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Feed The Ball

In 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 40: David McLay Kidd

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2019/01/01

Not since Hugh Wilson at Merion has an architectural career been launched as brightly as David McLay Kidd’s. As a young designer in his 20’s, Kidd was tabbed by Mike Keiser to build the first course at Bandon Dunes. Kidd followed that spectacular success with a series of prestigious designs across several continents, becoming arguably… Read More Read More The post Episode 40: David McLay Kidd appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 39: Best of 2018

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2018/12/23

A rundown of the best moments and most significant exchanges during the first full season of the Feed the Ball podcast. Highlights include thoughts on the current and future state of golf course architecture from Golf Digest architectural editor Ron Whitten, Golf Advisor’s Brad Klein and architect Ian Andrew; thoughts on Tiger Woods as designer… Read More Read More The post Episode 39: Best of 2018 appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 38: Bruce Hepner

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2018/12/17

Bruce Hepner began his architectural career in 1990 as an associate for Ron Forse, with whom he became one of the early advocates and influencers of historic golf course restoration. He returned home to Michigan in 1993 to work for Tom Doak, first as a shaper and later as a designer at modern masterpieces like Pacific… Read More Read More The post Episode 38: Bruce Hepner appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 37: Brian Curley

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2018/12/03

Brian Curley began his golf course architecture career working on a number of Pete Dye courses for Landmark Land Company. There he met another Dye protégé, Lee Schmidt, and the two combined forces to form the company Schmidt-Curley Golf Design. Since the 1990’s they’ve built courses all over the U.S. and throughout the world, and for… Read More Read More The post Episode 37: Brian Curley appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 36: Peter Kessler 3

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2018/11/12

Peter Kessler — the Voice of Golf, historian and one of the most outspoken commentators in the game — returns to the podcast to talk to Derek about his recent social media dustups with Brandel Chamblee and the fans of No Laying Up, about being provocative on Twitter, the skills required to be great on… Read More Read More The post Episode 36: Peter Kessler 3 appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 35: P.B. Dye

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2018/11/01

P.B. Dye began working on his father Pete Dye’s construction sites when he was a boy. Along with his brother, Perry, he’s had the closest and longest view of how Dye conceived of and built golf courses and was a primary assistant during several of his father’s touchstone courses, including Long Cove on Hilton Head… Read More Read More The post Episode 35: P.B. Dye appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 34: Thad Layton

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2018/10/18

Thad Layton began working for Arnold Palmer Course Design in the late 1990’s and now, as Senior Architect and Vice President, leads the company along with fellow designer Brandon Johnson. Since 1972, the firm has been known for producing a massive number of courses worldwide, mostly associated with real estate. Over the last five years, however, Layton… Read More Read More The post Episode 34: Thad Layton appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 33: Tom Mackenzie

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2018/10/09

Tom Mackenzie joined with Martin Ebert to form the golf architectural firm of Mackenzie & Ebert in 2005. They each began their careers designing golf courses for Donald Steel, and their business is very much a continuation of the elder architect’s practice. Like Steel, Mackenzie prefers to design naturally, altering landscapes as little as possible… Read More Read More The post Episode 33: Tom Mackenzie appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 32: Richard Mandell

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2018/09/30

Richard Mandell’s golf design practice has taken off over the last 10 years. He entered the business in the early 1990’s and paid his dues for over a decade working singular jobs while learning how to build and renovate courses with a minimal amount of of unnecessary inputs or accessorization. As a result he gained a… Read More Read More The post Episode 32: Richard Mandell appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 31: Ron Forse

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2018/09/05

Ron Forse was an engineer who made a jump into golf course architecture in 1989, working on a project in West Virginia in conjunction with Dr. Michael Hurdzan. Though not necessarily his intent, he began taking jobs consulting with a number of historic club, guiding them through the process of renovating their old courses. Since… Read More Read More The post Episode 31: Ron Forse appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 30: Beau Welling

