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Joe Buck has called six Super Bowls and 23 World Series. He’s a member of the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame and has received the Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Buck has been the voice of some of American sports’ biggest moments over the past several decades. He has faced numerous challenges along the way, but he told GOLF’s Subpar Podcast that nothing compares to the challenge of calling professional golf.

Buck worked for FOX when the network acquired the rights to the U.S. Open and started broadcasting the major championship in 2015. Starting that year at Chambers Bay, he discovered that calling professional golf, especially if you’re only doing it once or twice a year, is a different beast than calling the NFL or MLB on a weekly basis.

“Easily the most challenging thing for me to do,” Buck told Subpar co-hosts Drew Stoltz and Colt Knost. “I remember when FOX got the rights and Johnny Miller was pissed off and everybody at NBC was mad. I was like indignant, like, ‘How could they be mad its network to network?’And Johnny Miller was like, ‘You don’t just fall out of a tree and do a U.S. Open.’ It upset me. I was like, ‘Well, we’re going to do great.’ He was right. He was dead right.

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“It’s hard to pick up the PGA Tour and do our national championship having not done anything else to that point and trying to act like you’ve been there every other week,” Buck continued. “It’s like when I do baseball. I just did a Dodgers-Mets game. I haven’t done a game in a year. It’s hard when you’re not there on a day-by-day basis, and you haven’t kind of walked through the recent history and been there and been attentive to it and known who is hot coming in and you don’t have to research that stuff.”

For Buck, the most difficult thing was that he wasn’t seeing what he was calling with his own eyes. He had to rely on what he saw through monitors and heard through his earpiece.

“Then you add to that the layer of, I’m not looking at any of this with my own eyes,” Buck said. “I’m sitting with my back to the course. I love that game. That doesn’t mean anything. That doesn’t make me any more qualified to do it than anyone else, and I’m not watching it with my own eyes.

“I’m looking forward at cameras and at monitors, and I’m going off information I’m getting out of my ear or from the back of the studio. That’s a weird sensation for me. I usually have the best seat in the house; it’s generated out of my mind for better or worse, I’ve seen it with my own eyes, I can put my own thoughts to it, and now I’m just going off the information [I’m getting through my earpiece].

“You’re trying to put all that together, maintain the scoreboard, trying to create a narrative of why certain players are ascending, why guys are falling apart, remembering the previous shot that happened. It was way more than I ever thought it would be.”

Buck felt that he and his FOX team got the hang of calling golf around Year 5, when they called Gary Woodland’s win at Pebble Beach. But FOX sold the rights back to NBC after that tournament, and Buck’s time calling the U.S. Open ended.

To hear more from Buck, check out the entire episode on YouTube.

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Like any job, there’s a learning curve, even for guys like Joe Buck. Buck and his Fox Sports team called the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open from 2015 to 2020, up until the broadcast partnership abruptly ended in June 2020.

Buck joined this week’s Subpar podcast to discuss his time calling golf on TV, what it’s like to work a Super Bowl, his Mount Rushmore of broadcasters and more. During the golf conversation, he went deep on the learning curve of calling golf on TV.

While he said it was difficult to get used to things like the correct terminology the broadcast desired — i.e. teeing ground, not tee box; or hole location, not pin, etc. — he said he learned his biggest lesson when he fell into a trap he had long warned young broadcasters about.

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“I found that I was trying to prove how much I knew about the players and their recent history and where they are in the Official World Golf Ranking — all the other stuff — and what was missing was, OK, we just saw Spieth putting for par, and he missed it, shot, shot, and now we are back to Spieth. Like putting the narrative together and what we are watching and trying to build that versus trying to prove what I knew. I fell into every trap that I tell young broadcasters not to fall into of being married to your notes and your research instead of just watching what was going on and commenting on that.

“It was a steep learning curve, and I’m not saying I learned it, but by the end I was like, Man, I missed the mark here for a couple of years now. I gotta get back to what I do, which is seeing, reacting and trying to build why someone is red hot, what kind of run they are on and where someone’s tournament fell apart. That’s what’s interesting to the viewer.”

Subpar co-host Colt Knost added that when he first started calling golf for CBS, veteran Frank Nobilo told him to “watch the screen” and “react” versus focusing on notes. Buck agreed.

“All that stuff [in your notes] is stuff that’s happened,” Buck said. “What’s going on on the screen has never happened before, and if you are missing that because you are digging through your notes for something you wrote a week prior, you are missing the boat. If a big wind comes in and throws every note out of the booth, you should still be able to do the game or tournament. And I fell into the trap I warned guys against all the time.”

