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No More Lies

by Funnel Golf · English · Sport

Two veterans. Decades inside the game. Done biting their tongues. This is Episode 1 of NO MORE LIES. Welcome to the flagship talk show of Funnel Golf. With conversations about instruction, the teaching industry, the professional game, and the game at large—covering the parts of this industry nobody

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 1 hr 2 min
Latest: 12 Oct 2026
Language: English

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12 Oct 2026 · 48 minNew

Early Extension Is Overrated. Jack Nicklaus Proves It | Ep. 19

The lie: early extension is the root of all evil in the golf swing, the thing that separates good players from bad players. Brian Manzella, Golf Digest's #14-ranked teacher in America, opens with his answer: it's the single most overrated thing there is to work on if you want to improve your ball flight. Sam Osborne reserves judgment, for a few minutes. First, what it is. You're bent over your belt buckle at address, and at some point through the ball you have no forward bend at all. Everybody extends. Johnny Miller, Weiskopf, Nicklaus, Watson, Norman, Faldo, Tiger, Ernie Els, Adam Scott,…

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S1 · E18 · 5 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 2 min
The Lean-Left Chip Is a Fad. Ben Doyle Never Needed It (with Kieran Harris and JT Perrine) | Ep. 18
Sam is out, so the Good Misses guys sit in. Brian Manzella, Golf Digest's #14-ranked teacher in America, asks Kieran Harris and JT Perrine where the lean-left, ball-back chip shot came from, and neither of them saw it taught 13 years ago. Brian makes the case that it's a fad: Ben Doyle never needed it, there's no mechanical requirement to be in front of the ball except your hands, and regular golfers are never going to hit the tour version anyway. Plus the 100-golfer pitching contest, the flick drill, why handle dragging is the root of most pitching yips, the right-knee rule that shamed a…
S1 · E17 · 29 Sep 2026 · 59 min
50,000 Golf Teachers. Maybe 500 Are Great. (with JT Perrine) | Ep. 17
Sam is in England, so JT Perrine of Fairhope Golf Works joins Brian Manzella, Golf Digest's #14-ranked teacher in America. They do the math on 50,000 golf teachers and land on a number that will annoy a lot of people. Also: the three tests of a great teacher, Ballard and O'Grady into the Hall of Fame by executive order, the end of the PGA Teaching Summit, teacher vs. coach, and why going from an 8 to a +2 means breaking things. Chapters 0:00 Cold open 0:44 Sam is in England. Meet JT Perrine 1:43 Funnel Golf now has a third show: Good Misses 3:15 What your detractors say about you 6:24 Inside…
S1 · E16 · 14 Sep 2026 · 1 hr
Nobody Gets Good at Golf Alone | Ep. 16
Nobody gets good at golf alone. Brian Manzella (Golf Digest's #14-ranked teacher in America) and Sam Osborne (former touring pro) name the people who got them here: the books, the better players who never gave them a tip, the stranger on a putting green, the former prizefighter who tended the pin on Brian's first 79, and the famous names who put in a word. Stories include Simon Griffiths at Wentworth, Joe Cook and Johnny Scurich at City Park, Ernie Makepeace, Walter Pryor, Carl Poche and Paul Azinger's college team, the Sea Island playoff, Monty, Bill Strausbaugh and Paul Marchand at the…
S1 · E15 · 8 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 5 min
Compression Is a Lie (Ask Tiger) | Ep. 15
This week's big lie: the pursuit of compression is great for your golf game. Brian Manzella, Golf Digest's #14-ranked teacher in America, and Sam Osborne, former touring pro, both chased it, both got worse, and both came back. They cover what compression actually is (a delivery number, not a hand position), what Tiger meant about divots, the Foley years, why Hogan and Nicklaus got better with less forward lean, the selective picture posters, and what The Golfing Machine really says about the flat left wrist. Plus the horror stories: the pitching yips, 14 degrees down, and Brian's decade of…
S1 · E14 · 31 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
Nobody Licenses Golf Teachers, and It Shows | Ep. 14
There is no test, no license, and no minimum standard to call yourself a golf teacher. This week Brian Manzella (Golf Digest's #14-ranked teacher in America) and former touring pro Sam Osborne dig into the most unregulated profession in sports: why some of the world's most famous instructors were never in the PGA of America, how club pros really earned a living 50 years ago, what an actual teaching certification could look like, and why the average teacher stays under-informed in an era when a bot can answer any question. Also on the tee: the "you're toast" backswing myth, Bobby Jones vs.…
