Are you making golf harder than it needs to be? Charlie Rymer and PGA Professional Grace Hurley join me to share practical advice, fresh perspective, and plenty of laughs about playing better and enjoying the game more.

First, Charlie Rymer explains that most amateurs don’t take enough club—and why moving up a set of tees could help you start playing offense instead of just trying to survive. Charlie also shares lessons in treating people well from Peter Jacobsen and the example of Arnold Palmer, plus how surviving cancer reshaped his outlook on gratitude. We catch up on his work at Springdale Resort in western North Carolina and discuss what professional golf needs to do to reconnect with fans.

Then, Grace Hurley makes her Next on the Tee debut. The former University of Idaho golfer shares her journey to becoming the 2023 PGA National Merchandiser of the Year in the resort category, why a golf brand’s biggest competition is square footage, and how she now helps brands find their place in the game through Catapult Group. We also explore friendship, patience under pressure, and her dad’s reminder to never give up—because your next shot could find the hole.

Great company, useful takeaways, and a healthy dose of Vitamin G.

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Next on the Tee—Where Golf Legends Live and Your Game Gets Better.

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You took the lesson. You bought the wedges. So why are the same mistakes still showing up on your scorecard?

Tom Patri and PGA Tour Champions pro Jason Caron join Chris Mascaro to explore the habits, practice choices, and decisions that could be holding your game back.

First, Tom Patri explains why improvement depends on what happens between lessons—and why heading straight from a lesson to the first tee can leave you frustrated. He shares how bringing back the waggle can reduce tension, why a reliable pre-shot routine matters under pressure, and how to make wedge bounce your friend when the turf changes. Plus, TP takes us behind the scenes of his time with legendary basketball coach Bobby Knight.

Then, Jason Caron shares his journey from Cape Cod to the PGA Tour, a career as a club professional, and a fresh opportunity on PGA Tour Champions. Hear how his wife helped him rediscover his swing, what makes his partnership with his caddie work, and why your quickest path to lower scores may begin at the short-game area.

Along the way, you’ll learn how to focus on where you want the ball to go, get more value from practice, and stop giving away strokes without chasing more distance.

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What does a PGA Tour caddie say when his player feels the pressure—and why does your best driving-range swing sometimes disappear on the first tee?

This week on Next on the Tee, I welcome PGA Tour caddie Colton Heisey and golf instructor Daniel Guest for conversations packed with inside-the-ropes stories and practical ways to improve your game.

Colton shares his journey from Pennsylvania caddie days to getting the call to be on the bag for Max Homa in the Bahamas—with just three days to get there and no passport. He reflects on working with Sahith Theegala, Matthew Wolff, Brandon Matthews, and Lexi Thompson as well, plus the emotions of earning his first PGA Tour victory alongside Ricky Castillo at the Puerto Rico Open.

We also explore how caddies earn trust, recognize nerves, and help players reset after a poor shot. Plus, hear the story behind a jaw-dropping Brandon Matthews drive that required carrying the ball 355 yards over water to get the eagle they needed to make the cut, and Colton’s two simple course-management tips for amateur golfers.

Then, Imagen Golf founder Daniel Guest explains his approach to helping golfers improve without overwhelming them with swing thoughts. We discuss:

• Identifying your biggest miss and building a personalized improvement plan
• Addressing a persistent slice
• Practicing more like you play so your range work transfers to the course
• Setting realistic distance expectations and choosing clubs that help you score
• Questioning common swing advice, including “keep your head down”

From managing pressure to making smarter decisions, these conversations offer ideas you can take straight to your next round—with a little Vitamin G for gratitude along the way.

Could trying harder be hurting your golf game? This week on Next on the Tee, former PGA Tour pro and golf legend Scott Gump shares how learning to let go helped him perform under pressure—and how you can bring that mindset to your next round.

