Chasing Pars Golf Podcast

In this episode I was joined by 2x Ladies European Tour winner & 2x Solheim Cup participant Becky Brewerton who kindly came on for a great chat about her established career and what things are like at the minute having transitioned into a pro caddy since stopping playing in 2023. Becky is from St Asaph in Northern Wales and turned pro in 2004 after a brilliant Junior & Amateur career which included representing Great Britain & Ireland at 2000 Curtis Cup and 2002 Espirito Santo Trophy. Becky represented Wales 3 times at European Ladies' Amateur Team Championships, she is also a 2x Welsh Girls' Amateur Champion, 2x Welsh Ladies' Amateur Champion & Ladies' European Amateur Champion. In 2003 Becky held the lead until the 17th hole on Sunday at Tenerife Women's Open as an amateur. Becky turned pro in 2004 after finishing 13th at LET Final Q School and would make an instant impact on LET becoming a consistent figure on the tour. In 2007 she would win her maiden LET title at Chart Hills for Ladies English Open defeating Linda Wessberg, Kirsty Taylor & Karen Stupples by 3 shots before winning a 2nd title in 2009 at Panoramica Club for Open de Espana Femenino. Becky would get picked for 2007 Solheim Cup at Halmstad Golfklubb in Sweden joining the likes of legendary Annika Sorenstam, Dame Laura Davies, Trish Johnson, Suzann Petterssen & Catriona Matthew which was won by USA 16-12 before getting a second bite at the cheery 2 years later in 2009 at Rich Harvest Farms in Illinois which would feature a young upcoming Anna Nordqvist the first of her 9 Solheim Cups. Becky since stopping in 2023 has been caddying on LET for players such as Virginia Elena Carta & Meghan MacLaren and was good to chat about her different outlook in comparison to some of the players on the bag for. Want to thank Becky for taking time to come on the podcast it was great to speak with someone of her calibre with the longevity she showed in her glittering career. I hope you enjoy! Be sure to listen, download, like & subscribe via Podbean, Apple Podcasts & Spotify & be sure to leave a 5 star review it helps the show massively, thanks!

After a little bit of a break I was joined by Poland's history maker in Dorota Zalewska who became the first ever Polish player to win a tour card on Ladies European Tour in 2024 gaining 3 top 20's in her rookie season & held the lead at this year's Dutch Open at Goyer.   Dorota is from Szczesin, Poland and started out the game with her father at the age of 10 at Modry Las GC and has won Polish Junior Championship, Polish Matchplay & Polish Amateur Ladies Open. Dori went to University of Tennessee at Chattanooga winning 4  times at Chattanooga including NCAA Raleigh Regionals in 2023 and has represented Poland at 4 Espirito Santo Trophy's & 2 European Ladies' Amateur Team Championships.    Growing up Dori played numerous sports including Tennis where we eventually talk about Polish sports people including now 6x Grand Slam winner Iga Swiatek, Hubert Hurkacz & the legendary Robert Lewandowski. Dori speaks about her admiration for everything that Iga Swiatek has done in Tennis for the whole scale of Poland. We also have a chat about Makaron z Trustkawkami which is effectively Pasta with Strawberries & Cream which came into the spotlight recently as Swiatek's favourite meal.   I want to thank Dorota for coming on and being a pleasure to chat with. I wish her all the best in her quest to keep her playing privileges for the next season.    Be sure to listen, download while leaving a like and subscribe via the usual platforms Podbean, Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Enjoy!

In another player interview I was joined by Ladies European Tour veteran Stacy Bregman. After a brief interaction with Stacy at Abama when doing on course walk and talk with Hitaashee Bakshi we talk about all things Abama (especially the hills!!) I think the overall consensus is that the players although it was a hike they all loved it in Tenerife.  Stacy is from Johannesburg in South Africa and started playing the game at about 13 years old, she achieved South African colours for Karate 7 times and was 2004 Sports Woman of the Year at King David Linksfield School. In 2006 Stacy alongside Ashleigh Simon (Buhai) & Kelli Shean would participate for Team South Africa at Espirito Santo Trophy on home soil in Stellenbosch which the 3 ladies would win. Stacy in her long and established professional career has record 7 wins on Sunshine Ladies Tour and would win the team event at 2021 Aramco Team Series - Sotogrande along with Ash Buhai & Hayley Davis. Stacy has held her Tour card on LET since 2007 so is into her 18th season on tour without losing her card that is massively impressive achievement and longevity!  This was a mixture of serious golf chat in with some very funny moments including learning about her being a Black Belt in Karate and Stacy's karaoke song of choice. Be sure to Listen, Download, Like & Subscribe via Podbean, Apple Podcasts & Spotify.  Had a lot of fun with this one, enjoy!

