The Golfers Journal Podcast

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Episode 80: Light In Paspal...

05.16.2021

On Sept. 26, 1783, a great schooner shoved off from London. The Comte du Nord's captain, a notorious Liverpudlian trader named James Penny, listed on the ship’s manifest 97 women, 131 girls, 197 men and 249 boys—all loaded into her ...

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05.16.2021 Episode 80: Light In Paspalum's Shadows On Sept. 26, 1783, a great schooner shoved off from London. The Comte du Nord's captain, a notorious Liverpudlian trader named James Penny, listed on the ship’s manifest 97 women, 131 girls, 197 men and 249 boys—all loaded into her ...
04.30.2021 Episode 79: My Friend, LaJethro Nine months into his newfound yet promising career, LaJethro Jenkins, of NBA internet and Podcast fame, is certain he’s in the game for life: “There’s nothing that moves me like this.” As fate would have it, TGJ Contributor Laz Versalles ...
04.15.2021 Episode 78: The Rise of Don Rea While Don Rea's previous career involved enforcing the rules, he's now tossing them out the window as owner/operator at Augusta Ranch Golf Club in Mesa, AZ. From night golf to music on the range to candles in the pro shop, ...
04.06.2021 Episode 77: The Masters Theme: A Review The twinkling piano notes are unmistakable, but did you know that the Masters theme song has actual lyrics? Or that Dave Loggins—second cousin of Kenny—wrote them? Or that TGJ Contributor/songwriter/music critic Elizabeth Nelson doesn’t think they are very good? Join ...
03.24.2021 Episode 76: Office Hours with Sid Matthew In TGJ No. 15 we explored Sid Matthew’s extensive golf collection in “Office Hours.” But on today’s podcast, we discover that his most prized possessions are his collection of Bobby Jones stories. Having worked in the Jones’ Atlanta law office, ...
03.10.2021 Re-Teed: The 2015 Players Championship Welcome to the next Re-Teed, TGJ’s look back at golf’s greatest tournaments. Today's deep dive: the 2015 Players Championship. While Rickie Fowler may have owned the island green, TGJ Editor Travis Hill, who has covered the tournament for nearly 20 ...
02.25.2021 Episode 74: From Gamer to Golfer Grip, stance, posture...yawn. Has junior instruction grown stale? Richard Franklin thinks so. After 15 years of studying game design, Franklin brings a more playful approach to junior golf involving birds, eskimos and more unusual suspects. In his conversation with host ...
02.11.2021 Episode 73: Lessons in Leadership with Paul McGinley He wasn’t the biggest, flashiest or longest, but one look at Paul McGinley’s resume—four European Tour wins, three Ryder Cup titles as a player and one more as captain—clearly shows a legendary career in the game. McGinley spills his secrets ...
01.28.2021 Episode 72: A Compendium of Golf's Cheaters Sandbaggers, ball-droppers and lie-fluffers, oh my! Getting cheated in golf can stay with you—just ask host Tom Coyne, who still can’t forget an interclub incident from 1986. So we decided to name names: We speak with experts who break down ...
01.14.2021 Episode 71: The Sober League Yes, in TGJ No. 14, Coyne chronicled the hellish battles he and four others had with substance abuse and how golf in a sober league became an unexpectedly vital part of their journeys to recovery. But in this pod, it's ...
12.30.2020 Episode 70: Inside the PGA Tour’s Traveling Circus What are you left with after 19 years as a communications executive for the PGA Tour’s biggest events? A jukebox of epic tales ranging from the parking-lot chase with Tiger at Doral, a front row seat for the Bradley-Jiminez greenside ...
12.16.2020 Episode 69: Ben Rector’s Off-Stage Addiction Nashville-based singer-songwriter Ben Rector writes from a place of vulnerability, forming a bond with his fans by letting them behind the curtain. And while he and host Tom Coyne have just recently met, they sound very much like old friends ...
12.03.2020 Episode 68: Golf According to Spencer Hall College football fans know the legendary writing, podcasting and Twitter rants of Spencer Hall. But what does he know about golf? Just enough to be dangerous. Hall joins TGJ Editor Travis Hill to discuss his story in TGJ No. 14 ...
11.19.2020 Episode 67: Mike Madden and the Invisible Hand of Golf If you’re open to it, the game can provide some life-changing surprises. So it is with Mike Madden and host Tom Coyne. Madden, son of HOF'er John Madden, and Coyne never knew each other before they teed off. Now, Madden ...
11.05.2020 Episode 66: Jim Fitzpatrick’s Endless Summer In the early 1950s, he was watching declassified rocket explosions filmed by his father. During the 1960s, in the shadow of Riviera, he learned the game from Willie Hunter by flying 4-irons into the Pacific. In 1964 he helped produce ...
