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Talk Birdie To Me

Nick O"Hern & Mark Allen

Tour Pro"s Nick O"Hern and Mark Allen talk golf every week on Talk Birdie To Me. The latest news, issues, and stories from Australia and Worldwide. As two guys who played at the highest level, they tell it like it is, and take you behind the scenes to get an inside look into the world of golf.Nick O’Hern reached #16 in the world rankings and is the only player ever to beat Tiger Woods twice in matchplay. Mark Allen is a former Touring Pro of 15 years - played a British Open at Carnoustie, and in his

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4:27

🏝️ Fun 2024 Moments: Tour Pro Nicknames

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2025/01/01

Nick O'Hern and Mark Allen are having a break over the holidays, and we are sharing some of the memorable moments from the last year. Today, when Talk Birdie To Me listener Alex asked about nicknames for Tour Pros.And we're back in January 2025 with the great support of PING, see your local golf shop or professional for a PING club fitting. Just like they have with Nick O'Hern, PING will help you play your best. The Golf Clearance Outlet, great prices on the best gear. See them instore in Melbourne,

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8:39

🏝️ Fun 2024 Moments: Tennis Superstar Todd Woodbridge...

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2024/12/29

Nick O'Hern and Mark Allen are having a break over the holidays, and we are sharing some of the memorable moments from the last year. Today, we remember when Todd Woodbridge was a guest, and told us about the time he was arrested at the Olympics.And we're back in January 2025 with the great support of PING, see your local golf shop or professional for a PING club fitting. Just like they have with Nick O'Hern, PING will help you play your best. The Golf Clearance Outlet, great prices on the best

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4:46

🏝️ Fun 2024 Moments: Why John Daly Caused Nick O'Hern...

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2024/12/27

Nick O'Hern and Mark Allen are having a break over the holidays, and we are sharing some of the memorable moments from the last year. Today, Nick tells us why he was DQ'd because of John Daly.And we're back in January 2025 with the great support of PING, see your local golf shop or professional for a PING club fitting. Just like they have with Nick O'Hern, PING will help you play your best. The Golf Clearance Outlet, great prices on the best gear. See them instore in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane,

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5:07

🏝️ Fun 2024 Moments: Tour Pro Hannah Gregg's Snake...

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2024/12/25

Nick O'Hern and Mark Allen are having a break over the holidays, and we are sharing some of the memorable moments from the last year. We spoke with US Tour Pro Hannah Green, and she told us about her experiences with snakes when playing in Australia.And we're back in January 2025 with the great support of PING, see your local golf shop or professional for a PING club fitting. Just like they have with Nick O'Hern, PING will help you play your best. The Golf Clearance Outlet, great prices on the best

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9:54

🏝️ Fun 2024 Moments: Top 5 'Dodgiest' Behaviours by...

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2024/12/23

Nick O'Hern and Mark Allen are having a break over the holidays, and we are sharing some of the memorable moments from the last year. Today, we look at the Top 5 dodgiest things Tour Pros have done.And we're back in January 2025 with the great support of PING, see your local golf shop or professional for a PING club fitting. Just like they have with Nick O'Hern, PING will help you play your best. The Golf Clearance Outlet, great prices on the best gear. See them instore in Melbourne, Sydney,

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8:12

🏝️ Fun 2024 Moments: Top 5 Golf Divorces

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2024/12/21

Nick O'Hern and Mark Allen are having a break over the holidays, and we are sharing some of the memorable moments from the last year. Today, a Top 5 that could have gone pear-shaped - Nick's Top 5 'golf divorces'.And we're back in January 2025 with the great support of PING, see your local golf shop or professional for a PING club fitting. Just like they have with Nick O'Hern, PING will help you play your best. The Golf Clearance Outlet, great prices on the best gear. See them instore in Melbourne,

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1:24

☎️ Voicemail: Tour Pro Scott Laycock from Hobart

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2024/12/19

Former Tour Pro Scotty Laycock was listening to this weeks Talk Birdie to Me episode and had a story about 'Two Ball Worst Ball'. If you have a comment over the break, feel free to leave a voicemail, you can do it on your phone and we'd love to hear from you - particularly if you, or someone you're playing with, have a great shot, or their first round, or anything that you'd like to share!It's easy, head to our website here on your mobile or computer, hit the record button, tell us who you are,

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1:04:16

Ep94: Top 5 Golf Moments of 2024, Nick: 'I Wasn't...

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2024/12/17

Final pod of the year, and there is plenty to discuss!Mark opens with some news that he says is good but can't tell us. Confused? We were as well. Mark asks Nick if he thinks Golf Australia have any firm thoughts on the Australian Open moving forward. We discuss what next steps might be. Mark says that if Golf Australia are not preparing for the next Open, the format, date and structure now, there is a risk that next year if nothing is confirmed by June, they will look 'rudderless'.Nick reveals his

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13:04

🏌🏿‍♂️Bonus: Sandbelt Golf Tips, Sprinklers and...

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2024/12/12

As we get closer to wrapping the year for Christmas (see what we did there?) another Q&A bonus pod where we run through some questions from the Talk Birdie Wolfpack.Sammy has written in about a young star called Riley, a year 8 fella, who he met at Lonsdale Links. A good reminder for Mark that he needs to play Lonsdale Links.Dan from Brisbane has a rules question from the Australian PGA in Brisbane to do with balls on or adjacent to sprinkler heads.Muttonhead has messaged a joke for Mark. It's

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1:09:53

Ep93: Karrie Webb and a Criminal Oversight, Chili...