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2018/08/21

South Carolina native Beau Welling played college golf at Brown University and earned a landscape architecture degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. After exploring career opportunities in several diverse fields, he committed to golf course architecture joining Tom Fazio’s staff in the late 1990’s. In 2007 he opened his own firm in Greenville, and became… Read More Read More The post Episode 30: Beau Welling appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 29: Tom Coyne

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2018/08/01

Tom Coyne’s fourth book is “A Course Called Scotland,” a funny and poignant tale of his journey playing over 100 links courses in Scotland, England and Wales in less than 60 days. His goal was twofold: to find out the meaning of golf, which must exist somewhere in those sacred links soils; and to hone… Read More Read More The post Episode 29: Tom Coyne appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 28: Dan Hixson

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2018/07/23

Oregon native Dan Hixson began his golf career as a tour pro and later became a club professional, but his real desire was to be a golf course architect. Despite no formal training, he slowly learned the profession and soon was hired to build Bandon Crossings, a public course just south of Bandon Dunes. That… Read More Read More The post Episode 28: Dan Hixson appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 27: Ron Whitten

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2018/07/02

Ron Whitten has been one of the most prominent and influential voices in golf course architecture since the mid-1980’s when he became Golf Digest’s architecture editor. He created the current criteria for the magazine’s popular (or, depending, notorious) Top 100 U.S & World Courses lists, has written various books including the essential compendium, “The Architects of… Read More Read More The post Episode 27: Ron Whitten appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 26: Kyle Franz Part 2

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2018/06/18

The first project Kyle Franz ever worked on was Tom Doak’s masterpiece, Pacific Dunes, a course now recognized as one of the best in the world. That fortuitous turn launched his design/build career where he amassed one of the business’s strongest pedigrees shaping courses for Bill Coore, Tim Liddy, Gil Hanse and others. His big solo break came… Read More Read More The post Episode 26: Kyle Franz Part 2 appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 25: Kyle Franz Part 1

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2018/06/13

The first project Kyle Franz ever worked on was Tom Doak’s masterpiece, Pacific Dunes, a course now recognized as one of the best in the world. That fortuitous turn launched his design/build career where he amassed one of the business’s strongest pedigrees shaping courses for Bill Coore, Tim Liddy, Gil Hanse and others. His big solo break came… Read More Read More The post Episode 25: Kyle Franz Part 1 appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 24: Mike Nuzzo Part 2

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2018/06/07

Mike Nuzzo seemed to have struck gold when he was hired by a wealthy Texas businessman and rancher to build an ultra-exclusive golf course intended only for the client’s personal use. For almost three years, Nuzzo, a first-time architect, and Don Mahaffey, a turf and irrigation specialist, coaxed out a wide, bouncy and fascinating 18-hole… Read More Read More The post Episode 24: Mike Nuzzo Part 2 appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 23: Mike Nuzzo Part 1

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2018/06/06

Mike Nuzzo seemed to have struck gold when he was hired by a wealthy Texas businessman and rancher to build an ultra-exclusive golf course intended only for the client’s personal use. For almost three years, Nuzzo, a first-time architect, and Don Mahaffey, a turf and irrigation specialist, coaxed out a wide, bouncy and fascinating 18-hole… Read More Read More The post Episode 23: Mike Nuzzo Part 1 appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 22: Jeff Mingay

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2018/05/28

Architect Jeff Mingay broke into golf course architecture working projects for his mentor and fellow Canadian Rod Whitman. In 2009, after completing a trio of Canada’s most exceptional modern golf courses — Blackhawk, Sagebrush and Cabot Links — he opened his own design business and found immediate success renovating and restoring courses in British Columbia… Read More Read More The post Episode 22: Jeff Mingay appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 21: Rob Collins

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2018/05/17

Sweetens Cove has captured the hearts and minds of the architecture world. Rob Collins and design partner Tad King began building the 9-hole course, 30 minutes west of Chattanooga, in 2012 and have watched it become an impassioned touchstone for a vocal, hardcore group of golf course fanatics as it marches steadily up the golf… Read More Read More The post Episode 21: Rob Collins appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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