The Good-Good Golf Podcast · TalkinGolf Productions

Ep 141: Karrie Webb Talks, We Listen

·1 hr 11 min·1 clip

The show opens with the usual Good Good hierarchy still very much in place. Kari Webb is welcomed as the guest, but the hosts first do their bit with Adrian Logue at the top of the pecking order and Jimmy Emanuel calling in from Adelaide. The Chevron Championship is the first proper thread. The panel looks at what it means for a major to move venues without losing what makes it matter. Kari Webb is brought in to talk through the week ahead. The conversation does not stay in one lane for long. It moves into the Australian Open and the LIV event in Adelaide. The group talks about the practical headaches of staging tournaments and where the money actually ends up. TV coverage comes up as one of the clearer places where better spending would lift the whole thing. There is some pushback, but also room for criticism. The show does not treat LIV as flawless, and it also does not pretend the issue is simple. The panel argues that a lot of the teething problems sit with the tournament itself rather than the basic idea behind it. That keeps the discussion grounded in golf rather than slogans. From there, the episode circles back to identity. The hosts compare the way the Australian Open has been staged with the way the Chevron has been reshaped. Their point is that one event seems to have been bent around a sponsor, while the other has changed format without losing what winning it means. That distinction matters to them. It also gives the episode its clearest line of thought. There are smaller, human details threaded through the conversation. Jimmy talks about walking holes with Jeff Ogilvie's mum and then moving on to Kari's mum. Kari gets time with Laura Davies at Kingston Heath. Those moments do not carry the argument, but they give the show some texture and remind you this is a golf world where everybody seems to know everybody else. The conversation then turns to Australian women's golf. Grace Kim's win on the LPGA is discussed as a useful signpost. The hosts are bullish on the current state of the game in Australia and especially on the next wave of players coming through. That sense of depth is one of the episode's more optimistic notes. Even when the tone is light, the panel keeps coming back to practical questions. What does a tournament owe its identity. How much does coverage depend on investment. What really changes when a sponsor gets to redraw the shape of a week. Those are the kinds of questions the show seems happiest with. The guest format lets Kari Webb answer them without turning the whole thing into a formal interview. The middle of the episode is the most argumentative part. It is also the most useful. The hosts let the conversation wander just enough for the underlying positions to show themselves. There is teasing, interruption, and a fair amount of assuming the listener can keep up. That is the mode here. By the end, the discussion has moved from the Chevron to LIV to the Australian Open to the state of women's golf in Australia. It is not a neat package. It is more like a room full of people who know the sport trying to work out what matters most and refusing to sand off the edges. The closing stretch leans into appreciation for Kari Webb's time and the sense that the week ahead will sort itself out once the golf starts.

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A loose, sharp golf conversation that uses the Chevron move to open into broader questions about the game.

Episode 141 centers on a clean, live-wire question: what changes when the Chevron Championship changes venue, and how far a tournament can shift before its identity starts to feel different.

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If you want Karrie Webb, LIV talk, and a blunt look at how sponsor power shapes tournament identity.

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