Episodes

  • Former Lion Anthony Watson on post-retirement life! Plus, what can rugby learn from golf?

    Former Lion Anthony Watson on post-retirement life! Plus, what can rugby learn from golf?
    Aug 12 2025
    Just hours after flying back from this year’s Lions Tour in Australia, former England international and Lion himself Anthony Watson joins Di Stewart for a chat on Why Golf!

    They discuss success for Andy Farrell’s side Down Under, and Anthony gives an insight into what it was like not being involved in this year’s tour.

    After thinking he’d never take up golf, Anthony also describes how he’s now become ‘addicted’ to the sport, that it’s taught him patience on a whole new level, and analyses why so many athletes from other sports take up golf in retirement.

    Plus, what can rugby learn from golf to ensure the sport’s success in future years?

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    37 mins
  • Rick Shiels on becoming the world’s biggest golf YouTuber & joining LIV Golf as a global ambassador!

    Rick Shiels on becoming the world’s biggest golf YouTuber & joining LIV Golf as a global ambassador!
    Jul 22 2025
    This week, we’ve flown to Southern Spain and Real Club Valderrama to meet the biggest golf YouTuber on the planet – Rick Shiels!
    He tells guest host Gabbie Partington how he first got into golf in Manchester, before his career trajectory changed dramatically when he set up a YouTube channel – initially to encourage golfers to book lessons with him!
    Rick also gives an honest assessment of his decision to become a LIV ambassador, despite initial reservations about the tour, and shares what it was like having backlash from his followers after the news was announced.
    Then we look ahead to the future – could shorter format competitions of only 12 holes a round become the norm? And what is being done to encourage golfers who have taken up the sport, but not reached an elite level, to continue?
    Rick’s become one of the most influential voices in the modern game – find out how in this episode!

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Pregnancy as a professional athlete and returning from injury with Annabel Dimmock

    Pregnancy as a professional athlete and returning from injury with Annabel Dimmock
    Jul 11 2025
    This week on Why Golf, Di Stewart is catching up with 2-time tour winner and Mum-to-be Annabel Dimmock!
    They meet each other at Sunningdale Heath Golf Club, where Annabel reveals how anxious she was to tell her sponsors about her pregnancy and some of the hurtful comments she received from social media users after revealing she was expecting.
    She also explains how hard it was like returning from surgery to remove a bone in her hand and highlights just how far women’s golf fashion has come in the last few years!

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    38 mins
  • Charity, philanthropy & ground-breaking golf tournaments with Kate Rose!

    Charity, philanthropy & ground-breaking golf tournaments with Kate Rose!
    Jun 23 2025
    Di is back and is joined by Kate Rose for the latest episode of Why Golf!

    After meeting her now husband, major winner Justin Rose, back in the early 2000s, Kate has gone on to establish the Kate and Justin Rose Foundation, to support disadvantaged young people around the world, and set up the hugely successful Rose Ladies Golf Series during the COVID pandemic.

    She shares her experiences of how golf and charity are so intertwined, what it was like watching Justin in a dramatic Masters play-off earlier this year and why she would encourage all women to get involved in the sport!

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    46 mins
  • Solheim Cup takeover in the Netherlands! With guest host Henni Zuël, Catriona Matthew and Anne van Dam

    Solheim Cup takeover in the Netherlands! With guest host Henni Zuël, Catriona Matthew and Anne van Dam
    Jun 10 2025
    Why Golf is back for series 3 and we’re starting off with a bang at the host venue for the 2026 Solheim Cup in the Netherlands – Bernardus Golf!

    Guest host Henni Zuel chats to someone who’s won the competition as both a player and captain, Catriona Matthew, about her memories of past editions, including a very dramatic win in 2019. She also explains why it’s so valuable to brands to get involved with women’s golf.

    Plus, Henni speaks to the new PING Junior Team Europe Solheim Cup captain Anne van Dam about what it means to her to have such a big golf event in the Netherlands, and about the kind of captain she wants to be.

    We also speak to Skyscanner’s Andre Le Masurier about why his company made the ground-breaking decision to invest in women’s golf as their first entry into sports sponsorship.

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    43 mins
  • Olympic silver medallist and Ryder Cup winner Tommy Fleetwood

    Olympic silver medallist and Ryder Cup winner Tommy Fleetwood
    Oct 28 2024
    For the final episode of the series, we’re chatting to Olympic silver medallist and Ryder Cup winner Tommy Fleetwood!

    He tells Di about his experience in Paris on his way to making the Olympic podium and what it was like securing the Ryder Cup for Europe in Rome in 2023.

    Tommy also describes how special it was meeting his golfing idol Ernie Els when he was just eight, the path he took to becoming a professional golfer and the pride he has in his golf academies in both the UK and Dubai.

    Plus what does he make of Michael McIntyre’s accusation that Tommy is to blame for the comedian’s glute injury?!

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    48 mins
  • Alfred Dunhill Links Championship – Part 2 with Brooks Koepka, Louis Oosthuizen and Peter Jones

    Alfred Dunhill Links Championship – Part 2 with Brooks Koepka, Louis Oosthuizen and Peter Jones
    Oct 17 2024
    In the second of a special 2-part episode from the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, we visit two of the most iconic golf courses in the UK - St Andrews and Kingsbarns!
    There Di speaks to 5-time major winner Brooks Koepka about the friendly rivalry with his brother and also 2010 Open winner Louis Oosthuizen about what drew him to playing on the LIV tour.
    Fellow South African Branden Grace also shares his thoughts about the future of golf and star of Dragons’ Den and Shark Tank Peter Jones hears our pitch for a new golf invention. Will he agree to invest?!

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    29 mins
  • Alfred Dunhill Links Championship – Part 1 with Jamie Redknapp, Ruud Gullit and Pablo Larrazabal

    Alfred Dunhill Links Championship – Part 1 with Jamie Redknapp, Ruud Gullit and Pablo Larrazabal
    Oct 14 2024
    Come and walk the iconic Old Course at St Andrews as we return to the home of golf for the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship!
    Di catches up with former footballers Jamie Redknapp and Ruud Gullit on how important golf is to their lives and just how exciting it is to take part in the tournament as amateurs.
    She also speaks to 2013 winner David Howell and Dan Brown, who reflects on his remarkable T10 finish at this year’s Open Championship. Pablo Larrazabal also reveals which lucky charm he always carries in his golf bag.

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    38 mins