2023 Memorial Tournament

The Masters 2026 (Part 6)

1137: Augusta From The Caddie’s Perspective

1138: Craig Stadler, 1982 Masters Champion

1140: Augusta Preview Show

Preview

Sam Burns (-5) and defending Masters Champion Rory McIlroy (-5) lead after Round 1 at Augusta National Golf Club. The trio of TM Rose (-3), Kurt Kitayama (-3), and Patrick Reed (-3) all sit T3. We break down all of the day's events: Rory & Bermuda Burns rounds, P.Reed & Scottie, and stinky Bryson and Rahm. Plus, we get onsite reports from Soly & Neil, a couple of Scoops Voicemails, Thrills & Delights presented by Big Randy, and a bunch more. Presented by Titleist.

Thursday

1143: Rory McIlroy builds a big lead after 36 holes at Augusta National

What a day for Rory McIlroy (-12). He jumps out to a six-shot lead over Sam Burns (-6) and P. Reed (-6) while Shane Lowry (-5), Tommy Fleetwood (-5), and Justin Rose (-5) sit at T4. We walk you through all of the day's action: Stories of the Day, Down the Leaderboard, Big's Top 10, on-site observations with Soly & Neil, news & notes, and a whole bunch more! Presented by Titleist. 

Friday

1144: Cam Young, Rory McIlroy tied going into Sunday at Augusta National

Saturday

Sunday

2026 Masters Content Hub

Find all the content live from the squad at TPC Sawgrass here.

Page Break

The PLAYERS Thread

1127: Players Championship Preview

1129: Thursday at the 2026 Players

1131: Saturday at the 2026 Players

The 2026 Players Championship

Looking for all the NLU content from Pebble? You're in the right spot. Check out the live shows, videos, and social content all from this week.

Flying with Maverick McNealy

Live at Pebble Beach: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

Live at Pebble Beach: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Range Show (Wed) | P2 2

A Bunch of Questions: Jordan Spieth Practice Round at Spyglass Hill

1118: Live at Pebble Beach (Thur)

Pop into the final live show of Pebble week as Neil and Soly bring D.J. in from on-site: Collin Morikawa wins at Pebble, AK is BACK with a big win in Adelaide and Charley Hull comes from way back to win the PIF Ladies International. Also, TC parachutes in for a massive Fedora Five update.

2026 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

Find all of NLU's Ryder Cup coverage here.

Ryder Cup: Automatic Qualifiers

1070: Does The Ryder Cup Captain Matter

1073: 2025 Ryder Cup Preview

1074: Ryder Cup Happy Hour

1075: TM Europe on top after Day 1 of the Ryder Cup

Day 1

1076: Europe up big after Day 2 of the Ryder Cup

Day 2

1077: Europe Wins The Ryder Cup

Day 3

2025 Ryder Cup

The 153rd Open - Royal Portrush

1039: The Open Championship Preview

1037: Northern Ireland - Royal Portrush, Royal County Down, and Belfast

1040: Open Championship Happy Hour

No Laying Up: Northern Ireland

1041: Round 1 at The Open

1042: Round 2 at The Open

1043: Round 3 at The Open

1044: Scottie Scheffler wins The Open

2025 Open Championship Content

2025 U.S. Open at Oakmont

"Tron Carter joins me (Soly) to pop the champagne and celebrate Dustin Johnson's breakthrough at Oakmont. We talk about DJ slaying the dragon, the USGA disaster, Sergio, Lowry, Oakmont..."

1018: Previewing Oakmont

1020: U.S. Open Preview

1021: U.S. Open Happy Hour

1022: Thursday at the U.S. Open

1023: Friday at the U.S. Open

1024: Saturday at the U.S. Open

1025: J.J. Spaun wins the 2025 U.S. Open

2025 U.S. Open Content

2025 - PGA Championship - Quail Hollow

1003: 2025 PGA Championship Preview

1004: PGA Champ Happy Hour

"Golf Adjacent" with Neil and Big Randy – PGA Championship

1005: NLU Live | RD 1 PGA Champ Recap 

1006: Friday at the PGA Championship

1007: Saturday at the PGA Championship

1008: Scottie Scheffler wins the PGA Championship

2025 PGA Championship Content Hub

Welcome to our hub for all of our 2025 Masters content! Here, you can find podcasts, videos, writing, and other musings about the week!

 members can sound off in the Refuge thread below!

