Podcasts by Feed The Ball
In the Feed the Ball podcast, Golf Digest architecture editor Derek Duncan discusses golf course design, architecture, aesthetics and other topics with golf course architects and other luminaries of the game.
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 26, ft. Greg Letsche from 2023-11-02T22:18:08
Golf course architect Greg Letsche, lead designer for Ernie Els Design, joins Golf Digest architecture editor Derek Duncan and golf course builder Jim Urbina to discuss his early years working f...
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Episode 86: Blake Conant from 2023-10-17T21:43:18
In less than 10 years in the profession, Blake Conant has risen from crew member to shaper to the co-designer of Old Barnwell, a stunning new course near Aiken, S.C. Conant has primarily shaped ...
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Episode 85: Remembering Tom Weiskopf with Phil Smith from 2023-09-06T16:18:39
Shortly after Tom Weiskopf broke with design partner Jay Morrish in the late 1990s he turned to architect Phil Smith. Smith had been working with Nicklaus Design in Arizona, but the opportunity ...
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Episode 84: Don Placek from 2023-08-23T15:50:08
Don Placek began working for Tom Doak’s Renaissance Golf Design in 1997 after being in Perry Dye’s Denver office for several years. It was a significant jump, going from the types of technical b...
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Episode 83: Stephen Kay from 2023-02-28T05:34:03
Architect Stephen Kay has been involved in the building, remodeling or renovation of over 300 courses during his design career spanning back to the mid-1980s. He was one of the pioneering voices...
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Episode 82: Allan MacCurrach from 2023-01-24T18:33:48
Golf course builder Allan MacCurrach began working on crews for Pete Dye in the late 1970s and opened his own golf course contracting company in 1987. He’s been involved in building or remodelin...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 25, ft. Josh Pettit from 2022-12-29T16:54:39
Designer and historian Josh Pettit began collecting the writings of Alister MacKenzie for his new compendium of essays, “The MacKenzie Reader,” years ago, and was ready to publish in 2020 when t...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 24, ft. Rob Collins from 2022-11-17T16:36:23
Landmand Golf Club in northeast Nebraska, just across the Missouri River from Sioux City, is one of the largest and most expansive golf courses ever built, with the largest total square footage ...
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Episode 81: Jim Nagle from 2022-10-18T14:36:10
Jim Nagle began working with golf course renovation and historical restoration legend Ron Forse in 1998, in what might be considered the field’s pioneering days. Golf course restoration is an at...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 23, ft. Jason Straka from 2022-09-09T12:44:10
Jason Straka has been a principle in Fry/Straka Global Golf Design since joining with partner Dana Fry in 2012. Previously he was the senior architect for Hurdzan-Fry Golf Design, helping that c...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 22, ft. Andy Staples from 2022-08-18T15:46:50
Andy Staples positioned himself as one of the profession’s most creative architects with his throwback renovation of Meadowbrook Country Club near Detroit with its Willie Park, Jr. inspired earl...
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Feed the Ball Salon Volume 21, ft. Chris Cochran from 2022-06-22T12:51:42
Chris Cochran began his career building golf courses for Jack Nicklaus in the mid-1980s. With over 100 international projects completed, he is Nicklaus Design’s longest tenured senior design ass...
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Episode 80: Joe Jemsek on Dick Wilson from 2022-05-09T15:50:03
Joe Jemsek grew up with Dick Wilson. At least figuratively. In the early 1960s, Wilson, one of golf architecture’s most interesting and possibly misunderstood figures, designed the former Americ...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 20, ft. Dave Axland and Tim Liddy from 2022-03-17T15:08:19
Tim Liddy and Dave Axland have worked together on a number of projects including, most recently, Harrison Lake in Indiana, a remodel that included the addition of several new holes and a re-rout...
