The Yardage Book Podcast

Hello and welcome back!It was a thrill to have Jim Rohrstaff back on the podcast this week, to give his thoughts on an amazing tournament week at Te Arai Links with the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship that finished up just over a week ago. Jim gave some great insight on how firm the course was playing, how he was so proud of his team and the Te Arai Links membership base, and how great it was to see the South Course in all it's glory on the broadcast. Jim also gave an update on The Hills development just outside of Arrowtown and details on the busy summer ahead at Te Arai Links.  We are proud to be presented by Power Turf NZ. Who are New Zealand's leading providers in Turf Care Equipment and Club Car Golf Carts. Check them out here: https://www.powerturf.co.nz/If you'd like to support our podcast check out our Yardage Book Caps here with free shipping to NZ:https://angusandgracegogolfing.com/products/the-yardage-book

Hello and welcome back! The AAC at Te Arai Links delivered, and it was an absolute pleasure to be onsite for 5 days and watch 9 Kiwis make the cut. However in the end Fifa Laopakdee was too strong for both Zack Swanwick and Cooper Moore as he took a 3 shot victory to claim back to back AAC wins.At the start of the episode Mitch Powell and I gave a quick debrief of the event before our interview with broadcasting legend Rich Lerner. Rich gave such great insight on his time in NZ, his thoughts on Te Arai Links, and much more. We are proud to be presented by Power Turf NZ. Who are New Zealand's leading providers in Turf Care Equipment and Club Car Golf Carts. Check them out here: https://www.powerturf.co.nz/If you'd like to support our podcast check out our Yardage Book Caps here with free shipping to NZ:https://angusandgracegogolfing.com/products/the-yardage-book

Hello and welcome back! It was a pleasure to have Cooper Moore back on the podcast this week as he prepares for one of the biggest events of the year with the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship at Te Arai Links which kicks off on Thursday. It was great to get Cooper's insight in what has been a pretty spectacular year so far with a runner up at the NZ PGA, Semi-Final at the US Junior Amateur and a spot on the Junior President's Cup Team. On the back half of the Episode we had a great chat with Rodney Yee, who work's primarily out of the Sir Bob Charles Centre and is Cooper's Coach. He gave some background on how he and Cooper started working together and what the last year has been like from his perspective in the lead up to this week at the AAC.We are proud to be presented by Power Turf NZ. Who are New Zealand's leading providers in Turf Care Equipment and Club Car Golf Carts. Check them out here: https://www.powerturf.co.nz/If you'd like to support our podcast check out our Yardage Book Caps here with free shipping to NZ:https://angusandgracegogolfing.com/products/the-yardage-book

Hello and Welcome Back!It was great to chat in person with Mitch Northin recently, who is the Superintendent of the South Course at Te Arai Links. We chatted all about how he started in Green-Keeping, and what it has been like preparing the South Course for the AAC which starts next week. We are proud to be presented by Power Turf NZ. Who are New Zealand's leading providers in Turf Care Equipment and Club Car Golf Carts. Check them out here: https://www.powerturf.co.nz/If you'd like to support our podcast check out our Yardage Book Caps here with free shipping to NZ:https://angusandgracegogolfing.com/products/the-yardage-book

Hello and welcome back! It was great to chat with Mark Jurgeleit recently about the upcoming Spark Wholesale invitational at Te Arai links which kicks off this coming Monday as part of The Cisco Series. Josh Geary, Tim Wilkinson and Tyler Wood headline a very competitive professional field in the 36-hole Pro-Am format which takes place across both the North Course and the South Course. We will be on the ground this week covering the event in a very similar style to last year. Check out The Cisco Series here: https://www.ciscoseries.com/We are proud to be presented by Power Turf NZ. Who are New Zealand's leading providers in Turf Care Equipment and Club Car Golf Carts. Check them out here: https://www.powerturf.co.nz/If you'd like to support our podcast check out our Yardage Book Caps here with free shipping to NZ:https://angusandgracegogolfing.com/products/the-yardage-book

Hello and welcome back! We are excited to be working in association with Golf NZ to preview The Carrus Tauranga Open that kicks off this week on the Summerset Charles Tour. Firstly we chatted with Mount Open Champion: Jayden Ford who recapped a special week with his first win as a Professional. Then we looked ahead with Mitch Kale, who is the current NZ Amateur Champion and knows Tauranga GC well, having been part of the Agronomy Team there. Lastly we chatted with Golf New Zealand's Will Toogood, who gave some great insight into being on site last week and covered all the storylines heading into this week up in Tauranga. We are proud to be presented by Power Turf NZ. Who are New Zealand's leading providers in Turf Care Equipment and Club Car Golf Carts. Check them out here: https://www.powerturf.co.nz/If you'd like to support our podcast check out our Yardage Book Caps here with free shipping to NZ:https://angusandgracegogolfing.com/products/the-yardage-book

Hello and welcome back! We are excited to be working in association with Golf NZ to preview The Christies Floorings Mount Open that kicks off this week. In the first part of this podcast I chatted with Mike Williams who is the General Manager at The Mount GC. He gave some great insight in how the club embraces this tournament. In the second part of the episode I chatted with Will Toogood from Golf NZ, who gave his thoughts on some of the tournament favourites and the many storylines going into the tournament. We are proud to be presented by Power Turf NZ. Who are New Zealand's leading providers in Turf Care Equipment and Club Car Golf Carts. Check them out here: https://www.powerturf.co.nz/If you'd like to support our podcast check out our Yardage Book Caps here with free shipping to NZ:https://angusandgracegogolfing.com/products/the-yardage-book

Welcome Back!This week we drew some inspiration from our friends across the Tasman at Australian Golf Passport, and Michael Goldstein and I constructed our All NZ 18s. Which is picking our 18 favourite holes in New Zealand with each course only being able to be used once and each hole must feature in the same place in its home routing. It was a great exercise and showed the increasingly strong depth we have in our golf landscape in NZ. We are proud to be presented by Power Turf NZ. Who are New Zealand's leading providers in Turf Care Equipment and Club Car Golf Carts. Check them out here: https://www.powerturf.co.nz/If you'd like to support our podcast check out our Yardage Book Caps here with free shipping to NZ:https://angusandgracegogolfing.com/products/the-yardage-book 

Welcome Back!It was great to chat with Heath Henrich, who has recently been appointed as the Director of Golf at Cape Kidnappers and Kauri Cliffs. Heath gave some great insight into his first impressions on these two iconic properties, the contrasts from the other courses he's worked at around the world and much more. We are proud to be presented by Power Turf NZ. Who are New Zealand's leading providers in Turf Care Equipment and Club Car Golf Carts. Check them out here: https://www.powerturf.co.nz/If you'd like to support our podcast check out our Yardage Book Caps here with free shipping to NZ:https://angusandgracegogolfing.com/products/the-yardage-book

Hello and Welcome Back! It was a pleasure to chat with both 1991 Open Champion Ian Baker-Finch and our homegrown broadcasting extraordinaire, George Harper Junior to reflect on Ryan Fox's amazing win at Royal Birkdale. Ian gave great insight on Birkdale as a tournament test, his pride on how Australasia punches far above its weight on the world stage, and what advice he would give Ryan after his maiden major win.George has unique insight having been a broadcaster with The Open since 2018 and having played a good chunk of golf with Foxy over the years, including a pre-tournament tune up this year at North Berwick. We are proud to be presented by Power Turf NZ. Who are New Zealand's leading providers in Turf Care Equipment and Club Car Golf Carts.