In this episode a couple weeks later than originally planned I was joined by LET Card Holder for this year Michaela Finn who called in from Ohio. Michaela splits her time between Jacksonville, Florida & Ohio and when she goes home to Sweden she resides outside of Brastad. In her time at Kent State University in Ohio, Michaela won 2017 Mid-American Conference Championship, 3x Mid-American Conference First Team Selection & participated in the inaugural Augusta National Women's Amateur Championship in 2019.  Michaela has represented Sweden on a number of occasion as a Junior/Amateur having been as partner the National selection for 2012 European Young Masters, 2014 World Amateur Team Championship in Canada where she got a Silver Medal alongside Emma Svensson & Filippa Möörk, 2014 European Girls' Team Championship finishing 3rd & 2017 European Ladies' Team Championship finishing 3rd.  Michaela turned Pro in 2019 and would win 2019 Åhus Open on Swedish Golf Tour defeating Sara Kjellker by 1 shot at Kristianstad Golf Club. In 2020 Michaela would join Symetra Tour (Epson Tour) but only played few events due to Covid Pandemic. In 2021 at Symetra Tour Championship Michaela would shoot a history making -11 61 a record she still co-holds to this day alongside Fatima Fernandez Cano. At 2024 LET Final Q School finals Finn would finish T8th to gain full Ladies European Tour membership for season 2025 which has resulted in a few starts this year.   Interesting fact is that Michaela also works for Backswing Company raising over $7,000 for charity in one of her last fundraiser events. She also loves to cook and has her own special recipe for Traditional Swedish Meatballs. As always be sure to check it out if possible. Download via Podbean,  Apple Podcasts and Spotify and be sure to tell me what you think, thank you Michaela for coming on to chat. Enjoy.

On Day 2 here at Abama Golf for this week's Tenerife Womens Open on Ladies European Tour after a brief walk of the course on the back 9 towards home I caught up with 2024 Hero Indian Women's National number 1 player Hitaashee Bakshi who has had a decent start to life on LET with a T36th at Jabra Ladies Open & T12th at Dutch Women's Open alongside caddy Nathan Free, this potential star of the future has been pro since 17 years of age and we chat about her association with the well renowned DLF course in India as we break down what it takes to play there as well as go through the different head covers that she uses including some of her favourites. We also caught up with 6x European Am Team Championship participant for Ireland Annabel Wilson who is making her way onto the tour having turned Pro in 2024 after a good Amateur career in the States. Annabel played the game in Scotland at 7 years old and with the Open Championship at Royal Portrush this year about half and hour away from Annabel we go into what it means for Northern Irish Golf. Last interview is with 2024 Curtis Cup winner with GB&Ire Lorna McClymont who is finding her way through a mixture of LET & LETAS and talks through her experiences so far on tour, her time as an International Scholar at University of Stirling as well as of course the whole experience at last year's Curtis Cup event at Sunningdale where Great Britain & Ireland defeated America on home soil which included Mimi Rhodes, Sara Byrne & Lottie Woad.  I hope you all enjoy as I had great fun doing these, as always like, Download and Subscribe via Podbean, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Here's to more!

As people are aware I am Tenerife this week for Tenerife Womens Open on Ladies European Tour. On the first day I walked the back 9 at Abama Golf with Sunshine Ladies Tour winner Danielle Du Toit as we done a walk and talk at the Par 4 15th.  We discuss her win on Sunshine Ladies Tour back in SA in February as well as other fun stuff, be sure to listen in, tomorrow there will be more content from Day 2 with a few audio interviews. Enjoy

