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New Orleans football, a potential trip Down Under, and a golf world that never stops spinning! 🏈⛳ On this episode of Tales From The Tips, DA and 15-year Tour Caddy Mick Middlemo serve up another round of unfiltered golf talk, behind-the-scenes caddie stories, and sports opinions with a little extra Louisiana flavor.

DA and Mick kick things off with tales from their recent trip to New Orleans for a football game before looking ahead to Mick’s potential caddying opportunity at the New South Wales Senior Open. From the challenges of international golf travel to making smart food choices on the road, the guys cover the details that can make or break life on the professional golf circuit. Because when you’re chasing birdies around the world, finding a decent meal can sometimes feel like winning a major!

The conversation moves to the quirks of composite golf courses, expectations for Max Homa and Jordan Spieth heading into the upcoming season, and the complicated relationship between elite players and their caddies. What happens when a player’s calendar is packed with commitments and the person carrying the bag is left trying to keep everything on track? Mick brings the caddie’s perspective to the challenges that fans rarely see.

DA and Mick also break down the Spanish Open, discuss emerging talent, and look at what the tournament could mean for the wider golf landscape. Then the conversation gets bigger than the fairways as they debate the future of professional golf, the changing dynamics between tours, and the growing questions surrounding LIV Golf and its place in the sport.

Add in personal updates, upcoming events, travel plans, and the usual Tales From The Tips banter, and you’ve got another episode packed with golf insight, sports conversation, and opinions that don’t need a yardage book.

In this episode:

🏈 New Orleans football adventures and stories from the road
🇦🇺 Mick’s potential caddying trip to the New South Wales Senior Open
✈️ The realities of international golf travel, tournament schedules, and eating well abroad
⛳ Composite golf courses and the challenges they present
🏌️ Max Homa and Jordan Spieth: expectations for the upcoming season
🎒 The pressures of caddying for elite players with demanding schedules
🇪🇸 Spanish Open storylines and emerging golf talent
🌎 The future of professional golf and LIV Golf’s uncertain direction
🎙️ Personal updates, upcoming events, and plenty of honest golf talk

Whether you’re a golf fanatic, a caddie-curious fan, or someone who enjoys hearing what happens when the conversation wanders well beyond the 18th green, Tales From The Tips has you covered.

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Sports Banter
02:57 Travel Tales and Football Adventures
06:01 Caddying News and Upcoming Events
09:06 Golf Tournament Insights and Challenges
11:58 Traveling for Golf: Experiences and Tips
15:09 Food and Cultural Adjustments in Golfing Abroad
17:54 Composite Golf Courses: Understanding the Setup
20:57 Player Performance and Expectations for the Season
21:40 The Challenges of Caddying for a Star
23:42 Spotlight on the Spanish Open
25:44 The Future of Golf Tours
27:43 The Decline of LIV Golf
31:31 The Champions Tour and Legends Tour
35:40 Personal Updates and Future Plans

The President’s Cup is over, but DA and 15-year Tour Caddy Mick Middlemo are still breaking it down — because apparently watching competitive golf once wasn’t enough.

On this episode of Tales From The Tips, DA and Mick take a deep dive into Team USA’s performance at the President’s Cup, examining the players, the pairings, the pressure, the course conditions and the strategies that made foursomes look either brilliant or completely maddening. They break down individual performances, the challenges of team golf and what the experience could mean heading toward the next President’s Cup at Kingston Heath.

The guys also tackle one of the more frustrating parts of modern golf: fan behavior. When the competition gets intense, the galleries can become part of the story — sometimes for all the wrong reasons.

And because this is Tales From The Tips, there’s no chance the conversation stays on golf.

DA and Mick jump into the PGA Tour fall series and DP World Tour, talk about the challenges of the foursomes format, make their baseball playoff predictions, and react to some seriously unexpected performances around the NFL. Add in Mick’s caddie perspective, DA’s takes, a few personal stories and plenty of sports-world nonsense, and you've got another episode that refuses to stay inside the ropes.

Golf. Football. Baseball. Foursomes. Fan behavior. Predictions. Pressure. And a caddie who has seen just about everything.

That's a pretty normal day at Tales From The Tips.

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Initial Reactions

03:01 Postmortem of the President's Cup

06:04 Team USA's Performance and Strategy

09:00 Individual Player Highlights

12:05 Course Conditions and Future Events

15:07 Looking Ahead to Kingston Heath

17:54 Wrap-Up and Final Thoughts

25:13 Technical Difficulties and Resilience

28:00 Analyzing Team USA's Foursomes Performance

33:15 Looking Ahead: Fall Series and DP World Tour

37:14 Baseball Playoffs: Predictions and Surprises

40:54 NFL Season Surprises and Team Performances

43:40 Wrapping Up: Future Insights and Listener Engagement

From NFL football taking over Australia to the latest twists and turns in professional golf, DA and 15-year Tour Caddy Mick Middlemo cover a lot of ground in this episode of Tales From The Tips.

The conversation starts Down Under, where the NFL’s recent events in Australia spark a bigger discussion about the cultural impact of sports and why some games travel better than others. From there, DA and Mick head straight back to the golf world, breaking down the Biltmore Championship, BMW PGA Championship, standout player performances and the unique challenges that come with life inside the ropes.

Then things get really interesting.

With the Presidents Cup in the spotlight, DA and Mick dig into the international team, the strengths and challenges facing both sides, and what it takes to perform when the pressure gets turned all the way up. They also tackle one of the biggest storylines in professional golf: LIV Golf’s Chapter 11 filing and what it could mean for players navigating an increasingly complicated professional golf landscape.

Can players move between tours? What pathways exist for golfers trying to get back into competitive events? And with the professional game still working through its evolving structure, where does that leave the players, caddies and fans trying to make sense of it all?

Add Mick’s firsthand caddie perspective, DA’s questions, plenty of golf opinions and the usual Tales From The Tips humor, and you’ve got another episode that goes well beyond the scorecard.

Football in Australia. Championship golf. Presidents Cup pressure. LIV Golf. Caddie life. The future of professional golf.

Because apparently, golf needed more plot twists.

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Sports Passion
02:59 NFL in Australia: A Spectacle
06:02 NFL Team Dynamics and Fan Engagement
09:00 Transitioning to Golf: Recent Events
11:58 Caddy Experiences and Challenges
14:55 Biltmore Championship Insights
17:56 BMW PGA Championship Highlights
19:36 Injury Concerns and Tour Decisions
20:40 Analyzing the President's Cup Pathway
22:41 Live Golf's Chapter 11 and Future Prospects
24:34 Resurrecting Careers: The Path Back to Tours
27:21 Understanding the Challenger and Champions Tiers
28:40 Confusion in Golf's New Structure
31:05 The International Team's Challenge at the President's Cup
36:11 Team USA's Strengths and Matchups
41:15 Closing Thoughts and Future Discussions