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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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1:47:25

24 Questions with Jaeger Kovich

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2025/10/29

Golf course designer and builder Jaeger Kovich, who has shaped projects for Gil Hanse and Tom Doak and now is establishing himself as one of the busiest remodel specialists in the business, joins Golf Digest’s Derek Duncan to answer 24 questions about his views on architecture. Photos: Cover page, The Cradle (Pinehurst Resort). Above, Laurel…Read More Read More The post 24 Questions with Jaeger Kovich appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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1:50:04

24 Questions with Tyler Rae

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2025/10/13

Architect Tyler Rae is part of the next wave of major golf course designers. He joins Derek Duncan in the hot seat to answer 24 questions about golf, his career and his outlook on design. Photos: Cover page, Old Sawmill (Tyler Rae). Above, Lookout Mountain, 11th hole. Watch Derek Duncan break down the 16th hole…Read More Read More The post 24 Questions with Tyler Rae appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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1:31:08

Episode 97: Martin Ebert

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2025/09/21

Martin Ebert is one of the founding partners, along with Tom Mackenzie, of Mackenzie & Ebert, arguably the top golf design firm in Europe. Ebert has been the lead consulting architect, with Mackenzie, for most of the Open Championship courses as well as dozens of clubs in the U.K., Ireland and Europe. They also have…Read More Read More The post Episode 97: Martin Ebert appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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1:35:33

Episode 96: Jerry Pate

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2025/08/27

Jerry Pate burst into the golf world when he won the 1976 U.S. Open at Atlanta Athletic Club in just his second year on tour. From 1976 through 1982 when he won the first Players Championship held at the new Pete Dye-designed TPC Sawgrass he was one of the best players in the world, contending…Read More Read More The post Episode 96: Jerry Pate appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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1:53:55

Episode 95: Trey Kemp

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2025/07/24

Trey Kemp has been one of the most active and influential figures in public and municipal golf design in Texas for over 15 years. He spent much of that time working with John Colligan and now has his own firm, continuing to improve public courses while also pursuing new course commissions. He joins the Feed…Read More Read More The post Episode 95: Trey Kemp appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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2:08:43

Episode 94: Bill Kubly

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2025/06/29

Bill Kubly is one of the OG’s in golf course architecture. He’s the founder Landscapes Unlimited, of one of golf’s most prominent course construction companies (opened in 1976), and has had a hands-on, up front view of the profession for 50 years. Kubly joins the Feed the Ball podcast to share stories from a long…Read More Read More The post Episode 94: Bill Kubly appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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2:09:57

The Rap: Oakmont, One of One

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2025/06/06

Ron Whitten, historian and former Golf Digest architecture editor, and Mike Davis, former USGA CEO and executive director, delve deep into the origins, evolution and architecture of Oakmont Country Club. We discuss how and why Oakmont developed the way it has, what makes it arguably the greatest championship venue in American golf, what makes the…Read More Read More The post The Rap: Oakmont, One of One appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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2:11:07

Salon Vol. 31, ft. Riley Johns

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2025/05/06

Golf course designer Riley Johns joins Derek and Jim from his home in Canada to fill us in on his latest thoughts on course building and artistry. Johns has been splitting time between his own growing business with partner Keith Rhebb, leading projects for Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, and even working with Jim on…Read More Read More The post Salon Vol. 31, ft. Riley Johns appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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2:24:55

The Rap: Augusta Agonistes

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2025/04/03

Augusta National is complicated. It’s the most famous course in the world and has been an architectural and maintenance ideal for decades, even though the design is in a continuing state of flux and the turf and bunker conditions have been far from perfect over its life. If it isn’t what we think it is,…Read More Read More The post The Rap: Augusta Agonistes appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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45:53

Ask/Answer: What is a “Tie-in”?

