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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 87: Scott Hoffman

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2024/01/12

If might seem like golf course architect Scott Hoffman came out of nowhere with his design at Lost Rail, opened in 2022 outside of Omaha. However, he’d previously worked for over a decade with Tom Fazio, designing courses in the western U.S. He then worked with Tim Jackson and David Kahn for a number of…Read More Read More The post Episode 87: Scott Hoffman appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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1:43:21

Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 27, ft. Ben Crenshaw

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2023/12/25

Two-time Masters champion Ben Crenshaw joins golf course builder Jim Urbina and Golf Digest architecture editor Derek Duncan to discuss his long time partnership with architect Bill Coore and the beliefs and impulses that define the many courses they’ve built, from Sand Hills to Friar’s Head to Bandon Trails, all the way through to their… Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 27, ft. Ben Crenshaw appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 26, ft. Greg Letsche

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2023/11/02

Golf course architect Greg Letsche, lead designer for Ernie Els Design, joins Golf Digest architecture editor Derek Duncan and golf course builder Jim Urbina to discuss his early years working for Pete Dye, how running projects for Jack Nicklaus differed from his experience with Dye, the design similarities between Dye and Nicklaus, the sometimes absurd… Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 26, ft. Greg Letsche appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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1:42:51

Episode 86: Blake Conant

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2023/10/17

In less than 10 years in the profession, Blake Conant has risen from crew member to shaper to the co-designer of Old Barnwell, a stunning new course near Aiken, S.C. Conant has primarily shaped greens and bunkers for Tom Doak at projects like Houston’s Memorial Park, Bel Air, The National’s Gunnamatta Course in Australia and… Read More Read More The post Episode 86: Blake Conant appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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1:24:30

Episode 85: Remembering Tom Weiskopf with Phil Smith

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2023/09/06

Shortly after Tom Weiskopf broke with design partner Jay Morrish in the late 1990s he turned to architect Phil Smith. Smith had been working with Nicklaus Design in Arizona, but the opportunity to partner one-on-one with Weiskopf was too good an opportunity to pass up. Over the next 24 years, Smith and Weiskopf designed courses… Read More Read More The post Episode 85: Remembering Tom Weiskopf with Phil Smith appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 84: Don Placek

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2023/08/23

Don Placek began working for Tom Doak’s Renaissance Golf Design in 1997 after being in Perry Dye’s Denver office for several years. It was a significant jump, going from the types of technical builds Dye was coordinating in the western U.S. and Asia to Doak’s more intuitive, organic way of designing and constructing courses. Placek… Read More Read More The post Episode 84: Don Placek appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 83: Stephen Kay

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2023/02/28

Architect Stephen Kay has been involved in the building, remodeling or renovation of over 300 courses during his design career spanning back to the mid-1980s. He was one of the pioneering voices in the late 80s for looking at the historical record of a course during renovation to attempt to honor the original architecture. He… Read More Read More The post Episode 83: Stephen Kay appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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1:21:29

Episode 82: Allan MacCurrach

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2023/01/24

Golf course builder Allan MacCurrach began working on crews for Pete Dye in the late 1970s and opened his own golf course contracting company in 1987. He’s been involved in building or remodeling over 20 courses for Dye, who passed away in early 2020, as well as architects like Tom Fazio, Bobby Weed and Rees… Read More Read More The post Episode 82: Allan MacCurrach appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 25, ft. Josh Pettit

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2022/12/29

Designer and historian Josh Pettit began collecting the writings of Alister MacKenzie for his new compendium of essays, “The MacKenzie Reader,” years ago, and was ready to publish in 2020 when the pandemic postponed printing until the summer of 2022. The wait was worth it–the Reader is a gorgeous volume of Pettit’s selections of the… Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 25, ft. Josh Pettit appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 24, ft. Rob Collins

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2022/11/17

Landmand Golf Club in northeast Nebraska, just across the Missouri River from Sioux City, is one of the largest and most expansive golf courses ever built, with the largest total square footage of greens of any course in the U.S. That it was designed by Rob Collins and Tad King, creators or the equally audacious… Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 24, ft. Rob Collins appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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1:31:21

