the golf guy
Not your typical golf podcast...
Larry the Golf Guy interviews a wide variety of guests from within the golf industry – ranging from top teaching pros, club pros at leading clubs, golf architects, industry and golf association executives and others. Have a listen!
Latest Episodes
The Golf Guy Podcast — Brad Klein, long-time golf architecture commentator and consultant
Brad Klein is a long-time commentator and consultant on golf architecture, having spent 30 years as the architectural editor at Golfweek. Brad’s journey in the game is an interesting one, and we discuss how he was smitten with the game growing up on Long Island, and then spent a number of years as an academic while also caddying and doing some writing, before pivoting full-time to golf journalism in the late 1980’s. We also get Brad’s insights into what he is seeing today in golf architecture, as well as his thoughts on the distance debate.
The Golf Guy Podcast — Mark Newell, 65th President of the USGA
Mark Newell and I were partners at Latham & Watkins LLP for many decades, and we worked together in management as Mark was Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Partner from 2002-2011 and I was global chair of the tax department from 2000-2011. Mark retired early from the firm and became General Counsel at the USGA from 2011-2012 and ultimately served as the 65th President of the USGA from 2018-2019. Mark’s time at the USGA was truly consequential, as his accomplishments included chairing the USGA Rules Committee (where he led the rule change on anchoring and then played a key role in the rules simplification process which led to the 2019 major revision of the rules), authoring the 2020 Distance Insights Report, co-chairing the World Handicap Initiative and revising the governance structure of the USGA. We talk with Mark about how he got started in the game and what led to his involvement with the USGA, we touch on his various accomplishments, and we go deep on the various rules initiatives he championed and the distance issue.