The Best Golf Podcasts for New Golfers

The Best Golf Podcasts for New Golfers

The Best Golf Podcasts for Beginners

Golf podcasts are at their best when you’re driving, walking or doing something that doesn’t require you to stare at a screen.

They’re great for following professional golf, understanding strategy and hearing how experienced players think. They’re much less useful for learning exactly how to hold a club or change your posture. Audio has limits.

If you only try three: start with No Laying Up for professional golf, The Sweet Spot for improving your own game and The Chipping Forecast for British golf chat.

No Laying Up — best overall golf podcast

No Laying Up is the easiest recommendation if you want to understand professional golf without listening to something that feels like a formal sports bulletin.

The hosts have opinions. They disagree. They have running jokes, favourite courses, players they enjoy watching and subjects they clearly care about more than others.

That personality makes the sport easier to follow.

Major-championship weeks are the best entry point because the episodes naturally explain the course, contenders and main stories before play starts, then return to the same subjects afterwards.

Try it for: major previews, tournament recaps, player interviews and course discussion.

Some episodes are long and assume a reasonable amount of golf knowledge. If you’re completely new to professional golf, start with a recap of an event you already watched rather than a deep discussion about tour politics.

The Sweet Spot — best for improving your own golf

Adam Young and Jon Sherman spend much more time on the golf you actually play.

The Sweet Spot covers practice, expectations, strike, course management and why good range sessions don’t always turn into good rounds.

The advice tends to be more useful than a traditional “swing tip of the week” because it focuses on skills, patterns and decisions.

Choose episodes based on the problem you currently have. If you’re trying to break 100, listen to scoring and strategy. If you practise badly, start with practice planning. If your warm-up consists of hitting driver as hard as possible for twenty minutes, find an episode on preparation.

The danger: one detailed episode can contain enough ideas for a month. Take one thing from it rather than turning every sentence into a new instruction.

Hack It Out Golf — best for shorter practical discussions

Hack It Out Golf brings together Mark Crossfield, Lou Stagner and Greg Chalmers.

That gives you three useful perspectives: coaching, statistics and professional playing experience.

The show often works around one clear question, which makes it easier to dip into than a sprawling two-hour conversation.

Tee-shot strategy, putting expectations, club selection, distance and common amateur mistakes are good places to start.

The hosts don’t always agree. That’s useful because golf rarely has one universal answer. Just don’t respond by trying all three opinions during the same range session.

The Chipping Forecast — best British golf podcast

The Chipping Forecast is the one to choose if you want golf mixed with humour, digressions and a very British willingness to wander away from the original subject.

Professional golf is still the backbone. Majors, European players, courses and broadcasting all come up regularly.

Then the conversation may drift into food, travel or something only loosely connected to golf.

That’s part of the appeal rather than a flaw.

Listen during a major week or around a big DP World Tour event if you want an easy route into the show.

If you want a tightly timed twenty-minute recap with no detours, choose something else.

Rough Cut Golf Podcast — best for UK creator golf

If you already watch Peter Finch on YouTube, Rough Cut is an easy extension.

The podcast mixes professional golf, creator golf, equipment, tournament attempts and stories from filming.

It’s less useful as a structured learning show and more useful if you’re interested in the modern golf-content world around the game.

Episodes around Finch’s competitive golf, majors and creator events are good starting points because there’s a clear story to follow.

Sky Sports Golf Podcast — best straightforward UK tour coverage

The Sky Sports Golf Podcast is the cleanest option if you mainly want to know what happened, who matters and what to watch next.

The presenters and analysts are used to speaking to a broad television audience, which makes the show easier for newer golf fans to follow.

Major previews and tournament recaps are the obvious entry points.

You’ll get less of the running-joke culture found in No Laying Up or The Chipping Forecast, but sometimes that’s exactly what you want.

The Shotgun Start — best once you’re properly following tour golf

The Shotgun Start is where I’d go once you’ve moved beyond simply knowing who won last week.

Andy Johnson and Brendan Porath cover the bigger tours, course setup, broadcasting, scheduling and plenty of strange stories from the edges of professional golf.

It’s funny and informed, but it can be a lot for a complete beginner.

Start during a major week when you already recognise the event and players. Once the professional season starts making sense, the regular episodes become much easier to follow.

Which podcast should you choose?

Follow the majorsNo Laying Up
Improve your golfThe Sweet Spot
Short practical episodesHack It Out Golf
British golf chatThe Chipping Forecast
Creator golfRough Cut Golf Podcast
Simple tour coverageSky Sports Golf Podcast
Golf-nerd territoryThe Shotgun Start

Podcasts are better for ideas than movements

You can learn a lot about course strategy from audio.

You can also understand expectations, practice planning, tournament stories and equipment concepts without looking at a screen.

What podcasts struggle with is precise physical instruction.

Grip, posture, ball position and chipping setup are much easier to understand when you can see them.

If an episode gives you a technical idea you want to try, find a clear demonstration or ask a coach before guessing what the movement should look like.

A sensible way to listen

Before a major

No Laying Up or Sky Sports Golf.

During the week

The Sweet Spot or Hack It Out for one useful playing idea.

Long drive

The Chipping Forecast, Rough Cut or The Shotgun Start.

You don’t need to keep up with every feed.

One podcast can teach you something, one can keep you informed and one can simply be entertaining.

That’s enough.

If I were choosing a first subscription, I’d start with No Laying Up. If I wanted something that might actually change my next round, I’d open The Sweet Spot instead.

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