You can listen to the complete interview with Buck here, or watch it on YouTube below.

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If you struggle taking a good range warm-up to the golf course, you aren’t alone. Pros deal with the same type of phenomena.

It was one of the topics sports psychologist Julie Elion discussed on the latest episode of GOLF’s Subpar podcast, where she also talked about her work with pro golfers (including U.S. Open champ Wyndham Clark) and amateurs, as well as her new book, “Mastering Your Mental Game,” which will be available next week.

Striping the ball on the range only to completely lose that feel on the golf course is a common problem for golfers. Elion says, for recreational players, the key is to dig deep, try to figure out their best competitive state and choose goals (which she also discussed on the podcast). She said it’s important to “realize you are who you are and be present with it.”

“If you can keep repeating something about how you want to feel and go with that, I think that’s going to serve you better than getting angry at that first drive hooked,” she said. “I have a lot of people over the years who have first-tee jitters, from pros to myself, so I try to help prepare mentally knowing you might feel that. Then, how are you going to respond to that? So you are already prepared that those feelings are coming out. OK, so how are you going to deal with them?”

To further explain her point, Elion said she works with one pro who battled first-tee jitters, even in things such as pro-ams. Her recent homework to him was simple: start your pro-am by hitting a bad shot on purpose.

“Intentionally hit it in the water and then deal with the feelings,” she said. “And then that first tee on Thursday, he was already prepared for the worst that could happen, which was to put it in the water. And he was ready, and it worked.”

For more from Elion and to learn how a strong mental game can help you, listen here or watch below.

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“Without her, none of this would be possible for Wyndham Clark.”

That’s how Colt Knost introduced this week’s Subpar guest, mental-game guru Julie Elion, who has worked with a number of the game’s top players, including newly-minted CJ Cup Byron Nelson champion Wyndham Clark.

On the episode, Elion, whose new book, “Mastering Your Mental Game,” will be available next week, discussed her work with Clark, and the progress he’s made over the years.

Reflecting on his recent win, Elion cited the pride she felt watching the final round of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson. The situation: Clark, in the hunt, encountered a mud ball on the par-5 9th hole. He sought casual-water relief from two rules officials and was denied. But he still made par on the hole en route to a final-round 60, winning the tournament by three shots.

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“I was riveted,” Elion told hosts Knost and Drew Stoltz. “Because I was so hoping he could look at it the right way, and he’s worked really hard to do that. He looked so good. It wasn’t that I was doubting him. But it was those moments that we have focused on, like how to use everything to get better and for your advancement and to learn from instead of, why did this happen to me?

“I had heard many times, ‘I always roll into the divot’ or ‘I get the bad lie,'” she continued. “So I was teetering, and he was amazing. He was so amazing. I’m really proud of him because he really does the work.”

What does that work entail? Part of Elion’s process with players like Clark involves having them set goals and mission statements for themselves for each round.

“We switch it from daily goals to mission statements, because we just need to shake it up,” Elion said. “But what started to happen is those morph back into daily goals. So, I would say, ‘Well, how’d you do today? And what are you trying to accomplish mentally today?’

“So, the mission statement was kind of a little more global. But every one of my clients — not everyone, but pretty much everyone — sticks to a protocol of, ‘What am I trying to feel today?’ It might be confidence, it might be free, it might be no leaderboards, it might be, ‘I don’t like who I’m playing with, and I’m not gonna let it bother me.’ It could be anything. But like I said earlier, I just try to stay on them to make sure they’re paying attention, not to just technical.”

Those goals, Elion says, are intended to remind the players of what they’re good at, and keep them in the present — something Clark exemplified to an impressive degree on Sunday at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson.

For more from Elion, including some advice for recreational players, check out the entire Subpar episode below.

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In a September 2025 appearance on GOLF’s Subpar podcast, PGA Tour pro-turned-analyst Johnson Wagner detailed his best and worst shot recreations of the year. Golf Channel viewers may remember Wagner’s pick for the worst — an attempt to chip cross-handed, which he skulled 60 yards over the front of the green during a PGA Championship segment at Quail Hollow.

“It was humiliating,” Wagner said on Subpar. “I had my brother, wife, son, all his friends were out there watching, and it was — it’s brutal to do something like that on live television.”

This week, Wagner returned for another Subpar guest appearance, and the conversation turned once again to Wagner’s embarrassing on-course moments. But this time, a shot from the Open Championship at Royal Portrush was top of mind.

