We’re into the final month of the Order of Merit and in a disconcerting bout of efficiency, we are back already. This time, we are joined from all over the place by each of the draft captains to chat through August’s controversial results and the OoM season as a whole. In typically Canadian fashion, long-time leader Dan has faltered over the past c…

Late but worth the wait ! The boys are back, sans MTC and are joined by former CFO of Why comb Wanderbears, Pete Couhig as we discuss the Panache social club, his numerous and totally redundant development squads, and the state of golf stateside. Meanwhile Arron returns from his trip to Central America with some interesting anecdotes about monkeys,…

June has come and gone, so OoM 2024 is 50% done. Arron is off saving turtles in South/North America and last month’s guest is busy researching microphones on Amazon so there’s no Herr Ironside, but No Hair Irons, MTC and Jon are joined by longtime-Flocker and draft captain Huw to discuss the season to date and recap a busy month for the wider RACDG…

We’re well into the meat of the golf season. Join Six, Over Par as we recap May’s RACDG events at Goswick, Huntercombe, Sunningdale and Swinley Forest, where today’s special guest, Herr Ironside, went very close. We’re also two months into the Order of Merit, so there’s the usual run down last month’s leaderboard, a look at the overall standings in…

Our first monthly recap of the year is here as we are joined by incumbent Captain Hocking to talk about April. Jon sweeps up another Flock meet off a dodgy Cap, Gav goes down under while Arron’s game goes under and MTC has perspective out the ass. There’s also transfer madness in the Draft after month one and lots more laughs beside. Come on in and…

Season four of the Order of Merit starts imminently, the RACDG MacKenzie Cup takes place in St Andrews next week and the Masters is just around the corner. It’s a guaranteed Wills and Kate speculation-free zone as Six, Over Par returns. We discuss our early season form (or lack of), the new Roost Series and the improved OoM draft, now featuring add…

Ready or not, Six, Over Par is back as we stride boldly into season four. As the festive period draws to a close, Gav, Arron, Jon and MTC are talking new year goals, science, darts, badminton, board competitions and the speed of pheasants. There is also the small matter of updating the competitors of the rules changes made ahead of the upcoming sea…

6OP returns to natter about the upcoming Order of Merit Finals Weekend at The Warwickshire. There’s also a full rundown of the regular season final standings, along with September’s winners and a round up of what it all meant for our internal draft. Did anyone catch long-time leader Jon and was Gav able to hoist himself off the bottom and avoid the…

The Six Over Par crew are back together to cast an eye over the month of August, and Preview the Month of September, which had definitely not started before our recording. We look back on the Freddie Mercury Cup, the Dehydration Classic at Hankley Common and complete the final draft of the season. Send us a text Ways to follow Six, Over Par - Tweet…

With Gav back from his holiday, there’s plenty to catch up on in this slightly delayed 6OP pod. Arron returned safely from the Far East in time to capture the third major of the RACDG year – the Cock of the North. We’ll recap both the COTN at Close House and July’s Calluna Cup, decided over 36 holes in tough conditties at Hollinwell. There’s also a…

With Arron sweating his arse off building schools out in Vietnam, it’s just the three of us this month. We take a look back at a busy June, with Flock events at Enville, Littlestone and out in Belgium/Netherlands. The Order of Merit is at the halfway stage and it was a banner month for one of the 6OP boys. There’s also a preview of the upcoming Cal…

May, The Pod, be with you. We take a look back at the month that was May, as MTC bemoans the loss of his game in a dark room, Gav reflects on a north creeping handicap and Arron recounts his time on Tour. Jon characteristically detonates all unworthy sports and we give you the update on the latest transfer window, where the revolving door at Casa A…

As the season proper ramps up, Gav, MTC, Arron and Jon get together to chat about their April golf, post-MacK. There’s plenty to discuss, including a day out in Norfolk, an upcoming national championship and some uncharacteristic on course behaviour from the Gateshead Giant. The boys also run through the results of the opening month of the RACDG’s …

What better way to cure your ‘Post Mack Blues’ than to indulge the 6OP boys as they recount a week of Beer, Bogeys and Blister Plasters. Join Gav, Jon, MTC and Arron as they recount their magical week in the home of golf, look at the wider landscape of the OOM and resent the absence of 36 hole days from their normal day to day lives. Send us a text…

As we travel to the Home of Golf, Jon, Gav, MTC & Arron discuss a round at Crail, and a visit to the epicentre of the St Andrews visit, The Dunvegan. We run through the Order of Merit Draft as the first months picks are chosen and the Captains are set. We also discuss the upcoming competition rounds for this season MacKenzie. Send us a text Ways to…

Six, Over Par is back for year three. As the golf season proper edges ever nearer, Gav, Jon and MTC are joined by new recruit, Arron, to discuss the impending return of the Order of Merit. There’s also the small matter of an upcoming trip to St Andrews for the opening major of the RACDG season, the MacKenzie Cup, where 64 Flockers will do battle ov…