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2024/12/10

It's a big pod today, and we start with Mark telling us about being sacked as a young commentator, who was responsible, and whether he has forgiven that person? (Hint: He hasn't).We discuss Anthony Quayle's very unfortunate 7-shot penalty at the Vic PGA from the weekend, and Nick explains how it happened. Nick and Mark discuss players who copped penalties and still won. Nick brings up one of the best 'even par' performances he's ever seen from the weekend, and Mark tells a story about Peter Thomson

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1:03

☎️ Voicemail: Mark from Hawthorn

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2024/12/08

Talk Birdie to Me Wolfpack member Mark from Hawthorn in Melbourne has an idea about how to treat and acknowledge the various national opens around the world. It's actually not bad, have a listen and let us know what you think of the idea. We'll discuss on the pod.If you want to leave a voicemail - it's easy, head to our website here on your mobile or computer, hit the record button, tell us who you are, where you're from, where you play your golf, and leave your message. Couldn't be easier, you'll

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10:48

🏌🏿‍♂️Bonus: Nick & Mark's 'Best Misses', Adelaide's...

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2024/12/05

Bonus pod this week where Nick and Mark run through a few questions from the Talk Birdie Wolfpack.Daniel from Ballina has a comment on the rakes at his course - he loves them, Nick and Mark a little less so.Jeremy wants to know if there is a chance the Australian Masters will ever return, Mark is biased of course given his beloved Huntingdale hosted the event for so long.Patto is about to head to Adelaide with his beautiful wife Mel for a holiday, they'd never been and would like to play some golf

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1:09

☎️ Voicemail: Damian from Melbourne

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2024/12/04

Talk Birdie to Me Wolfpack member Damian from Melbourne was at The Australian Open at the weekend, loved it, but saw a moment where he felt Curtis Luck was hard done by and explains to us in a voicemail today. If you want to leave a voicemail - it's easy, head to our website here on your mobile or computer, hit the record button, tell us who you are, where you're from, where you play your golf, and leave your message. Couldn't be easier, you'll be done in 60-seconds!We're here each week with the

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1:01:23

Ep92: Mark: The Australian Open 'Format Experiment'...

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2024/12/03

What a weekend! The Open was great, with some exceptional golf played. Congratulations to Ryggs Johnston, Jiyai Shin, and Simon Seungmin Lee.We're live from Titleist HQ surrounded by about a million boxes of Pro V1's and the simulator right behind us. We start with the Open and Johnston - his 'classic college swing', how he's come out of nowhere, and Mark asks Nick if he would have won if Kingston Heath had played like a typical sandbelt course. Nick gives his view and rationale. We discuss Lucas

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37:13

🏌🏿‍♂️Bonus: Special Guest Michael Peña - Hollywood...

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2024/11/28

It's Australian Open week, we're back at Kingston Heath and today we chat with Hollywood royalty, the brilliant actor Michael Peña. This is a real treat.We start with the obvious - finding out why is he in Melbourne. As well as being an extraordinary actor, Michael is a massive golf fan, if you're at the Open this weekend at Kingston Heath, keep an eye out, he'll be there. He plays off a handicap of between 3 and 4, and tells Nick and Mark what his view of the sand belt courses is, and what it has

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1:09:41

Ep91: Live at Kingston Heath. Guests: Cassie Porter,...

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2024/11/26

What a week, a wonderful Australian PGA, and it's Open week. We're live at Kingston Heath in the leadup to the Open. A slightly longer pod today given we're at Kingston Heath and there is so much to see and discuss, and we also got excited!Mark entered Monday Qualifying, and whilst he wasn't necessarily expecting to make it through he had a lot of fun and he talks us through the scores that the 4 Monday Qualifiers ended up shooting.We discuss Elvis Smylie's brilliant performance in Brisbane. Nick

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0:50

☎️ Voicemail: Shaun McCorkell from Melbourne

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2024/11/22

Talk Birdie to Me Wolfpack member Shaun McCorkell heard Nick and Mark discussing hitting the ball into nets to address changes or technique refinement with your swing, and he had a story about hitting into nets as a kid - where it went slightly pear-shaped.If you want to leave a voicemail - it's easy, head to our website here on your mobile or computer, hit the record button, tell us who you are, where you're from, where you play your golf, and leave your message. Couldn't be easier, you'll be done

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23:40

🏌🏿‍♂️Bonus: Fun Nicknames for Tour Pros, Nick & Mark...

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2024/11/20

Bonus Q&A pod today.We hear from Alex who heard Nick and Mark talking about Corey Lamb's nickname and wants to know what some other tour pro nicknames are (or were), very funny, including Markos story about Lumpy the Caddy - which he has told before but never gets old.Daniel has a question about 7 Mile Beach in Tassie and whether it is potentially Australia's Tara Iti, which we discuss.Hef has a question for Nick following last weeks masterclass, we give him a buzz to elaborate.And finally

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1:03:42

Ep90: Hitting into Nets = Good. Matt Wallace =...

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2024/11/19

This week on Talk Birdie, Nick and Mark discuss Rory McIlroy locking himself away and hitting into a net to fix his swing. Both highly recommend this as a way to address any swing technique issues. And it has clearly worked given his performance at the weekend. Mark talks about Jonathan Yarwood's comments on Rory's swing, and talks through when Steve Bann was making changes to K.J. Choi's swing. Nick talks about playing with K.J Choi and what kind of bloke he was.We discuss yesterdays voicemail from

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1:27

☎️ Voicemail: Former Tour Pro Scott Laycock on the...

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2024/11/17

A voicemail from former tour pro Scott Laycock from Royal Hobart today after listening to Nick O'Hern's Top 5 Q School moments, he had a funny story to do with the one ball rule.If you want to leave a voicemail - it's easy, head to our website here on your mobile or computer, hit the record button, tell us who you are, where you're from, where you play your golf, and leave your message. Couldn't be easier, you'll be done in 60-seconds.We're here each week with the great support of PING, see your

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