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“This wasn’t really a recreation,” Wagner told hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz. “It was early in the week, I think it was Wednesday, and it’s like, go out there and highlight some spots.”

Wagner found a nice gap in play after a group that included Jordan Spieth and Wyndham Clark and decided to start rolling.

“Royal Portrush 16, the par-3 with the, it’s barranca down to the right, just this massive hillside, and our air time is still during the day over there and so there’s a lot of people on the golf course playing,” Wagner said. “I think it was Jordan Spieth and Wyndham Clark were coming through 16 but there was nobody behind him for like 30 minutes so I knew I could fit it in this time slot.

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“So as soon as they got off the green, I walked down there, tossed the ball, and the grandstand had been packed behind the green because of Spieth and Wyndham, but as soon as they got off the green, people started exiting. And so they’re all exiting out and I talk about this thing on the hillside and I’m like, just don’t chunk it, just don’t chunk it. And I catch it square in the middle of the forehead.”

Wagner said he doesn’t like having to yell ‘fore’ because of his microphone, but luckily a marshal did it for him.

“People in the grandstand, they were like, oh my God, make him stop, make him stop,” he said. “And so then I had to go up and talk about this little bathtub-like thing on the left side where you wanna hit it, and meanwhile my son’s with me and he’s just like, off camera he’s got the biggest smile on his face that he had that entire night. It was just, it was disastrous and it could have, like, that’s the only time I almost really could have killed somebody.”

For more stories from Wagner, including the details of his new role with CBS, check out the full episode of Subpar below.

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In his competitive prime, Johnson Wagner knocked down enough flagsticks and drained enough big putts to win three times on the PGA Tour.

But he’s better known these days for striking shots that don’t count toward his score.

As a reporter and analyst, first for NBC/Golf Channel and now for CBS Sports, Wagner, 46, has gained a fervent fan base for a segment in which he recreates (or attempts to, anyway) pivotal moments from that day’s action. 

For golf junkies, it’s must-see TV. But how did it come about?

On a recent episode of GOLF’s Subpar podcast, Johnson told the origin story. 

It happened in the opening round of the 2024 Players Championship, where Rory McIlroy, having hooked his drive into the water on the par-4 7th hole, took what some regarded as a questionable drop. The incident sparked a discussion with McIlroy’s playing partners, Jordan Spieth and Viktor Hovland, over where the ball had crossed the hazard line.

For Johnson, it also sparked a thought, which he shared with his producers.

“If we get the camera angle that shows the ball bounce and I throw it into the ground, I can prove that (Rory) took a good drop,” Johnson said, recounting the conversation with his bosses to Subpar co-hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz.

Given the green light, Johnson went out to the 7th hole later in the day to do exactly that. He was with his son, which was helpful. The two played a game of long toss so Johnson wouldn’t blow his arm out.

“I need to get to 180 ball speed,” he said.

The warm-up went well. But nothing could have prepared him for what transpired when he threw the ball for real, only to watch it land just above the red hazard line and dart left. The evidence seemed damning. Leaving the course after the film, Johnson called his producer to voice concern.

“I feel like I proved that Rory took a bad drop,” Johnson said.

His producer had good news.

“Have you checked social media?”

The segment was a hit. A viral star was born. And he soon had a chance to shine again. The following day, during the second round of the Players, McIlroy hit another poor drive on the 7th, a block into the trees, which he followed with nifty recovery: a low-hook bounce shot to get back in play.

For the second time in two rounds, Johnson went out to recreate the shot. Easier said than done. Johnson’s attempt caromed off a tree and bounced back at him.

“It wasn’t a shank,” Johnson said, though many delighted viewers believed it was.

Not that it mattered. Johnson and Golf Channel were clearly onto something. Who could forget, for instance, the moment in the gloaming at Pinehurst No. 2 in June 2024, when Johnson attempted to replicate Bryson DeChambeau’s U.S. Open-clinching blast from a green-side bunker on the 18th hole?

If that one escapes you, not to worry. Johnson recounts the details on the podcast, too. You can watch the entire episode below.

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With the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund withdrawing financial backing from LIV Golf after the 2026 season, everyone is wondering what’s next. What’s next for the breakaway league? And what’s next for its marquee players, namely Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm.