Scott revisits earning medalist honors during the stroke play portion of the 1987 U.S. Amateur, his two Masters appearances, and finishing runner-up to David Duval at the 1999 Players Championship. He also explains his “goalposts” approach to finding more fairways, smarter club selection, and why aggressive golf doesn’t have to mean taking unnecessary risks. Plus, we hear about his work helping develop the next generation through the USGA’s U.S. National Development Program.

Then, Tim Reilly, Head of Digital Content & Strategy at GOLF Magazine and GOLF.com, makes his show debut. Tim shares his determined journey into sports media and takes us inside stories showing golf’s power to change lives—from a young caddie’s scholarship to a prison rehabilitation program.

He also brings us along for a dream round at Augusta National, complete with Sunday hole locations, and gets to use his favorite player’s locker. We round out the conversation with storytelling in the age of AI and the personal inspiration behind his Gut It Out Open benefiting the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation.

Great stories, practical lessons, and a healthy dose of Vitamin G—where golf legends live and your game gets better.

Why can you stripe the ball on the driving range, then step onto the first tee and suddenly forget how to play golf? And could fixing that frustrating slice be as simple as changing your grip?

This week on Next on the Tee, two great friends of the show return with terrific stories, practical tips, and plenty of laughs.

PGA Professional Christian Sheehan joins me from his new home in Northeast Pennsylvania at Huntsville Golf Club in Dallas, Pennsylvania. Chris takes us inside this spectacular Rees Jones design and shares his passion for building relationships and creating what he calls “golf addicts.” He also explains how to take your great range swing onto the course and shares a simple grip adjustment that can help eliminate that dreaded slice.

The Confidence Doctor, Dr. Bob Winters, returns with a hilarious story about the time he mistook David Feherty for Mark McNulty, and the wonderful lesson in kindness and humility that followed.

Doc also tackles why pressure changes everything when we’re playing golf. He shares how to get comfortable being uncomfortable, build confidence when every shot counts, and stop worrying about who’s watching us on the first tee.

His biggest message? Give yourself permission to be human, stop putting so much pressure on yourself, and remember that golf is supposed to be fun!

Great stories, tips you can take straight to the course, and a little Vitamin G along the way.

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Next on the Tee — Where Golf Legends Live & Your Game Gets Better.

What if the reason you keep slicing the golf ball isn’t what you think it is? And what if the extra distance you’ve been searching for isn’t inside the latest $600 driver—but locked inside your body?

This week on Next on the Tee, PGA Professional Brian Klocek and TPI-certified golf fitness specialist Shaun Diachkoff help us uncover ways to play better golf without chasing another swing thought or buying another piece of equipment.

Brian is the Director of Golf at Totteridge Golf Course in Greensburg, PA, and he shares a simple range drill that can help chronic slicers quiet an overactive upper body, improve their sequencing, and start hitting straighter shots. We also talk about how colder temperatures affect distance, what to wear so you stay warm without restricting your swing, and what makes their Rees Jones-designed Totteridge Golf Course such a special public golf experience in Western Pennsylvania.

And yes—we finally discover the secret behind the Totteridge hot dog that Gus Frerotte and his sons voted the best at the turn in the region.

Then Shaun Diachkoff asks us to look at our golf swing from a completely different perspective.

Sometimes the swing flaw you’ve spent years trying to fix isn’t really a swing problem at all—your body may simply be unable to get into the position you’re asking of it.

Shaun explains how limitations in the hips, thoracic spine, and shoulders can rob us of rotation, speed, consistency, and distance. He walks us through his approach to identifying those restrictions, restoring mobility, building strength, and ultimately creating more speed.

Plus, we get practical advice for staying loose during cold-weather rounds and what you can start doing this offseason to prepare your body for better golf in 2027.

Better movement. Straighter shots. More speed. More distance. And no new driver required.

Thank you for pressing play and joining me on Next on the Tee—where golf legends live and your game gets better.

If your golf game needs a little help heading into the fall, this episode of Next on the Tee is built for you.

