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The Firm & Fast Golf Podcast

We"re on a golfing quest of sorts, looking to increase our golfing I.Q."s in the process. Our aim is to speak to expert guests at the intersection of golf design and construction, green keeping and history…...to name but a few topics. This podcast is not about us, it"s about the guests, what they know and how that can influence the sustainable future of the game of golf that we all cherish. Suspend what you know about the game of golf for a moment and join us on this journey, we promise great

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Episode 13: Nick Edmund of Global Golf 4 Cancer -...

The Firm & Fast Golf Podcast ·

2022/06/22

Nick Edmund is the founder of Global Golf 4 Cancer, a genuinely global campaign with a mission to inspire the golfing community to ‘fly the flag’ and support cancer fighters worldwide. The goal is to fly the Global Golf 4 Cancer flag on the 4th hole of 400 high profile courses around the world. Since launching the campaign with a 2000km jaunt along the Wild Atlantic Way in 2017, Edmund has continued his walks and awareness raising visits through Scotland, Northern Ireland, a Camino de Santiago with

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1:46:24

Episode 12: Stephen Proctor - The Long Golden...

The Firm & Fast Golf Podcast ·

2022/06/01

‘With his beautiful use of language, Proctor has Bernard Darwin’s gift of bringing a moment to life. Delightful and insightful, capturing the very spirit of the age. The Long Golden Afternoon is an instant classic’ - Roger McStravick - Author & Historian Stephen Proctor joins us today to chat about his second book, a followup to Monarch of the Green and the golfing feats of Young Tommy Morris. The Long Golden Afternoon tells the story of the transformative generation of golf that followed the rise

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2:17:34

Episode 11: George Waters - USGA Green Section...

The Firm & Fast Golf Podcast ·

2022/05/09

George Waters is originally from Long Island, NY - his first tentative steps into the business of golf were at St. George's Country Club on Long Island where he worked on the greens team during summer breaks. George would go on to work on the maintenance teams at Royal Dornoch, Merion and The California Club. While studying an economics undergraduate degree, George contacted Tom Doak of Renaissance Golf Design who urged him, over an number of years, to travel as widely as possible, gain on-course

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1:23:29

Episode 10: Michael Goldstein - PureGolf2010 in...

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2022/04/25

The Pure Golf 2010 story begins with an end of hockey season trip to Cape Kidnappers, it is here that Michael Goldstein and his mate Jamie Patton cook up a whopper of an Overseas Experience scheme - 'how about we play golf every day for a year and travel around the world while we're at it'. It seemed like a pipedream initially, however, as these two trainee solicitors scratched away at the initial kernel of an idea they received some positive reinforcement from clubs in New Zealand and Australia

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1:19:43

Episode 9: Sandy Jamieson - founder of 1Club - on...

The Firm & Fast Golf Podcast ·

2022/04/11

Sandy Jamieson has been a PGA professional for more than 30 years, over the course of his career he has coached both elite amateurs through the auspices of the Victorian Institute of Sport and has travelled the world tending to the coaching requirements of players such as Robert Allenby, Jarrod Lyle and major winner Y.E. Yang. Family life would intervene and Sandy was ultimately drawn back to his hometown of Melbourne, where he took up the head professional position at Commenwealth Golf Club. Over

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2:07:11

Episode 8: Jasper Miners from Evalu18.com

The Firm & Fast Golf Podcast ·

2022/03/30

Jasper Miners from Evalu18.com joins us on this episode to conduct a whistle stop tour through the first golden age of golf course architecture - how this period and its' protagonists transformed the penal Victorian school of architecture that characterised the first inland courses. How this movement was catapulted towards something much more strategic though the intercession of John Low and Stuart Patton in their course revisions at Woking GC. We look at a few of Jasper's favourite golden age

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1:43:23

Episode 7: Roger McStravick - From Feathery to Forge...

