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The Wednesday Match Play Podcast is your weekly connection to the biggest and best brands in golf. On this show you will learn more about the latest golf fashion trends, hear from LPGA and PGA TOUR players and get advice on planning your next golf getaway and more. Each week, The Wednesday Match Play Podcast features one guest who answers questions related to their area of expertise. The Wednesday Match Play Podcast is hosted by Ricky L. Potts, Jr., CCM, CCAM, CML, Executive Director of Marketing & Communications, The Lakes Country Club. Check out rickyleepotts.com/podcast for more details.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ricky L. Potts, Jr. makes golf's equipment, course design, club management and mental-performance work understandable through focused guest conversations.
Ricky L. Potts, Jr. treats golf as an industry with a game attached, building focused conversations around the people shaping how it is played, managed and sold.
Putter stamps meet irrigation budgets when your golf curiosity wanders well past the scorecard.
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A practical golf travel conversation that keeps the planning side front and center.
This Wednesday Match Play episode centers on Off-Course Travel, a boutique agency focused on golf trips with curated itineraries. The strongest parts are the practical ones, where the planning turns on budget, pace of play, scenery, and how much support a traveler wants.
Golf travel here is about the trip, the ritual, and the memories that stay with you.
This conversation stays squarely on golf travel. Red Stag Travel Co. comes across as a boutique operator for customized golf trips, with an emphasis on high-end service and places that feel memorable rather than generic.
A golf-tech conversation centered on practical use cases, adaptable software, and social multiplayer play.
TJ Schier's discussion of Smash Swing Immersive Golf presents the product as a flexible golf entertainment system suited to a range of settings, from a demo lab to a trade show booth to larger venue installs.
A PING discussion that leans on accounts, merchandise, and the business side of the brand.
This episode keeps its focus on the business side of PING, moving from fittings and equipment into merchandise, travel bags, backpacks, shoe bags, and the day to day work of covering accounts across Southern California.
Blind golf is presented as a team game built on trust, guidance, and shared problem-solving.
Blind golf is framed as a team-shaped version of the game, with the coach covering caddy duty, transportation, and on-course guidance while also helping with course management and the mental reset that keeps play moving.
A grounded look at golf course architecture, club budgets, and the tradeoffs behind renovation choices.
The piece works best when it moves away from pure history and into the choices clubs actually face. The discussion on offices in Glasgow and California gives it a practical, international edge, and the difference between a smaller improvement job and a full renovation is made…
A grounded look at golf marketing built around trust, not flash.
R6 Media reads less like a logo and more like a working golf-focused digital marketing and content shop, which is the stronger frame here. The discussion lands best when it turns to privately owned mom-and-pop resort clubs, the trust those clients extend, and the way a small…
A steady look at putter history, branding, and the details collectors care about.
This episode keeps its footing when it stays with the putters themselves: the stamping, the older heads, and the small marks that matter to collectors trying to tell a real piece from a copy.
Bruised stories, blunt talk, real recovery.
Endurance performance, tested past the easy answers.
Endurance stories with trail dirt still attached.
A guest from Red Stag Travel Co.
The episode opens from Palm Desert with Ricky Potts introducing the show.
A guest from the United States Blind Golf Association joins the show.
Frode Hov discusses multi-decade journey building Lofoten Links, world's northernmost links golf course (68° north).
Golf equipment historian Steve Strano discusses the forgotten legacy of Odie Crispin putters, a brand that won five Masters tournaments between 1947-1957 but disappeared from popular memory.
Ricky Potts interviews Josh Tanner, General Manager of Ironwood Country Club in Palm Desert.
Karen Kraus, SHRM-CP, says her move to The Club at ArrowCreek in Reno, Nevada, became “my favorite job in my adult life” after four months in the role.
Jonathan Enge says Off Course Travel was built in Portugal by combining his wife’s bespoke travel work with his golf background, including years caddying on the PGA Tour and living in places like Scottsdale, California, and Portugal.
