Two veterans. Decades inside the game. Done biting their tongues. This is Episode 1 of NO MORE LIES.

Welcome to the flagship talk show of Funnel Golf. With conversations about instruction, the teaching industry, the professional game, and the game at large—covering the parts of this industry nobody else is willing to say out loud. In Episode 1, we introduce ourselves, lay out why we’re doing this, and start exactly where you’d expect: with the truth.

🎙️ HOSTED BY
Brian Manzella – Golf Digest’s 14th-ranked Teacher in America and Top 100 Golf Magazine Teacher since 2010, with over 44 years of teaching experience from beginners to the pro game.
Sam Osborne – Former touring pro, hand-picked as a junior by Bernard Gallacher for exclusive membership to the prestigious Wentworth Club, with 12 years as a pro before turning the page on the game he thought he knew.

Before YouTube. Before Instagram. Before anyone was farming golf tips for engagement, the real arguments happened on message boards at 2am.

Brian Manzella was there for all of it.

In this episode, Brian and Sam trace the strange, scrappy history of golf instruction online, from a clunky Macintosh in 1996 to the forum that genuinely changed how the game gets taught.

What's inside:

Why Brian got banned from forum after forum for one heretical idea: the clubface, not your path, is what makes you slice

The six-page Teacher of the Year application he dropped into a thread to settle the credentials argument (it got him banned again)

The David Toms story at English Turn: a towel, a hurdle drill, and a mishit that rolled straight through David Duval's legs on the next bay. Toms went on to lap the field at Quail Hollow

How Brian built his own forum and watched it hit 30,000 members

Sam discovering the whole thing from across the pond as "Slammin' Sam 2"

The Golfing Machine wars, the Atlanta school that fell apart the same week as Katrina, and why the best ideas usually won anyway.

No gurus. No patented systems. Just two guys who lived inside the game telling you how it actually went down.

New episodes every week.

In Episode 2 of No More Lies, Brian Manzella and Sam Osborne open up the most contentious story in modern golf instruction: the Alpha War.

Manzella traces 12 years of golf science, from the collapse of the Golfing Machine to the rise of club kinetics and Jacobs 3D, and names the names most teachers won't.

Along the way: how the work rebuilt Padraig Harrington's career, why the PGA Tour looked like "a bunch of babies" during the LIV era, the gutting of Q School, and a broadcast booth that refuses to tell you what is actually happening in a golf swing.