In this episode I was joined by Mexican pro Fernanda Lira who has joined from back in Mexico City ahead of a sponsors invite into this week's Riviera Maya Open at Mayakoba, the first Mexican event on LPGA Tour in over 8 years. We talk about how prestigious the Mexican events are for the likes of Fernanda, Gaby Lopez, Maria Fassi & Isabella Fierro and the lasting impact of LPGA legend and former World Number 1 player Lorena Ochoa has had on the development for future Mexican players.  Fernanda is from Mexico City and started playing the game at about 6 years old due to the old Mario Golf game along with her brother and went to University of Central Arkansas winning events at college level at UoCA and was Freshman of the Year in her time there where she would also meet her now husband Ryan Shuttleworth who caddies on the LET with Alexandra Swayne currently. Fun fact Fernanda adopted a street dog called Poncho. Fernanda turned Pro in 2019 and would win in 2020 on Women's All Pro Tour at Crown Colony Challenge and would also win on WAPT in 2021 at Mountain Ranch Championship. Fernanda's biggest triumph would be winning 2021 Firekeepers Casino Hotel Championship in Michigan on Epson Tour defeating Isi Gabsa, Sophia Schubert, Danielle Iacobelli & a certain 2x Major Champion and former best player in the world Lilia Vu by a whopping 6 shots. At the end of 2023 Fer would finish T5th at LET Final Q School to gain status for 2024 where she had her Rookie season on Ladies European Tour with best finishes of T22nd at KPMG Women's Irish Open, T32nd at Lacoste Ladies Open de France and T33rd at Amundi German Masters.  Fernanda not only plays this week in Mexico on a sponsors invite but she also got a sponsors invitation to play the next LET event at Tenerife Open in 2 weeks time at Abama Golf.  Download & Like/Subscribe via Podbean, Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Thank you Fernanda all the best for 2025.

In another player interview I was joined by Ladies European Tour pro and the very talented Moa Folke who called in from back home in Tranås, Sweden before flying out to South Korea for Aramco Series Korea then the European swing in the summer. Tranås is also where Kajsa Arwefjäll was originally brought up.  A representative of Landeryds Golfklubb, Moa would go to Murray State University in Kentucky where she would be a 4x Ohio Valley Conference 1st team selection as part of Murray State Racers and was named Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year for 2017 whilst also competing at NCAA Championships twice.  Moa would turn pro in 2018 and would win on Swedish Golf Tour in 2019 at Tegelberga Open defeating Linn Grant & Emma Svensson by a whopping 6 shots. At the end of 2021.   Moa would gain her LET Card at Final Q School for the 2022 season and at Dromoland Castle for KPMG Women's Irish Open Moa would be the 36 hole leader after shooting at -10 62 on Friday. In 2023 in the Sunshine Ladies Tour Folke would win Dimension Data Ladies Pro-Am at -8 by 3 shots to Annelise Caudal, that would set up for a good run on LET with 2 runner ups at Joburg Ladies Open and Lacoste Ladies Open de France as well as T9th at KPMG Women's Irish Open. In 2024 by Moa"s own admission was worse as she admitted trying to force things after a good 2023 ultimately leading to finishing 38th on LET Order of Merit. In 2025 it's been a solid start for Moa as she would post a respectable T14th at PIF Saudi Ladies Intl in a high quality field, was in contention at Australian Women's Classic before unfortunately a final round 77 propelled her to T27th then T5th at Ford NSW Open in Woollongong. She currently sits in 21st on LET Order of Merit standings and with a big European run coming up hopefully we will see Moa challenging more often. Great player even better person. Lovely and down to earth.    Download via Podbean, Apple & Spotify and be sure to like and subscribe. Thanks

It's the first women's major of the year at The Chevron Championship where it will get held in Texas for the 3rd year in a row at Carlton Woods as World Number 1 Nelly Korda looks to defend her title and World Number 2 Jeeno Thitikul is the single priced favourite to capture a first major title. This Jack Nicklaus course is playing about 6,911 yards which by Ladies standards is super long so off the tee and distance will be key and elite iron play will also be a factor.  I was joined by Scott Mader to dissect who we think has what it takes to become the next Chevron champion while going through majority of the names at the top's chances while also giving our plays further down the board in what should be an interesting Chevron! Be sure to Download in the usual places via Podbean, Apple & Spotify. Thanks 

