Puttcast: Mini Golf, Holey Moley & All Things Putting - Episodes Tagged with “Wpl”

Interview with Pasi Aho + Putt18, AMA Events & WPL

Puttcast — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 09:30:00 -0400

Tom and Pat start with plenty of Putt18 talk (3:30), then make a big announcement about the inclusion of the Southern Swing events in the AMA schedule (13:15). After that they catch up some more upcoming AMA events (18:40) and chat a little about the final of the WPL "Survivor Series" (16:25).

The big star of the show though is Pasi Aho, Vice President Sport of the World Minigolf Sport Federation. The guys have a long chat with him about a variety of topics from his history in the sport, to explanation of minigolf balls to upcoming events such as the World Adventure Golf Masters (WAGM). He provides an amazing insight into the sport of minigolf both from his history and his current position. (36:15)

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Follow A Couple of Putts at @coupleputts on Instagram, Twitter & Facebook and The Putting Penguin on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook as well.

Check out the American Mini Golf Alliance (AMA) over on their website including the event page, which is almost filled with all our 2024 events (including being able to see past event results). You can join their email newsletter here .

You can find the GoFundMe to Caleb and Dave to the World Adventure Golf Tour Final here.

You can find out information about the Survivor Series on the WPL website and more about the WAG Tour and the Tour Final on the WMF WAG Tour website.

Learn more about the WMF at their website.

You can order your Putt18 map at their store. Don't forget to use the discount code minigolf-10 for 10% off!

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Episode Hosts: Tom (aka Mr. Tee) of A Couple of Putts I Pat of The Putting Penguin

Episode Guest: Pasi Aho

Winter AMA Fun & 2024 Scoring Rubric with a Dash of WPL and WAG Tour

Puttcast — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:00:00 -0500

No guest this time around because we needed space for plenty of AMA talk! Tom and Pat go through an indoor (Coziest Open) (4:16), outdoor (O-Street Winter Classic) (14:40) and virtual (Walkabout) tournament (18:30), World Putting League Qualifier and Survivor Series (26:40) at the Pineapple course in Myrtle Beach that were all held over the past few weeks.

Then we talk about the AMA newly announced tournaments (45:50), WAG Tour 2024 & 2025 (49:09) & updated 2024 AMA scoring rubric (57:23).

You can find the GoFundMe to Caleb and Dave to the World Adventure Golf Tour Final here.

You can find out information about the Survivor Series on the WPL website and more about the WAG Tour and the Tour Final on the WMF WAG Tour website.

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Walkabout Mini Golf - the biggest and best virtual reality miniature golf game that just announced the newest upcoming course, Ice Lair

Episode Hosts: Tom (aka Mr. Tee) of A Couple of Putts I Pat of The Putting Penguin

Interview With Three Time WPL Champ Joey Graybeal

Puttcast — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 07:00:00 -0400

We were live (again)! Tom and Pat went back to the virtual airwaves of Facebook live on July 26, 2023 for this episode to finally have their friend Joey Graybeal on the podcast. At the time of recording he was coming off a third straight World Putting League (WPL) victory, this time a straight up match against the first WPL victor Gary Hester. They chat about the WPL, Joey's history with minigolf and Putt-Putt, his achievements (so many!) in those sports and a few things about how he approachs tournaments. Joey also has a lot of great stories and love of his fellow putters that he shares throughout the episode.

After their chat with Joey, the guys hit on a couple of recent tournaments including the WMF WAG Tour stop in the UK (the British Open) and give another rundown of the pile of tournaments coming up in August.

Key Points from the episode:
Joey Interview - 4:00
*WPL Tournament Update - 41:30
Tournament Recaps - 60:00
Upcoming Tournaments - 70:00

*After recording the episode, we were informed by both Joey and the World Putting League that the next WPL event moved locations to Mossy Creek in Tennessee. Tom jumps in and provides an update with some of the details in the middle of the podcast.

Find visuals and context for our conversations on social media on Instagram | Twitter | Facebook

Follow A Couple of Putts at @coupleputts on Instagram, Twitter & Facebook and The Putting Penguin on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook as well.

Check out the American Minigolf Alliance (AMA) over on their website including the event page. Don't forget to become a member or renew for 2023!

You can find out more about the WMF WAG Tour at it's website.

Find the result from the British Open here.

To find out more information about the World Putting League and to watch the live stream of the events, visit their website.