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Episode 79: Andrew Green from 2022-02-04T17:43:23
In just the last several years, designer Andrew Green has played a prominent role in guiding back to their founding architectural spirit a number of prominent major championship courses, includi...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 19: Bunkers ft. Ron Whitten from 2021-12-30T18:44:59
The topic is bunkers: should they be placed scientifically or randomly? Should there be more or less, or any at all? Has the naturalistic look become ubiquitous and overused? What about proper b...
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Episode 78: Steve Smyers and Rethinking Strategy from 2021-11-09T18:06:02
Like most architects, Steve Smyers has a deep reverence for the classical era and the strategic brilliance of Harry Colt, Alister MacKenzie, George Thomas and others. However, as an elite player...
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Episode 77: Craig Haltom from 2021-10-12T14:28:05
In this Feed the Ball podcast, we get deep into some Wisconsin golf talk with golf course architect Craig Haltom. Haltom joins Golf Digest architecture editor Derek Duncan to discuss recreating ...
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Episode 76: Making Whistling Straits from 2021-09-19T17:48
Is it possible we take Whistling Straits for granted? Of all the spectacular builds in the history of golf, from The Lido to Calusa Pines, very little is spoken about how Pete Dye and Herb Kohle...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 18, ft. Davis Love III from 2021-08-27T12:29:19
Davis Love III needs no introduction. But just in case, he’s a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, has logged over 20 PGA Tour victories, won the 1997 PGA Championship, was twice victorious a...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 17, ft. James Duncan from 2021-06-28T16:22:48
James Duncan came to the U.S. from his native Denmark in the early 1990s to learn the craft of building golf courses. He learned from the best, working first with Tom Doak and Renaissance Golf D...
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Episode 75: Troy Miller from 2021-05-17T17:45:19
Designer Troy Miller worked for Landmark Land Co. for a decade, building golf courses around North America, before leaving the company to settle down in his hometown of Charleston, SC. The move ...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 16, ft. Tom Lehman from 2021-03-28T17:22:16
PGA Tour and current PGA Champions tour player Tom Lehman, winner of the 1996 Open Championship at Royal Lytham&St. Anne’s, has seamlessly managed to maintain an elite game while developing a go...
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Episode 74: David Kahn from 2021-03-08T20:49:26
In a limited amount of original work, David Kahn has proven to be one of the most creative, courageous and expressionistic golf course architects working today. Along with partner Tim Jackson, t...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 15, ft. Ian Andrew from 2021-02-07T14:34:59
Canadian designer Ian Andrew, Feed the Ball guest from Episode 14, is back to visit with Derek Duncan and Jim Urbina. The conversation turns to topics of: –Choose Your Own Adventure golf archite...
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Episode 73: Larry Lambrecht from 2021-01-11T17:54:05
Larry Lambrecht has been one of golf’s most prolific and talented photographers for over 30 years. He’s shot golf courses and tournaments, as well as Super Bowls, World Series and other major sp...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 14, ft. Forrest Richardson from 2020-12-14T17:36:04
Golf course architect Forrest Richardson was elected in 2020 to be the 75th president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, a chair that’s been held by such notable designers as Sta...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 13, ft. Kyle Phillips from 2020-11-10T21:46:09
Architect Kyle Phillips began his illustrious career as an associate working for Robert Trent Jones II in California. He gained unique design and planning expertise working on a slate of interna...
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Episode 72: Donald Steel from 2020-10-26T15:49:24
Few people in golf have had as rich or wide-ranging life in golf as Donald Steel. He began his career as the golf reporter for London’s Sunday Telegraph in 1961, memorably covering, as a rookie ...
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Episode 71: Chris Wilczynski from 2020-09-22T18:22:21
Golf architect Chris Wilczynski has bridged two distinct eras–that of the course-a-day, turn and burn construction frenzy of the 1990s and 2000s, and now the current period of “slow” golf with i...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 12, ft. Tim Jackson from 2020-09-02T18:55:41
After working for over a decade for Tom Fazio, Tim Jackson opened his own West Coast design firm with David Kahn, another Fazio alum. Jackson Kahn Design is known for their creative, ambitious i...