The Masters 2025 - Zero Productivity Week

Our favorite week of the year has finally arrived! Join us as we run down news and notes, One-and-Done picks, play some trivia, answer audience questions, and more. Presented by FanDuel.

Live recording as we kick off the 2025 Masters week with our traditional preview podcast. We run down storylines and favorites, check in on some Odds, run through some questions, and more. Plus trivia, head-to-head match ups, and a lot of fun. It's Masters Week!

981: NLU Special Projects - Our Favorite Masters

For this edition of NLU Special Projects, KVV canvassed Team NLU with a simple question: which Masters tournament is your favorite and why? Some of the answers are predictable. Some will surprise you. All are deeply personal and reveal a unique connection to this golf tournament held each April in Augusta, Georgia.

Let's revisit one of our favorite KVV pieces from Masters week: The journey to golf's greatest destination comes at the risk of its greatest heartache — and even golf's best know it all too well. 

827: Soly Played Augusta National

814: Masters Deep Dives - '77, '80, '89, '11

: After all the scar tissue from going IN the water, he had to basically aim at the water on this one/ His drive on 18 - absolute seed and sets up an awesome second shot and birdie.

: Starting with second shot and then him playing it from the water.

It's such a sick angle and shows you just how much that front pin puts the fear of god into you. This was probably the highlight of his round - he got up and down for bogey.

: This was dirty from Akshay, I thought. 

Laying the face open and pulling this off was really impressive. I didn’t know Akshay had hands like this!

985: Thursday at Augusta

986: Friday at Augusta

987: Saturday at Augusta

988: Rory wins at Augusta National! 

989: NLU Presents - Sounds of the Masters

2025 Masters Content Hub

Welcome to our hub for all of our 2024 Presidents Cup content! Here, you can find podcasts, videos, writing and other musings about the week!

Got something to say? Nest members can sound off in the Refuge thread below!

Presidents Cup: Weir out here

904 - Presidents Cup Preview

902 - Presidents Cup Deep Dive

905 - Presidents Cup Happy Hour

906 - Presidents Cup Thursday

907 - Presidents Cup Friday Recap

908 - Saturday Presidents Cup Recap

909 - Sunday Presidents Cup Recap

2024 Presidents Cup Content Hub

Welcome to our hub for all of our 2024 Solheim Cup content! Here, you can find podcasts, videos, writing and other musings about the week!

2024 Solheim Cup - (Young) Hitters Only

896 - 2024 Solheim Cup Preview 

898 - Solheim Cup Happy Hour

899 - Solheim Cup Friday Live Show

900 - Solheim Cup Saturday Live Show

How attending the Solheim Cup symbolized the relationship between KVV and his daughter, Keegan. 

901 - Solheim Cup Sunday Live Show

2024 Solheim Cup Content Hub

Welcome to our hub for all of our 2024 The Open content! Here, you can find podcasts, videos, writing and other musings about the week!

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152nd Open - Royal Troon

For his debut GHIN & Tonic, Cody chats Lauren Coughlin's inspiring finish at the Evian, what Scotland means to him and shares what he's been up to this summer. 

Three Things I Learned from 48 Hours in Troon

Troon, in all its simplicity, beautifully defies everything a host city of a major sporting event is expected to be — and a few other defiance-themed observations from the start of KVV's week on site. 

866 - Royal Troon Open Championships Deep Dive

868 - 2024 Open Championship Preview

869 - Open Championship Happy Hour

Royal Troon Golf Club - Soly Vs. Tron | No Laying Up Film Room

TROON — On Wednesday of the Open Championship, I walked nine holes with Bryson DeChambeau, hoping to get a little insight into his #process, and how it might conflict with the elements expected to greet him the following day.