10.19.2020 Episode 65: Chris Solomon and the Traveling Bag Fresh off his byline in TGJ No. 13, Golfer’s Journal Contributor Chris Solomon returns to the show to talk about the inspiration behind “Infinite Loop,” the brotherhood behind the traveling carry bag that’s now been around the world twice, how ...
10.12.2020 What's Next for Golf? This week on TGJ Digital we released “Now What?” — a new feature where contributing writer Will Bardwell asks a variety of golf industry members the big question: After golf’s biggest summer in decades, what will, and should, once-struggling golf ...
10.05.2020 Episode 64: The Johns of Aronimink With Aronimink Golf Club set to host the KPMG Ladies PGA Championship, Tom Coyne and Casey Bannon pay the Donald Ross blue-chipper a visit in search of the real stories behind two of golf’s most under-appreciated characters: John Shippen and ...
09.15.2020 Episode 63: Behind USGA Lines The USGA Museum has been closed to the public for months. But that didn’t stop TGJ Senior Writer and podcast host Tom Coyne from finagling an all-access tour in preparation for the U.S. Open at Winged Foot. Alongside Museum Director ...
09.02.2020 Episode 62: Lester George Live from Ballyhack “I’ve always said that if other architects would stay out of Virginia, then I’d stay out of their states too.” After a late introduction to the golf design game, Lester George has made good on his promise to dominate the ...
08.12.2020 Episode 61: Expand Your Mind with Charles Lindsay Charles Lindsay describes himself as “a conceptual artist-adventurer, whose work synthesizes ideas about technology, time, eco-systems, and semiotics.” And he believes playing a ton of golf falls into that description. Lindsay joins host Tom Coyne for a wide-ranging discussion on ...
07.30.2020 Episode 60: Ken Wang Ken Wang has a degree in economics from MIT, is the brother of fashion designer Vera Wang, and, most important to us, is the founder/owner of the Pete Dye-designed Pound Ridge Golf Club in New York. He joins Tom Coyne ...
07.14.2020 Episode 59: Good News is Just a Phone Call Away COVID, cheating, distance debates, course closures and a lack of diversity—golf’s recent news cycle has been gloomy. But it’s not all bad out there. Host Tom Coyne goes beyond the headlines to find the Navajo Nation’s booming dirt course; a ...
07.02.2020 Episode 58: Real Talk with Colton Craig Colton Craig is a 27-year-old golf-course architect and founder of the Perry Maxwell Society. Over the past year he’s quit his apprentice gig, opened his own design firm, visited every Maxwell design in the U.S., and become a first-time father. ...
06.11.2020 Episode 57: Yes In a Heartbeat: Annika at Colonial You know she teed it up with the men. But there’s still much to learn about Annika Sorenstam’s trailblazing PGA Tour appearance at the 2003 Colonial. Featuring candid interviews with Sorenstam and Aaron Oberholser, along with journalists and marshalls who ...
06.04.2020 Episode 56: Dr. George F. Grant Before there was the broken tee, there was the original one. Host Tom Coyne and Assistant Editor Casey Bannon dive into the remarkable life of Dr. George F. Grant—the second African American graduate of Harvard Dental School, and inventor of ...
05.21.2020 Episode 55: Shrink the Game with Ken Kearney Ken Kearney went from a decorated Irish amateur player to a career in finance to golf-course architect. For his next big challenge, he wants to shrink the game.
05.06.2020 Episode 54: Dispatches From the New Frontier Contributing Editor D.J. Piehowski makes his return to the TGJ Podcast—reading his thorough TGJ No. 11 profile on the reverse routing at remote Silvies Valley Ranch. Fellow TGJ contributor Neil Schuster joins him to add commentary and context from their ...
04.16.2020 Episode 53: The Pandemic Diary No place is safe from the ravages of the COVID-19 virus, even host Tom Coyne’s beloved Carne Golf Links on the remote Western coast of Ireland. The shutdown there has left scores unemployed and the course’s future in doubt. Carne ...
04.08.2020 Episode 52: The Last Time Golf Stopped Host Tom Coyne serves as our commanding general on this docu-pod exploration of golf through World War II in the 1940s—the last time golf was forced to mark and step away.
03.24.2020 Episode 51: Life on the Inside Renowned sports psychologist Dr. Bob Winters returns, this time to answer subscriber questions about golf's new normal.
03.11.2020 Episode 50: 24 Hours at Sawgrass This is the 17th Players Championship for TGJ editor and grizzled vet Travis Hill. He gave newbie Casey Bannon one day to find a Sawgrass story he hadn’t heard. Challenge accepted.
02.29.2020 Episode 49: Finding your Center with Geoff Cunningham Artist. Photographer. Tequila drinker. Soul surfer. Hickory player. Club maker. Linksoul Creative Director Geoff Cunningham refuses to let anyone put him, or the game he loves, in a box. On Ep. 49 of the TGJ Podcast, the man who created ...
