Episode 10 features Chad Mark, Director of Grounds at Muirfield Village Golf Club. Chad goes in depth about the inner workings of this classic venue and The Memorial! Ever wonder what it would be like to have Jack Nicklaus as your boss? Hear Chad and Cur…
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Dave Axland and Rod Whitman, two of modern golf’s most skilled and admired construction men, met in the 1980s through Bill Coore. Axland has been an associate and project manager for numerous Coore-Crenshaw courses since the mid-1990s including Sand Hi…
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Two classic courses and two big time events! Hear Scott Ebers and Jeff Corcoran talk with Curtis about their course conditioning and tournament preparations.
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TalkinGolf History co-host Connor Lewis moved up a media grade recently when he appeared on Golf Channel alongside respected architect Jim Urbina in a short feature about the lost great club of the 20th century, The Lido. Built by the legendary C.B Macdonald and Seth Raynor why input from Tom Simpson and Alister Mackenzie, The Lido was widely regarded the equal of Pine Valley when it opened in 1914 but by 1942 it was gone. The course and its amazing has intrigued golfers for decades and with interest reignited by the Golf Channel piece last week now seemed a good time to flesh the story out further.
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This is the remarkable story of one of the finest amateur players of recent times that you’ve likely never heard of, a player whose career trajectory goes against almost all accepted wisdom. She’s a plus handicap golfer, prolific tournament winner, mother of four and grandmum to six. This is the Sue Wooster story.
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Rees Jones and Andy Wilson join Curtis to talk all things Bethpage Black and 2019 PGA Championship! Hear the latest on conditioning, how the design changes may impact the players, and what it’s like to be part of such a special project.
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Rees Jones and Andy Wilson join Curtis to talk all things Bethpage Black and 2019 PGA Championship! Hear the latest on conditioning, how the design changes may impact the players, and what it’s like to be part of such a special project.
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Welcome to this special preview edition of a brand new podcast launching this week, Golf Australia Magazine’s The Thing About Golf. If you’re a keen player or even a self-confessed golf nut you’ll know there is plenty to love about this game. In this monthly series, we will chat with golfers both famous and not to find out just what it is that draws them to this great game.
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Most of the time we get to talk about the things we want on the TalkinGolf History Podcast but every few weeks we turn things over to the listeners to find what you want to know about. On Episode 9 we answer questions about golfing Presidents, comparing players from different eras, our favourite periods of golf history and more.
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With the PGA Championship set to return to the Bethpage Black course in New York next week there will be plenty of discussion about course design AW Tillinghast. While known mostly as a course architect, Tillinghast had many more strings to his bow including a well known – though little understood – tour of the US during the depression years to advise courses on more financially sustainable management practises. What is less known is the extensive records he kept of that period and PGA Historian Bob Denney joins Geoff Shackelford, Mike Clayton and Rod Morri on Episode 93 to delve into the life and times of one of the game’s great contributors.
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