The Missing Links Golf Show follows two guys in their early 50s with plenty of life experience, unfinished business, and one ambitious goal: to qualify for and compete in the NSW Amateur Senior Golf Championship.
Each week, Steve and Andy share the highs, the lows, and the lessons from their pursuit of better golf. But this isn't just a golf podcast. It's about what happens when you decide you're not done yet.
From practice sessions and tournament rounds to sports psychology, coaching, equipment, and the mental battles we all face, they explore how the game reflects life—and how the lessons learned away from the course can make you a better golfer.
Whether you're chasing a lower handicap, a bigger goal, or simply proof that your best days aren't behind you, this is the journey for you.
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This week on The Missing Links Golf Show, Andy takes us through a very eventful round at the Wyong Seniors — complete with shanks, cold tops, lightning-fast greens, questionable pin positions, a rather creative cart-path strategy and some seriously impressive recovery putting.
After making some significant swing changes, Andy is still trying to work out whether a disappointing score represents a step backwards or simply another part of the learning process. And that's where things get interesting.
Because while Andy is wrestling with an eight-over 77, Steve has his own update: nine holes, eight pars, one double — and some of the best ball striking he's seen in a while. The strokes-gained numbers aren't perfect, but the feeling is unmistakable: something is starting to click.
We talk about why progress in golf rarely happens in a straight line, why strokes gained is useful without telling the whole story, and why sometimes the most important sign of progress is simply wanting to play one more hole.
There's also plenty of talk about the President's Cup, some sporting heartbreak, and the ongoing quest for middle-aged sporting glory.
And then, appropriately, the Missing Links band closes things out with a new song about exactly what keeps us coming back:
One more swing. One more chance.
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Ep. 141 The Courage to Find Out You're Wrong
Épisode 141
mercredi 23 septembre 2026 • Durée 01:21:23
This week on The Missing Links Golf Show, we go deep.
After a quick detour through the President’s Cup, team pairings and a few ideas for how we might redesign international golf, Steve and Andy turn their attention to something much bigger: what actually allows us to keep learning and improving?
After analysing more than 140 episodes of the show, Steve has identified a collection of traits that seem to sit underneath the Missing Links approach to golf and life: curiosity, humility, courage and patience.
But there’s more to it than that.
We talk about suspending certainty long enough for reality to teach us something new, allowing evidence to challenge our ego, and why golf is such a brutally effective laboratory for exposing the stories we tell ourselves.
We explore why failure isn't necessarily the teacher — failure is the classroom, and reflection is the teacher.
We talk about acceptance, the difference between accepting an uncertain outcome and simply giving up, and why freedom on the golf course may actually come from acceptance and commitment rather than confidence and certainty.
And then there are two very Missing Links ideas: community and pilgrimage.
Because improvement isn't a straight line. There is no finish line. Sometimes you're on the scenic route, sometimes you're in the trees, and sometimes reality simply tells you that you're not where you thought you were.
We also introduce the Anti-Missing Links — certainty, pride, fear, rumination, resistance, outcome dependence, isolation and destination thinking — before discovering one more Missing Link that perhaps should have been there all along:
Gratitude.
Because we're not done yet. But that doesn't mean we can't stop occasionally, look around, and realise that we're already pretty lucky to be on the pilgrimage.
Ep. 140 World Rules Official Appreciation Day
Épisode 140
lundi 14 septembre 2026 • Durée 01:09:47
This week on The Missing Links Golf Show, Steve and Andy take a slightly crooked tour through the world of golf, technology, rules officials and Andy’s latest battle with his golf game.
First up, the August results of the Missing Links Yearly Championship are finally revealed—and the boys discover that while they may not be covering themselves in glory, the pilgrims certainly are. There’s a record-breaking winning score, a playoff decided by the Dice of Truth, and plenty of reasons for Steve and Andy to lift their games.
Then it’s off to Carnarvon for Andy’s latest tournament round. The round features some wildly inconsistent driving, a couple of doubles and a frustrating short-game performance, but there are some genuine positives hiding inside the wreckage—including some seriously confident putting.
