It’s been too long, but the pod is back on a regular schedule. I start with the professional game: Scottie Scheffler’s FedEx Cup, the move to a match play finale, Adrian Meronk winning the Dunhill Links, and what LIV players returning means for the DP World Tour ahead of Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Then the golf swing: why your clubface at the first parallel doesn’t have to sit on the spine angle, what Tiger did in 2000, and how more forearm rotation has given me and my clients more speed with less strain on the back. I finish with online coaching and why it’s the closest most golfers will get to having a tour coach.

I'm at Five Iron Golf in Business Bay this week, and the final major of the year is done. Shiho Kuwaki beat Esther Henseleit in a two-hole playoff at Royal Lytham to take the 50th AIG Women's Open — a second Japanese winner in a row, and a player who isn't even on the LPGA yet. I go through how that playoff actually unfolded, plus top-tens for Lottie Woad and Charley Hull, and the Hull prank story that got more attention than it deserved.

On the PGA Tour, Michael Thorbjornsen got his first win at the last ever Rocket Classic, with Xander Schauffele second and a top five for Matt Wallace. And LIV have a lead investor signed, with a deal targeted for September — the first properly positive news they've had in a while.

Then the coaching. I made myself a training aid on Sunday afternoon — a polystyrene plane taped to the top of the shaft — and it's become the best visual I've got for teaching the planar swing. That leads into the three swing patterns I coach after thirty years playing and eleven coaching: the planar move, Stack & Tilt and MORAD, and the Hovland pattern. Where the face is at each point, how much forearm rotation each one needs, and which ball flight each is built around.

Finally, ten minutes of short game. I had a multiple club champion in ahead of the US Mid-Am, and the fix was one concept: set the face open, then turn the loft down through the ball. More speed, lower flight, more spin — and it feels far more positive than trying to help it up.

Ryan Fox is the Champion Golfer of the Year, and he got there with a swing that breaks nearly every rule I'd teach.

In episode 11 I break down what he does — the splayed stance, the strong grip, barely 20 degrees of hip turn, that steep arm swing — and the rotation and side bend on the way down that make it all work. Plus the closing stretch at Birkdale: the bunker bogey where he took his medicine, the hot bounce on 17, and the putt on 18 he hit before any of us watching were ready for it.

Then Bryson's two-shot penalty, and why professionals go out of their way to look clean. The Asian Tour realigning with the DP World Tour, and what that quietly takes away from LIV's pitch to investors.

And two arguments worth having. The short game fight over spin versus bounce — I'll tell you which side I lean and why. And the long game divide between stack and tilt and the biomechanics camp, with a bit of my own history through Cranfield, Harmon, Leadbetter and MORAD.

Coaching takeaway this week: stop chasing shallow. Find the slot.

Women's British Open preview to close.