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Episode 70: Lester George from 2020-08-18T12:34:19
Lester George was an artillery officer in the U.S. Army who rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In the late 1980s, already into his 30s, he made a career switch to golf design, setting up a ...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 11, ft. Dana Fry from 2020-07-28T17:26:41
Golf designer Dana Fry began his career learning the business as an associate for Tom Fazio, and later forged a prominent partnership with Dr. Michael Hurdzan. With Hurdzan he created such top U...
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Episode 69: Ron Kirby from 2020-07-13T18:00:01
It’s not unreasonable to suggest the path of golf architecture in the second half of the 20th century can be traced through Ron Kirby. His career has been a remarkable Zelig-like whirlwind placi...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 10, ft. Rees Jones from 2020-07-02T18:09:32
Rees Jones‘ design work has touched public, resort, club golf and major championship golf as much as any architect of the modern era. He enters the Salon to talk with Jim Urbina and Derek Duncan...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 9, ft. David McLay Kidd from 2020-06-23T18:32:35
From the original course at Bandon Dunes to The Castle Course at St. Andrews, to Gamble Sands in Washington and then to Mammoth Dunes in Wisconsin, David McLay Kidd has been one of the most inno...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 8, ft. Bruce Hepner from 2020-06-05T17:40:11
Bruce Hepner and Jim Urbina both began working for Tom Doak at Renaissance Design in the early 1990s, spending many days and hours together on the road for well over a decade. Hepner opened his ...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 7, ft. Bobby Weed from 2020-05-28T15:56:15
Few people in the golf design business knew Pete Dye better than Bobby Weed, who first interned for his mentor in the 1970s. Weed comes into the Salon with Derek Duncan and Jim Urbina to share h...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 6, ft. Gil Hanse from 2020-05-21T15:59:22
In this volume of the Salon, architect Gil Hanse sits with Derek Duncan and Jim Urbina to discuss how he and design partner Jim Wagner build golf courses. They talk about the sanctity of being o...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 5, ft. Mike DeVries from 2020-05-14T17:04:46
Architect Mike DeVries steps into the Salon with Jim Urbina and Derek Duncan to discuss arguably the granddaddy of all design topics, routing. The long and winding conversation touches on the ex...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 4, ft. Thad Layton from 2020-05-06T14:52:35
Thad Layton, principal at Arnold Palmer Design Company, enters the Salon to talk to Derek Duncan and Jim Urbina about Palmer and the rules of architecture. Specifically the discussion revolves a...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 3, ft. Jeff Mingay from 2020-04-29T11:45:54
Golf course designer and renovation specialist Jeff Mingay enters the Salon to talk about St. Andrews with Jim Urbina and Derek Duncan. The central theme is, if The Old Course is so great, why a...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 2, ft. Bill Coore from 2020-04-20T19:14:49
Designer Bill Coore comes into the salon to discuss greens and putting surfaces with Jim Urbina and Derek Duncan. Topics include the importance of shaping greens and surrounds in relation to sin...
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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 1, ft. Don Mahaffey from 2020-04-13T15:54:02
Jim Urbina and Derek Duncan discuss George Thomas, Pete Dye’s par-5 holes, Riviera, the Ghost Tree at Old Macdonald, whether bunkers have become too sanitized, “reasonable” green speeds, Stimpme...
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Episode 68: Jeff Bradley from 2020-04-08T20:17:42
For almost 25 years, Jeff Bradley has been known as the preeminent builder of golf course bunkers in the U.S. Working primarily for Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, his artistic bunkering has helped...
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Episode 67: George Waters from 2020-03-23T18:02:03
George Waters began his design career after spending a summer living and doing course maintenance in Dornoch, then getting an internship with Tom Doak’s Renaissance Golf Design. He worked constr...
