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PaddyTalks Golf, powered by ForeGolf Custom, is back with the latest from Irish golf, professional golf and the amateur game.
This week, we look at the FedExCup Playoffs, Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry, the DP World Tour, the Irish Challenge, the US Amateur, the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour, with a particular focus on the latest Irish golf stories and performances.
We also get into the 2026 Walker Cup teams ahead of the match at Lahinch Golf Club, including Stuart Grehan, Irish reserves Thomas Higgins and David Howard, and some of the biggest names in amateur golf from GB&I and the USA.
Plus:
⛳ Beth Coulter's incredible start to life as a professional
🇮🇪 Mark Power's Irish Open qualification
🏌️ My lowest ever round, a 71 around Lahinch, and the golf lesson that lasted approximately seven days
💶 The €50 Club
👀 The Underrated Golf Course of the Week
📅 The golf events you need to have on your radar in Ireland

Tickets
KPMG Women's Irish Open
27 to 30 August 2026, The K Club
KPMG Women's Irish Open tickets
Walker Cup
5 to 6 September 2026, Lahinch Golf Club
Walker Cup tickets
Amgen Irish Open
10 to 13 September 2026, Trump International Golf Links, Doonbeg
Amgen Irish Open tickets

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What does it actually take to host professional golf?
This week, Paddy sits down with Cormac Ryan, Director of Golf and Hospitality Operations at Killeen Castle, during tournament week as the venue prepares to host the Irish Challenge on the HotelPlanner Tour.
Cormac has been connected with Killeen Castle since 2008, before the resort had even properly opened, and has spent much of his career working across golf operations, tournament staging and hospitality.
In this episode, we get behind the scenes of professional golf and explore what goes into creating a tournament that looks effortless to the player and spectator.
Cormac also gives us a fascinating insight into the philosophy behind Killeen Castle and why he believes the venue has the potential to become one of the leading tournament venues in Ireland.

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This is Open week and on PaddyTalks Golf, we sit down with amateur golfer David Howard just weeks after he qualified for the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. A mechanic by trade until eighteen months ago, David has since won the 2025 East of Ireland Championship at Baltray and battled through Final Qualifying at Dundonald to book his place among the world's best.
We talk about the road to Dundonald, his father caddying for him, growing up in Cork, the realities of living with cystic fibrosis while chasing a career in professional golf, the strong Irish contingent heading to Birkdale alongside him, Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry, Darren Clarke, Tom McKibbin and Stuart Grehan and, as always, we close things out with the Candle-Lit Dinner scenario!
This episode also means something personal to us. Cystic fibrosis has touched our own family, and we'd ask you to take two minutes today to support the incredible work being done in this space.

Support Cystic Fibrosis Ireland: https://www.cfireland.ie/

In this episode:

David's road to Final Qualifying and the story behind that trip to Dundonald
His father on the bag and heading into Birkdale
Living with cystic fibrosis the daily reality, and preparing for a major championship week
The Irish contingent at Royal Birkdale, and what it means to share a locker room with them
The Candle-Lit Dinner and David's dream dinner guest list

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Conor Moore, better known as Conor Sketches, is one of Ireland's best known comedians and content creators. From viral golf sketches to working with Tiger Woods, appearing on NBC and selling out theatres across Ireland, he's built a career by turning observations into unforgettable characters.
This episode was recorded after a round together at Lahinch Golf Club before we settled into Frawley's Bar for a proper conversation.
We talk about growing up in Mullingar, leaving a career in finance and sales to take a chance on comedy, the sketch that changed everything, meeting Tiger Woods, writing characters, getting swing advice from Pádraig Harrington and why golf continues to keep him hooked.
Whether you know Conor through his sketches, GAA characters or his live show, this is a conversation that goes well beyond the impressions.
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Conor Moore's Me, Myself and Them tour continues across Ireland this autumn.
Tickets: www.conorsketches.com | https://www.ticketmaster.ie/conor-moore-tickets/artist/5376032
Follow Conor: @conor_sketches

Topics covered: Conor Moore, Conor Sketches, Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, golf comedy, Irish comedy, Lahinch Golf Club, Pádraig Harrington, golf podcast, GAA, comedy writing, live shows.
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Barry Moroney is the founder of ApexGolf, a newly launched AI-powered app combining golf practice and gym training into one adaptive weekly plan. He's also a 5.2 handicap golfer from Adare who self-funded ApexGolf entirely by himself.
In this episode we cover the origin of ApexGolf, an idea that first hit Barry back in 2022, stalled for years and finally came together in 2025 when he built and tested his own prototype before commissioning a full nine-month build. Barry breaks down the actual gap ApexGolf is built to fill. Not swing mechanics, but the 50 weeks a year between lessons where most golfers are left to guess, combining structured practice with physical conditioning rather than treating them as separate problems.
We also get into why Barry is adamant ApexGolf isn't trying to replace your PGA pro and why he deliberately doesn't want the app to feel like AI, even though AI is doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes.
If you think improvement is just about hitting more balls, this conversation will change your mind.

Whether you're a golfer looking to actually structure your practice, someone curious about the business of building a golf-tech product from scratch, or just enjoy watching someone put their own game on the line in public, there's plenty in this conversation for you.

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ApexGolf Website: apexgolf.app
📸 @apexgolfapp | @golfwithbarry
Apex Golf App for iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apex-golf/id6547854231
Apex Golf App for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.apexgolf&hl=en_IE

Topics covered: golf apps, AI in golf, purposeful practice, golf fitness training, golf entrepreneurship, handicap improvement, golf technology, self-funded startups, Irish golf, amateur golf improvement.
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