After every shot, Bryson studies the readings on his launch monitor, and someone from his team takes a cell phone picture of the numbers. Every swing is then cataloged. Multiple shots get hit, and the process repeats. His swing coach, Dana Dahlquist, offers occasional suggestions, but for the most part, DeChambeau works through his thoughts out loud.

“How is it possible that is 1.4 right?” DeChambeau said Wednesday, watching in disgust as a drive peeled left, deep into the rough. “There is no way. No. Way.”

Maybe there is a glare on the ball that’s affecting the launch monitor, someone on his team suggested.

Maybe the temperature is messing with the readings, someone else mused.

“That wind should not affect that ball that much,” DeChambeau said, and several members of the team shrugged. DeChambeau reloaded.

The science did not support what he was feeling.

I’m not a betting man, but if that’s your vice, I would highly recommend fading DeChambeau at the Open Championship for the foreseeable future. What happened on Thursday was as predictable as the Scottish sunrise. (Which is to say: Mostly predictable.) DeChambeau, arguably the best overall player in the majors this season, looked like a glitching laptop in need of a Control + Alt + Delete reboot, particularly on the front nine. He went out in 42 and looked headed for a disastrous round before salvaging it a bit and shooting 76.

He was flummoxed by the wind change, the temperature change, and in general, the mysteries of links golf. He was even flummoxed by the English language afterward. When asked by Brendan Quinn of The Athletic if there were certain elements of links golf that were incalculable, he was quick to correct what he assumed was an error.

The Open Championship may not bring out the best in DeChambeau, but it does bring out an endlessly entertaining version of him.

“I'm going to go figure it out,” DeChambeau said. “It's something equipment-related. The golf ball is … look, I'm not at 190 ball speed, so particularly when I'm hitting driver or 3-wood, those clubs are built for around that speed, that 190 ball speed, and my 3-wood around 180, so colder, firmer conditions the golf ball is not compressing as much. So it's probably something along those lines.”

If only we could play every major championship in a simulator.

It sounds like I’m making fun of him, but his success is often predicated on never accepting that user error might have been part of the problem, and I kind of admire it. He believes if the numbers are right, the ball is going to be right. And while that goes against everything we’ve come to know about links golf, that you can remove the magic and replace it with science, that delusion might help him win a lot of majors. (Just not this one.) I want him stubbornly trying to fight the Scottish, English and Irish wind for another decade, convinced he can be the first man to defeat it.

Bryson DeChambeau in the Open Championship is a gift that I want to unwrap every year and find new ways to be surprised. He wasn’t angry this year. The two-time U.S. Open winner answered every question with a smile on his face. There will never be anything quite as entertaining as his declaration back in 2021 that his “driver sucks.” In fact, he seemed very much at peace with it all.

“That's golf, my man,” he said. “It's frustrating.”

Amen, Bryson. We can absolutely agree on that.

870 - Thursday Open Championship Live Show

871 - Friday Open Championship Live Show

The first two days at the Postage Stamp have proven plenty entertaining. And in the final major championship weekend of the year, one of golf's great par 3s deserves to be a messy plot point. 

872 - Saturday Open Championship Live Show

The Open 2024: Scenes from Xander Schauffele's Victory

Xander Schauffele is once again a major champion: Illustrating what capturing the Claret Jug meant for him, his challengers and his place in golf. 

The Open 2024: Every Reason to Get Out of Bed Early Sunday Morning

Even as we approach the final day, this Open Championship is far from over. Here's every reason why sleeping in until the final group would be a mistake. 

873 - Sunday Open Championship Live Show

2024 Open Championship Content Hub

Welcome to our hub for all of our 2024 U.S. Open content! Here, you can find podcasts, videos, writing and other musings about the week!

