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 18: Peter Kessler, Part 2
April 09, 2018 15:10 - 1 hour - 63 MBPeter 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 virtually every important figure in golf and instruction. In the course of that time period, and for years following hosting his show on Sirius XM’s PGA… Read More Read More The post Episode 18: Peter Kessler, Part 2 appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 17: Peter Kessler, Part 1
April 04, 2018 14:26 - 57 minutes - 54 MBPeter 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 virtually every important figure in golf and instruction. In the course of that time period, and for years following hosting his show on… Read More Read More The post Episode 17: Peter Kessler, Part 1 appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 16: Bradley Klein
March 26, 2018 15:25 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBBrad 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 ranking of America’s 100 greatest modern and classic courses, and he recently, after 30 years, moved on to a new position with Golf Advisor and the… Read More Read More The post Episode 16: Bradley Klein appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 15: Keith Cutten
March 19, 2018 17:57 - 1 hour - 92 MBKeith 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 mentor Rod Whitman shaping features, drafting plans, developing budgets and running job sites. He’s also one of the leading young historians on golf course design and… Read More Read More The post Episode 15: Keith Cutten appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 14: Ian Andrew
March 08, 2018 20:54 - 1 hour - 79.2 MBIan 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 analysis of golf course architecture, and he rarely shies from expressing candid opinions on the state of the game. His writings can be found… Read More Read More The post Episode 14: Ian Andrew appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 13: Mike DeVries
February 28, 2018 18:30 - 1 hour - 80.5 MBMike 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 jaw-dropping design at Cape Wichkam Links on Kings Island in Tasmania, with wide holes rolling along the rocky ocean shore,… Read More Read More The post Episode 13: Mike DeVries appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 12: Dr. Michael Hurdzan
February 12, 2018 16:31 - 1 hour - 68 MBDr. 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 Whitten. It was a well-deserved moment for the architect known as much for building some of the most artistically voluptuous courses… Read More Read More The post Episode 12: Dr. Michael Hurdzan appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 11: Kris Spence
February 05, 2018 16:31 - 1 hour - 77.7 MBDo 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 and build world when a club in North Carolina hired him to help restore the lost features of its Donald Ross course. 20… Read More Read More The post Episode 11: Kris Spence appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 10: Robert Trent Jones II
January 19, 2018 23:01 - 1 hour - 81.6 MBNobody’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 everywhere, seen everything and been a prominent voice the industry his entire life. After some light banter about fatalism and nuclear bombs,… Read More Read More The post Episode 10: Robert Trent Jones II appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 9: Rod Whitman
January 12, 2018 17:07 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBRod 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 design and build a course on one of the world’s great new seaside properties, in this case… Read More Read More The post Episode 9: Rod Whitman appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 8: Mark Love
December 19, 2017 23:59 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBFollowing 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 new renovations in the works following last year’s completion of Atlantic Dunes, a total remodel of one of the Lowcountry’s original golf… Read More Read More The post Episode 8: Mark Love appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 7: Steve Smyers
December 11, 2017 16:49 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBFew 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 courses and played in top-level amateur tournaments all over the globe. He joins Derek Duncan on the Feed the Ball podcast to discuss how he’s always evolving as a designer,… Read More Read More The post Episode 7: Steve Smyers appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 6: Keith Rhebb
November 30, 2017 21:29 - 1 hour - 81.5 MBKeith 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 Doak, and Gil Hanse. He’s worked for Coore and Crenshaw at places like Lost Farm at Barnbougle Dunes, Cabot Cliffs and Streamsong… Read More Read More The post Episode 6: Keith Rhebb appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 5: Ron Prichard
November 16, 2017 14:58 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBTo 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 antebellum-era house with modern accoutrements, prominent golf voices believe the features of classic era courses, and the architectural intent behind… Read More Read More The post Episode 5: Ron Prichard appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 4: Bill Bergin
October 31, 2017 20:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBIn 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 would Seth Raynor do?), keeping pace with Bob Tway and the northwest Atlanta high school golf scene, going low at St. Andrews, Bill’s top 3 Atlanta… Read More Read More The post Episode 4: Bill Bergin appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 3: Bill Coore
October 12, 2017 17:46 - 1 hour - 63.1 MBIn 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 of the greatest golf courses of the last 60 or 70 years. Bill shares his thoughts on life and… Read More Read More The post Episode 3: Bill Coore appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 2: Bobby Weed
September 28, 2017 16:23 - 1 hour - 72.7 MBBobby 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 joy of getting back on the bulldozer, his recent work at The Medalist Club in South Florida… Read More Read More The post Episode 2: Bobby Weed appeared first on Feed The Ball.
Episode 1: Jim Engh
September 01, 2017 14:08 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBNoted 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 designs, the eureka moment that led him to pursue his bold style of golf holes, chasing an endorphine rush on… Read More Read More The post Episode 1: Jim Engh appeared first on Feed The Ball.