S1 · E13 · 24 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
The Laydown Epidemic: Where Golf's Shallowing Obsession Came From | Ep. 13
Brian Manzella, Golf Digest's #14-ranked teacher in America, and former touring pro Sam Osborne take apart the most persistent swing trend of the last decade: laying the club down. Where it hatched, who it might actually help, why the physics behind it doesn't hold up, and Brian's flat answer to whether anyone should try to shallow the shaft on the downswing. Along the way: Hogan's real secret, the Ben Doyle flat left wrist confession, arch wrists jumping from 10% of golfers to 50%, and the 2D camera illusion that fools almost everyone. Watch the full video episode on YouTube: @funnelgolfx…
S1 · E12 · 17 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
The 100 Greatest Swings, #22 to #29 (and a Mystery at #30) | Ep. 12
Brian and Sam continue the top 100 golf swings of all time, covering Annika Sorenstam, Calvin Peete, Tom Watson, Louis Oosthuizen, Greg Norman's 1986 swing, Gene Littler, Davis Love III, and Ernie Els. Brian makes the case that Oosthuizen, not Hogan, is the swing most golfers should copy, tells the story of quietly helping Robert Rock in 2019, and Sam remembers his Team Faldo days with a 13-year-old Rory McIlroy. The episode closes with a tease: the player at #30 hurt his hip in 1964, never swung the same way again, and may have the best hip action ever recorded. He gets the full treatment…
S1 · E11 · 10 Aug 2026 · 58 min
AI Ranked the 50 Most Influential Golf Books. We Have Notes. | Ep. 11
Brian Manzella and Sam Osborne continue the book series by comparing Claude's top 50 most influential golf instruction books against Grok's top 20, focusing on the titles the two lists disagree on. Along the way: Tommy Armour's hands-first gospel, Bobby Jones as a writer, Harry Vardon, Seymour Dunn's geometry, the flip-book that taught Ben Doyle, Alex Morrison's footwork revolution and the banked right heel in early Hogan and Snead film, the pre-accident Hogan sequences in Power Golf, and the swing science shelf from David Williams to Mark Broadie's Every Shot Counts. The strongest take of…
S1 · E10 · 3 Aug 2026 · 55 min
The Greatest Golf Swings Ever, Ranked: 11 Through 20 | Ep. 10
The greatest golf swings of all time, positions 11 through 20. Bobby Jones, Harry Vardon, Steve Elkington, David Toms, Peter Thomson, Tom Weiskopf, Ian Woosnam, Nick Price, Sergio Garcia, and Scottie Scheffler. Tiger Woods called one of these players the best ball-striker he ever saw. Brian worked with another one during the 2012 FedEx Cup and watched him hit it perfect for weeks at a time. And a witness once saw Harry Vardon hit drivers at a tarp for an hour without missing the center. Brian Manzella, Golf Digest's #14-ranked teacher in America, and former touring pro Sam Osborne break down…
S1 · E9 · 27 Jul 2026 · 50 min
The Open Championship Recap: Ryan Fox Wins, Bryson DeChambeau's Penalty, and more| Ep. 9
Brian Manzella and Sam Osborne break down everything that happened at The Open Championship, and everything golf media won't say about it. Ryan Fox came from outside the top 50 in the world to beat Sam Burns down the stretch, taking two brutal breaks on 15 and 17 without so much as a raised eyebrow. TV gave Fox credit for staying cool. What nobody mentioned is that Sam Burns has now missed the putts that mattered the last couple of times he had a chance to win a major. That's the story the broadcast skipped. Then the big one: Bryson DeChambeau's two-stroke penalty for improving his lie in…
S1 · E8 · 20 Jul 2026 · 58 min
Ben Hogan Over Tiger Woods for the Greatest Swing Ever | No More Lies Ep. 8
Brian Manzella has stood next to more great ball strikers than almost anyone alive. He watched Jack Nicklaus play 600 holes. He sat next to Lee Trevino. He watched Byron Nelson hit the whole bag. He was at Valhalla for prime Tiger. So when he ranks the greatest golf swings of all time, it is not a listicle. It is a verdict from someone who was actually there. In this episode Brian unveils the 12th edition of his Top 100 Golf Swings of All Time, and he and Sam Osborne break down the top 10 one by one. Sam had never seen the list, so every reaction is live and unscripted. They cover Ben Hogan…
S1 · E7 · 13 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 2 min
AI Ranked the 20 Best Golf Books Ever. It Got #1 Wrong. | No More Lies Ep. 7
We asked AI to rank the 20 most influential golf instruction books in history. Then we tore the list apart. Brian Manzella, Golf Digest's #14-ranked teacher in America, and former touring pro Sam Osborne react to Grok's top 10: Harvey Penick's Little Red Book, Ben Hogan's Five Lessons, The Golfing Machine, Bob Rotella, Dave Pelz, Mark Broadie and more. In this episode: Why Hogan's "Five Lessons" actually contains eight fundamentals, and why the claim that it ruins slicers is baloney. The one grip picture in the book Brian says you should not copy. The Golfing Machine: the hardest book to…
