With the 148th Open just around the corner who better to talk history than the man who was the first Curator of Golf Collections in the Special Collections Division of the University of St Andrews? Dr Tony Parker is regarded by his peers as one of the game’s foremost historians and joins the podcast to talk all things Open (with a few rabbit holes along the way).
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Richard Sattler likes to call himself a farmer and that is a true and accurate description. But Sattler – the owner of the Barnbougle Dunes complex on Tasmania’s north-east coast – is much more than that. Despite not being obsessed with the game or indeed the business, Sattler stands as one of golf’s most important people of the past two decades.
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Canadian Trevor Dormer has been in the golf construction business since the early 2000’s and has become a prominent member of the industry’s talented “under-40” (for now) group of construction specialists and shapers.
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Episode 13 features a Mid Summer Update from “Both Sides of the Pond” with Course Manager of The Royal Automobile Club, Lee Strutt, MG, CGCS, MS and Carolina Golf Club’s Golf Course Superintendent, Matthew Wharton, CGCS and MG. Lee and Matthew talk with Curtis about the 2019 season while providing extensive insight into the current…
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There is much excitement among architecture types about next week’s Irish Open at the famed Lahinch in County Clare. Tournament host Paul McGinley joins Episode 96 of the show to explain how he plans to take the event back to the future making the on-site experience one that far exceeds watching on TV. The 2014 Ryder Cup captain says tournament goers can expect a festival atmosphere in the tiny town of Lahinch as the entire week will be a celebration of the game.
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Episode 12 features Detroit GC Head Superintendent Jake Mendoza bringing listeners up to speed with the Motor City’s newest PGA Tour event! The greens will be fast and the atmosphere electric! Don’t miss it!
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Episode 12 features Detroit GC Head Superintendent Jake Mendoza bringing listeners up to speed with the Motor City’s newest PGA Tour event! The greens will be fast and the atmosphere electric! Don’t miss it!
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Bruce Charlton joined Robert Trent Jones II in 1981 and the two have been building courses across the globe for nearly 40 years. The firm has earned considerable acclaim for their entire body of work, but their undisputed masterpiece is Chambers Bay ne…
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According to Tiger Woods only two players in history have ‘owned’ their golf swings: the great Ben Hogan and Canada’s Moe Norman. Hogan is revered internationally as one of the game’s greatest ever exponents and while Norman enjoys less celebrity, his feats of extraordinary hitting are equally legendary among golf aficionados. Moe Norman might be the most remarkable golfer that ever lived and his story is as fascinating as any of the game’s celebrated legends. On episode 13 we meet Tim O’Connor, the man who wrote the first book about Moe in 1995 and remains committed to telling Moe’s story to this day.
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Episode 11 features “Past and Present” Ryder Cup Superintendents Chris Tritabaugh and Chris Zugel talking KPMG Womens PGA Championship at Hazeltine National, and all things Ryder Cup with Host Curtis Tyrrell
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