Nick shared on his instagram page - see it here - it's a great pic of Nick's caddy Wilbur at Augusta waiting for Nick.
Speaking of caddies, Mark was lined up this week by one of his former caddies who felt Mark was being a...
Today's podcast is all about The Masters and the extraordinary tournament we watched. And of course, we start with Rory who was clearly already an incredible player, but is now a legend.
Mark describes what we saw as 'breathtaking drama', and Nick and Mark just sit and chat about the tournament. We have no runsheet or plan for todays show, aside from to debrief on The Masters and talk about what we all saw in one of the great to...
Nick O'Hern and Mark Allen have worn FootJoy their entire career, and given we do the pod from FootJoy and Titleist HQ we thought we'd grab the FootJoy Product Manager for Australia & New Zealand, Chris Patterson, to have a chinwag about golf shoes generally, trends, and some of what they've got coming.
We discussed exactly what Chris does at FootJoy, and what he looks for when decided what to range for these markets. Chris ...
Wolfpacker and Tour Pro Scott Laycock left a voicemail after hearing the podcast this week with a great story about Craig Parry. Keep them coming, we always love to receive your voicemails! You can leave one at the link below.
We do the show from Titleist and FootJoy HQ, thanks to our great partners:
- Titleist, the #1 ball in golf;
- FootJoy, the #1 shoe and glove in golf;
- PING will help you play your best. See your local golf...
Fantastic win from Warrnambool's favourite son Marc Leishman in Florida at the weekend, and we begin today's show chatting about the win....Marc becomes the third Aussie to win a tournament in the last couple of weeks, following Min Woo and Steve Allen. Mark loves the 'drive, chip, and putt' competition and thinks there should be more of them prior to tournaments.
We discuss the elephant in the room, will we get the world feed f...
It's Masters week and we kick off our Masters preview show with Nick and Mark sharing memories of some of their favourite moments, and of watching it when they were kids Nick talks about the first time he played Augusta, and what he did on the 12th green before the tournament. And he talks about the course preparation and some of the 'tricks' they use to keep the players on their toes.
Mark asks Nick about the trickiest hole on ...
Lots of feedback on the international feed, and Nick and Mark have made their views clear. The overwhelming majority of feedback has been that people want the old feed back, however in fairness it hasn't been one-way traffic. We received a voicemail from Wolfpack member Tim from Perth with a different perspective, and he explains his thinking.
We do the show from Titleist and FootJoy HQ, thanks to our great partners:
- Titl...
Another feedback pod today with plenty of questions and another Wolfpack members swing for Nick and Mark to review.
We start with a pic that you may have seen on socials about a golfer who thought his ticket to an Augusta practice round allowed him to play an actual practice round. A misunderstanding clearly, but quite funny, the twist is that Mark Allen was there and saw it happen live - he explains what happened from his angle...
We have to start today's show discussing the fantastic performance of Min Woo Lee at the weekend, it was wonderful to see, albeit a nerve-wracking finish with Scheffler coming hard at him. Nick and Mark have plenty of praise for Min Woo of course, and plenty of props for his caddy Brian 'Bo' Martin who they give credit to for remaining calm under the pressure on that final day in particular. Nick and Mark say that is the benefit of...
We've had plenty of feedback and questions coming in for Nick and Mark, so today a feedback pod. On the show we discuss:
- Broomstick putters following a question from James;
- Gibbo has some comments on the potential PGA/LIV merger and asks for thoughts;
- We spoke to David from Brisbane last week who went to the Barossa on a golf trip with a bunch of mates, how did it go, and did the advice help? We get an update;
- Ashley has a ripp...
A fun bonus pod today, one which Mark has christened 'story time'. Don't worry, we'll dump the name, it won't survive. But today we talk about some of the great guys that Nick and Mark played with and spent time with on tour, Nick tells a hilarious story about tour pro David Howell involving Sir Nick Faldo and The Queen.
Then.....Mark reveals why he has always said Colin Montgomerie is 'an arsehole'. It is a very funny, and deta...
Plenty to discuss on Talk Birdie To Me today, but we start with some sage life advice from Viktor Hovland, who appears to be branching out into a new career as a life coach.
Mark asks Nick about a rumour he has heard for years about caddies and the chaplains on the pro tour. And then we get onto the issue of the week - the world feed. Mark describes it as 'torture'.
Nick and Mark chat about Hovland's win at Valspar, his golf ...
We have been inundated with messages about the TV coverage from the weekend, with the general thrust of the feedback summarised by this voicemail we received from Ron from McKinnon in Melbourne. This week on the pod, Nick and Mark will have a chat about what happened at the weekend on the coverage.
We do the show from Titleist and FootJoy HQ, thanks to our great partners:
- Titleist, the #1 ball in golf;
- FootJoy, the #1 shoe...
Brian from Perth left a voicemail for us after hearing Mark Allens comments on the pod about his desire to see The Players become the 5th major. Brian disagrees with Mark, and explains why in his message.
We love receiving your voicemails - you can leave us one here:
We do the show from Titleist and FootJoy HQ, thanks to our great partners:
- Titleist, the #1 ball in golf;
- FootJoy, the #1 shoe and glove in golf;
- PING will ...
After listening to this mornings pod where Nick O'Hern and Mark Allen discussed Cam Smith's form, wolfpacker Scott from Brisbane had some comments that he felt placed further context around Cam's form at the moment, and left us a voicemail.
We love your voicemails - you can leave us one here:
We do the show from Titleist and FootJoy HQ, thanks to our great partners:
- Titleist, the #1 ball in golf;
- FootJoy, the #1 shoe an...
Another feedback pod this week, where the floor is yours and Nick O'Hern and Mark Allen answer your questions.
- We start with a question from wolfpacker Nick about Cam Smith, suggesting that he is a 'shadow of his former self'.
- Joe the Greenkeeper from New Zealand has a comment about rangefinders.
- Jim asks about Australian Open venues, and sneaks in a cheeky reminder about rakepod....dangerous Jim, may be a ban coming up.
- James ...
We start today by talking about The Players, a wonderful tournament, and Nick and Mark discuss Rory's win. Mark believes it is time The Players became classed as a major, he loves the event. Nick agrees it is fantastic. Whilst Rory won, Nick has identified two things that he needs to do in order to win a (current) major this year, and he explains what they are and why they would make a huge difference. Mark has an observation on Ro...
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