The 19th Hole with Michael Williams
Jul 16, 2026 · 42 min · 8 segments
Award-winning host Michael Williams gives his take on the worldwide popularity of Golf and Football (aka Soccer) on a weekend where both the World Cup final and the British Open are being contested…
Scott McGuffeyGuestBefore we continue with the show, and we have a great guest for you as always, I just wanted to give a couple of thoughts on two games that I love very, very much, which is football and or soccer, as you prefer to call it.
Both these sports have a worldwide appeal, and both of them have major, major championships going on this weekend.
The British Open, the oldest major championship, is being held at Royal Birkdale, and one of the places I think has some of the best golf in the entire effing world, which is...
And, of course, you have the World Cup final, which is being played here in the United States, Spain and Argentina.
I am an England fan, so I will be watching with some level of disappointment.
I thought they were going to be able, in this, what, 60th year since they won the championship, maybe possibly they would have been able – to get that done.
They came close but lost to just an excellent Argentina team with perhaps the best player that's ever played the game in Lionel Messi.
We weren't even sure at the beginning of this championship whether he was going to come back and he did come back and he's come back and played as well as he's ever played, as well as anybody's ever played in this championship.
But I'm talking about what appeals to me about those two games, what makes them so similar in my mind.
You look at the game and soccer football is without question the most popular game in the world.
country that has grass and some that don't, you will find a football field, you will find goals, you will find kids trying to emulate and become the best players in the world.
Before we continue with the show, and we have a great guest for you as always, I just wanted to give a couple of thoughts on two games that I love very, very much, which is football and or soccer, as you prefer to call it.
Both these sports have a worldwide appeal, and both of them have major, major championships going on this weekend.
The British Open, the oldest major championship, is being held at Royal Birkdale, and one of the places I think has some of the best golf in the entire effing world, which is...
And, of course, you have the World Cup final, which is being played here in the United States, Spain and Argentina.
I am an England fan, so I will be watching with some level of disappointment.
I thought they were going to be able, in this, what, 60th year since they won the championship, maybe possibly they would have been able – to get that done.
They came close but lost to just an excellent Argentina team with perhaps the best player that's ever played the game in Lionel Messi.
We weren't even sure at the beginning of this championship whether he was going to come back and he did come back and he's come back and played as well as he's ever played, as well as anybody's ever played in this championship.
But I'm talking about what appeals to me about those two games, what makes them so similar in my mind.
You look at the game and soccer football is without question the most popular game in the world.
country that has grass and some that don't, you will find a football field, you will find goals, you will find kids trying to emulate and become the best players in the world.
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