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  Episode 9: Coming Your Way Download on iTunes!   This week our staff is hard at work finishing up the inaugural issue of Ace In The Cup, which hits stands at your local golf course Aug. 25. We’ve got a ton of great stuff coming your way in this first issue, starting with our […]

Episode 8: Small Fish, Big Pond Special Guest: Shannon Fish, professional golfer on the Symetra Tour   Download on iTunes Fish, a professional golfer on the Symetra Tour, basically the LPGA’s equivalent of the Web.com Tour, is playing her first full year on Tour and takes an hour from her short vacation to talk to […]

Episode 7: More Birdies Than Bogeys Special Guest: Wes McClain, former University of Houston golfer   Download on iTunes When Wes McClain joined the UH golf program as a freshman, the program was still searching for its identity. It was the second year of head coach Jonathan Dismuke––now the director of golf––and the team was […]

Episode 6: Sign Here, Please Special Guests: CJ & D.E. Chester Download on iTunes For 24 years, CJ & D.E. Chester of Houston have collected autographs from golf’s biggest names––from Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Jack Nicklaus, and Arnold Palmer. If you can think of a golfer, the Chesters likely have his or her autograph. We […]

Episode 5: Mulligan, Please We had a late cancellation on Monday, so we’re going to have to take a mulligan on this week’s episode of Tee Box Talk. We’ll be back next week as we sit down with C.J. & D.E. Chester, two of Houston’s most avid autograph collectors. The Chesters have amassed more than […]

Episode 4: Breathing New Life Special Guest: Missouri City Mayor Allen Owen Download on iTunes Owen spearheaded the Missouri City’s efforts to buy the nearly defunked Quail Valley Country Club in 2008 and helped revitalize it into one of Houston’s premier public golf courses. The 36-hole course fully reopened in 2009, and this year it […]

Episode 3: A Little Piece of Heaven Special Guest: Casey Paulson, president of Bluejack National Download on iTunes Paulson is overseeing the project that brought Tiger Woods and Tiger Woods Design back to Texas, and will be Tiger’s first course designed in the United States. Bluejack National, the former home to Blaketree National, is reconstructing […]

Episode 2: The Fun Never Hibernates Special Guest: Don Bachman, director of operations at Topgolf Houston North   70 percent of our golfers, Topgolfers, who come in here have never touched a golf club in their life.   Topgolf has moved in and is drawing a big––and much needed––interest in the game of golf in […]

“No. You’re a golf shark. Don’t ever play golf against that guy, because he’ll beat your ass.”     Tee Box Talk: Episode 1 – Winning Never Gets Old Special Guest: Dan Keyser – lifelong golfer, father, former golf shark Full transcript  Highlights (3:25) “If you have a job where you have to work past […]