Lawrence Donegan

McKellar Golf Podcast #130 Podcast Episode · McKellar · 03/04/2025 · 1h 30m

New podcast. A very special guest this week. @jcorrigangolf joins @GeoffShac and @lawrencedonegan to discuss steeliness of @RandA's spine when faced with Trump + where does LIV go from here?

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McKellar Golf Podcast #127 Podcast Episode · McKellar · 01/10/2025 · 1h 22m

In the latest McKellar pod @lawrencedonegan.bsky.social and I discuss the Palisades fire, TGL and other golf news. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

I've honestly fallen in love with this coverage of Celtic. Juco is a bit of a pessimist but I can personally affirm he's a big Tim so he's forgiven. Well worth the Substack subscription

Scottish football obviously doing something right...or at least something a lot better than it used to do. We're producing players who can succeed at a high level overseas.

Good man, Baz. 💪

Worked for 4 years at the Observer. Was a real honour, an ambition fulfilled. A publication well worth fighting for.

Looks to me like the Loop could get a bit messy....

The Links Trust made a ton of profit last year. It should put some of that money (and have it ring fenced) into an elite golf peformance set-up for Scotland along the lines of the Swedish model. You and me will be in charge.

Second tee to 18th green...18th tee to the 16th green, I think.

Looks brilliant. NLU did a film of the day. Was very glad to see all you media freeloaders got the worst weather possible. 😂

$23m for doing a terrible job is disgraceful. The Joe Ogilvie era cannot come quickly enough. Infinitely smarter and, you would have to think, a whole lot cheaper.

£750 ..sounds daft to say but amid the modern insanity of "elite golf course" greens fees that's actually reasonable (certainly less than I thought it would be for what you get). The Links Trust is a good organization, IMHO.

In a year he took six weeks off, oversaw the beginning of a ratings decline and lost a few blue chip sponsors. Makes sense.

A sporting £5 says Hearts don't re-sign Shankland (unless he takes a big pay cut). They're not that daft. Not any more.

929: Exit interview with the R&A's Martin Slumbers on where golf is headed No Laying Up - Golf Podcast · Episode

Since No Laying Up doesn't seem to have bothered, let me post on this platform an interview they've just done with outgoing R&A CEO Martin Slumbers. It's excellent, as has been Slumbers' tenure at the governing body. What a transformation he wrought .. thank God.
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This is phenomenal, although not if you're trying to write a book and need to concentrate on stuff that has nothing to do with Celtic.. 🤦😂

What a career!! What an obituary.👌♥️

Golf....crazy.

Scott didn't win until he was 23...

He's a kid. Been learning. 22yo...and he's just won a ET event...

Elvis Smyle winning alert. Tune in. Get in early on the next Adam Scott.

Nostradamus. 👌💚

Seconded.

Murray as a coach? "Come on son, be harder on yourself. Waste more energy on moaning about everything...."

Loved it. 😂😂

John Huggan interviews outgoing R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers. And it is absolutely brilliant. Huggy pulls no punches and Slumbers answers everything.
Slumbers has made a great contribution to golf. And so has Huggy.
A must read.

If he had gone to college in America he would have just graduated. And God knows what he would have been doing this week. It's a bold choice to forego a "plan B" but sometimes you have just got to back yourself. If you wanna be an elite pro, then go for it.

He's 22, I think. Tall and skinny.

A mean-spirited, snobby obit. Bloody Guardian. Though there is this amazing tidbit, which I didn't know.

"Prescott duly became the Labour candidate for the safe seat of Hull East. He was elected at the June 1970 general election with a 22,000 majority over the Tory candidate, Norman Lamont."

Connecting with the voters. No, really. He was. A normal person wouldn't stand for some wanker throwing an egg at his head from 2 yards away. Neither did Prescott. That's where the connection came from.