Fore Play

Tiger wins the Tour Championship. We react to Tiger's first win in five years and welcome Tiger's close friend and NBC/Golf Channel analyst Notah Begay to the show. Notah spoke with Tiger at his hotel before the final round and recounts the lows and highs over his road back to the winning circle. Did you cry? We cried, and we're here to talk about it. The next Tiger era is officially off and running!!!

The PGA Tour dropped a bombshell this week and our crew is intensely divided on it. Frankie and Trent, anti-the clown show that will now be the starting at 10-under par TOUR Championship. Riggs loves it. What else could we be divided on? Bryson DeChambeau. He's spritzing his golf balls to simulate morning dew. Love it or hate it? Tons of news. Tons of From The Galleries. Tons of Ryder Cup excitement. Come talk some golf with us!

Riggs details meeting Tiger's caddie Joe LaCava last week. In From The Gallery, we answer listeners' pressing questions and concerns. Who is the most bland, cookie cutter guy on the PGA Tour? Would you take Tiger winning the Tour Championship if it meant the USA would lose the Ryder Cup? A story about "that guy" who never takes his turn putting the flagstick back in. Is it a "greaser" move to bring your own beers to play at your own country club? We also preview the Tour Championship and breakdown our close personal friend USGA's new rules. Let's talk some golf. 

The people's golfer 2.0 joins the show just 2 days after taking down the BMW Championship in a playoff over Justin Rose. We breakdown what the highs and lows have been over the past 6 years, texts from Phil Mickelson, playing golf with Tom Brady and Michael Jordan, the Tiger effect, and relive the details ofMonday's emotional win. We also discuss headlines and announce the launch of a HUGE new Titleist sweepstakes for our listeners. It's go time! 

The PGA Tour dropped a bombshell this week and our crew is intensely divided on it. Frankie and Trent, anti-the clown show that will now be the starting at 10-under par TOUR Championship. Riggs loves it. What else could we be divided on? Bryson DeChambeau. He's spritzing his golf balls to simulate morning dew. Love it or hate it? Tons of news. Tons of From The Galleries. Tons of Ryder Cup excitement. Come talk some golf with us!

John Feinstein was considered enemy number one to the Tiger Woods camp in the early days of Tiger's career, and he joins the show to describe his 4-hour dinner with Tiger and how it came to be via an unexpected encounter on the practice green at Augusta. John recently published a new novel called The Prodigy, which details the struggles of a teenage golfer deciding whether or not to turn pro as he contends at the Masters. Outside of the interview, we breakdown People's Golfer 2.0 Keegan Bradley's breakthrough win at the BMW, Justin Rose rising to no. 1 in the world, Tiger's blistering 62 complete thanks to #ScottySZN, Tony Finau rounding out the greatest Ryder Cup squad ever assembled, and if it's acceptable to root against American guys you don't like in Paris. Action packed. Come play with us!

Our old pal and recurring guest Brandel Chamblee joins the show for the first time since January. Golf's top analyst details what his “time off” looks like (ie: how meticulously he prepares for Ryder Cup coverage). Brandel then dissects the course, the teams, the pairings, and the players. Frankie (tries to) grill him on his Tiger takes; Brandel's wife Bailey makes her first cameo; we get the Cabot hole-in-one story that ruined Eamon Lynch's week; Frankie freaks out when Brandel refers to Bryson's game as “magic.” It's a full show. Proper show. Come ride with us!

Nobody's got better golf stories than the caddies, and Austin Cooke's colorful looper Kip Henley joins the show to detail his experience caddying next to Tiger at the Northern Trust this past Sunday. Kip's gone to war for Tiger on Twitter over the past few weeks, and he's got a lot of good tales to tell about our guy. Also, the Fore Play crew was up in Massachusetts this week with Titleist getting custom fit for clubs and touring Ball Plant III, where much of the world's ProV1s are made. We debrief on the entire experience, including Frankie Butter Knives facing his worst nightmare head on! 

The Whitney match is heating up after Whit decided to weaponize Spittin' Chiclets listeners. In headlines, we battle over the likability of Bryson DeChambeau following his dominate win at the Northern Trust, and we breakdown the Ryder Cup picks. Also discussed: our guy Kip Henley played with Tiger on Saturday; Nick Faldo put his glasses on upside down; the TOUR is considering having the FedEx Cup leader start the Tour Championship at 10-under par; Tiger's making headlines with his non-answer on Trump. In From The Gallery, we revisit holes in one on par 3 courses and make the case for Golf Channel to bring back The Big Break!