In this latest episode I was joined by LPGA Tour card holder and the 2023 LPGA Tour Longest Driver Polly Mack who was in the midst of preparing for the upcoming LPGA Tour tournament at JM Eagle LA Championship at new course El Caballero! Polly is from Berlin, Germany & went to 2 American Universities at both University of Nevada and University of Alabama where with the latter Polly would win NCAA Franklin Regional to participate in NCAA Division 1 Women's Championship and was also named both 2018 Mountain West Player of the Year and 2018 Mountain West Freshman of the Year. During her Amateur career she also represented Germany on 3 occasions at European Amateur Ladies' Team Championship. Polly would turn pro in June 2022 and would gain starts on Epson Tour where she made 8 out of 11 cuts before finishing T15th at LPGA Final Q School at the end of 2022 to gain an LPGA Tour card for 2023 where she also held LET status starting off 2023 with a T13th at Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco before also playing her first ever major championship at Chevron Championship at Carlton Woods in Texas, an experience that Polly certainly loves to talk about. Polly would keep her status on LPGA for 2024 and would start off slow before a respectable T21st at Ford Championship in Arizona would occur before playing 2 Majors at Chevron & KPMG PGA Championship at Sahalee CC. In the summer Polly would have a good run of T39th at CPKC Women's Open in Canada, a career best T5th at Portland Classic  and T14th at Kroger Queen City Championship which would help elevate her to 72nd in last year CME standings.  We learn about Polly's detour when travelling to Australia after finding out last minute that she was in the field for Blue Bay LPGA in China having to literally go through passport control then to go back out again in the other direction, the life of a professional Golfer right there folks.. As always I hope you enjoy and be sure to download, subscribe and like via Podbean, Spotify & Apple. Please also be sure to leave a 5 star rate and review as we keep improving. Thanks Polly for being a good guest! 

In this latest episode I was joined by former Ladies European Tour professional Danielle Thwaites who was Danielle Masters when she played on tour. First thing's first please subscribe and listen into Danielle's new venture Birdies n Banter on YouTube where you will see interviews with former colleagues, range swings and golf clothing! Danielle played golf at an early age believe it or not with left handed clubs to start with then eventually had to change over to right handed clubs. Danielle represented England at various tournaments alongside the likes of Sophie Walker and was a part of Vagliano Trophy in 2003 & a part of the Curtis Cup in 2004 at Formby where they had a superstar on the US side in the form of Michelle Wie.  Danielle would turn pro in 2004 and would successfully gain her LET Card at the first time of asking which is a very impressive feat and would be out on tour for 4 full seasons before injuries would affect her progress before she would become a mother to 2 children. Since she gave up tour life she has become a successfully qualified Chiropodist with her own business, plays golf again at County level in Kent & is happily married with hubby John and has 2 kids now!  Danielle recently got the chance to start up on a new venture with the Going OB podcast with Craig Purves where she would co-host after a successful episode together.    Download and like via Podbean, Apple & Spotify and be sure to give Danielle some loving after a good episode! Wish Danni all the best with Birdies n Banter! Thanks 

As the LPGA Tour returns this week after a 3 week hiatus I was joined by New Zealand born Aussie pro Hira Naveed who returns to the scene of her career best finish of 2nd at last year's Ford Championship in Arizona over the road at Seville Golf & Country Club where she challenged the world number 1 Nelly Korda finishing 2 shots behind the best player in the world.   Although born in New Zealand, Hira spent majority of her childhood in Perth, Australia and went to University in Los Angeles where she ended up finishing 5th in the all time scoring list with 73.59 and would be a part of the 2019 Palmer Cup side for Team International which they would win against USA. In 2019 Hira turned Pro before the disruption of 2020 where she was cut off from any sort of tournament play but played on Epson Tour in 2021 with a career best finish on Epson of T4th in 2022. Hira would meet well renowned Golf Coach Chris Mayson and would certainly work towards improving. Hira would gain her LPGA Tour card for 2024 season after finishing T15th at Final Stage Q School in 2023.   Last year Hira made her bow at LPGA Tour level and had a few Top 20s and she even admits that it could have been better but still a respectable 72nd finish on the Race to CME Globe standings to keep her card. So far Hira has started with 3 straight cuts made including a 8th placed finish at Saudi Ladies International in Riyadh and returns to the state of Arizona where she is very comfortable with having played a heap of events in AZ on Epson Tour & openly admitted she loves playing in hot weather and desert golf.   Downloads via Podbean, Apple and Spotify! Be sure to give a listen and thanks to Hira Naveed for being a good guest!   Enjoy!