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2025/03/27

You may have read or heard someone talk about good or bad “tie-ins” on a golf course. It loosely has to do with how the architecture is connected to the land during construction, but the topic is much larger and more nuanced than that. Derek Duncan and Jim Urbina define and discuss tie-ins, what they…Read More Read More The post Ask/Answer: What is a “Tie-in”? appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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2:13:33

The Rap: Dye-secting TPC Sawgrass

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2025/03/10

Looking ahead to The Players Championship, former PGA Tour player Richard Zokol and designer Jeff Mingay drop in from Canada to break down everything there is to know about The Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass (Zokol actually competed on Sawgrass in the 1980s). We get into the history and creation of the course, how…Read More Read More The post The Rap: Dye-secting TPC Sawgrass appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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1:43:18

Episode 93: Michael Croley

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2025/02/25

Writer Michael Croley, author of the book Any Other Place: Stories, veered into the world of golf with a revelatory profile on Tom Doak in 2017 in the Virginia Quarterly Review, hardly the place you’d expect to find an expose on a golf course architect. Now fully entrenched in the golf writing world while teaching…Read More Read More The post Episode 93: Michael Croley appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 30, ft. Ian Baker-Finch

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2025/02/11

Former Australian, European and PGA Tour player and current CBS Sports golf broadcaster Ian Baker-Finch joins Golf Digest architecture editor Derek Duncan and golf course builder Jim Urbina on the Feed the Ball podcast. They discuss the lack of architecture discussion during tournament television broadcasts, the dangers of the distance professional players are driving the…Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 30, ft. Ian Baker-Finch appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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1:10:21

Episode 92: Chet Williams

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2025/01/20

Texas-based architect Chet Williams joins the Feed the Ball podcast to discuss designing the 2024 Golf Digest Best New Private Course, The Covey at Big Easy Ranch near Houston. He talks about what made the land special, the ideal of creating as much hole-to-hole variety as possible, working with owner Billy Brown and how 25…Read More Read More The post Episode 92: Chet Williams appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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1:15:05

Episode 91: Keith Cutten 3

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2025/01/13

Keith Cutten comes back on the Feed the Ball podcast to discuss the new Shorty’s course at Bandon Dunes that opened last year, Brantford Golf & Country Club in Ontario and building Ken Baskt’s The Ranch near Hobe Sound, Florida. He also explains the working dynamics of his firm Whitman, Axland, Cutten (WAC), how Dave…Read More Read More The post Episode 91: Keith Cutten 3 appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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2:06:47

Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 29, ft. Mike Davis

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2025/01/06

Mike Davis was the CEO and executive director for the USGA for over 30 years and was responsible for awarding U.S. Opens and Amateurs to host courses and helping to set them up for those tournaments. Over the course of his career he got to know intricately virtually every great golf course in the U.S.…Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 29, ft. Mike Davis appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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1:41:24

Episode 90: Benjamin Warren

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2024/12/29

Benjamin Warren is a golf course designer and shaper from Scotland. We works all over the U.S., Japan and Europe, and he joins the Feed the Ball golf podcast to discuss building courses. The post Episode 90: Benjamin Warren appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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1:42:41

Episode 89: Nick Schaan

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2024/08/19

Nick Schaan works side by side with architect David McLay Kidd out of their offices in Bend, Ore. Kidd is one of the most esteemed and decorated designers in the business over the last 25 years, and since 2006 Schaan has been instrumental in bringing to life acclaimed courses like Tributary, Mammoth Dunes and the…Read More Read More The post Episode 89: Nick Schaan appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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1:29:48

Episode 88: Mike Cocking

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2024/07/25

Mike Cocking is the “C” in the Australian golf design firm OCM. His partners are former tour player and 2006 U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy and Ashley Mead. The trio have built courses in Australia and Asia and consult with some of the top historic clubs Down Under including Victoria and Kingston Heath. Over the…Read More Read More The post Episode 88: Mike Cocking appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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2:05:40

Feed the Ball Salon 28, ft. Lee Schmidt

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2024/06/11

Lee Schmidt’s lengthy golf architecture career began in the early 1970s working for Pete Dye and took many different detours through the decades. He worked closely with Landmark Land Company on numerous Dye projects in the 70s and 80s before taking a job with Jack Nicklaus’ design firm. In the late 1990s he created his…Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon 28, ft. Lee Schmidt appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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