Feed The Ball
118 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsIn 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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Episode 68: Jeff Bradley
April 08, 2020 20:17 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBFor 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 define the strategies and style of places like Cuscowilla, Bandon Trails and Friars Head. In doing so, Bradley has influenced a generation… Read More Read More The post Episode 68: Jeff Bradley appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 67: George Waters
March 23, 2020 18:02 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBGeorge 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 construction projects for a variety of designers, including Doak, then wrote the seminal book on sand based courses, Sand and Golf: How Terrain Shapes the Game.… Read More Read More The post Episode 67: George Waters appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 66: Tyler Rae
March 06, 2020 16:41 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBTyler 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 most of the last decade and now has embarked on his own, with an impressive client list that includes clubs like Northmoor and… Read More Read More The post Episode 66: Tyler Rae appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 65: Scot Sherman
February 13, 2020 21:02 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBDesigner 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 Davis Love III. In addition to overseeing new projects for them, he’s currently helping prep the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island… Read More Read More The post Episode 65: Scot Sherman appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 64: Kyle Hegland
January 24, 2020 16:16 - 1 hour - 55 MBAs 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 environments for golf — an arid climate ripped by savage winds and brutal winters. Yet Hegland’s expertise in creating and maintaining… Read More Read More The post Episode 64: Kyle Hegland appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 63: Brian Schneider
December 31, 2019 16:59 - 1 hour - 77 MBBrian 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: Ballyneal, Old Macdonald, Cape Kidnappers, Rock Creek Cattle Company and others. He was the lead design associate on Barnbougle Dunes, Dismal River Red, Grand… Read More Read More The post Episode 63: Brian Schneider appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 62: Drew Rogers
December 20, 2019 17:31 - 2 hours - 77.5 MBDrew 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 golf courses, albeit it to the specifications of Hills and his clients. Today, Rogers’ own architectural point of view is evident… Read More Read More The post Episode 62: Drew Rogers appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 61: Jim Urbina
November 27, 2019 16:52 - 2 hours - 76 MBWhen 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 architectural tree having begun his career working on projects for Pete and Perry Dye. Later, Tom Doak hired Urbina at Renaissance Design,… Read More Read More The post Episode 61: Jim Urbina appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 60: Andy Staples
November 12, 2019 21:33 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBOver 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 create and popularize the concept of “Community Links,” a way to better integrate public golf into the lifestyle of the surrounding communities. His practice… Read More Read More The post Episode 60: Andy Staples appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 59: Jeff Brauer
November 01, 2019 13:30 - 1 hour - 65.5 MBJeff 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 Dallas in 1984, he’s specialized in building public and resort courses in all parts of the country. In the last 20… Read More Read More The post Episode 59: Jeff Brauer appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 58: Dave Wilber
October 18, 2019 17:47 - 2 hours - 78.8 MBDave 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 developing grassing plans for some of the world’s greatest courses, including places like Kingsbarns in Scotland and Friars Head. He’s also been a pioneer in… Read More Read More The post Episode 58: Dave Wilber appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 57: Tripp Davis
September 30, 2019 13:40 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBTripp 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 most of his adult life, even reaching the quarter finals of the 2009 U.S Mid-Amateur. Fluent in both original design, remodels and historic… Read More Read More The post Episode 57: Tripp Davis appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 56: Paul Cowley
September 03, 2019 13:55 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBPaul 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, however, was spent running projects and designing courses for Mark and Davis Love III. Known inside the industry as one of the most creative and original thinkers, Cowley… Read More Read More The post Episode 56: Paul Cowley appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 55: Tom Dunne
August 19, 2019 16:05 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBTom 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 one of the brightest stars of a much welcomed revival of boutique publishing. In the course of traveling extensively to explore different courses and… Read More Read More The post Episode 55: Tom Dunne appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 54: Frank Pont
August 05, 2019 16:13 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBDutch 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 Europe’s most active and respected practitioners in historical restoration and remodeling. Through his work at some of the most prominent old courses on… Read More Read More The post Episode 54: Frank Pont appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 53: Eric Iverson
July 22, 2019 14:43 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBEric 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 specialists. He helped craft such instant classics like Ballyneal, Cape Kidnappers, Barnbougle Dunes and Streamsong Blue. He also ran the Stone Eagle, Rock Creek… Read More Read More The post Episode 53: Eric Iverson appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 52: Trevor Dormer