This week at LIV Virginia, Rahm said he didn’t “see a way out” of his current contract with LIV, which goes for several more years. As for DeChambeau, whose contract ends after the 2026 season, he told several outlets, including ESPN and Sports Illustrated, that he’s prepared to focus on growing his YouTube channel while playing in the tournaments that “want him” should LIV go away. DeChambeau admitted that his team has spoken with the PGA Tour but would not divulge the nature of the talks. The two-time U.S. Open champion told Skratch it would ultimately be up to the PGA Tour members to decide if they want him to come back.

Golf Channel’s Gary Williams joined the latest episode of the Subpar podcast to discuss where LIV goes from here and whether or not he thinks DeChambeau is serious about focusing on YouTube and playing the four majors.

“No, not in full,” Williams told co-hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz. “He’s being him. He’s also the guy who, when he was ascending, got maniacal about long drives and started participating in long drive contests. Which people were going, that is going to be debilitating to you actually putting scores in a box. No, he will not do that.”

Williams noted it would be “disappointing” if DeChambeau chose to prioritize YouTube over competitive professional golf since he is currently in the middle of his major championship window.

“It’s funny that he’s suggesting [focusing on YouTube],” Williams said. “If he does do that, it’s disappointing in this respect — I give him immense respect for this: he has figured out Augusta National to a degree, where he had almost no idea how to solve that Rubik’s Cube. He contends in almost every major. … He is always going to be a factor at a U.S. Open. He’s likely always going to be a factor at a PGA. He is as much of a sure thing to be on the first couple of pages of a leaderboard at a major championship. I give him credit for that. But he’s not going to do that, and if he does do that, he won’t continue to contend in major championships. That’ll be too bad because major championship prime windows are not as long as people think they are.”

When Brooks Koepka left LIV Golf to return to the PGA Tour last December, DeChambeau had all the leverage in contract negotiations with LIV and the PIF. Now that the PIF is out of the equation, Williams sees the PGA Tour as the only option for DeChambeau. The leverage he once had is gone.

“But what’s happened to him, my analogy in terms of what he thought he had to play with was, the Yankees and the Dodgers are both bidding for him and now the Dodgers are no longer interested,” Williams said. “That’s the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund. So are the Yankees, the PGA Tour, going to bid against themselves? No, they are not.”

To hear more from Williams on LIV’s future, DeChambeau’s value to the PGA Tour and more, check out the YouTube video below.

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The anticipation killed Chaz Bowker.

When the YouTube Golf influencer finished filming Barstool Sports’ Internet Invitational, he knew they had the goods. Only one question remained.

“After the event, I was like, this is something absolutely unbelievable,” Bowker told co-hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz on the latest episode of the Subpar Podcast. “This is going to be something in the books that everyone is going to remember. The waiting game hit. I was like, when’s it coming out? When’s it coming out? Then, once it came out, it just went whoosh. It was amazing.”

When the event finally dropped three months after filming, Bowker, aka Chazzy Golf, had just over 80,000 followers on Instagram. Now, he has 169,000. Bowker, who is 4-foot-4, competed in the Short Stature Division in three U.S. Adaptive Opens was one of the breakout stars of Barstool’s viral golf tournament.

In the third episode, after the Luke Kwon drama had died down, Bowker burst onto the scene with a blistering scrambling performance that saw him sink $24,000 worth of putts in a win over Frankie Borelli and Good Good’s Bubbie Broders.

Kwon became the villain of the Internet Invitational when he slept through his 9:30 a.m. tee time in the second episode and cost his team a full point. Kwon showed zero remorse and said it wasn’t that serious. All of which set the YouTube Golf internet ablaze.

On a previous episode of Subpar, Barstool Sports’ “Fore Play” podcast host Sam “Riggs” Bozoian, who captained the team opposite of Kwon’s, explained how the viral villain moment took even those at Barstool by surprise.

“It’s funny because when we were looking back, after we finished, we’re all happy. We all thought it went well,” Bozoian said. “We all thought the drama was crazy. And looking back, I didn’t even think about the Luke Kwon situation. That’s how many other things happened and like, how good it gets. It didn’t even occur to me.

“I was the captain of the opposing team, so I was already happy that he slept in and I already said thank you to him, but I would go up to him again and be like, the best thing that happened was you sleeping in,” he continued. “It took over the internet. It sucks for him. And, like kind of a crazy amount of piling on for someone that just slept in. So I honestly feel bad for Luke Kwon to a degree, and he could have handled it better afterwards.

“We all could handle sh– better in our whole lives, so whatever. But for him to then go to like, this super villain because he just like slept in and then wasn’t overly apologetic, it’s like probably not worth how much sh– he’s gotten.”