As the episodes keep coming I was joined by Ladies European Tour caddy and one of my favourite people in the world Jordan Chatt as he phoned in last week from Coffs Harbour to give us an overview of the week, course conditions at the time as well as the aftermath of Alfred Cyclone and it's effects. Jordan started caddying in 2018 starting as a 16 year old lad caddying for in his own words 'Rich Americans' and developed a love for caddying and helping players reach their potential afterwards. Jordan would alongside Annabell Fuller qualify for AIG Women's Open at St Andrews last year in what would be his first major and the most special one as it sadly was one of the last times his late mother would see him on the course. As of this year Jordan started the first few events in Morocco, Saudi & Taiwan with experienced winner Perrine Delacour learning different things along the way before bagging with Megan Dennis for last weeks Australian Women's Classic where they unfortunately missed the cut. Hopefully will see more of Jordan on tour this year!  In a short space of time Jordy has developed into a good friend and it's great to see him out there doing well even with the dodgy accent ha ha! Download via Podbean, Apple & Spotify & be sure to rate and review! 

In this episode as we continue the Caddy Series I was joined by LPGA Tour caddy Ryan Hilton who just come back from an abrupt end to Singapore after his current player Jenny Shin had to withdraw due to a fever but Jenny should be fine for the next event in Arizona. Ryan is from the Mid West of America and isn't too far from Erin Hills where this year's US Women's Open will be held! Ryan started his caddying career after meeting with a fellow pro while working as a coach at local golf course and last year was on the bag for 4x LET Winner Alexandra Försterling in her Rookie Year on LPGA and played events such as AIG Women's Open at St Andrews & Olympics for Germany. This year he got the call from Jenny Shin to work for her and started out together back in Australia before Thailand and Singapore.  Hope you enjoy this insight from Ryan into life as a pro caddy.  Like, Subscribe and Download on Podbean, Apple Podcasts & Spotify! Enjoy!

In one of the most open, honest and heartbreaking interviews I've done so far I was joined by 2x LET winner Jana Melichova who is currently still recovering from a back injury that required some surgery with Jana hoping to make it back on tour to defend her title at Dutch Ladies Open in May as only recently of late has she been able to start hitting balls again! Jana is from Pikovice outside of Prague in Czechia and is very close with Former podcast guest Sara Kouskova as well as the other Czech players Klara Davidson Spilkova, Krystina Napaleova and Tereza Melecka. She would go to the States for a scholarship at Old Dominion University in Virginia going on to win an individual title while also competing in 6x European Amateur Team Championships for Czechia as well as winning All American honours after finishing 13th at NCAA Division 1. Jana would play a few events on tour as an Amateur including Czech Ladies Open on LET and Czech Ladies Challenge on LETAS. In 2022 Jana Melichova would make history by becoming only the 2nd player from Czech Republic to win on Ladies European Tour having won Czech Ladies Open by a shot defeating both fellow home favourite Klara Spilkova & the experienced Nicole Broch Estrup what makes it more impressive is Jana was still an Amateur! Shortly after turning pro in 2022 Jana's life would change forever with the sad unexpected passing if her beloved mother and Jana bravely opens up about the impact that this tragic unfortunate event has played a role in her life and how she is trying to become more open and honest about it with the assistance of a Mental Coach. For at least 10 mins Jana bravely, fearlessly and amazingly fully opens up about the last few years and I have nothing but pure respect and admiration to her for that! It was written in the stars in May of last year at Dutch Ladies Open as Jana would win for the 2nd time on Tour on what would have been her mothers 60th Birthday weekend so it was a highly emotional victory for her and let out floods of emotions as she capitalised on the mistakes of Kim Metraux coming down the stretch to win for 2nd time! Please be sure to Like, Subscribe,  Download while leaving some nice comments on Apple Podcasts, Podbean and Spotify and give this amazingly brave lady the love and support she needs. She deserves your listens! Powerful, raw and emotional and I hope you enjoy it!