The boys also get stuck into one of golf’s great debates: should you leave the flagstick in when putting? The science, the psychology and the boys’ decidedly strong opinions are all brought to the table.
And finally, inspired by the growing number of golfers turning to the Missing Links Facebook group for rules advice, the Missing Links Golf Show Band delivers its latest musical masterpiece: a tribute to the men and women who patrol the fairways enforcing the Rules of Golf.
Because sometimes, there’s no relief. You just have to play it.
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Ep. 139 Stop Thinking!
Épisode 139
mardi 8 septembre 2026 • Durée 01:11:45
Andy Walker is back, still riding the high of his breakthrough round at the Penrith Senior Amateur — and this time he's brought a whole new theory of the golf swing with him.
After working with Wendy Doolan, Andy has gone down the rabbit hole of Bioswing Dynamics, a methodology developed by Mike Adams that looks at a golfer's natural physical tendencies and body dimensions rather than trying to force everyone into the same swing model. Think of it as golf swing fitting for your body.
We get into front-post, centre-post and rear-post golfers, ground forces, flying elbows, wingspans, forearm lengths and why Andy may have spent years trying to swing in a way that fights his natural tendencies.
There's also more short-game work with Andrew Dodt, including weight staying forward, chest position, club path, tempo and the eternal battle against the dreaded chunk.
But after all that technical discussion comes the important bit: you can't take 17 swing thoughts onto the golf course. Practice is where you make the changes. On the course, it's time to find your feel, pick your target and swing.
And then, naturally, the Missing Links Golf Show Band turns that lesson into a brand-new golf rock anthem.
It's complicated. It's fascinating. And ultimately, it's time to stop thinking.
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Sometimes the biggest breakthrough in golf isn't a swing change or a new club. Sometimes it's simply learning to play the shot you're actually playing.
Andy Walker heads to the Penrith Senior Amateur with a different approach. After a frustrating run of golf and plenty of swing changes, the goal is simple: stay in the round, enjoy the day and take it one shot at a time.
And for once, the golf starts to look very different.
There are good drives, impressive recoveries, questionable decisions and the usual reminders that golf is still golf. But the real breakthrough comes between the shots, as Andy catches himself getting ahead of the game and brings his thoughts back to the present without judgement.
There's also the small matter of Mick Patterson's formal appeal to the Missing Links Championship Committee over his exclusion from the July Dice of Truth playoff. Naturally, the committee delivers a completely fair and entirely sensible ruling.
It's an episode about good golf, better thinking and discovering what happens when you stop trying to play the whole round at once.
One shot. Then the next.
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This week Steve takes us through his recent round with Super Coach Matt. The good, the bad and the lessons learned along the way.
But before all of that we hear the boys' view on the recent test cricket series between Australia and Bangladesh and we also have an update on the July results for The Missing Links Golf Show Yearly Championship.
So strap yourselves in and get ready to rock out because this time. It felt like golf!
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Ep. 136 The Velocity of Your Game
Épisode 136
mercredi 19 août 2026 • Durée 01:23:53
Andy Walker heads back to one of his old junior stomping grounds for the Mollymook Senior Amateur — and discovers that while the scorecard says 79, the story is considerably more positive.
After a week of preparation, some last-minute advice from former LPGA Tour player Wendy Doolan and a promising range session, Andy arrives at Mollymook feeling confident. Then the nerves kick in. There are snap hooks, unlucky bounces, slow greens, a cricket-ball-quality collision with a course stake and a few questionable club-selection decisions.
But there are also plenty of signs that the game is moving in the right direction.
The boys dig into why the score isn't always the best measure of how well you've played, the importance of staying in the fight when things aren't going your way, and their favourite concept of the "velocity" of your game — not just where your game is, but the direction and speed in which it's moving.
There's also a deep dive into putting. Andy discusses his new putter, why he's finally starting to feel confident over longer putts, and the fascinating discovery that what your eyes tell you about your putting alignment may not be what is actually happening.
And, naturally, there are some important questions:
Why didn't Andy hit driver?
What exactly constitutes a "stinger"?
And how many times can you hit a snap hook before you finally admit there's a problem?
The episode finishes with some exciting news: Andy has entered three more senior amateur events, all qualifiers for the NSW Senior Open.