(If you’re confused by any of this, GOLF’s Dylan Dethier has an excellent breakdown of the entire Kwon situation here.)

To hear more from Bowker, check out the entire episode below:

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If you’re a fan of online golf influencers, chances are you’ve heard of Chaz Bowker, also known as “Chazzy Golf.”

Bowker, who is 4-foot4 and plays regularly in adaptive golf tournaments, participated in last year’s viral Internet Invitational — a made-for-YouTube tournament that pitted 48 golf personalities against each other for a million dollar prize, and where every moment was filmed and later released in six parts that spanned 16 hours and spawned millions of views — and gained a legion of new fans with his clutch play.

On this week’s episode of Subpar, Bowker told hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz the story of how he went from working as a chef in a high-end restaurant to becoming an internet golf star.

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Bowker said his golf life began when he was a child, hitting shots with a sawed-off club. When he was in middle school, Bowker realized his size didn’t hinder his game, and he could compete with — and beat — “normal-size” players. Bowker made his varsity golf team as a freshman, and then went to a culinary arts school in Italy after graduating from high school.

After his time in Italy, Bowker worked as a chef for 12 years, playing golf all the while. But it wasn’t until he connected with trick-shot artist and YouTube personality Josh Kelley that his career path really took a turn.

“[Kelley] went on my Instagram Live and said come out and play Atlantic City Country Club,” Bowker explained. “Went out and played, and it was just like a hit. Like we’ve known each other for three, four years and it’s been history since.”

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At the time of his first round with Kelley, Bowker said he had about only 4,000 followers on Instagram, but he quickly realized that life as an online personality could be possible and decided to give it a go.

“I was already playing the adaptive tour, and I went up to my chef,” Bowker said. “I said, Chef, I don’t think I can cook anymore. He goes, why? I go, I’m gonna go play golf. He goes, I’ve been waiting for you to say that because I, I believe in you. And he just said, if you ever need another job, whatever, golf doesn’t work out, come right back and put your apron on.”

Based on his success since then, it doesn’t appear that Bowker will be returning to restaurant work anytime soon. He now has more than 168,000 followers on Instagram and 30,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel.

To hear more from Bowker, including the details of his Internet Invitational experience, check out the full episode of Subpar below.

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If you think Tour pros do a lot of number-crunching, consider what it’s like to be an NFL coach. Juggling rosters. Devising plays. Calculating odds for everything from field goals to fourth downs. 

The job requires a ton of quantitative heavy lifting, and not just during the season. Things really get head-spinning when the draft rolls around.

Sean Payton knows the drill.

The current head coach of the Denver Broncos and former Super Bowl-winning honcho of the New Orleans Saints, Payton joined the Subpar podcast to discuss his own golf game, hanging out with Jordan Spieth and, of course, what it’s like for a head coach during the NFL Draft — which is going on right now in Pittsburgh.

“We started at eight this morning [in the war room], we’re on a dinner break now, and we’re on until eight tonight,” Payton said. If not later.

With seven rounds and hundreds of prospects to consider, draft week is merely the culmination of a drawn-out process that begins the moment the NFL season ends. At that point, Payton said, the team’s brain trust has a “front board” meeting to assess the talent pool and the squad’s roster needs. Out of those meetings come what are known as “stacks” — ranked lists of players in each position, along with educated guesses of the round in which they’re apt to be selected. 

As the draft itself approaches, and scouts evaluate each player in the combine, the picture grows clearer. Even then, though, a lot depends on how early — or late — you get to pick. Teams with early first-round picks can narrow down their wishlists to just a few players, assured that at least one of them will still be available. Teams that pick later have to widen their scope.

“If you went to the fifth round, now it’s going to be one of 20 players,” Payton said. “The further out you go, it’s like the shotgun buckshot. It just spreads.”

In that respect, the Broncos’ brass have had their hands full this year, as the Broncos have to wait until the 62nd slot of the second round to make their first selection. It won’t get any easier on Saturday, either.

“We hold the last pick of the draft, Mr. Irrelevant,” Payton said. “And the second-to-last pick, that’s Mr. Vice President Irrelevant.” 

He was kidding. They’re not irrelevant at all. Unlike the NBA, Payton said, low-round picks often make the NFL, as do a healthy number of un-drafted players. That’s another way of saying that those lower-round picks get careful scrutiny, because they very well might end up on the roster, or wind up as leverage in other deals down the line.

Saturday, the final day of the draft, is moving day on the PGA Tour. For Payton and Co., too.

For more from Payton, you can listen to the episode here or watch on YouTube below.

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