1065: A Visit With Michael Bamberger

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Randy visits with the one and only Michael Bamberger to discuss his latest book, The Playing Lesson: A Duffer's Year Among The Pros, and a number of other topics from his legendary career. Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: ⁠⁠https://nolayingup.com/esf⁠⁠ Support our Sponsors: ⁠Holderness & Bourne The Stack System If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Be the right club.
0:07.0	Be the right club today.
0:09.0	Yes.
0:10.0	That's better than most.
0:15.0	How about him?
0:18.0	That is better than most.
0:20.0	Better than most. Better than most.
0:26.6	Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the No Laying Up podcast.
0:33.1	My name is Randy.
0:34.3	I'm glad you're here.
0:35.8	This episode today is near and dear to my heart. It's a full-length
0:39.6	conversation with the great Michael Bamberger, author and senior writer for golf.com. If you follow
0:46.0	me or know me at all, you know I'm a massive fan of Michael's, both the person and Michael his work as a writer.
0:52.7	In fact, one of his previous books to the Linksland,
0:55.8	which has been somewhat recently reprinted and re-released in honor of its 30th anniversary,
1:01.8	is truly among the best golf books ever written, in my opinion.
1:05.4	Certainly check that out if you have not read that yet.
1:08.4	The occasion behind today's conversation is the release of Michael's
1:12.6	newest book, and that's called The Playing Lesson, a Duffer's Year among the pros. The book is an homage to
1:19.2	George Plimpton's famous book, The Bogie Man, and has Michael crisscrossing the country playing
1:24.4	golf and relaying his adventures with names you'll recognize and a lot
1:29.0	you'll meet for the first time like all of michael's writing i think it's sharp it's witty
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