The 19th Hole Turf Podcast
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About
Welcome to The 19th Hole Turf, your go-to destination for all things golf course management, turf care, and industry insights.At The 19th Hole Turf, we are passionate about the art and science of maintaining pristine golf course landscapes. Whether you’re a golf course superintendent, groundskeeper, turfgrass professional, or simply a golf enthusiast interested in learning more about what goes into creating the perfect playing surface, you’ll find valuable resources, tips, and discussions here.Our blog and podcast are dedicated to exploring the latest trends, best practices, and innovations in golf course management and turfgrass science. From turf maintenance techniques and pest control strategies to irrigation management and sustainability initiatives, we cover a wide range of topics to help you achieve optimal results on your course.Join us as we dive deep into the world of golf course turf management, share expert insights from industry professionals, and connect with like-minded individuals who share our passion for the game and its lush green landscapes. Whether you’re looking to enhance your knowledge, improve your skills, or simply stay informed about the latest developments in the industry, The 19th Hole Turf is your trusted source for all things turf-related. So grab your putter, take a seat at the 19th hole, and let’s explore the fascinating world of golf course turf together. https://the19thholeturf.com/
Episodes
- 5 Changes Every Senior Golfer Needs to Make NOW
This episode details five essential changes for senior golfers, focusing on adapting swing mechanics, incorporating mobility exercises, using senior-specific equipment, and improving the short game to enhance performance and longevity on t…
- The tips, tricks and lifehacks you need to know when raising a young golfer
This episode provides parents with a roadmap for raising young golfers, emphasizing long-term enjoyment and positive experiences. It advises focusing on fun, proper equipment, short practices, and emotional support, while teaching life ski…
- 7 Clubs All Beginner Golfers Should Add To Their Golf Bag
This episode guides beginner golfers on selecting a minimalist set of seven clubs, prioritizing forgiving options like high-loft drivers, hybrids, and mallet putters. The advice emphasizes playability and confidence over advanced gear, sug…
- Easily improve your wedge play by doing this 1 thing
This episode of The 19th Hole Turf Podcast explains that improving scoring in golf involves prioritizing distance control with wedges. It suggests creating a wedge matrix that maps swing lengths to yardages, enabling consistent partial swi…
- How to Cure a Golf Slice
This episode provides a guide to curing a golf slice by addressing common causes like an open clubface and improper swing path. It details grip adjustments, alignment, and downswing techniques, along with drills and a practice plan to help…
- 10 Great Benefits of Playing Golf
This episode details ten benefits of playing golf, highlighting its positive impact on physical fitness, mental health, and social connections. The sport fosters patience, discipline, and strategic thinking, offering a fulfilling lifelong…
- Best Golf Travel Bags Of 2026
This episode reviews the best golf travel bags for 2026, evaluating brands such as Sun Mountain and Club Glove. It categorizes bags by features like protection and portability, offering guidance on accessories and selection criteria for go…
- How to Swing a Golf Club Correctly & Improve Your Game
This episode details the technical elements of a golf swing, including grip, posture, and alignment. It covers the kinetic sequence, drills to correct common errors, and the importance of the short game, mental discipline, fitness, and pra…
- The Best Golf Balls for 2026 - Our Expert’s Guide
This episode reviews the best golf balls for 2026, including Titleist and Callaway models, categorized by swing speed and desired feel. The guide offers buying advice based on skill level and budget, emphasizing consistency and short-game…
- How To Increase Your Swing Speed Off The Tee Without Losing Control
This episode of The 19th Hole Turf Podcast details a scientific method for increasing golf swing speed off the tee. It emphasizes mastering ground reaction forces and body sequencing over simply swinging harder, and includes advice on stre…
- 7 Steps Golfers Should Take To Add Distance Off The Tee
This episode details a seven-step strategy for golfers to increase driving distance by focusing on centered clubface contact, proper setup, and optimized launch conditions. It incorporates physical training and practical drills for measura…
- The Science Behind A Perfect Driver Launch Angle (And How To Achieve It)
This episode examines the scientific principles of golf driver launch angles, including the roles of ball speed, attack angle, and spin rate. It provides data-driven benchmarks and practical tips for optimizing equipment and technique to i…
- Justin Rose has 4 tips to help you make more birdies
Professional golfer Justin Rose shares four strategic tips on driving, irons, wedges, and putting to help players lower their scores by making more birdies.
