It’s “The Summer Golf Capital” and co-host Mitch Laurance dives into his visit to the Great Lakes region to explore the many golf and resort options Boyne Golf has to offer, from the four courses at Boyne Highlands to the acclaimed Inn at Bay Harbor and 27-hole Bay Harbor Golf Club and ending up on Boyne Mountain, home to 36 more holes and family activities galore.

In a Northern California trifecta, co-host Darin Bunch recaps a recent visit to three very different (but all very interesting) properties on the outskirts of the San Francisco Bay Area — Wente Vineyards designed by Greg Norman, the private Silver Creek Valley redesigned by Mike Strantz, and iconic Pasatiempo designed by Alister MacKenzie and later restored by Tom Doak and Jim Urbina.

Co-host Darin Bunch heads to South Carolina to visit Mitch Laurance in person and play three courses designed by the late Mike Strantz — Caledonia Golf & Fish Club and True Blue Golf Club on Pawleys Island, and the private Bulls Bay Golf Club outside Charleston — as part of Darin’s quest to play all the Strantz-designed tracks across the United States.

Avid golf traveler Joe Sas returns to the podcast to discuss the ultimate weeklong Arizona buddy trip he has been organizing for more than 20 years, with tips about things he’s learned, things to avoid and why his group chooses the desert year after year. Plus, Joe’s mini-Emergency 9 with a decidedly Scottsdale bent.

Looking for a place to stay while you play in the Scottsdale-Phoenix area? Hotel Valley Ho and Mountain Shadows are two of the coolest resort properties you’ll find in the West — and the latter has an unforgettable golf course that is 18 (or actually 18 and a half) holes of pure fun.

Ken Jowdy, founder of Diamante Cabo San Lucas, joins co-host Darin Bunch to discuss working with PGA Tour legends Tiger Woods and Davis Love III in building the two golf courses (with a third on the way) at the destination resort, which also impresses guest with dazzling accommodations, mouthwatering food-and-beverage options and one of the coolest lagoon-style pool complexes you’ll ever see (so big, in fact, you can see it from the plane when flying into Cabo) — all in the year-round weather that makes the tip of Baja California, Mexico, so enticing.

Golf architect David McLay Kidd (Bandon Dunes, Gamble Sands, Mammoth Dunes) and his senior design associate Nick Schaan join host Darin Bunch for a conversation about Southern California’s Rolling Hills Country Club, where despite many logistical challenges the team recently completed a full-scale redesign that should serve as a model for modern private-club golf.

From Monterey to Mexico, plus stories about a ball-topping Ryder Cup captain and a man who switched (by choice) from right-handed to left-handed golf, ESPN’s Lon McEachern shuffles up and deals more than few interesting hands in our “Talking GolfGetaways” Emergency 9 golf-travel questionnaire.

The longtime “Voice of Poker” for ESPN, Lon McEachern, joins “Talking GolfGetaways” for a conversation about everything from Missouri’s Top of the Rock to a “driving range lake” in Northern California (with his golfing dog) and, of course, the phenomenal televised rise of the World Series of Poker.

Darin and Mitch reflect on a recent return trip to Florida’s Streamsong Resort, not only to experience the new Gil Hanse-designed Black Course but also to luxuriate in the Lodge, Spa and restaurants while eating (and drinking) ourselves silly — resulting in our 5 Things We Love About Streamsong episode.