02.14.2020 Episode 48: Sheep Ranch Preview Announcement ATTENTION: TGJ Subscribers will be playing Bandon Dunes’ Sheep Ranch masterpiece before it opens to the public. You’re wondering how to get in on this? Publisher Brendon Thomas joins host Tom Coyne to cover everything you need to know.
02.08.2020 Episode 47: Challenge Days ft. Shane Bacon Is a bad day on the course really better than a good day anywhere else? On episode 47 of the TGJ Podcast, host Tom Coyne puts that old adage to its greatest test as he talks with Shane Bacon and ...
01.25.2020 Episode 46: The Next 20 Years Golf changed in so manys from 2000-2020, which led host Tom Coyne to wonder how the game will look two decades from now. On episode 46, a high-profile collection of experts including journalist Geoff Shackelford, Stanford women’s golf coach Anne ...
01.09.2020 Episode 45: The War on Par ft. Gil Hanse TGJ No. 10 introduces us to the Ohoopee Match Club—a discreet Georgia playground designed specifically to ignore par. Inspired by this concept, host Tom Coyne taps Ohoopee architect Gil Hanse to understand how the edict to eliminate a target score ...
12.27.2019 Re-Tee: 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines The greatest tournaments live on in our collective memories. But they also provide a sometimes shocking timestamp of the golf world at that time. Host Tom Coyne, No Laying Up’s Chris Solomon, PGATour.Com Senior Editor Sean Martin and TGJ’s Casey ...
12.05.2019 Episode 43: Brough Creek National From message board idea to functioning golf course to the pages of TGJ No.10, Brough Creek National is every armchair architect’s dream. In our latest episode, host Tom Coyne confirms the hand-built reality with a (temporary) course record, followed by ...
11.20.2019 Episode 42: The Lost Strantz Tapes While reporting TGJ No.10’s, “The One Less Travelled,” contributor Jay Revell stumbled upon a treasure trove of unearthed footage featuring the late architect Mike Strantz during construction of his masterpiece, Tobacco Road. After sifting through hours of rare interviews and ...
11.06.2019 Episode 41: Bob Ford He’s watched Ben Hogan write checks to settle debts, walked off Arnie’s home course rather than breaking the King’s record and ran the merchandise tent at Oakmont while playing in the ‘83 U.S. Open. Bob Ford’s legendary career in golf ...
10.18.2019 Episode 40: Bizarre Golf History Who holds the rightful claim to America’s first golf club? How did three different players lose in match play after an ace? Which major champion was nearly arrested for slow play? Host Tom Coyne has questions, and Connor Lewis of ...
10.03.2019 Episode 39: Swing Thoughts with Dr. Bob Winters Whether they’re beautiful and effective or a form of psychological warfare, everyone has a swing thought. On our latest podcast, host Tom Coyne asks a host of players what’s going through their heads, and gets renowned golf psychologist Dr. Bob ...
09.17.2019 Golf and the Climate Crisis Inspired by the frightening story of Scotland’s Montrose Golf Links in TGJ No. 9, host Tom Coyne sets out to see how others in golf are confronting the very real effects of the climate crisis. He interviews Montrose story author ...
08.28.2019 Episode 37: Joel Murray from Canal Shores The latest TGJ Podcast finds Tom Coyne sitting down with actor and comedian Joel Murray at American Legion Post 42, following their round together at Chicago’s Canal Shores. The youngest of nine Murrays reminisces on his introduction to the game ...
08.15.2019 Episode 36: Rob Collins and Sweetens Cove We celebrate the return of Sweetens Cove to the pages of TGJ with a conversation between Contributing Editor D.J. Piehowski and Sweetens architect Rob Collins. They discuss the devilish fourth hole, which is featured in the Yardage Book section of ...
08.01.2019 TGJ Podcast 35: Wendell Haskins and Sadena Parks From music videos at Def Jam to Director of Diversity at the PGA of America, Wendell Haskins has built a remarkable life inside and outside the game. On the latest TGJ Podcast, Casey Bannon links up with Haskins and professional ...
07.16.2019 Episode 34: Royal Portrush After 68 years, the Open Championship has finally returned to Royal Portrush and Northern Ireland. Host Tom Coyne sits down with Dr. Richard Haslam of Saint Joseph’s University to explore the politics of the area that contributed to the Open’s ...
07.08.2019 Episode 33: Dinner with David McLay Kidd After playing Gamble Sands together, Tom Coyne joins course architect David McLay Kidd and the rest of their fivesome for a dinner conversation. Over local wine and halibut with sides of banter, the group dishes on what makes Kidd’s wonderfully ...
06.25.2019 Episode 32: Jimmy Dunne After 36 holes incredible together at Shinnecock and NGLA, Tom Coyne sits down with Jimmy Dunne, one of the most interesting men in golf you may not know. He opens up on everything from growing up as a caddie, becoming ...