We’re going to help you play your best golf of the season as we head into the Fall. We’re putting the playing lessons right up front so you can hear them on the way to the range, replay them before your round, and have them fresh in your mind when you step onto the first tee.

Resident Director of Instruction Tom Patri starts us off with a fix for one of the most common swing problems in golf: coming over the top. TP introduces us to his “Over the Top Chop” and explains how it can also help those of us battling the dreaded pull hooksies. He also weighs in on the Presidents Cup and why he believes J.J. Spaun deserved a spot on the team.

Then PGA Master Professional John Hughes returns—and I’m excited to announce that John is joining Next on the Tee as a monthly regular.

John’s first lesson might save you strokes without changing your swing at all: check your ego in the parking lot. He explains how to determine which tees you should actually be playing, why moving forward can make golf more enjoyable, and how playing the proper yardage gives you the opportunity to hit reasonable irons into greens and—imagine this—make more birdies.

John also shares why you may want to hover the club at address, just like Jack Nicklaus did, and what that simple adjustment can do for your swing.

More tips. More fun. Better scores.

That’s the direction we’re taking on Next on the Tee—giving you lessons you can take straight to the course, followed by the stories and conversations with golf’s greats that you’ve come to expect.

Thank you for pressing play and taking the journey to better golf with us.

This week on Next on the Tee, we’re mixing golf with a little football—and discovering once again that the two games have more in common than you might think.

We start with my “long-lost cousin,” John Mascari, Director of Golf at Alpine Country Club and former member of the New Jersey PGA Section Board of Directors. John and I talk about something that often gets overlooked: being a great PGA Professional is really about being in the relationship business. We also get into the New Jersey Mid-Am, Alpine’s relationship with nearby Baltusrol, some terrific New Jersey courses you may not know, and why U.S. teams continue to struggle in international team competitions.

Then it’s time to cross over to the gridiron with 2-time Super Bowl Champion Mark Collins. Mark is an avid golfer who shares some great stories about playing with Joe Montana and Marcus Allen during their Kansas City days, plus the putting lesson he recently received from PGA Tour legend Dave Stockton. We also talk Giants football, playing NFL games overseas, CTE, and the courses still on Mark’s golf bucket list.

We round things out with former Pro Bowl quarterback Jim Everett, one of the smartest offensive football minds I’ve had the pleasure of talking with over the years. Jim breaks down the Steelers, their young quarterbacks, and the young QBs around the league who have caught his eye. He also takes us back to his own playing days to explain when the NFL game finally slowed down for him and what really happens during those Combine interviews.

And here’s one you probably won’t see coming, and I’m not sure how it’s possible, but Jim owns all 762 football cards ever made of him.

Three great guests. Two sports. And a whole lot of great stories.

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This episode of Next on the Tee delivers spirited golf debate, remarkable comeback stories, and plenty of Western Pennsylvania flavor.

Resident Director of Instruction Tom Patri leads things off as we debate the Player of the Year race between Wyndham Clark and Scottie Scheffler, along with whether professional athletes should ever be allowed to regain their amateur status. We also discuss how NIL has blurred the line between amateur and professional sports.

Two-time PGA Tour Champions winner Brandt Jobe returns to share stories from UCLA’s dramatic 1988 National Championship comeback, his successful seasons on the Canadian and Japanese Tours, and the frightening accident that nearly ended his career. Brandt also reflects on his success at Muirfield Village, his two Champions Tour victories, and his fight to regain full status on that Tour.

Former Pro Bowl quarterback Gus Frerotte rounds out the show with stories about joining Green Oaks Country Club, his favorite Western Pennsylvania courses, and the best turn hot dogs in the area. Gus also shares the story behind his celebrity-tour hole-in-one, selects his ultimate Pittsburgh-area foursome, and offers his thoughts on the Steelers and why Terry Bradshaw might never have been given enough time to develop in today’s NFL.

It is another episode filled with great stories, honest opinions, and the people who make sports so much fun. Thank you for pressing play.