July 03, 2019 17:22 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBCanadian 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. He’s worked around the globe with, among others, Nicklaus Design, Rod Whitman, Ron Prichard, Bill Coore, and Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner.… Read More Read More The post Episode 52: Trevor Dormer appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 51: Bruce Charlton
June 21, 2019 12:45 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBBruce 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 near Seattle, site of the 2015 U.S. Open (won by Jordan Speith). Built… Read More Read More The post Episode 51: Bruce Charlton appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 50: Dave Axland and Rod Whitman
May 24, 2019 13:45 - 57 minutes - 27.8 MBDave 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 Hills, Talking Stick, Friars Head, Old Sandwich, Chechessee Creek plus numerous others, and has designed Wild… Read More Read More The post Episode 50: Dave Axland and Rod Whitman appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 49: Rees Jones
May 01, 2019 15:35 - 1 hour - 38.1 MBRees 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 orchestrated, he’s infused his vision into such venerable American tournament courses as Pinehurst No. 2, Oakland Hills, Medinah No. 3 and The Country Club for the… Read More Read More The post Episode 49: Rees Jones appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 48: Kye Goalby
April 18, 2019 13:37 - 2 hours - 64.1 MBKye 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 feature work is needed. For the last 20 years he’s worked on some of the world’s most unique projects alongside Gil Hanse, Brian… Read More Read More The post Episode 48: Kye Goalby appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 47: David Marcucilli
April 05, 2019 14:59 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBDavid 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 conception of innovative, non-traditional golf. He hopes it will become a place of sociability, togetherness and pride for a town that is still suffering from… Read More Read More The post Episode 47: David Marcucilli appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 46: Matt Dusenberry
March 20, 2019 16:08 - 2 hours - 68.3 MBMatt 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 ranging from the flat Florida coast at Sandhill Crane in Hobe Sound to the magnificent mountain setting of the Cornerstone Club in Colorado. Particularly… Read More Read More The post Episode 46: Matt Dusenberry appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 45: Keith Cutten 2
March 05, 2019 18:59 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBCanadian 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 morphed and changed through time, and, more importantly, examines the underlying societal and economic forces that continually shape the way golf has historically been created.… Read More Read More The post Episode 45: Keith Cutten 2 appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 44: Jim Wagner
February 18, 2019 13:14 - 2 hours - 75.6 MBJim 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 a dedicated group of shapers and designers known as the Cavemen. In the last 10 years the two men have taken their small… Read More Read More The post Episode 44: Jim Wagner appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 43: Brian Silva
February 07, 2019 18:54 - 2 hours - 77.5 MBBrian 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 strategic golf he transitioned into golf course restoration, becoming one of the business’s most respected talents at renovating historic Golden Age-era courses. His particular passion… Read More Read More The post Episode 43: Brian Silva appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 42: Jay Blasi
January 29, 2019 17:04 - 1 hour - 63 MBJay 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 Patriot Golf Club in Oklahoma, and Washington State’s Chambers Bay, host of the 2015 U.S. Open, where Blasi was instrumental in… Read More Read More The post Episode 42: Jay Blasi appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 41: Mike Clayton
January 18, 2019 17:37 - 2 hours - 73 MBMike 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 won the Australian Amateur in 1978 and played the European Tour from 1982 until 2000. He’s written extensively for golf publications… Read More Read More The post Episode 41: Mike Clayton appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 40: David McLay Kidd
January 01, 2019 17:12 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBNot 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 course at Bandon Dunes. Kidd followed that spectacular success with a series of prestigious designs across several continents, becoming arguably… Read More Read More The post Episode 40: David McLay Kidd appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 39: Best of 2018
December 23, 2018 16:57 - 1 hour - 92.5 MBA 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 architecture from Golf Digest architectural editor Ron Whitten, Golf Advisor’s Brad Klein and architect Ian Andrew; thoughts on Tiger Woods as designer… Read More Read More The post Episode 39: Best of 2018 appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 38: Bruce Hepner
December 17, 2018 16:08 - 1 hour - 106 MBBruce 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 home to Michigan in 1993 to work for Tom Doak, first as a shaper and later as a designer at modern masterpieces like Pacific… Read More Read More The post Episode 38: Bruce Hepner appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 37: Brian Curley
December 03, 2018 21:07 - 1 hour - 101 MBBrian 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 forces to form the company Schmidt-Curley Golf Design. Since the 1990’s they’ve built courses all over the U.S. and throughout the world, and for… Read More Read More The post Episode 37: Brian Curley appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 36: Peter Kessler 3
November 12, 2018 14:56 - 1 hour - 105 MBPeter 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 Chamblee and the fans of No Laying Up, about being provocative on Twitter, the skills required to be great on… Read More Read More The post Episode 36: Peter Kessler 3 appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 35: P.B. Dye