- 2026 Golf Travel Guide Unveiled
The 2026 Golf Travel Guide covers the upcoming professional golf season and vacation spots. It includes the PGA Tour schedule, major tournaments, travel advice for fans, and rankings of premier resorts both domestically and internationally…
- Tiger Woods' PopsStroke Nashville Sets Opening Date
PopStroke Nashville, co-owned by Tiger Woods, is set to open in December 2025. This innovative venue offers year-round play on professionally designed courses, blending golf with dining and high-tech features.
- A Guide to Golfing in Greater Zion, Utah
This episode reviews Greater Zion, Utah, as a golf destination, highlighting its championship courses, unique high-desert scenery, and suitability for year-round play. It promotes the region as a high-value golf travel option.
- The 3 Shots You Need to Break 90
This episode details a golf strategy for breaking 90, focusing on mastering three essential shots: the Controlled Driver, the ¾ Wedge, and the Lag Putt. It emphasizes consistency and a bogey golfer mindset to eliminate high scores.
- Does Your Golf Swing Have Too Many Moving Parts?
This episode of The 19th Hole Turf Podcast explains that a golf swing with too many moving parts causes inconsistency. It offers a guide to simplification through drills focusing on grip, posture, and proper sequencing to create a more uni…
- Swing-Hacking - Top 12 Ways To Make A Better Swing
This episode details 12 high-leverage golf swing hacks focusing on small adjustments to improve performance. It covers techniques like grip pressure, hip rotation, and specific rules such as the '90-Degree Shoulder Turn vs. 45-Degree Hip T…
- High Launch, Low Spin = Distance in Golf
This episode explains how achieving maximum golf distance relies on a high launch angle and low spin rate, backed by aerodynamic principles and launch monitor data. It offers practical advice on swing adjustments, driver selection, and cho…
- Why Winter Is Great For Golf
This episode argues that winter is an excellent time for golf, citing benefits like quiet courses, faster rounds, and lower fees. It suggests winter conditions can improve scores and skills, and offers advice on gear and year-round play.
- How to Play Your Best Golf Every Time
This episode provides a comprehensive guide to achieving consistent golf performance through a holistic system. It covers physical conditioning, technical swing mastery, short game practice, course management, and mental strategies, includ…
- How Far Should I Hit My Driver?
This episode offers a data-driven guide to maximizing golf driver distance. It covers average benchmarks, the physics of distance, equipment optimization, and training plans for increased swing speed and accuracy.
- Hip Movement in the Golf Swing
This episode details hip biomechanics in the golf swing, explaining how hip movement generates power, maintains balance, and ensures consistent contact. It covers common faults from poor hip action and provides drills to improve mobility a…
- Why Your New Golf Clubs Won’t (Necessarily) Make You Better
This episode argues that new golf clubs won't necessarily improve your game. The podcast emphasizes that skill development, proper mechanics, course management, and mental strategy are more crucial for lowering scores than purchasing the l…
- Gear Effect in Golf: Understanding the Science Behind the Spin
This episode explains the physics of the gear effect in golf, a phenomenon where off-center hits cause the clubface to twist, imparting corrective spin. It details how club design features like bulge, roll, and MOI leverage this effect for…
- Why You Shouldn’t Copy the Golf Swings of the Pros
This episode explains that amateur golfers should not directly copy professional golf swings, as they are highly customized and often lead to frustration or injury. Instead, amateurs should focus on developing their own functional swing ba…
- The Only Thing the Golf Ball Cares About
This episode analyzes the physics of golf impact, detailing how the clubface's connection with the ball dictates its flight and trajectory. It covers the mechanics for optimal contact and the mental game's importance for focus and pressure…
- Vertical Gearing - A Key to Extra Distance in Golf
This episode of The 19th Hole Turf Podcast explores vertical gearing, a technique that uses vertical motion in the golf swing to increase driving distance. It details the biomechanics, physics, and training methods involved.
- The Second Most Important Thing in Golf
This episode discusses golf course management as a strategic decision-making process, ranking it second in importance to the golf swing. It covers planning shots, considering course elements, mental discipline, and adapting to conditions f…
- The Ultimate Guide to Golf Shot Accuracy
This episode details how to improve golf shot accuracy, emphasizing the '1-degree rule' and precision. It covers swing physics, pre-swing fundamentals, in-swing mechanics, course management, and practice strategies.
