Around The Met

On the season three premier of the Around the Met Podcast Powered by Callaway, Bethpage State Park Director of Agronomy Andrew Wilson joins host AJ Voelpel to discuss the upcoming PGA Championship. Wilson shares insight on the winter months at Bethpage, current course conditions on the Black, final preparations leading into the PGA Championship and his choice spots for taking in the action during championship week.

On Episode 17 of the Around the Met Podcast, Bethpage State Park Director of Agronomy joins host AJ Voelpel to preview the Black Course’s hosting of the 2019 PGA Championship. Wilson shares insight on his more than 25 years of experience at the Park, and discusses the many ways in which he and the staff are preparing the course for major championship golf in May.

In Episode 16 of the Around the Met Podcast Powered by Callaway Golf, host AJ Voelpel is joined by Westchester native and NBC Sports broadcaster Jimmy Roberts. Roberts and Voelpel talk all things Ryder Cup, with Roberts discussing his broadcast role for the upcoming playing in France, sharing his history covering the event and recounting his most memorable Ryder Cup moment. Roberts also recalls many of his broadcasting mentors while providing insight on the early stages of his career.

In Episode 15 of the Around the Met Podcast Powered by Callaway Golf, PGA TOUR Vice President of Rules and Competition and 1975 Met Open champion Slugger White joins host AJ Voelpel. White and Voelpel discuss where the name Slugger comes from, White’s history in the Met Area and with the Met Open, his path toward the Rules and Competition aspect of the game, the PGA TOUR’s working Rules relationship with the USGA and R&A, Rules changes for 2019 and more.

On the latest Around the Met Podcast Powered by Callaway, world renowned golf instructor Hank Haney joins host AJ Voelpel answering your submitted swing questions!

In Episode 13 of the Around the Met Podcast Powered by Callaway Golf, AJ Voelpel talks with Shinnecock Hills Golf Club Superintendent, Jon Jennings, about the historic course and how him and his team have been preparing for the 2018 US Open. We also solicited questions from the Callaway Community on what they would ask Jon if given the chance. Topics include: - When his team began US Open preparations. - Differences between how the pros will play the course vs. how the members play it. - Restorations made to the greens. - How fast the greens will run. - Biggest challenges his team faced in setting up the course. - How much of a factor the weather will be. - How many additional people have been added to his team. Published monthly, Around The Met is a casual & conversational podcast that touches on the people, courses, championships, events and member services, that make the Met Area one of the best places on earth for golf. Host A.J. Voelpel, Callaway's Creative Content Manager and native Long Isla