Episode 81: Jim Nagle

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2022/10/18

Jim Nagle began working with golf course renovation and historical restoration legend Ron Forse in 1998, in what might be considered the field’s pioneering days. Golf course restoration is an attempt to reestablish a course’s first principles–placing it back in a specific point in time, usually in accordance with the way the original architect designed… Read More Read More The post Episode 81: Jim Nagle appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 23, ft. Jason Straka

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2022/09/09

Jason Straka has been a principle in Fry/Straka Global Golf Design since joining with partner Dana Fry in 2012. Previously he was the senior architect for Hurdzan-Fry Golf Design, helping that company build landmark courses like Calusa Pines, Erin Hills and Shelter Harbor. Fry/Straka is one of the hottest design firms in the world right… Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 23, ft. Jason Straka appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 22, ft. Andy Staples

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2022/08/18

Andy Staples positioned himself as one of the profession’s most creative architects with his throwback renovation of Meadowbrook Country Club near Detroit with its Willie Park, Jr. inspired early-1900s shaping. He moved into the 1920s with his green designs and shot strategies at The Match Course at PGA National Resort, opened in 2021, that pull… Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 22, ft. Andy Staples appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Feed the Ball Salon Volume 21, ft. Chris Cochran

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2022/06/22

Chris Cochran began his career building golf courses for Jack Nicklaus in the mid-1980s. With over 100 international projects completed, he is Nicklaus Design’s longest tenured senior design associate, and since the early 90s has arguably been the most significant mover behind Nicklaus Design’s global operation. Cochran sits down with Golf Digest architecture editor Derek… Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Volume 21, ft. Chris Cochran appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 80: Joe Jemsek on Dick Wilson

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2022/05/09

Joe Jemsek grew up with Dick Wilson. At least figuratively. In the early 1960s, Wilson, one of golf architecture’s most interesting and possibly misunderstood figures, designed the former America’s 100 Greatest Course Cog Hill No. 4 in Chicago, known as Dubsdread, for Jemsek’s grandfather. Few people knew Wilson or his former partner Joe Lee as… Read More Read More The post Episode 80: Joe Jemsek on Dick Wilson appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 20, ft. Dave Axland and Tim...

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2022/03/17

Tim Liddy and Dave Axland have worked together on a number of projects including, most recently, Harrison Lake in Indiana, a remodel that included the addition of several new holes and a re-routing of the course. Liddy, the primary designer, was a longtime collaborator with the late Pete Dye and knows his mentor’s work and… Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 20, ft. Dave Axland and Tim Liddy appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 79: Andrew Green

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2022/02/04

In just the last several years, designer Andrew Green has played a prominent role in guiding back to their founding architectural spirit a number of prominent major championship courses, including America’s 100 Greatest Courses fixtures Inverness Club, Oak Hill East and Congressional Blue. He’s also brought back to life the most interesting features that had… Read More Read More The post Episode 79: Andrew Green appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 19: Bunkers ft. Ron Whitten

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2021/12/30

The topic is bunkers: should they be placed scientifically or randomly? Should there be more or less, or any at all? Has the naturalistic look become ubiquitous and overused? What about proper bunker depth? Are liners a waste of money? And are bunker still the hazards they once were, have they lost their importance, and… Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 19: Bunkers ft. Ron Whitten appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 78: Steve Smyers and Rethinking Strategy

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2021/11/09

Like most architects, Steve Smyers has a deep reverence for the classical era and the strategic brilliance of Harry Colt, Alister MacKenzie, George Thomas and others. However, as an elite player as well as a veteran designer, he realized the basic strategic precepts that have existed since the early 1900s and have guided much of… Read More Read More The post Episode 78: Steve Smyers and Rethinking Strategy appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 77: Craig Haltom

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2021/10/12

In this Feed the Ball podcast, we get deep into some Wisconsin golf talk with golf course architect Craig Haltom. Haltom joins Golf Digest architecture editor Derek Duncan to discuss recreating C.B. Macdonald’s The Lido at Sand Valley, how GPS technology has the potential to change the way courses are preserved and finished, how he… Read More Read More The post Episode 77: Craig Haltom appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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