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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 Doak, and Gil Hanse. He’s worked for Coore and Crenshaw at places like Lost Farm at Barnbougle Dunes, Cabot Cliffs and Streamsong Red, and last year, along with another young shaper and artist, Riley Johns, he remodeled the old Winter Park Golf Course, his first independent design. In this episode Rhebb visits Derek Duncan to discuss Winter Park and the importance of community golf, pickin’ rocks with a 5-gallon bucket, the fury of Bill Coore, who he thinks is the world’s greatest shaper, how he’s not a fan of the “Shark Experience,” and building golf courses with Daft Punk.

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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 antebellum-era house with modern accoutrements, prominent golf voices believe the features of classic era courses, and the architectural intent behind them, should be preserved and returned to original form.

For over 30 years, Ron Prichard has been one of the most respected advocates and practitioners of golf course restoration and has worked with some of the country’s finest clubs to help restore their courses to lost Golden Age glory, often using sketches and plans from the founding architects as guidance.

In this episode, Prichard takes host Derek Duncan into the world of restorations and shares his thoughts on, among other things:

— architects who wear ascots,

–mingling with Robert Frost and Norman Rockwell as a young student,

–the athletic prowess that once flowed through Middlebury College,

–constructing a hole that Dustin Johnson annihilated,

–his recent work at Charlotte Country Club and Portland Country Club in Maine,

— how USGA setups  = #sad!,

–the boring greens of contemporary architects and the misguided ubiquity of MacKenzie-style bunkers,

–what he thinks is one of the 5 best sets of Ross greens in the country (or maybe not),

–and the destructive legacy of Geoffrey Cornish.

Listen here to Derek Duncan discuss Tom Coyne’s “A Course Called Ireland” with hosts Rod Morri and Adrian Logue of the iSeekGolf Podcast.

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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 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 area courses, hitting it longer today than he did in his TOUR-playing prime, the Allen Doyle intimidation factor and who the best (and worst) sticks are in the American Society of Golf Course Architects.

Listen here to Derek Duncan discuss Tom Coyne’s “A Course Called Ireland” with hosts Rod Morri and Adrian Logue of the iSeekGolf Podcast.

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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 of the greatest golf courses of the last 60 or 70 years. Bill shares his thoughts on life and death situations in the field, working on some of the most spectacular golf settings to come online since the 1920 or ’30’s, the pressure he feels to maximize the potential of landscapes like Sand Hills and Sand Valley, dogsitting for Pete and Alice Dye, the gift of a mother’s encouragement, a spectacular new opportunity in the linksland of Scotland and what you can offer him if you happen to encounter him poolside at a resort.

Listen here to Derek Duncan discuss Tom Coyne’s “A Course Called Ireland” with hosts Rod Morri and Adrian Logue of the iSeekGolf Podcast.

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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 joy of getting back on the bulldozer, his recent work at The Medalist Club in South Florida (home of Tiger Woods, Dustin Johnson, Rickie Fowler and others), how he’s continually imagining ways to challenge the TOUR players who practice and play there and elsewhere, designing on less than spectacular sites and the key ingredient to a successful golf design project.

And please stay tuned to the end to listen to Bobby share a personal matter that’s had a profound effect on him and his family, and a special foundation he’s set up to help.

Listen here to Derek Duncan discuss Tom Coyne’s “A Course Called Ireland” with hosts Rod Morri and Adrian Logue of the iSeekGolf Podcast.

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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 designs, the eureka moment that led him to pursue his bold style of golf holes, chasing an endorphine rush on the golf course and why it pays to be patient when playing his courses…or listening to music.

Listen here to Derek Duncan discuss Tom Coyne’s “A Course Called Ireland” with hosts Rod Morri and Adrian Logue of the iSeekGolf Podcast.

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