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Episode 66: Tyler Rae from 2020-03-06T16:41:17
Tyler Rae is gaining a reputation as one of the most talented up and coming golf course renovation and restoration specialists in the business. He’s worked with noted designer Ron Prichard for m...
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Episode 65: Scot Sherman from 2020-02-13T21:02:14
Designer Scot Sherman began his career working for the Dye family before joining Bobby Weed as an associate. He’s now the lead designer for Love Golf Design, the firm of brothers Mark Love and D...
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Episode 64: Kyle Hegland from 2020-01-24T16:16:49
As superintendent of Sand Hills Golf Club for the last 13 years, Kyle Hegland has one of the most unique jobs in golf. The world-renowned course is located in one of the most extreme environment...
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Episode 63: Brian Schneider from 2019-12-31T16:59:19
Brian Schneider joined Tom Doak’s Renaissance Golf Design in 2002. For the last 17 years he’s played a vital role creating some of this generation’s greatest golf courses around the world: Bally...
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Episode 62: Drew Rogers from 2019-12-20T17:31:41
Drew Rogers hung out his own design shingle in 2010 after working 18 years with the firm of (Arthur ) Hills&(Steve) Forrest. While working for Hills he gained extensive expertise building new go...
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Episode 61: Jim Urbina from 2019-11-27T16:52:04
When the story is at last written about the current era of neoclassical architecture, Jim Urbina is certain to be featured as a star character. He represents a distinct branch of the Dye archite...
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Episode 60: Andy Staples from 2019-11-12T21:33:52
Over the last 15 years, Andy Staples has created his own space in the field of golf design by pioneering sustainability and efficiency in course construction and operation. He’s also helped crea...
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Episode 59: Jeff Brauer from 2019-11-01T13:30:03
Jeff Brauer began his career in 1977 working for Dick Nugent and Ken Killian in Chicago and represents a vital link to a previous generation of architecture. Since opening his own design firm in...
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Episode 58: Dave Wilber from 2019-10-18T17:47:58
Dave Wilber, aka the Turfgrass Zealot, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on golf grasses and soils. Agronomist to the stars, Wilber has consulted with and been instrumental in developin...
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Episode 57: Tripp Davis from 2019-09-30T13:40:20
Tripp Davis is arguably the most skilled amateur player among active architects. He helped the University of Oklahoma win a National Championship in the 1980s and has been a ranked amateur for m...
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Episode 56: Paul Cowley from 2019-09-03T13:55:05
Paul Cowley has worn many hats in his golf career: land and landscape planner, structural architect, superintendent and construction engineer. The majority of his golf architecture career, howev...
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Episode 55: Tom Dunne from 2019-08-19T16:05:13
Tom Dunne founded the independent golf journal McKellar in 2017. Featuring alluring artwork with a playful point of view and stories from the best writers in the business, McKellar has become on...
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Episode 54: Frank Pont from 2019-08-05T16:13:38
Dutch architect Frank Pont made a dramatic jump from the diverse worlds of engineering, corporate banking and mergers into golf course design in the mid-2000s. Since that time he’s become one of...
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Episode 53: Eric Iverson from 2019-07-22T14:43:57
Eric Iverson has worked with Tom Doak at Renaissance Golf Design since 2001. He’s widely viewed by his peers as one of the business’s most skilled and creative shapers and construction specialis...
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Episode 52: Trevor Dormer from 2019-07-03T17:22:50
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 s...
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Episode 51: Bruce Charlton from 2019-06-21T12:45:25
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...
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Episode 50: Dave Axland and Rod Whitman from 2019-05-24T13:45:19
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 Co...
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Episode 49: Rees Jones from 2019-05-01T15:35:08
Rees Jones has spent nearly 35 years preparing, modifying and remodeling golf courses for major championship events. In addition to the 100 original courses and dozens of renovations he’s orches...