- Why “Keeping Your Head Down” Is Killing Your Golf Game
This episode of The 19th Hole Turf Podcast argues against the common golf instruction to "keep your head down." It posits that this advice creates tension, restricts rotation, and negatively impacts the swing. The episode advocates for all…
- Swing Path vs. Swing Direction - Understanding the Key Differences in Golf
This episode explains the difference between golf swing path, the clubhead's movement relative to the target line, and swing direction, the numerical angle at impact. Understanding these concepts and their relation to the clubface is cruci…
- The Number 1 Reason Why You’re Bad At Golf
This episode of The 19th Hole Turf Podcast explains that the main reason golfers struggle to improve is a lack of consistent and intentional practice. It highlights the need for deliberate effort in developing physical skills, mental stren…
- How To Fix Multiple Golf Swing Faults
This episode details how to diagnose and fix six common golf swing faults, including the slice, hook, topping, fat shots, loss of balance, and inconsistent contact. It provides targeted drills and emphasizes a structured practice plan focu…
- How Much Distance Are You Losing With Your Driver?
This episode details how golfers lose driver distance due to swing mechanics, equipment, ball contact, fitness, and environmental factors. It offers solutions like professional analysis and custom fitting to improve performance.
- Hit The Golf Ball Farther By Improving Spin Loft
This episode of The 19th Hole Turf Podcast details how golfers can increase driving distance by optimizing spin loft. It explains spin loft's role in ball spin and launch, offering strategies like adjusting angle of attack and dynamic loft…
- Why Your Golf Swing Changes Every Time
This episode of The 19th Hole Turf Podcast examines why golf swings lack consistency, attributing variability to physical, mental, technical, and environmental factors. It offers strategies like conditioning and routines to manage these in…
- Is Your Golf Swing Too Steep?
This episode of The 19th Hole Turf Podcast provides a guide to mastering the golf swing plane, focusing on correcting a steep swing. It covers identifying signs of a steep swing, its causes, and offers drills and solutions to achieve a mor…
- Could This Golf Study Change Your Game Forever?
This episode discusses a fictional golf study by the University of Sports Excellence, integrating biomechanics, psychology, and data analytics. It highlights the impact of micro-movements, sensory grounding for flow states, and data-driven…
- Should You Draw The Golf Ball?
This episode analyzes the strategy and mechanics of hitting a draw in golf, discussing swing path, clubface alignment, and the shot's benefits and risks. The decision to learn this shot depends on individual skill, swing tendencies, and go…
- The Hidden Secret To A Great Golf Swing
This episode details a holistic approach to mastering the golf swing, covering physical mechanics like grip and stance, mental strategies for focus and visualization, and the importance of fitness and proper equipment for a consistent swin…
- 10 Brutal Truths About Golf You Need To Hear
This episode of The 19th Hole Turf Podcast reveals ten "brutal truths" about golf, covering the high costs, difficulty, time commitment, and frustrating nature of the game. Despite its challenges, the episode notes that golf remains addict…
- Best Golf Gloves for Beginners
This episode provides a beginner's guide to golf gloves, explaining their importance for grip and technique. It details glove types, selection criteria, and reviews seven top options for new players.
- What is the Best Golf Ball for an Average Golfer?
This episode guides average golfers (mid-handicappers, 85-100 mph swing speed) on selecting the best golf ball. It covers ball construction and recommends models like TaylorMade Tour Response and Srixon Soft Feel for 2025.
- 10 Critical Steps to Developing a Winning Golf Strategy
This episode details a ten-step framework for creating a successful golf strategy. It covers assessing skills, setting goals, course management, routines, short-game focus, equipment optimization, mental strength, practice, and post-round…
- Tiger Woods Reveals One Of The Biggest Keys To His Success
This episode examines Tiger Woods' golf success, highlighting his mental preparation, visualization techniques, and routines. It details how his father, Earl Woods, cultivated his mental toughness, and emphasizes the importance of focus an…
- What Golf Clubs Should a Beginner Start With?
This episode details essential golf clubs for beginners, recommending a set of 8-10 clubs including woods, irons, and putters. It focuses on forgiving club designs and offers advice on budgeting and shaft materials for new golfers.
- 10 Reasons Why Golfers Don’t Improve
This episode details ten reasons why amateur golfers may not be improving, such as unfocused practice, neglecting fundamentals, and insufficient focus on the short game. It suggests seeking professional instruction and better course manage…
- The 5 Ball Flight Laws for Golf
This episode details the five essential ball flight laws governing golf shots: clubface angle, club path, angle of attack, impact position, and clubhead speed. Understanding these factors is crucial for diagnosing swing errors and improvin…