We look back at 2022 - The highs, the lows, the majors, the big winners and the bigger losers. Speaking of big losers, we hear from James Allan among a host of other flock favourites. KUNG FU KENNY makes his long awaited return to the podcast and my goodness its worth it.بقلم Gary Henderson

The 2022 Order of Merit season is complete. Gav, Jon and MTC come together for one last time this year to chew over Finals Weekend at Belton Woods. Josh Humbler also joins the pod - his 40 points was more than enough to comfortably hold off the competition and secure the second annual OoM title. We also run through all of the weekend prize-winners …

It’s the penultimate 6OP episode of the year! After six months of fierce competition, there is now less than a week to go until the 2022 Order of Merit concludes at Belton Woods. Gav, Jon and MTC have a natter about the upcoming weekend, where there’s a small field, but a swelling prize haul. We also hear about Jon’s defence of the final major of t…

Another regular season of the Order of Merit has been and gone. Gav, Jon and MTC are joined by the incredibly consistent and deserving winner as they look ahead to the 35-man Finals Weekend at Belton Woods in November. Away from the OoM, there’s the usual discussion around our respective golfing months, including a precis of the RACDG Cock of the N…

As we enter the final month of the Order of Merit regular season, Gav, Jon and a history-making MTC discuss August results, along with their chances of making Finals Day and their wider performance this golfing season, with the usual stats and birdies updates sprinkled in. In addition, there’s a brief look back to last month’s Southport Coast Links…

This episode is sponsored by Lanacane anti-chafing gel, Nurofen and Bud Light. As quickly as it arrived, the week has come to its conclusion. Tomorrow, the men will embark upon their sixth consecutive day of golf as we diverge towards Formby Ladies and Royal Birkdale. With a bellyfull of bread and an earful of obscure 70s music, we take apart Hills…

Day 3 in the books and only one day left of the Championship as we experience our very own moving day. See how the boys got on at West Lancs GC and how the competition standings are with only one round left to play before we head to either Royal Birkdale or Formby Ladies for the final day of the week. We also discuss the performance in the local pu…

Round 2 is in the bag ! Join our 4 competitors as the break down....an eventful day at Hesketh GC. We take a quick glance at the leaderboard, the swear jar and the Dominoes website to check for calorie information. We also take a look ahead for the day 3 round at West Lancs as the competition gets to the halfway point. Follow us here at https://www…

In this episode, we are joined by loads of people. Cad dials in from Idaho, Pete Couhig from Wycombe, Arron from Luxemburg and Matt Wabe from the Captains Lodge. Lots of fun here covering majors, events, OOM, Grunt, St Andrews and all manner of other fun.بقلم Gary Henderson

Day one is done and the men recap their visit to Southport and Ainsdale golf club. A mixed bag in terms of results but we review the course, what we thought of the holes and our own performance. We also look ahead to Hesketh, and answer the question how much chicken is too much chicken? You can follow live scoring on this link (https://www.southpor…

It's a special! 6OP's Jon and Gav are joined by RACDG captain Matt Wabe and Luxembourg Arron for a week long championship. In this preview, the men review their practice round at Formby, talk about their aspirations for the week and Gav found a quid. We will have nightly reviews each evening this week as we report from Southport & Ainsdale, Hesketh…

In this month’s episode, Gav, Jon and a cheery MTC are joined by the Del Boy of The North East, Jeff Wilson who incredibly manages to go the whole pod without trying to sell us something. Kingy’s middleman takes us back to the second annual King of the Castle tournament, held last month at Goswick and Dunstanburgh Castle, and also walks us through …

After a busy few weeks for the 6OP boys, there’s a full debrief of the Battle of the Bastards at Kilmarnock Barassie where Scotland duelled with Team England, led by captain Matt. Also, Joe’s back! The boy wonder returns from his travels and joins Gav, MTC and Jon to talk us through his golfing year so far, i.e. boatloads of birdies (and the odd ho…

The first Major of the year is in the books - so lets talk about it. Gary and CAD are joined by Captain Wabe and Arron Luxemborg to discuss all things Mack 22, the courses, OOM, St Andrews, James Allan, huge breaking Kenny news, upcoming events - and touch and some very sad points too. This episode is dedicated to the memory of original flocker Geo…

Join Gav, MTC and Jon as they pick apart the opening month of the proper golf season in S2E2 of Six, Over Par. April’s review includes a MacKenzie Cup debrief, Order of Merit results and an update on our internal matchplay competition and stat-tracking. There’s also a hard-hitting interview with Chris Rodgerson, conducted by the 6OP Paxman, Ben Mur…

It’s March, the sun is out, spring is here and Six, Over Par returns for a second year. In this season-opening episode, we bring you up to speed on the revised Order of Merit ahead of its launch on April Fool’s Day. Can anyone stop Connor Rake from defending his crown in 2022? In a Matt-heavy show, Gav and Jon are joined by gentle giant MTC who is …

We are joined this week by RACDG 2022 Captain Matt Wabe where we will look ahead to the coming year. We cover the big events already scheduled for the year - the RACDG Majors - and how you can get involved. We talk about the No Laying Up Roosts, our 2022 goals and a lot of other complete nonsense. A lot of fun as always so check it out!…

