Mat Goggin on Contending for the 2009 Open and Building 7 Mile Beach in Tasmania

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🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Mathew Goggin has had one of the most interesting careers in golf and he's not yet old enough to play on the Champions Tour. Growing up in Tasmania as the son of legendary golfer Lindy Goggin (née Jennings), Mat played frequently at Royal Hobart Golf Club, which is close to the Hobart International Airport as well as a strip of sand dunes and pine trees called Seven Mile Beach. Mat often wondered why there wasn't a course on this landmass, amid the spectacular dunes. Future Tassie golfers will no longer have to wonder: with the help of architects Mike Clayton and Mike DeVries, Mat is developing a new public golf course at Seven Mile Beach, set to open in late 2024. In addition, he has already begun to plan a second course next door, this one called 5 Mile Beach. Matt gives Garrett the lowdown on these projects and also talks about his outstanding competitive career, highlighted by a victory at the 1995 Australian Amateur, five wins on the Korn Ferry Tour, and a very close call at the 2009 Open Championship. (Yes, that Open—the Tom Watson vs. Stewart Cink one.) Mentioned in the episode: Mat's excellent essay "10 years and counting...," a reflection on his late grandfather's influence on his life in golf

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0:00.0	I'm Mr. Green, for example. I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
0:05.0	And when I find my ball in a bright egg.
0:07.0	Bright egg.
0:08.0	The dreaded bright egg.
0:09.0	Bright egg.
0:10.0	Bright egg.
0:11.0	Bright egg.
0:12.0	Bright egg lie. I'm about ready to run off the golf course.
0:30.0	Welcome to the Friday Golf Podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison.
0:38.0	And today we're talking about an exciting new golf course project in Tasmania.
0:44.0	The course is called Seven Mile Beach. It's being built on sand dunes right next to the ocean.
0:50.0	A short drive from the Hobart International Airport.
0:53.0	And it will be public.
0:55.0	The architects are Michael Clayton and his partner Mike DeVries, both of whom we've had on the podcast previously.
1:02.0	But in this episode, I'll be talking to the biggest force behind the golf course at Seven Mile Beach.
1:09.0	And that is Matthew Goggin.
1:11.0	Matt is a professional golfer who has played on the PGA tour and has won five times on what is now known as the Corn Ferry Tour.
1:19.0	He also grew up in Tasmania, not far from Seven Mile Beach.
1:22.0	And he's been familiar with that piece of land since he was a kid, basically.
1:27.0	This project is really his baby and I'm looking forward to talking to him about how he got it off the ground,
1:33.0	what the design and construction process has been like, and why he's already planning to build another course right next door.
1:41.0	All of that is coming up after this break.
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