An Innovative Course in England Is Growing the Game By Challenging Golf's Traditions. Guest: Paul Cunningham of Hartford Golf Club

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Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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820: This week our guest is Paul Cunningham from Hartford Golf Club in Cheshire, near the Liverpool-Manchester metropolitan area of England. This semi-private 9 hole course has a lot of competition in the area, but they’re pushing the boundaries of many golf traditions to help introduce new players to the game. We applaud Paul’s courage and hope that some of these new ideas at Hartford GC can impact many other courses and continue to grow the game. https://www.hartfordgolf.co.uk/WIN a box Golf Smarter golf balls and be part of the podcast! When you record our episode intro from your phone, you’ll be eligible to win a box of golf balls with the Golf Smarter logo! Write to GolfSmarterPodcast@gmail.com and tell us that you want to play. We’ll assign you an episode number and a script to record for the intro of the show. Every ten listeners who participate will be entered into a drawing for a box of balls with the Golf Smarter logo!Golf Smarter is your podcast forecaddie! We are an entertainment service that is focused on enhancing every round for you. Just like caddies, we accept tips for services rendered. Please click on the DONATE button at GolfSmarter.com to show your support so that we can continue to provide weekly, helpful, and entertaining content. Even a small monthly donation is a huge help to keeping Golf Smarter and Golf Smarter going for a long time. Thank you very much. This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans 136 from 2010, is part 1 of 2 with Jeff Ritter. Jeff’s book “Your Kid Ate My Divot” is a not so serious look at golf with some very serious, helpful instruction.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We've done Kings and Queens event. An established golfer plays with a nun golfer.
0:05.0	Say I played with my girlfriend who's never played golf before. We got on the golf course. I play all the shots till we got on the green and then she takes the putter and she puts the ball into the hole. The nun golfers have absolutely loved it. We actually had one of the members who was quite a good player, hit the green on the second hole with the T-shot, it was a par three, and he was only about six foot away for the pin. He gave the putter to his wife, and she had six puts, and they walked off with a seven. He was going mad. He was calling her names. He was like all sorts. He was swearing. He won nearest the pin, but they walked off with a seven.
0:37.9	She'd not put it on a degree before. She couldn't believe how quick it was. She put the ball for a six foot, and it went 20 foot past the hole. But she soon got it. A couple of holes later, she did like a two-put, and then they were high-fiving, and they were loving it. So that's just the highs of loads of golf, isn't it? Hi, this is Rick Petrick with Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
0:55.9	and I usually play a Colony West golf course.
0:59.0	Golf Smarter number 820.
1:02.6	An innovative course in England is growing the game
1:05.8	by challenging golf traditions with Paul Cunningham.
1:09.4	This is Golf Smarter.
1:12.0	Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score
1:17.4	and raise your golf IQ.
1:20.0	Here's your host, Fred Green.
1:22.6	Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Paul.
1:25.6	Hi, Fred. How are you?
1:27.0	I'm doing well. How are you?
1:29.1	Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, I'm good. Yeah.
1:30.9	How's the weather?
1:33.4	Not too bad at the moment. For the middle of November, in sort of sunny northwest England,
1:38.8	it's not too bad, actually. Yeah, yeah, quite nice today.
1:42.2	So, we're going to be talking about your golf course
1:45.0	today, but where specifically are you for somebody who? Northwest, well, northwest England,
1:52.0	so we're not a million miles away from Manchester and Liverpool, and then we're not far from
1:59.2	the coast where you've got famous courses like Bkdale and Hury Lake, Royal Liverpool. They're probably about an hour away from us. So the northwest is a bit of a hot bed of golf courses. So you have a tremendous amount of competition that you're fighting for? Yeah, yeah. I mean, in Cheshire. I mean, Cheshire's not a huge county.
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