Bay State Golf Podcast

Aidan O'Donovan just made it through PGA Tour Q-School pre-qualifying as an amateur. He talks about his week in Georgia, from a lost ball to his dad caddying on a hurt heel. He also looks back on the U.S. Amateur at Merion and on growing up at Bayberry...

Sean sits down with Fin — the Irish golfer and content creator behind The Creative Sigma — for one of Bay State Golf's few international interviews. It starts with an algorithm, a 75-year curse, and why Mayo winning the All-Ireland Football Championshi...

Marcus El, General Manager of Scoreboard by Clippd, is back for a wide-ranging preview of the 2026-27 college golf season. Sean and Marcus dig into whether this is finally the year someone challenges Stanford's dominance on the women's side, why a stac...

Ahead of the FM Championship at TPC Boston, host Sean Melia sits down with former LPGA Tour pro Alison Walshe, a three-time All-American at Arizona, Curtis Cup and Palmer Cup competitor, and Westford, MA native, for a conversation about the US National...

Aidan Emmerich sits down with Sean Melia just a week removed from his U.S. Amateur appearance at Merion Golf Club and Philadelphia Country Club — the reward for winning the Massachusetts Amateur earlier this summer. Aidan takes us inside the week: what...

July is in the books — 6 courses played across Massachusetts as I keep chasing every golf course in the state. A mix of public and private, nine and eighteen holes, a couple of new checkmarks, and one revisit to a favorite. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 1:12 ...

This week we cross into Maine with Eli Spaulding, the two-time Maine Amateur champion (2024 & 2025) and Loyola University standout, fresh off a stacked summer that includes wins at the Philadelphia Amateur and New England Amateur, plus a qualifying spo...

Dan Boisvert joins after attending the New England Amateur and watching the final group battle for 18 holes. Eli Spaulding defended his title as Caden Piselli made a run at him early in the back nine. Dan talks about Eli Spaulding and Caden Piselli, tw...

It's Open Championship week, and Paul Burke joins me to talk Royal Birkdale before the year's toughest major gets underway across the pond. We start with a question Paul's been sitting on all week: what actually makes a great sporting event? From there...

This week's guest is Lillian Guleserian, the 2026 New England Women's Amateur champion and Penn State freshman, fresh off her comeback win at Concord Country Club. Lillian breaks down the dramatic back nine of the final round, rallying from four shots ...