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Episode 48: Kye Goalby from 2019-04-18T13:37:44
Kye Goalby, one of the most accomplished design and shaping specialists in the construction business, is at the top of the call list of just about every A-list golf architect when exceptional fe...
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Episode 47: David Marcucilli from 2019-04-05T14:59:29
David Marcucilli’s first passion is his hometown of Newtown, CT, where he’s attempting to orchestrate the funding and design of a new all-season public green space that will include his concepti...
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Episode 46: Matt Dusenberry from 2019-03-20T16:08:31
Matt Dusenberry opened his own design firm in 2013 after years of building courses all over the world at Greg Norman Golf Course Design. He’s demonstrated incredible range in renovation work ran...
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Episode 45: Keith Cutten 2 from 2019-03-05T18:59:17
Canadian designer, author, artist and historian Keith Cutten returns (Episode 15) to discuss his new book, “The Evolution of Golf Course Design.” The book traces how golf course architecture has...
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Episode 44: Jim Wagner from 2019-02-18T13:14:31
Jim Wagner and Gil Hanse have been design partners for over 20 years. Though Hanse’s name is on their courses, Wagner has been equally influential in their concepts and outcomes while overseeing...
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Episode 43: Brian Silva from 2019-02-07T18:54:41
Brian Silva began working for iconic New England architect Geoffrey Cornish in 1983, building golf courses in the traditional way of the day. After a revelation concerning the essence of strateg...
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Episode 42: Jay Blasi from 2019-01-29T17:04:16
Jay Blasi founded his own design company in 2012 after working for Robert Trent Jones II for over a decade. He gained notoriety as the lead associate on two high profile Jones courses: The Patri...
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Episode 41: Mike Clayton from 2019-01-18T17:37:20
Mike Clayton is a throwback to a bygone tradition of golf figures such as Willie Park, Jr., Walter Travis and Max Behr, top players who later became both architects and men of letters. Clayton w...
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Episode 40: David McLay Kidd from 2019-01-01T17:12:33
Not since Hugh Wilson at Merion has an architectural career been launched as brightly as David McLay Kidd’s. As a young designer in his 20’s, Kidd was tabbed by Mike Keiser to build the first co...
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Episode 39: Best of 2018 from 2018-12-23T16:57:31
A rundown of the best moments and most significant exchanges during the first full season of the Feed the Ball podcast. Highlights include thoughts on the current and future state of golf course...
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Episode 38: Bruce Hepner from 2018-12-17T16:08:04
Bruce Hepner began his architectural career in 1990 as an associate for Ron Forse, with whom he became one of the early advocates and influencers of historic golf course restoration. He returned...
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Episode 37: Brian Curley from 2018-12-03T21:07:16
Brian Curley began his golf course architecture career working on a number of Pete Dye courses for Landmark Land Company. There he met another Dye protégé, Lee Schmidt, and the two combined forc...
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Episode 36: Peter Kessler 3 from 2018-11-12T14:56:01
Peter Kessler — the Voice of Golf, historian and one of the most outspoken commentators in the game — returns to the podcast to talk to Derek about his recent social media dustups with Brandel C...
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Episode 35: P.B. Dye from 2018-11-01T12:36:25
P.B. Dye began working on his father Pete Dye’s construction sites when he was a boy. Along with his brother, Perry, he’s had the closest and longest view of how Dye conceived of and built golf ...
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Episode 34: Thad Layton from 2018-10-18T15:44:17
Thad Layton began working for Arnold Palmer Course Design in the late 1990’s and now, as Senior Architect and Vice President, leads the company along with fellow designer Brandon Johnson. Since ...
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Episode 33: Tom Mackenzie from 2018-10-09T14:18:28
Tom Mackenzie joined with Martin Ebert to form the golf architectural firm of Mackenzie&Ebert in 2005. They each began their careers designing golf courses for Donald Steel, and their business i...