The player interviews continue as I was joined by rising star & 2024 Curtis Cup star Sara Byrne who tees it up this week on the Epson Tour in Florida after winning both status on LET & Epson Tour. Primarily Sara will be focusing for the time being on Epson Tour as she bids on her quest to achieve a life goal dream of becoming a LPGA Tour player. A successful figure at University of Miami Sara was ranked as high as 44th in World Amateur Golf Rankings & is a 2x Irish National Champion. It's been a stellar Amateur career for Sara having at University of Miami she achieved the lowest scoring average in UoM history (70.34), won 2 NCAA D1 Tournaments, participated at World Amateur Team Championship in 2023, competed at 2024 Palmer Cup and would go undefeated in a historic run at 2024 Curtis Cup for GB&I at Sunningdale where she & Augusta National Women's Amateur Champion Lottie Woad would go undefeated in Fourballs & Foursomes while Sara would defeat Catherine Park 3&2 on Sunday Singles.  After Curtis Cup Sara would turn pro and get her professional debut at Rose Ladies Open event on LETAS finishing T13th & would also make the weekend of both La Sella Open (T41st) & Lacoste Ladies Open De France (T28th). At LET Final Q School after 5 gruelling rounds Sara would finish 15th overall to gain her full LET Card for 2025 along with Epson Tour card. In her first start as a LET member Sara would be right into contention even taking the lead at the first event of season at Lalla Meryem Cup eventually finishing T24th.  I wish Sara the best for 2025 on Epson Tour.    Guys be sure to Download via Podbean,  Apple & Spotify! Like & Subscribe it all means a lot 

In this episode I was joined by current Ladies European Tour member Dorthea Forbrigd as she called I before Morocco a couple of weeks back while back home in beautiful Oslo, Norway.  Dorthea is a 2x Norweigan National Champion, 4x East Carolina University Collegiate title winner, while she has also played in European Amateur Team Championships & World Amateur Team Championships for Norway and is a 2x European Ladies Amateur participant. Growing up Dorthea played multiple sports such as Cross Country Skiing, Football & Tennis.  Dorthea turned Pro in 2021  and managed to gain Category 18 status on LET and would play LET/LETAS in 2022 with a couple of 6th placed finishes at Hauts De France & Elite Hotels Open. In 2023 Forbrigd would gain confidence with an 11th at Czech Ladies Open & 17th at VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open while finishing T3rd at PGA Championship Goteborg & T2nd at Lombardia Ladies Open on LETAS. In 2024 she had some solid finishes with a T16th at Investec SA Women's Open, T19th at VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open, T20th at Aramco Series London, a career best finish of T5th at Dutch Ladies Open  while also playing multiple Aramco Series events & Scottish Women's Open this all contributed to Dorthea finishing inside the Top 70 to gain good status for 2025 on LET.  Had good fun with Dorthea and u hope you enjoy it!   Thanks as always for the continued support,  Like, Subscribe, Download via Podbean, Apple, Spotify and all other providers!

In this episode I was joined by Swedish LET title winner Lisa Pettersson as we found out about her preparation just before last week's first LET event in Rabat, Morocco. A lot of things have changed for Lisa having recently got married to her long term partner and recalls the unfortunate story of her now husband getting involved in a slight skiing accident causing a fractured elbow that required surgery just a couple of days before the wedding, thankfully everything worked out!  Lisa is from Stockholm, Sweden currently residing in Solna just outside of Stockholm and won Most Outstanding Female Scholar Athlete at East Carolina University. Lisa turned Professional in 2018 and while admittedly struggling she managed to win Swedish Matchplay on Nordic Tour and would play on Symetra Tour now Epson Tour in 2019 and discusses States life. In 2020 I Civid year Lisa in Arizona would win on Cactus Tour Arizona & finished 2nd behind the legend Anna Nordqvist not long after. At Final Stage LET Q School in 2021 Lisa would finish 2nd to gain LET status for 2022 and would hold the clubhouse lead at Skaftö Open before narrowly missing out to Linn Grant. 2023 would be much better with a T6th at Aramco Team Series - Hong Kong before winning her home open in Helsingborg in June defeating Ana Pelaez Trivino by a shot to win her maiden title. At Dromoland in Ireland Lisa would get into a playoff at Irish Women's Open with Smilla Tarning Soenderby & Anne Van Dam before losing out to eventual winner Smilla Tarning Søenderby who had produce a worldie of a round to win.  A nice episode was had with Lisa and I hope you enjoy!   As always I ask if you could download, listen, rate and review via Podbean, Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Thanks for the continued support!