The Firm & Fast Golf Podcast ·

2022/03/25

Roger McStravick is a man from Northern Ireland who has been based in St Andrews for over twenty years, he has, so far, won the USGA Herbert Warren Wind Book Award on two occasions, for books focussed on Old Tom Morris and the St.Andrews Road War in 1879 (a war that involved a title dispute regarding potential encroachment onto the fabled turf of the old course). I cannot think of many other people that know as much about St Andrews, Allan Robertson, Hugh Lyon Playfair, The Open Championship, the

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2:09:53

Episode 6: Richard Pennell - Greenkeeping 101

The Firm & Fast Golf Podcast ·

2022/03/18

Richard Pennell is a man of many talents – some of you may know him by his twitter alter ego @pitchmarks which has taken the golf world by storm recently. If you haven’t read any of his masterful pieces please follow the link in the show notes to take a peek, I am pretty certain that it will lead to clicking the subscribe button. Richard is originally a qualified greenkeeper who turned to the dark side in becoming an Assistant Managing Secretary, then progressing to Managing Secretary at his most

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1:32:00

Episode 5: St Patrick's Links at Rosapenna Golf...

The Firm & Fast Golf Podcast ·

2022/03/11

In this episode we are joined by Rosapenna Golf Resort's Director of Golf Frank Casey Junior, Clyde Johnson from Cunnin Golf Design and Ally McIntosh our regular architecture contributor. Frank Casey has been steeped in Irish golf ever since his mother and father bought the Rosapenna Golf Resort in the early 1980's. An accomplished golfer in his own right, Frank has led the Golf Operations team at Rosapenna since 2005. He has travelled far and wide and brought many of those experiences back to

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2:16:01

Episode 4: Bradley S Klein

The Firm & Fast Golf Podcast ·

2022/03/05

Bradley Klein fell in love with golf as a young man, beginning his golfing adventures as a caddy on the fairways of Rockaway Hunting Club in New York. He would go on to caddy on the PGA tour, most notably as Bernhard Langer's first caddy in the USA. An academic career soon followed focussed on politics and international relations. Bradley earned a Phd and authored a book on nuclear deterrance while also moonlighting as a golf writer. In 1999 he swapped academia for full time writing, this decison

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1:50:34

Episode 3: Mat Goggin - The Story of 7 Mile Beach,...

The Firm & Fast Golf Podcast ·

2022/02/25

Mat Goggin joins us for episode 3 of The Firm & Fast Golf Podcast. Mr. Goggin is - a genteman, grandson to Gordon, son to Lindy, a former Australian Amateur Open Champion and touring pro, lover of dogs and horses and public access golf. When Mike Clayton first told Mat that he was involved in the Barnbougle Dunes project in Bridport, Tasmania, the now 7 Mile Beach course developer Goggin, wondered why Bridport and not Hobart. After an unsuccessful application to take the lease of a public access

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2:11:31

Episode 2: Mike Clayton

The Firm & Fast Golf Podcast ·

2022/02/18

Mike Clayton joins us on this episode to explore his early days in golf at Eastern Golf Club in Melbourne. His ascent to become an Australian Amateur Champion which led to a professional career in both Europe and Asia. Mike then tells us about how he became a writer and his first forays into restoring some of the golden age greats of Australia, the creation of a modern masterpiece with Tom Doak at Barnbougle and perhaps a new one with Mike De Vries at 7 Mile Beach. He also covers many of his party

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Episode 1: Ally McIntosh - Golf Course Architecture 101

The Firm & Fast Golf Podcast ·

2022/02/08

On the maiden voyage of the good ship Firm and Fast, we are very pleased to be joined by honorary Irishman Ally McIntosh, who joins us to whizz through the impact that Allan Robertson, Old Tom, the golden age's old dead guys, RTJ and Dick Wilson, Bill Crenshaw (whoever that is, sorry C&C :)), Tom Doak, masthead pros, trees, restoration, renovation and rankings have on our beloved game. What makes for good golf? Homogenisation , Conditioning, Committees, Good Shaping, Consistency and the Augusta

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