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Episode 32: Richard Mandell from 2018-09-30T19:05:50
Richard Mandell’s golf design practice has taken off over the last 10 years. He entered the business in the early 1990’s and paid his dues for over a decade working singular jobs while learning ...
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Episode 31: Ron Forse from 2018-09-05T15:58:16
Ron Forse was an engineer who made a jump into golf course architecture in 1989, working on a project in West Virginia in conjunction with Dr. Michael Hurdzan. Though not necessarily his intent,...
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Episode 30: Beau Welling from 2018-08-21T21:00:51
South Carolina native Beau Welling played college golf at Brown University and earned a landscape architecture degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. After exploring career opportunities...
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Episode 29: Tom Coyne from 2018-08-01T15:39:59
Tom Coyne’s fourth book is “A Course Called Scotland,” a funny and poignant tale of his journey playing over 100 links courses in Scotland, England and Wales in less than 60 days. His goal was t...
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Episode 28: Dan Hixson from 2018-07-23T17:06:29
Oregon native Dan Hixson began his golf career as a tour pro and later became a club professional, but his real desire was to be a golf course architect. Despite no formal training, he slowly le...
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Episode 27: Ron Whitten from 2018-07-02T14:28:59
Ron Whitten has been one of the most prominent and influential voices in golf course architecture since the mid-1980’s when he became Golf Digest’s architecture editor. He created the current cr...
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Episode 26: Kyle Franz Part 2 from 2018-06-18T14:13:33
The first project Kyle Franz ever worked on was Tom Doak’s masterpiece, Pacific Dunes, a course now recognized as one of the best in the world. That fortuitous turn launched his design/build car...
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Episode 25: Kyle Franz Part 1 from 2018-06-13T14:05:20
The first project Kyle Franz ever worked on was Tom Doak’s masterpiece, Pacific Dunes, a course now recognized as one of the best in the world. That fortuitous turn launched his design/build car...
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Episode 24: Mike Nuzzo Part 2 from 2018-06-07T15:11:35
Mike Nuzzo seemed to have struck gold when he was hired by a wealthy Texas businessman and rancher to build an ultra-exclusive golf course intended only for the client’s personal use. For almost...
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Episode 23: Mike Nuzzo Part 1 from 2018-06-06T20:28:35
Mike Nuzzo seemed to have struck gold when he was hired by a wealthy Texas businessman and rancher to build an ultra-exclusive golf course intended only for the client’s personal use. For almost...
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Episode 22: Jeff Mingay from 2018-05-28T16:04:55
Architect Jeff Mingay broke into golf course architecture working projects for his mentor and fellow Canadian Rod Whitman. In 2009, after completing a trio of Canada’s most exceptional modern go...
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Episode 21: Rob Collins from 2018-05-17T15:35:42
Sweetens Cove has captured the hearts and minds of the architecture world. Rob Collins and design partner Tad King began building the 9-hole course, 30 minutes west of Chattanooga, in 2012 and h...
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Episode 20: Mike Young from 2018-05-04T17:39:39
Mike Young has seen the golf course design business from all sides, starting as a rep for maintenance and turf companies before establishing himself as one of the state of Georgia’s most promi...
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Episode 19: Tim Liddy from 2018-04-16T17:39:17
Tim Liddy began his career working closely with Pete Dye in 1993, transitioning into golf course design following a career in landscape architecture. The two men have enjoyed a close collaborati...
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Episode 18: Peter Kessler, Part 2 from 2018-04-09T15:10:22
Peter Kessler was the face and voice of the Golf Channel when the station first went live in 1995. Over the next seven years he commanded the show, mastering ceremonies and interviewing virtuall...
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Episode 17: Peter Kessler, Part 1 from 2018-04-04T14:26:30
Peter Kessler was the face and voice of the Golf Channel when the station first went live in 1995. Over the next seven years he commanded the show, mastering ceremonies and interviewing virtuall...