The boondoggle OG himself, Matt Ginella, joins us to deliver crucial insight on all those questions you have about where to book buddies trips, how to do it, and why to do it. Matt's got great stories and unmatched experience. He's been EVERYWHERE. Frankie Butter Knives also joins the crew on the phone from Saratoga as we weigh in on the Phil/Tiger twitter beef forming for their upcoming match. Finally, we lay out what we expect, like, and don't like about the FedEx Cup playoffs! 

The guys dissect all that transpired last week and over the weekend between Fore Play and Ryan Whitney. A match the likes of which the golf world has never seen is materializing before our very eyes. It's Riggs vs Ryan Whitney 2018 with Frankie Borrelli on the Fore Play bag and BizNasty on the Spittin' Chiclets bag. The details are still being ironed out, but there's plenty of fodder to talk about. We also discuss a golfer biting off another golfer's finger, the upcoming FedEx Cup Playoffs, the Ryder Cup, and Kip Henley firing off PHENOMENAL tweets defending Tiger Woods!

Everybody's favorite muppet man Ryan Whitney hops on to defend his opinion that he'd take 10 albatrosses over 1 hole in one. He also, in a rare show of vulnerability, reveals that Frankie hurt him with his chirp about Whit's Bowen Cup loss. Also, in what is BY FAR the most heated, intense, and honestly uncomfortable exchange in Fore Play history, Big Cat sits down to discuss his Tiger trolling, to deliver a statement, and to negotiate how we're all going to move forward together in a post-fusion world. Buckle up, this show brings a level of fire that we've never brought before!

Following the most exciting golf tournament of the past decade, we catch up with Stewart Cink's caddie Taylor Ford. They played with Tiger on Saturday and in front of him Sunday, and Taylor has some FASCINATING insight from the weekend. We also relive Riggs inside the ropes with Tiger, the whole credentialed PGA Championship experience, give our thoughts on Brooks Koepka, and debrief following Tiger's epic Sunday run. Oh, and Riggs drops a stunning story about an encounter with Tiger Woods!

We are live from the PGA Championship recapping our entire first day at Bellerive. We grabbed Bryson DeChambeau (discussed the Carnoustie driving range video) and Kevin Kisner after their rounds! It's a major championship and we've got a major show. Riggs also breaks down the most passionate war on the internet, “Riggs vs American Airlines.” 

The way Frankie Borrelli pronounces “Bellerive” may make the club itself reassess its own name. It's an off the rails PGA Championship preview with the most energetic instructor in the game, Michael Breed (Frankie begs him for chipping advice). In From The Gallery, we discuss the phenomenon of saying you hit a “baby 8 iron” to protect how long you are, and introduce heart rate monitors for golf coverage. Oh and Riggs will be at Bellerive. It's a major week - let's go!!! 

We introduce a brand new segment this week... and it absolutely delivers. In Headlines, we've got Tiger playing potentially 7 of the next 9 weeks; the Ryder Cup fast approaching; and Phil and Tiger continuing their bromance. In From The Gallery, we rank — from one to four — the best number of people to have in a group and also discuss how sports betting will change fans at golf tournaments. It's a BIG stretch of golf coming up. Let's do this!

Frankie got in a several-hours-long, heated debate with his golf buddies in the parking lot following a match this weekend. Is he the most wrong person in history? We discuss this plus a listener who can only putt inside 10 feet if he's drunk, and have a message for listener Shaun, who his buddies say is "shaving strokes." In Headlines, we breakdown Bryson DeChambeau making all kinds of news for the wrong reasons and our favorite thing about Dustin Johnson's game. Tiger's playing back-to-back weeks. It's crunch time. Let's do this.

Our good friend Ryan Whitney rejoins the show to discuss Carnoustie, his absurd golf trip to Scotland with NHL'ers, and to put Frankie's brain in a pretzel. Legitimately may have broken Frankie's brain. We take some FTGs and mix it up hard — it's a real fun time talking golf. 

British Open reaction. We were live at a watch party and losing our minds as “it” was happening before our eyes. And then it was all sucked out of us. We discuss everything that happened at Carnoustie and take a few From The Galleries. The best tournament in years has us feeling all kinds of different ways. What a time to be alive! 

This one will make you laugh out loud. Riggs, Frankie and Trent are back and we go through pre-British Open headlines and an arsenal of From The Galleries. From Tiger de-lofting his 2-iron for some sort of special stinger; to tips for playing with a caddie for the first time; to Riggs joining the Mr. Borrelli school of golf and snap-ordering a swing aid; this is a classic golf guys show taking you all over the map. Two shows a week is just so damn fun!