The RACDG Podcast returns for an apathetically anticipated second season. On this season opener, we are welcomed by Danial Naqvi, the man responsible for the Flock 100 list. Danial will be talking us through the process of putting together the Flocks top 100 golf courses, and we will run down the top 20 - revealing that all important number 1 slot.…

And with that it was completed. We speak to the winner of the inaugural RACDG Order of Merit competition after a thrilling finals day at Stoke Rochford GC, that went down to the very last hole. We also discuss the responses to the Order of Merit survey and attempt to answer some of the questions that arose regarding decisions made and what we want …

It’s a busy one! The inaugural RACDG Order of Merit regular season is over. Join Six, Over Par as we dissect September’s results and what it means for the overall competition ahead of Finals Day at Stoke Rochford on Saturday 16th October. We also evaluate how our individual seasons went, specifically how we each fared against our pre-set targets an…

As we enter the final month, Gav is joined by Jon and Phil to consider the current leaderboard and the final push for the crown of Six, Over Par champion. We also examine the overall Order of Merit competition as the decisive few rounds begin to form the top 20 with finals places on offer for the overall group. We also discuss the most recent RACDG…

We’re back with episode ten of the Six, Over Par podcast. In this instalment, Gav is joined by Russ and Jon to discuss next weekend’s RACDG major – the Cock Of The North, taking place on the Leeds sand belt. As well as this, we chat about our golf in August to date and provide all the usual updates around the ongoing Order of Merit competition and …

With the summer holiday season upon us and the 6OP collective spread far and wide either enjoying time with their loved ones, organising weddings or playing the links of Northern Ireland, Phil & Gav review the month of July. Hear the thoughts on our most recent rounds, our positions in the 6OP table, the wider Order of Merit table, the end of seaso…

It’s the one you’ve all been waiting for – World Handicap System chat, starring Gemma Hunter, Head of Handicapping and Course Rating at England Golf. Gemma answers some of the questions that have popped up during the season and explains the course/slope rating process. She was at a complete loss to explain why South Herts is so easy though. Ep8 als…

6OP returns after a glorious few days in the North East competing for the first major of the year. Join Gav, Joe, Russ and Ben (eventually) for a full recap of the MacKenzie Cup at Goswick and Bamburgh Castle, where there were lifetime best rounds, birdies aplenty and some silverware for the silver fox. In our most vulpine episode to date, we’re al…

With most of 6OP spread across the country achieving golfing greatness, Phil & Gav review the recent PLAYERS championship from Woodhall Spa, the month of May’s Order of Merit rounds, and find out what happened with the stick or twist dilemma from May. There is also a preview of the next major just around the corner as we hear from chief organiser o…

Ep5 of the Six, Over Par podcast celebrates love. More specifically, the love between two aging men on a drizzly Saturday in North Norfolk and how it helped one of these men overcome the poor weather on an alien course to post his best ever round of golf. Powerful stuff. There’s also a mid month debrief of both the RACDG Order of Merit and our own …

The first month of the Order of Merit is in the books, albeit books littered with crossed out stableford scores, tears of frustration and angry red scribbles from the teacher. This episode, we discuss who avoided detention and took home the prizes, chat about our own efforts to climb the leaderboard and preview the upcoming RACDG event at Woodhall …

With Joe's return from abroad, we have a full house to discuss last week's twilight round at Stoke Rochford. We'll also be hearing from Nathan Charlton, the star of the RACDG's recent day out at The Berkshire, as he discusses the strategy which led to him posting an 81 point day. As usual, we'll have updates on the 6OP season-long challenges and as…

It’s Masters Week in the golf world - so on this episode of the RACDG podcast we talk about foam parties, blades, beer and occasionally golf. We are joined by Arron Luxembourg to talk Masters gambling and the one and only KUNG FU KENNY to talk about whatever Kenny wants to talk about. A wild ride. Enjoy…

This week, we recap the first official Six, Over Par day out over Easter at Cavendish Golf Club. It wasn’t a good Friday for most of us as we sought to kick off our RACDG Order of Merit campaign in style. We also provide updates on our season-long targets and challenges, dig into the wider 116-man competition and speak to the early pacesetter and a…

The RACDG podcast returns to the relief of absolutely nobody. We are joined on the comeback episode by Ben and Ryan from the Off the Deck podcast -where we discuss the upcoming return to golf, our season long Going Under challenge and lots of other utter nonsense. Enjoy!بقلم Notorious C.A.D, Losing Gary & Rob

Join Six, Over Par as we discuss our upcoming golf season, our hopes, our goals and our challenges we set ourselves as we begin the inaugural RACDG Order of Merit competition. We introduce the players, a little history of our golf society and a breakdown of all the statistical targets we intend to meet before our final, play off event of the season…

We’re joined on a packed show by Merch Maestro Ben Lovejoy to talk hats, meat and jogging. We talk about the famous Lesley Pan, as well as a look at the future of the RACDG merch world, losing 4 stone in a year, and chatting up welsh girls with Tom Jones lyrics. There’s also some golf stuff. Check it out!…