We don’t know about you but, for us, The Players is where the golf season really starts. This one is special.

It’s the 50th edition and Tom Irwin and Steve Carroll kick off season two of The NCG Golf Podcast by previewing the ‘fifth major’.

The pair, who’ve both taken a spin around Sawgrass, break down the course and discuss their favourite moments. Did they get out of 17 alive?

Rory McIlroy and Sepp Straka tell us what the championship means to them and Tom has set Steve a fiendish quiz testing his knowledge of the PGA Tour’s flagship event.

But that’s not all. Far from it…

• What did we make of Anthony Kim’s LIV debut – and are the courses letting the breakaway tour down?
• Tom gets stuck into Rory’s detractors in Readers' Whines
• Is The Belfry all that?
• And which sporting celebrity is Steve up against in a winter foursomes last four clash?

The NCG Golf Podcast is produced in association with the TaylorMade TP5 golf ball