Brian Bailie, founder of GolfCask, ties golf, whiskey, cigars, and travel into one community brand and explains how an Ireland golf trip in a snug helped spark the idea.
Chandler Schulz says Golf Dynamics Performance Center in Loveland, Colorado teaches golf 24/7, fits clubs from brands like TaylorMade, Callaway, Ping, Cleveland, and Srixon, and handles club repair for local players.
Jeffrey Danner says Pangea Golf Architecture was built with Stuart Rennie as a Scottish-American partnership and explains why the firm chose a world-spanning name instead of a surname on the door.
Steve Woods, the registered hypnotist behind Hypnosis for Golf, says he has been doing hypnosis for 21 years and first became interested after seeing a stage hypnosis show nearly 40 years ago.
Grayson Arellano says Axis 1 Golf built the first zero-torque putter and claims the design keeps the shaft, hands, and sweet spot aligned through the stroke.
James Cronk says eGolf Waiver is a cloud-based digital waiver platform for golf clubs, and he argues that waivers matter more as golf becomes more litigious.
Ricky Potts talks with the guest behind R6 Media, a Vancouver-based golf-focused digital marketing and content production agency.
TJ Schier describes SmashSwing Immersive Golf as a multiplayer golf simulator where multiple players hit at the same time into a large projected screen, with modes that include virtual driving range, long drive, closest to the pin, and arcade-style games like asteroids and space invaders.
Derek White, 20-year general manager at Desert Willow Golf Resort, discusses managing public 36-hole facility in Palm Desert.
Andy Gilford describes England and Wales Blind Golf as a 40-year-old charity for people with severe sight loss, with members ranging from children to an 88-year-old.
Jack Nicklaus said this is some of the best land he's ever seen in his life.
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Josh Smith comes on Wednesday Match Play to talk about landscape oil painting with a golf connection.
A guest on The Wednesday Match Play Podcast talks about Candy and Junk, a golf gambling handbook and tracking system for players who like a little friendly competition during their rounds.
Gabby Powell says she grew up playing basketball, switched to golf at 14 after her mom suggested trying for a girls’ team, and later earned a scholarship to FIU.
Taylor Fuller, operations manager at World Golf Village in St.
Roma Llambés says Loyale is building AI software for subscription-driven businesses, with a focus on centralized customer data, retention, and real-time execution.
Barry Brewster describes 38 years at Ping, starting from an ASU job hunt and moving through human resources, the Hogan Tour, the PGA Tour, sales, and now regional manager.
Jackie Carpenter explains how 12 years as editor of Private Club Advisor ended when the publication shut down unexpectedly in summer 2024 after her boss died.
This episode covers golf industry news, product reviews like Garmin's junior golf watch, and interviews with industry professionals.
A weekly golf podcast featuring interviews with industry experts, covering golf fashion, equipment, travel, and player insights.
A golf podcast covering brand news, equipment releases, and interviews with industry professionals.
This episode reviews new golf club sets from Jack Nicklaus and PXG, discusses golf fashion, and promotes Eden Mill spirits and Studio Golf Club.
This episode covers golf fashion, equipment unboxing, and a spotlight on San Diego Country Club, with sponsor messages from Eden Mill.
This episode features an interview with Bryson from Parasims, a platform for renting golf simulators, along with updates on Ben Hogan PT Max clubs and Eden Mill spirits.
This episode discusses a TaylorMade mini driver, Epic Golf Club membership, and Green Golf Ball Irish tours, with an interview about customizing golf trips.
A weekly golf podcast featuring interviews and discussions on golf fashion, tours, equipment, and travel, with this episode comparing golf balls and promoting Epic Golf Club.
This episode of The Wednesday Match Play Podcast features a guest from JT Fitness & Golf discussing golf fitness and nutrition, along with promotions for golf brands and services.
A weekly golf podcast featuring interviews and discussions on golf fashion, equipment, travel, and private club experiences.