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Hale Irwin is an American professional golfer and was one of the world’s leading golfers from the 70’s to the mid 80’s. He is one of the few players in history to win three U.S. Opens and became the oldest ever U.S. champion in 1990 at the age of 45. As a senior golfer, Hale ranks second all-time in PGA Tour Champions victories and is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in Champions Tour history. He has also developed a career as a golf course architect.
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Excited to have Philip Schneider join me – a Social Venture Entrepreneur, who lived and worked at the Club for about a year during which he caddied for Clint Eastwood – he is also married to Hollywood A Lister Hilary Swank who he was introduced to on a blind date. Philip shares with me his passion for LLGC but also some great stories from his time here.
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Delighted to have JR Galbraith join me on this edition of View from The Loch. JR is a young professional golfer who is also an ambassador for Loch Lomond Whiskies – who sponsor the show. JR has won both the North of Ireland Amateur, played at Royal Portush, and also the Irish Amateur Championship. Dramatically defeated John Rahm in an amateur matchplay. Listen to his story of success and heartbreak.
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Delighted to have had Ken Schofield join me for this weeks View from the Loch. Ken was born in Perthshire, Scotland, and from 1975 – 2004 was the Executive Director of The European Tour. During his stewardship the tour grew from 17 to 45 events. In 2006 Ken was awarded the Ambassador of Golf Award by the PGA Tour, and then in 2013 was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
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Ryan Ballengee is founder and editor of Golf News Net based in Washington DC. Writing and broadcasting about golf for nearly 20 years, Ryan is an exceptionally well informed journalist. Well worth a listen.
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Golf Correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph; James gives his views on a terrific Scottish Open, The upcoming Open, Ryder Cup and ongoing LIV/PGA/DP saga.
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Jason Leonard OBE is a former English Rugby Union player who won a then record 114 caps for England during a 14 year international career.
Leonard played club rugby for Barking RFC, Saracens and Harlequins, whilst playing in England teams that won four Grand Slams and the 2003 Rugby World Cup. He also played three tours with the British & Irish Lions, winning five more caps.
Awarded an MBE for services to rugby in 2002, he was then awarded an OBE following England’s Rugby World Cup success.
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Kerry is the General Manager at Drumpellier Golf Club in Glasgow.Kerry started at the Club doing bar work and was promoted to Bar Manager after a year. She continued in this role for 7 years before accepting the role as General Manager which she has been doing for almost 2 years.The Club has approx. 1,000 Members which includes their social memberships.
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David (Dave) Podas is the Bel-Air Country Club’s Director of Golf.
He is a long-time member of the PGA of America and also serves on its Rules Committee. He is also a member of Titleist’s national advisory board.
A Minnesota native, it was caddying in Arizona that helped launch his golf career.
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One of modern footballs most successful managers, who has won a host of leagues and cups, took time out to speak exclusively to View from the Loch!
Rodgers was born in the seaside village of Carnlough in County Antrim, Northern Ireland and is the eldest of five boys.
He began his career at Ballymena United, where he stayed until he was signed by Reading at the age of 18, although a genetic knee condition forced him to retire at age 20. He remained at Reading as a coach and then academy director. He was then invited by José Mourinho to join Chelsea as youth manager in 2004, later being promoted to reserve manager in 2006.
In 2012 Rodgers became the new manager of Liverpool, whom he led to runners up position in the league in the 2013/14 season – and then became manager of Celtic in 2016 leading them to an undefeated domestic season in his first year and trebles in both of his first two seasons.
He left Celtic for Leicester City in February 2019, and left there April of this year having won the FA Cup.
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Sir Geoffrey made his international debut in a 1964 test match against Australia. He accumulated large scores – he is the equal fifth-highest accumulator of first-class centuries in history, eighth in career runs and the first English player to average over 100 in a season (1971 and 1979).
After his playing career ended, Boycott became a cricket commentator on radio and television.
Geoffrey’s views are much sought after and this interview finds Boycott in typical combative form, discussing all sports including his view of Rory and Nick Faldo.
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Originally from Seattle, Washington Lyle qualified as an electrical engineer before moving into real estate development. He moved from Seattle to Scottsdale in the late 70’s where he proceeded to develop some of the most prestigious private clubs in the area working with Jack Nicklaus to design multiple courses at Desert Highlands, Desert Mountain and Superstition Mountain.
Lyle first visited Loch Lomond in the summer of ‘93 where within one hour he had decided he wanted to become involved in the development of Loch Lomond Golf Club.
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Duncan's passion for golf started early, playing from the age of five and attending tournaments where he could. His passion for tour predictions and golf betting stemmed from his father, a golf journalist for many popular UK broadsheets whilst he was growing up. He spent most summers going along to events at Loch Lomond amongst others, taking advantage of the opportunity to watch as much golf as he could!
He runs Golf Betting Club with his brother Neil.
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Gareth Lord was a talented golfer in his own right, in fact he was good enough to be picked for the England Boys team alongside Lee Westwood.
He earned a scholarship to play golf at the University of Tennessee, then returned to Europe and eventually found himself coaching the game in Germany.
Lord established himself as a caddie working alongside Robert Karlsson, and in 2008, the Swede won the European Tour’s Order Of Merit and Lord was named caddie of the year.
Through his exploits with Karlsson, the Coventry man made himself one of the most highly respected caddies in the game, and in 2013 found himself alongside Henrik Stenson.
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Bob Ford is considered one of the preeminent club professionals in America and among the most highly regarded people in the game of golf.
He spent 37 years at Oakmont as Head Professional where he followed on from Lew Worsham who had won the 1947 US Open, so he found himself following a US Open Champion into the position of Head Professional at one of the finest Clubs in America aged just 26 / 27 years old.
Bob qualified for the 1983 US Open, played and made the cut finishing tied in 26th.
He was also Head Professional at Seminole Golf Club.
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Angela holds the role of Museum & Heritage Director of the R&A World Golf Museum where she has been for 25 years. Her role there is 3-fold; (i) looking after and running the museum (ii) looking after the collection at The Royal & Ancient Golf Club, and (iii) conducting heritage work on behalf of the R&A.
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Tasked with the job of promoting Scotland as the Home of Golf – Allan Grant is the Senior Golf Manager for Visit Scotland and also Non Executive Director of Scottish Golf Limited.
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Greg is a journalist and broadcaster who worked freelance for newspapers and magazines before joining the RTE Radio sports department in 1984, covering golf from 1991. Since then he has commentated on Ryder Cups, British Opens, Masters’ Tournaments and US Opens
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Lee Westwood won the Scottish Open at Loch Lomond Golf Club back in 1998 and was ranked World Number 1 in October 2010 ending Tigers' five year reign at the top.
Lee shares his thoughts on numerous subjects, as well as on Loch Lomond Golf Club.
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Craig Connelly currently caddies for Martin Kaymer on the LIV Tour and has caddied in no less than seven Ryder Cups. Craig started his caddying career at Loch Lomond Golf Club and has some great stories to share about life on the tour.
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