The Back of the Range
Weekly interviews from prominent amateurs, coaches, and personalities from the game of golf!
We found 6 episodes of The Back of the Range with the tag “lpga”.
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Annika Sorenstam - The Legend
October 16th, 2023 | 33 mins 12 secs
annika foundation, annika sorenstam, college golf, golf podcast, haskins award, lpga, lpga tour, ryder cup, solheim cup, university of arizona, usga
My guest on this episode is the living legend, Annika Sorenstam. We spoke a bit about her start in the game as well as the incredible initiatives of her foundation that helps bring the game to people all over the world.
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Anne Walker - Stanford Women's Golf Coach
February 20th, 2020 | 1 hr 1 min
albane valenzuela, andrea lee, anne walker, lpga, mariah stackhouse, ncaa, scotland, shannon aubert, stanford golf, tiger woods
Our guest this week is Anne Walker, Head Coach for Women's Golf at Stanford University. Really enjoyed my conversation with Anne, not only talking about her coaching career but her playing career and how she made it to Cal Berkeley all the way from Scotland. We spoke about some memorable moments at Stanford, her approach to getting the most out of her players, and yes.....she even shared a couple funny stories about some former players!
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Haley Moore - 2018 National Champion from U. of Arizona
July 17th, 2019 | 52 mins 54 secs
ajga, annika, arizona, augusta national women's amateur, cactus tour, golf, haley moore, lpga, the masters
Our guest this week is Haley Moore! After the Arizona Wildcats barely snuck into the Match Play portion of the 2018 National Championship as the 8th seed, they ran through match play and defeated Alabama with Haley making the clincher on the 18th hole. We spoke about the Augusta National Women's Amateur, her career at Arizona, and her early success as a professional on the Cactus Tour. She is prepping now for Q-School and this is someone you will see on the LPGA Tour very soon.
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Kristen GIllman, 2018 U.S. Women's Amateur Champion
February 6th, 2019 | 30 mins 33 secs
alabama golf, brooke henderson, curtis cup, kristen gillman, lexi thompson, lpga, texas golf, usga
Our guest this week is Kristen Gillman, the 2018 U.S. Women's Amateur. She just turned pro and is a rookie on the LPGA Tour, but we chatted about her amateur accomplishments that include....well, just about everything you can imagine. Curtis Cup, World Amateur Team, All-American at Alabama.....oh, and she actually has TWO U.S. Amateur wins. Her first? At the age of 16. She's got some serious game and some great stories!
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Shannon Johnson - 2018 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur Champion
January 23rd, 2019 | 1 hr 29 secs
golf, indiana golf, lpga, parziale, ping, shannon johnson, south dakota golf, thorny lea, us mid am, usga, women's golf
Our guest this week is Shannon Johnson, the 2018 US Women's Mid Amateur Champion. Shannon has played in 13 USGA Championships and has racked up 13 state titles in her home state of South Dakota including four straight Women’s Amateur titles between 2003-06. We talked about her amateur career, her decision to stay an amateur, and her home course of Thorny Lea in Massachucets. Does that name ring a bell? That's Matt Parziale's club. He won the 2017 US Mid Amateur.....so clearly we had to talk about Parz and the culture at Thorny Lea.
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Ashley Burke - All-American Girl Chasing the Dream to the LPGA
March 14th, 2018 | 49 mins 4 secs
amateur golf, college golf, golf, lpga, pgatour, podcast, usf, usga
Ashley Burke joins us this week to talk about her journey into professional golf and her goals of reaching the LPGA. She participated in three US Women's Amateur Championships and was an All-Conference selection at the University of South Florida. Ashley was also our "international correspondent" when she was down in Chile for the Latin America Amateur Championship. She has some fun stories to share about college golf and life on the Suncoast Tour.