November 01, 2018 12:36 - 1 hour - 97.9 MBP.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 courses and was a primary assistant during several of his father’s touchstone courses, including Long Cove on Hilton Head… Read More Read More The post Episode 35: P.B. Dye appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 34: Thad Layton
October 18, 2018 15:44 - 1 hour - 95.1 MBThad 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 1972, the firm has been known for producing a massive number of courses worldwide, mostly associated with real estate. Over the last five years, however, Layton… Read More Read More The post Episode 34: Thad Layton appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 33: Tom Mackenzie
October 09, 2018 14:18 - 1 hour - 81.7 MBTom 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 is very much a continuation of the elder architect’s practice. Like Steel, Mackenzie prefers to design naturally, altering landscapes as little as possible… Read More Read More The post Episode 33: Tom Mackenzie appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 32: Richard Mandell
September 30, 2018 19:05 - 1 hour - 96.5 MBRichard 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 how to build and renovate courses with a minimal amount of of unnecessary inputs or accessorization. As a result he gained a… Read More Read More The post Episode 32: Richard Mandell appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 31: Ron Forse
September 05, 2018 15:58 - 1 hour - 95.8 MBRon 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, he began taking jobs consulting with a number of historic club, guiding them through the process of renovating their old courses. Since… Read More Read More The post Episode 31: Ron Forse appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 30: Beau Welling
August 21, 2018 21:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBSouth 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 in several diverse fields, he committed to golf course architecture joining Tom Fazio’s staff in the late 1990’s. In 2007 he opened his own firm in Greenville, and became… Read More Read More The post Episode 30: Beau Welling appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 29: Tom Coyne
August 01, 2018 15:39 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBTom 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 twofold: to find out the meaning of golf, which must exist somewhere in those sacred links soils; and to hone… Read More Read More The post Episode 29: Tom Coyne appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 28: Dan Hixson
July 23, 2018 17:06 - 1 hour - 102 MBOregon 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 learned the profession and soon was hired to build Bandon Crossings, a public course just south of Bandon Dunes. That… Read More Read More The post Episode 28: Dan Hixson appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 27: Ron Whitten
July 02, 2018 14:28 - 1 hour - 89.6 MBRon 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 criteria for the magazine’s popular (or, depending, notorious) Top 100 U.S & World Courses lists, has written various books including the essential compendium, “The Architects of… Read More Read More The post Episode 27: Ron Whitten appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 26: Kyle Franz Part 2
June 18, 2018 14:13 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBThe 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 career where he amassed one of the business’s strongest pedigrees shaping courses for Bill Coore, Tim Liddy, Gil Hanse and others. His big solo break came… Read More Read More The post Episode 26: Kyle Franz Part 2 appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 25: Kyle Franz Part 1
June 13, 2018 14:05 - 1 hour - 54.3 MBThe 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 career where he amassed one of the business’s strongest pedigrees shaping courses for Bill Coore, Tim Liddy, Gil Hanse and others. His big solo break came… Read More Read More The post Episode 25: Kyle Franz Part 1 appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 24: Mike Nuzzo Part 2
June 07, 2018 15:11 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBMike 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 three years, Nuzzo, a first-time architect, and Don Mahaffey, a turf and irrigation specialist, coaxed out a wide, bouncy and fascinating 18-hole… Read More Read More The post Episode 24: Mike Nuzzo Part 2 appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 23: Mike Nuzzo Part 1
June 06, 2018 20:28 - 1 hour - 52.5 MBMike 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 three years, Nuzzo, a first-time architect, and Don Mahaffey, a turf and irrigation specialist, coaxed out a wide, bouncy and fascinating 18-hole… Read More Read More The post Episode 23: Mike Nuzzo Part 1 appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 22: Jeff Mingay
May 28, 2018 16:04 - 1 hour - 74.7 MBArchitect 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 golf courses — Blackhawk, Sagebrush and Cabot Links — he opened his own design business and found immediate success renovating and restoring courses in British Columbia… Read More Read More The post Episode 22: Jeff Mingay appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 21: Rob Collins
May 17, 2018 15:35 - 1 hour - 104 MBSweetens 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 have watched it become an impassioned touchstone for a vocal, hardcore group of golf course fanatics as it marches steadily up the golf… Read More Read More The post Episode 21: Rob Collins appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 20: Mike Young
May 04, 2018 17:39 - 1 hour - 79.9 MBMike 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 prominent and prolific architects. Young builds his courses the old fashioned way — himself — and his years as designer, builder and… Read More Read More The post Episode 20: Mike Young appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 19: Tim Liddy
April 16, 2018 17:39 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBTim 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 collaboration for a quarter century, with Liddy becoming fluent in the Dye vernacular while also establishing his own independent firm responsible for highly acclaimed original… Read More Read More The post Episode 19: Tim Liddy appeared first on Feed The Ball.