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Episode 16: Bradley Klein from 2018-03-26T15:25:47
Brad Klein has been one of the media’s foremost authorities on golf course architecture since he began writing for Golfweek Magazine in 1988. He created that publication’s highly influential ran...
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Episode 15: Keith Cutten from 2018-03-19T17:57:33
Keith Cutten is an integral player in golf design’s next generation who has worked alongside a variety of architects including Bill Coore, Jeff Mingay, Doug Carrick and, most importantly, his me...
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Episode 14: Ian Andrew from 2018-03-08T20:54:50
Ian Andrew is one of golf’s most respected restoration and preservation specialists, working principally on Golden Age courses in Canada. He has few peers when it comes to observation and the an...
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Episode 13: Mike DeVries from 2018-02-28T18:30:31
Mike DeVries belongs to an elite class of golf architects working today who have been fortunate to work on properties that qualify as some of the best sites golf has seen since the 1920’s. His j...
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Episode 12: Dr. Michael Hurdzan from 2018-02-12T16:31:38
Dr. Michael Hurdzan was on golf’s center stage the summer of 2017 during the U.S. Open, contested at Erin Hills, the giant, rambling meadow course he designed with then partner Dana Fry and Ron ...
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Episode 11: Kris Spence from 2018-02-05T16:31:36
Do you love Donald Ross and the idea of experiencing accurate expressions of his designs? Then this podcast is for you. Architect Kris Spence made the jump from golf superintendent to the design...
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Episode 10: Robert Trent Jones II from 2018-01-19T23:01:18
Nobody’s roots stretch deeper into the field of golf architecture than Robert Trent Jones II’s. Oldest son of Robert Trent Jones and now in his sixth decade of design, he’s been literally almost...
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Episode 9: Rod Whitman from 2018-01-12T17:07:31
Rod Whitman has been one of golf’s masters of construction for nearly 40 years and has designed a number of courses on his own. In 2010 he got the call every architect dreams of — an offer to de...
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Episode 8: Mark Love from 2017-12-19T23:59:58
Following the economic crash of 2008, Love Golf Design, founded by brothers Mark Love and Davis Love III, decided to step back. Now, after a hiatus, the company has resumed business with several...
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Episode 7: Steve Smyers from 2017-12-11T16:49:13
Few living architects are better than Steve Smyers at combining an understanding of golf shots and strategy with holes that possess immense visual flourish. Based in Florida, he’s designed cours...
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Episode 6: Keith Rhebb from 2017-11-30T21:29:03
Keith Rhebb is one of the leaders of a new generation of golf course architects who have learned the trade shaping courses for design-build luminaries like Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, Tom Doa...
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Episode 5: Ron Prichard from 2017-11-16T14:58:08
To renovate or restore. That is the question many historic clubs must decide when their courses are in need of repair. Just as many would view it a tragedy to deface a pristine Colonial- or ante...
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Episode 4: Bill Bergin from 2017-10-31T20:00:02
In this episode, architect Bill Bergin and Derek Duncan catch up and discuss a wide array of subjects including Bill’s recent and upcoming re-workings of several historic clubs, WWSRD (what woul...
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Episode 3: Bill Coore from 2017-10-12T17:46:43
In this episode of Feed the Ball, Derek Duncan speaks to Bill Coore, who along with design partner Ben Crenshaw and their team of shapers has built a collection of what are considered to be some...
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Episode 2: Bobby Weed from 2017-09-28T16:23:33
Bobby Weed joins Derek Duncan on the latest edition of the Feed the Ball podcast. Join us as Bobby talks about how he learned from Pete Dye that all good golf courses are built in the field, the...
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Episode 1: Jim Engh from 2017-09-01T14:08:23
Noted golf course architect and past winner of Golf Digest’s Architect of the Year Award Jim Engh calls in to talk to Derek Duncan about the concept of image creation, pushing the envelop in his...
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