Hi everyone and hope you are enjoying the player episodes again, today I've got another great one with the super lovely Czech LET star & Olympian Sára Kouskova! The 2022 LETAS Order of Merit winner joined me to chat about her off season, what she's been improving on and how she's looking forward to Morocco this week!  Kouskova is from Prague, which is of course the capital of Czechia. Sara would go to University of Texas at Austin representing Czechia 4 times at European Girls' Team Championship, 4 times at European Ladies' Team Championship, World Junior Girls Championship in 2017 & Espirito Santo Trophy participant in 2018 and would win 2021 Arizona Wildcat Invitational in college.  In 2021 Sara would make history by becoming the first Czech player to win a LET Access Series event at Czech Ladies Open (as an Amateur too impressive!) In 2022 Sara would win 3 times on LET Access Series in June at Santander Golf Malaga beating Virginia Elena Carta by 1 shot at (-5) and twice in September at Elite Hotels Open beating Vanessa Knecht by 3 shots at (-12) & ASGI Lavaux Ladies Open in Switzerland winning by 4 to the talented Helen Briem. With 3 wins and a consistent season Sara would win the 2022 Order of Merit for LET Access Series therefore gaining a full your card on LET for 2023.  On LET Sara admittedly at first she found it a struggle to get the consistency level right but would finish T5th at the notoriously difficult Hero Indian Women's Open at DLF helping her keep her status for 2024. It would a far more consistent season for Sara in 2024 with 4 Top 10s including 3rd at La Sella Open, 6th at Lalla Meryem Cup & 7th at Dutch Ladies Open which would help her to finish 19th overall in the LET Order of Merit standings. Sara is also an Olympian as she would also represent Czechia at Olympic Women's Golf at Le Golf National at 2024 Paris Olympics, Sara also talks about her Olympics experiences!  In her time off Sara is an avid artist and loves to chat about environment sustainability! Thanks to Sara for a nice chat and all the best at Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco this week on LET, hopefully a big 2025 for you!    Guys would love it if you could at least keep the downloads coming for these episodes as a lot of work goes into making them happen! Please download on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and all other Podcast providers! Enjoy!

Welcome to another player exclusive episode I was joined by LET Access Series Order of Merit winner & 2x LETAS title winner Kajsa Arwefjäll who called in after a good practice session in Florida ahead of the Ladies European Tour season opener in Marrakech next week!  Born in Tranås in the county of Jönköping in Sweden Kajsa would move to Høllviken near the city of Malmö at the age of 9 and plays out of Ljunghusen Golf Club. Kajsa is from a very sporty background with her father being a Former Professional Golfer in his own right and is now currently her golfing coach, her mother is a Former Skier and her brother plays Ice Hockey professionally back in Sweden formerly at Malmö Redhawks! Kajsa believe it or not is a World Champion Rope Skipper! Kajsa would enrol at San Jose State University where she was have an illustrious amateur career which includes 2x Augusta National Women's Amateur Championship participant, 2022 Palmer Cup participant for Team International, 2023 Women's Amateur Quarter Finalist, 2023 World Amateur Team Championship participant for Sweden as well as being a 4x WGCA All American Scholar, 4x First Team All-Mountain West, 2x Mountain West Player of the Year and winning 2024 Mountain West Individual Championship at SJSU. We talk about the Palmer Cup in Switzerland in 2022 where Kajsa was a part of a super winning International side which featured the likes of Ludvig Åberg, Adrien Dumont De Chassart, Rasmus Neergaard Petersen, Christo Lamprecht, Lexi Försterling,  Chiara Tamburlini, Aline Krauter, Benedetta Moresco & Julia Lopez Ramirez.  Kajsa has 3 wins on LET Access Series. 1 was at 2021 GolfUppsala Open back in Sweden as an Amateur. Kajsa turned Professional mid last year and won in June at MoreGolf Mastercard Open winning by 3 shots & in August at Destination Gotland Ladies Open by 2 shots. After a consistent year with 2 wins, 2 2nds, 2 T4th's & a T6th that contributed to Arwefjäll winning the LETAS Order of Merit to gain full time Ladies European Tour status for 2025! An exceptional talent with a big future ahead and I am excited to see what Kajsa Arwefjäll can produce on LET over the next couple of seasons!    As we look to keep growing the podcast, I could really do with your feedback. Please be kind enough to rate and review on Apple Podcasts which goes a long way. Be sure to listen and download via Podbean, Apple & Spotify. All your listens are greatly appreciated,  enjoy the episode!