Talking Golfgetaways: Your Golf Getaways Podcast

Goat Hill Park in Oceanside, California, and Winter Park Golf Course in Florida take center stage as Mitch and Darin discuss recent visits and what they hope is the “future of community golf.” Plus: a bit of bucket-list dreaming about visiting the Prestwick area of Scotland as well as announcements of upcoming guests as “Talking GolfGetaways” heads toward its 100th episode.

Zeb Welborn, social media expert, entrepreneur and the mind behind Twitter’s #GolfChat “Fastest Hour in Golf” plunges into the “Talking GolfGetaways” Emergency 9 golf-travel quiz, which reaches all the back into his Scottish family history.

Social media expert and entrepreneur Zeb Welborn, who created Twitter’s weekly #GolfChat Tuesdays at 8 p.m. Eastern, joins the podcast to talk about golf, travel and a family history steeped in the history of the game.

Tom Mackin has crafted a career traveling and writing about places most golfers merely dream about visiting. In this episode, he discusses everything from Canada’s Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu to Pebble Beach’s best holes to bunging-jumping in New Zealand.

Tom Mackin has crafted a career traveling and writing about places most golfers merely dream about visiting. In this episode, he discusses everything from Canada’s Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu to Pebble Beach’s best holes to bunging-jumping in New Zealand.

Keith Cutten, best known for his Atlantic Canada work on the Cabot courses and new renovation at The Algonquin in New Brunswick, takes the plunge into our Emergency 9 as hosts Darin Bunch and Mitch Laurance dive into his golf-traveling soul, from England to the Canadian Rockies to a few West Coast bucket-list favorites.

Working his way up from an intern, Keith Cutten has had a hand in some of the best golf projects in Atlantic Canada and beyond. “Talking GolfGetaways” hosts Mitch Laurance and Darin Bunch catch up with Keith at The Algonquin to talk about the recent Rod Whitman-led renovation as well as their early days on the courses at Cabot Links on Cape Breton Island.

If you’re gearing up for a summertime golf getaway, co-host Darin Bunch suggests our friends to the north — The Algonquin Resort in New Brunswick, where the golf design team of Rod Whitman and Keith Cutten have just finished an expansive renovation of the historic oceanfront golf course. Plus, epic food and a waterslide!

“Hell 2 Heaven Golf Challenge” creator Robert Kaufman returns to "Talking GolfGetaways" with his globe-spinning answers to our Emergency 9 golf-travel quiz.

Golf writer and photographer Robert Kaufman joins the podcast to discuss his upcoming “extreme” event — the “Hell 2 Heaven Golf Challenge” — where participants play golf in Death Valley (Furnace Creek Golf Course) and Mammoth Lakes (Sierra Star Golf Course) on the longest day of the year.

Co-hosts Mitch Laurance and Darin Bunch discuss last summer’s exploration of America’s 50th state, from quirky golf courses to dinner cruises, grizzly bears in Denali National Park and serene treehouse yurts in a location visitors will never forget. If you’ve been considering a trip to Alaska, this is the perfect primer.

Canadian golf architect and historian Ian Andrew returns to “Talking GolfGetaways” for the Emergency 9 golf-travel quiz with answers ranging from the magnificent Jasper Park Golf Club in Canada to a memorable eatery around the corner from famed Royal County Down in Ireland.

Mitch Laurance and Darin Bunch kick off a new year of episodes with a recent conversation about golf architecture and the restoration of Stanley Thompson’s famed Highlands Links on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, with friend and passionate golf historian Ian Andrew.

Mitch Laurance and Darin Bunch talk about swinging through Alabama on the expansive Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, with highlights that range from multi-course resorts to some of the better short tracks in America, plus a full account of where to eat (so much unforgettable food), drink and sleep in this trailblazing destination that should be on every golfer’s radar.

Mitch Laurance and Darin Bunch tape this episode “live” (ish) from the new Stewart Cabin at Tobacco Road in Sanford, North Carolina, with special guests Hall of Fame billiards star Ewa (Mataya) Laurance and GolfGetaways travel buddy Joe Sas for a lively discussion about one of our new favorite places to stay at one of our all-time favorite places to play.

To honor the legacy of Pebble Beach’s RJ Harper, who passed away at age 61, “Talking GolfGetaways” offers this wide-ranging interview from our previous podcast, “Golf Connections with Mitch Laurance,” recorded live from the office of the famed “Mr. Pebble Beach” back in 2014. We hope the episode will serve as a fitting memorial to one of golf’s true gentlemen of the game — a man, and conversation, we will always cherish.

After more than 20,000 golf shots across more than 1,200 miles, ultimate road warrior Adam Rolston returns to “Talking GolfGetaways” to share some final thoughts about his world-record-setting trip across Mongolia — how it changed is life, how well he can now hit an 8-iron and what happened to UB the Wonder Dog.

Here's one of #TalkingGolfGetaways' hosts Mitch Laurance's and Darin Bunch's favorite guests, BreakingEighty.com's Sean Ogle, a golf-crazed entrepreneur who's created the perfect golf-centric life (and can help you do the same). You'll find out how Sean embarked on his life-changing journey and started his first blog "Location 180," how he helps others through his consulting program "Location Rebel," which shows you how to work at what you love to do anywhere in the world, and how he's on a mission (now that he's broken the 80 barrier!) to play the Top 100 Courses in the World using his "Breaking Eighty" connections. Fascinating, fun, uniquely Sean Ogle. You'll love this one.

Sean Ogle, creator of the Breaking Eighty website and the new golf-travel Eighty Club, joins “Talking GolfGetaways” to discuss how his entrepreneurship led him into the golf business — and on a quest to play the world’s greatest golf courses — while sharing his travels with golfing road warriors around the world.

From classic links golf courses such as Royal County Down, Royal Portrush and Ardlass to sampling ice cream along the seascape of Portstewart and staying at classic resorts such as the Slieve Donard and Lough Erne, co-hosts Mitch and Darin discuss some favorite places every golfer must consider when planning a getaway to beautiful Northern Ireland.