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Walkabout Mini Golf - the biggest and best virtual reality miniature golf game

Episode Guest: Joey Graybeal

Episode Hosts: Tom (aka Mr. Tee) of A Couple of Putts I Pat of The Putting Penguin

A Whole Lot of Burning (Hot) Minigolf Tournaments!

Puttcast — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 07:00:00 -0400

Our hosts kick off the episode looking at the recent World Putting League events and the heat thrown by Joey Greybeal in that series currently. From there they chatted about the AMA event in June, the M.C. Mini Masters and then Tom got to go through his personal "Southern Swing" of tournaments in July covering the AMA event Putter's League Championship, and NPT event and a Putt-Putt event (a first for our hosts). They chat about two of other major putting series happening the world around PopStroke and CityGolf before wrapping it up with a series of weekly tournaments at Frankies which have flown under their radar despite some good money at them.

Then it's time to turn their attention to the series events coming up including the next stop of the WMF World Aventure Golf Tour, the WMF World Championships, another WPL event and the Tennessee Open at Mossy Creek. Not to be forgotten is the non-stop AMA action with the Red Putter, Tabers, O-Street, Farmington and the Shack all having tournaments before the end of August.

Key Points from the episode:
World Putting League (June & July events) - 2:55
M.C. Mini Masters - 11:15
Putter's League Championship - 16:35
NPT (National Putting Tour) in Cummings, GA - 24:05
Putt-Putt High Point Southern Putting Tour - 27:51
PopStroke Katy* - 37:37
CityGolf Recent results - 42:44
Frankie's Charlotte $1000 Tournaments - 45:50
Upcoming Events in July & August - 50:19

*We mentioned that Greg Newport won the high roller event in Katy but he only won the high roller qualifier that qualifies him and gives him entry in the high roller event at the championship in Arizona in October.

Check out the American Minigolf Alliance (AMA) over on their website including the event page. Don't forget to become a member or renew for 2023!

You can find out more about the World Championships on the WMF website. The WMF WAG Tour also has it's own website to follow along with the action.

To find out more information about the World Putting League visit their website.

Podcast Sponsors
Walkabout Mini Golf - the biggest and best virtual reality miniature golf game

Episode Hosts: Tom (aka Mr. Tee) of A Couple of Putts I Pat of The Putting Penguin

Summer Spectacular Live w/ Vanette Block of Team USA

Puttcast — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:00:00 -0400

We are live (or we were at least)! Tom and Pat took to the virtual airwaves of Facebook live for this episode to chat about a slew of major events happening in June. They were joined by Team USA's own (and World Champion) Vanette Block who just landed from her trip to the World Adventure Golf Masters (WAGM) in Austria. They spent a lot of time discussing that tournament, the style of play and the comraderie these international events have. Vanette stays on to also chat with Tom about his trip to the World Crazy Golf Championship (Crazies), which we had previewed in the last episode with our guest Seve.

They take a short interlude to talk about the recent Odetah Mini Golf (OMG) Classic in Connecticut along with a special appearance by Pat as a whale. Then the team wraps the episode up talking about the World Putting League's third event happening in Myrtle Beach on June 26th. Finally, Tom fires his way through a bunch of other events, most of which he will be playing, in late June and early July including the AMA events the M.C. Mini Masters and Putter League Championship.

It's a long episode but with so many wonderful tournaments to talk about it is hard not to be excited and chatty about the summer in the minigolf world!

Key Points from the episode:
WAGM (2:00)
World Crazies (48:00)
Odetah (1:12:57)
WPL (1:16:29)
Other events (1:30:23)

Check out the American Minigolf Alliance (AMA) over on their website including the event page. Don't forget to become a member or renew for 2023!

You can find out more about the World Adventure Golf Masters (WAGM) - including results - on the tournament website or the WMF website. The WMF WAG Tour also has it's own website to follow along with the action.

Find the result from the World Crazy Golf Championships here.

To find out more information about the World Putting League and to watch the live stream of the event, visit their website.

For more information on the American Minigolf Partnership not-for-profit that Vanette mentioned, join their Facebook group.

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Walkabout Mini Golf - the biggest and best virtual reality miniature golf game

Episode Guest: Vanette Block - you can hear more from her on her 54 Problems episode.

Episode Hosts: Tom (aka Mr. Tee) of A Couple of Putts I Pat of The Putting Penguin