<![CDATA[Putting Is Fun]]>Everybody who's ever tried it knows putting can be fun. It can also break your heart. This show takes the fun road.

Putting Is Fun is a weekly conversation between Brian Manzella, a Top 100 teacher who spent 44 years coaching golf and will happily tell you he's a poor putter, and John Ortega, the putting guru who has coached PGA Tour winner Jake Knapp since he was 8 years old and co-founded John Byron Putters back when Scotty Cameron was still Scott.

No systems. No gimmicks. Just two lifers who love this part of the game, telling the stories behind putters, putting greens, and the people who obsess over both, and teaching you something real along the way.

New episodes weekly from Funnel Golf. Be your own coach.

]]>https://riverside.comRiverside.fm (https://riverside.com)Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:28:59 GMTTue, 14 Jul 2026 03:21:08 GMT60Funnel Golf<p>Everybody who's ever tried it knows putting can be fun. It can also break your heart. This show takes the fun road.</p><p></p><p>Putting Is Fun is a weekly conversation between Brian Manzella, a Top 100 teacher who spent 44 years coaching golf and will happily tell you he's a poor putter, and John Ortega, the putting guru who has coached PGA Tour winner Jake Knapp since he was 8 years old and co-founded John Byron Putters back when Scotty Cameron was still Scott.</p><p></p><p>No systems. No gimmicks. Just two lifers who love this part of the game, telling the stories behind putters, putting greens, and the people who obsess over both, and teaching you something real along the way.</p><p></p><p>New episodes weekly from Funnel Golf. Be your own coach.</p>episodicFunnel Golfbill@tlglp.comno<![CDATA[He Needed a Baseball Bat. Golf Got Him Instead. | Putting Is Fun Ep. 1]]>He needed a baseball bat. Golf got him instead.

In the first episode of Putting Is Fun, Brian Manzella sits down with John Ortega, the man who has coached PGA Tour winner Jake Knapp since age 8, to hear the whole story: three rounds of caddying to earn a bat, teaching lessons for $12 an hour, co-founding John Byron Putters in the era when Scotty Cameron was still Scott, tour wins with Trevino and Floyd, the Spalding deal that got away, and the lifetime of putting knowledge that came out of all of it.

Brian brings his own honesty: 44 years of teaching, a stack of 27-putt rounds, the nerves that still test him, and the Langer-style stroke that works some of the time. Together they lay out the five elements of putting that this show is built on.

Dedicated to Biv Wadden.

Putting Is Fun is part of Funnel Golf, alongside No More Lies and The Brian Manzella Show. New episodes weekly. Be your own coach.

]]>201839ea-c349-4c32-867d-257819a39de2Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:34:37 GMT<p>He needed a baseball bat. Golf got him instead.</p><p></p><p>In the first episode of Putting Is Fun, Brian Manzella sits down with John Ortega, the man who has coached PGA Tour winner Jake Knapp since age 8, to hear the whole story: three rounds of caddying to earn a bat, teaching lessons for $12 an hour, co-founding John Byron Putters in the era when Scotty Cameron was still Scott, tour wins with Trevino and Floyd, the Spalding deal that got away, and the lifetime of putting knowledge that came out of all of it.</p><p></p><p>Brian brings his own honesty: 44 years of teaching, a stack of 27-putt rounds, the nerves that still test him, and the Langer-style stroke that works some of the time. Together they lay out the five elements of putting that this show is built on.</p><p></p><p>Dedicated to Biv Wadden.</p><p></p><p>Putting Is Fun is part of Funnel Golf, alongside No More Lies and The Brian Manzella Show. New episodes weekly. Be your own coach.</p>no00:54:2211He Needed a Baseball Bat. Golf Got Him Instead. | Putting Is Fun Ep. 1full