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2024 U.S. Open @ Pinehurst No. 2

A little bit of Pinehurst, a little bit of nostalgia, a little bit of vacay: D.J. returns for a timely GHIN & Tonic. 

One decade and 37 major championships in between. How it all looked, and felt, as Rory's quest continues. 

850 - Pinehurst U.S. Open Deep Dive

852 - 2024 U.S. Open Preview

853 - 2024 U.S. Open Happy Hour

U.S. Open Pinehurst No. 2 Retrospective: 1999, 2005, 2014 | NLU Pod, Ep 850

Pinehurst No. 2 - Neil Vs. Ben

Patrick Cantlay was never here to offer anything theatrical — exactly what a major championship demands. But his lack of remarkability is what put him atop the leaderboard on Thursday. 

854 - Thursday U.S. Open Live Show

Five Observations from Friday at the U.S. Open

Missed cuts, Mickelson memories, merch: Here's five scenes from an action-packed Friday at the U.S. Open. 

855 - Friday U.S. Open Live Show

Yes, Bryson DeChambeau is back and better than ever. And his last act at Pinehurst might be his best one yet. 

856 - Saturday U.S. Open Live Show

By the Minute: The Back Nine at the 2024 U.S. Open

The tension, the heartache, the happiness: Relive every moment and the ones you didn’t see, from the back nine between Bryson DeChambeau and Rory McIlroy. 

857 - Sunday U.S. Open Live Show

2024 U.S. Open Content Hub

Welcome to our hub for all of our 2024 PGA Championship content! Here, you can find podcasts, videos, writing and other musings about the week!

Along with content on our own platforms, we're back for another Megacast with ESPN this year! We'll be broadcasting each competition day on ESPN2 and ESPN+.

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2024 PGA Championship - Valhalla & Louisville Jail

Viktor Hovland is Searching for His Old Self

Viktor Hovland has been on a manic pursuit to fix things. But the same curiosity that made him a star may be fueling his slump. 

835 - PGA Championship Preview

836 - PGA Championship Happy Hour

Previewing The PGA Championship

Happy Hour: PGA Championship

837 - Thursday PGA Championship Live Show

Live from the Kill House: PGA Championship (THU)

838 - Friday PGA Championship Live Show

Live from the Kill House: PGA Championship (FRI)

839 - Saturday PGA Championship Live Show

Live from the Kill House: PGA Championship (SAT)

Putting the 2024 PGA in writing (so we believe it later)

Xander Schauffele won his first major championship, but that was only a fraction of what happened this week at Valhalla. 

840 - Sunday PGA Championship Live Show

2024 PGA Championship Content Hub

Welcome to our hub for all of our 2024 Masters content! Here, you can find podcasts, videos, writing and other musings about the week!

members can sound off on the Refuge thread below!

The Masters 2024 - Homa House Party

There’s more to the Amari Avery story than a small snapshot of her life suggests. Instead, two years in college – something that almost didn’t happen – have redefined everything. 

The 2024 Augusta National Women’s Amateur marks the arrival of a new generation in the women’s amateur game. 

ANWA 2024: Sights and Scenes Heading Into The Final Round

Survival was on everyone's mind on cut day. Now, 35 players will have plenty to think about going into Saturday's final round. 

Bailey Shoemaker never let Lottie Woad or Augusta National scare her. Instead, she entered Saturday and found her old self: The intimidator. 

NLU Podcast, Episode 813: LPGA Match Play & ANWA Preview + Rachel Heck Interview

ANWA

The journey to golf's greatest destination comes at the risk of its greatest heartache — and even golf's best know it all too well. 

Jon Rahm wants you to know that he loved the PGA Tour. He has a lot of great memories from the years he spent playing there. He doesn’t have regrets, but he has … feelings. He’s not too proud to admit that. In the months leading up to the WM Phoenix Open, he would drive past the course fairly often, see the grandstands going up, and the weight of his decision to join LIV Golf would return to the forefront of his mind.

No Laying Up

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