S1 · E6 · 7 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
The Ugliest Fight in Golf Instruction | Ep. 6
Golf instruction has a war going on, and this week Brian and Sam walk straight into it. Brian Manzella (Golf Digest's #14-ranked teacher in America) and Sam Osborne (former touring pro) trace Stack & Tilt back to its real roots: Homer Kelley's The Golfing Machine, Mac O'Grady's MORAD, and the symposiums that shaped a generation of teachers. Sam shares what happened when he actually tried the method as a tour player, and Brian makes the case for why no single system will ever take over golf, backed by GEARS data sitting right there in the room. Also in this episode: Brian brings TrackMan…
S1 · E5 · 29 Jun 2026 · 59 min
Bryson, Gemini, and Why AI Could Wipe Out Half of Golf Instruction | Ep. 5
Bryson DeChambeau went to the press and said AI helped fix his golf swing, name-dropping Google Gemini and tossing out terms like alpha torque, gamma torque, and passive squaring. Brian Manzella and Sam Osborne were not buying it. In Episode 5 of No More Lies, the two veterans break down Bryson's AI press conference line by line: what he got right, what he got wrong, and why the idea of "passive squaring" does not survive contact with the actual physics. Brian explains real 6D club kinetics. Then it gets bigger. The guys make the case that AI and swing apps will wipe out the middle tier of…
S1 · E4 · 22 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 15 min
The Ball Goes Too Far. Here's Who Won't Admit It. | No More Lies Ep. 4
Brian Manzella and Sam Osborne take on the loudest fight in golf: the distance debate. Both land on the same side, then explain why the people pushing hardest against a rollback are the ones with the most money on the line. In Episode 4: Why the pro game has outgrown its own golf courses The case that a shorter, spinnier ball brings real skill back (long irons into par 4s again) Why the "rolled-back ball still goes 375" story is marketing, not fact A pilot program that would settle the whole argument with real data instead of noise The origin story: the D-plane video, the trip to Ping, Dr.…
S1 · E3 · 15 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
Brian Got Banned From Every Golf Forum. So He Built His Own | Ep. 3
Before YouTube. Before Instagram. Before anyone was farming golf tips for engagement, the real arguments happened on message boards at 2am. Brian Manzella was there for all of it. In this episode, Brian and Sam trace the strange, scrappy history of golf instruction online, from a clunky Macintosh in 1996 to the forum that genuinely changed how the game gets taught. What's inside: Why Brian got banned from forum after forum for one heretical idea: the clubface, not your path, is what makes you slice The six-page Teacher of the Year application he dropped into a thread to settle the…
S1 · E2 · 9 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 33 min
Brian Manzella on the Alpha War Golf Won't Talk About | Ep. 2
In Episode 2 of No More Lies, Brian Manzella and Sam Osborne open up the most contentious story in modern golf instruction: the Alpha War. Manzella traces 12 years of golf science, from the collapse of the Golfing Machine to the rise of club kinetics and Jacobs 3D, and names the names most teachers won't. Along the way: how the work rebuilt Padraig Harrington's career, why the PGA Tour looked like "a bunch of babies" during the LIV era, the gutting of Q School, and a broadcast booth that refuses to tell you what is actually happening in a golf swing.
S1 · E1 · 5 Jun 2026 · 51 min
The Stuff Golf Won't Say Out Loud | Ep. 1
Two veterans. Decades inside the game. Done biting their tongues. This is Episode 1 of NO MORE LIES. Welcome to the flagship talk show of Funnel Golf. With conversations about instruction, the teaching industry, the professional game, and the game at large—covering the parts of this industry nobody else is willing to say out loud. In Episode 1, we introduce ourselves, lay out why we’re doing this, and start exactly where you’d expect: with the truth. 🎙️ HOSTED BY Brian Manzella – Golf Digest’s 14th-ranked Teacher in America and Top 100 Golf Magazine Teacher since 2010, with over 44 years of…

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No More Lies is a English sport podcast from Funnel Golf. Melo plays each episode straight from the publisher's own feed — no ads added, no account needed — and remembers where you stopped, in this browser only.

Publisher: Funnel Golf
Language: English
Category: Sport
New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 1 hr 2 min
Latest episode: 12 Oct 2026
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