The pilgrimage continues.
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Ep. 135 The Putter Doesn't Lie
Épisode 135
mercredi 12 août 2026 • Durée 01:07:11
Steve and Andy dive deep into the numbers behind Andy’s latest putting transformation, following a coaching session with Andrew Dote and a Sam PuttLab analysis of the new LAB DF3 Sweeper.
The results are revealing. Andy’s new putter has dramatically improved his consistency and face stability, particularly on longer putts—but the data also exposes some new problems. He’s consistently hitting the putter on an outside-in path, producing what might be described as a remarkably reliable collection of baby fades.
The boys unpack face aim, face rotation, impact position, launch angle, forward press, acceleration and the eternal battle between feel and real. They also explore why the right equipment matters: a club fitting won’t magically fix your golf swing, but the wrong equipment can make improvement almost impossible.
And there’s a bigger lesson in the data. Knowing what you actually do, rather than what you think you do, changes the way you practise.
Then Steve shares a brief update of a round with his new coach, Matt—a round that provides a perfect demonstration of another Missing Links principle. One bad shot doesn't have to become a bad round.
Finally, the weather turns nasty, the temperature drops, the rain arrives, and the boys find themselves asking the question every golfer has asked at some point:
Why do we do this?
Fortunately, there might just be a song about it.
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Ep. 134 It Gets Ugly Before It Gets Better
Épisode 134
jeudi 6 août 2026 • Durée 01:18:30
Steve has officially found a coach.
In this episode, Matt Woodbridge returns to the show—but this time with a very different role. After months of searching for someone who could provide more than another swing tip, Steve begins what he hopes will be a long-term coaching journey towards scratch golf.
Rather than immediately changing mechanics, Matt starts by asking bigger questions:
Where do you actually want to get to?
What kind of golfer are you trying to become?
What part of your game would you fix if you could only choose one?
The answers aren't as simple as they seem.
The guys dive into why most coaching stops at the symptoms instead of addressing the causes, why data can sometimes challenge what you think your weaknesses are, and how real improvement requires commitment long before the scorecard shows it.
Later, they unpack the first technical changes from Steve's initial practice session—including two setup adjustments that immediately transformed his five iron from a leaking 150-metre fade into a solid 170-plus metre strike. But perhaps the biggest lesson wasn't technical at all...
Sometimes the swing has to feel completely wrong before it becomes right.
It's an honest conversation about coaching, trust, patience and the uncomfortable reality that meaningful improvement often gets worse before it gets better.
Rock Factor
The episode finishes with the debut of Steve's new original song inspired by the coaching journey—a fitting reminder that the biggest breakthroughs often begin with the discomfort of change.
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What happens when you suddenly find yourself four under par after nine holes?
This week Steve and Andy welcome back fan favourite Mick Patterson for an episode that starts with an ordinary competition round before taking an unexpected turn into one of the most fascinating mental game discussions we've had on the show.
Mick shares the story of a practice round where, despite arriving underprepared and without his usual routine, he found himself four under through the front nine. The conversation explores what changes when you're playing better than you've ever played before—and why closing out great rounds is often harder than creating them.
The boys unpack:
Why trying to hit the ball harder often makes you hit it shorter.
How tempo and rhythm unlocked Mick's best ball-striking.
The challenge of staying present when your score starts getting your attention.
Practical techniques for returning to the moment using breathing, awareness and your senses.
Why learning to be uncomfortable is part of becoming a better golfer.
Later in the episode, Mick introduces his new golf simulator business, discussing everything from designing the perfect home setup to avoiding costly mistakes when building your own indoor practice space.
To find out more about home golf simulators, contact Mick via 0410721864 or email mick@thesimstudio.com.au
And of course, Golf Rock returns with another original song—this time dedicated to Andy Walker's long-running battle with Kooindah's infamous 13th hole.
If you've ever wondered why your best golf disappears just when it matters most, this episode is for you.
In This Episode
Thursday's less-than-memorable competition round.
Mick's remarkable four-under front nine.
Why tempo beats effort.
The psychology of protecting a great score.
"Stop thinking and come to your senses."
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