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The Golfers Journal Podcast episodes:

Episode 80: Light In Paspalum's Shadows

Episode 79: My Friend, LaJethro

Episode 78: The Rise of Don Rea

Episode 77: The Masters Theme: A Review

Episode 76: Office Hours with Sid Matthew

Re-Teed: The 2015 Players Championship

Episode 74: From Gamer to Golfer

Episode 73: Lessons in Leadership with Paul McGinley

Episode 72: A Compendium of Golf's Cheaters

Episode 71: The Sober League

Episode 70: Inside the PGA Tour’s Traveling Circus

Episode 69: Ben Rector’s Off-Stage Addiction

Episode 68: Golf According to Spencer Hall

Episode 67: Mike Madden and the Invisible Hand of Golf

Episode 66: Jim Fitzpatrick’s Endless Summer

Episode 65: Chris Solomon and the Traveling Bag

What's Next for Golf?

Episode 64: The Johns of Aronimink

Episode 63: Behind USGA Lines

Episode 62: Lester George Live from Ballyhack

Episode 61: Expand Your Mind with Charles Lindsay

Episode 60: Ken Wang

Episode 59: Good News is Just a Phone Call Away

Episode 58: Real Talk with Colton Craig

Episode 57: Yes In a Heartbeat: Annika at Colonial

Episode 56: Dr. George F. Grant

Episode 55: Shrink the Game with Ken Kearney

Episode 54: Dispatches From the New Frontier

Episode 53: The Pandemic Diary

Episode 52: The Last Time Golf Stopped

Episode 51: Life on the Inside

Episode 50: 24 Hours at Sawgrass

Episode 49: Finding your Center with Geoff Cunningham

Episode 48: Sheep Ranch Preview Announcement

Episode 47: Challenge Days ft. Shane Bacon

Episode 46: The Next 20 Years

Episode 45: The War on Par ft. Gil Hanse

Re-Tee: 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines

Episode 43: Brough Creek National

Episode 42: The Lost Strantz Tapes

Episode 41: Bob Ford

Episode 40: Bizarre Golf History

Episode 39: Swing Thoughts with Dr. Bob Winters

Golf and the Climate Crisis

Episode 37: Joel Murray from Canal Shores

Episode 36: Rob Collins and Sweetens Cove

TGJ Podcast 35: Wendell Haskins and Sadena Parks

Episode 34: Royal Portrush

Episode 33: Dinner with David McLay Kidd

Episode 32: Jimmy Dunne

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