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No Laying Up - Golf Podcast

1115: LPGA Commissioner Craig Kessler, LIV’s OWGR Update & Johnny Keefer

No Laying Up - Golf Podcast

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Sports, Golf

4.77.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We’ve got a three-part medley episode for this midweek pod as DJ and Soly react to today’s announcement from the OWGR concerning LIV, followed by Soly’s chat with new LPGA commissioner Craig Kessler about the issues this weekend in Orlando, and we close the pod with Soly and Neil chatting with Johnny Keefer about his rise up the pro golf ranks and learning the ropes of the PGA Tour. Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro and LIV-OWGR Reaction 19:00 - LPGA Commissioner Craig Kessler 30:00 - Johnny Keefer Interview Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://nolayingup.com/esf⁠ Support our Sponsors: Titleist AT&T Yeti 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.

0:07.2

Be the right club today.

0:09.0

Yes.

0:10.2

That's better than most.

0:14.8

How about him?

0:17.9

That is better than most.

0:20.1

Better than most better than most

0:21.1

let's

0:26.2

anything different ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the no laying up podcast

0:32.0

sally here got a little medley episode for you i'm joined here right now by my guy dj

0:36.6

pie hello dj hello sallie thank you for having me on the program. Good to see you, my man. Good to see you as well. We are going to chat a little bit about some of the news of the day, which is, of course, that the live golf tour, the 54 tour is indeed receiving OWGR points. That is the update from today. We're going to break that down a little bit.

0:54.8

Next up from that, we are going to have LPGA tour commissioner Craig Kessler is going to be on to break down. What happened this past weekend on the LPGA tour. And then on the very back end, Neil and I had a chat with PGA tour rookie Johnny Kiefer. So stick around for that on the back end. and Dege Johnny Kiefer, natural low ball hitter.

1:12.7

He worked with the team at Titleist to rookie Johnny Kiefer. So stick around for that on the back in Dej. Johnny Kiefer, natural low

1:11.9

ball hitter. He worked with the team at Titleist to dial in his ball and club set up for more

1:17.1

height and distance off the tee. Do you know what ball he would be in based on that info?

1:21.5

He needs more height and distance off the tee. I bet he's playing either the ProV1X or the

1:26.4

left edge. He is playing the ProV1X. High,

1:29.9

maximizes his distance. That's going to be an important feature for him if he wants to

1:34.2

compete on the PGA tour, which we talk about where stopping power is needed at every venue.

1:38.7

And just like Johnny, you can get fit. Check out the ball selector tool. Schedule and in-person

1:43.1

fitting or chat one-on-one with a live

1:45.3

virtual consult at tidalist.com. You owe it to yourself to find out which title is golf ball best

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