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

2022-11-1702:08:50

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.

Episode 67: George Waters

2020-03-2301:49:12

George Waters began his design career after spending a summer living and doing course maintenance in Dornoch, then getting an internship with Tom Doak’s Renaissance Golf Design. He worked construction projects for a variety of designers, including Doak, then wrote the seminal book on sand based courses, Sand and Golf: How Terrain Shapes the Game.… Read More Read More The post Episode 67: George Waters appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Episode 66: Tyler Rae

2020-03-0601:46:19

Tyler Rae is gaining a reputation as one of the most talented up and coming golf course renovation and restoration specialists in the business. He’s worked with noted designer Ron Prichard for most of the last decade and now has embarked on his own, with an impressive client list that includes clubs like Northmoor and… Read More Read More The post Episode 66: Tyler Rae appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Episode 65: Scot Sherman

2020-02-1301:46:18

Designer Scot Sherman began his career working for the Dye family before joining Bobby Weed as an associate. He’s now the lead designer for Love Golf Design, the firm of brothers Mark Love and Davis Love III. In addition to overseeing new projects for them, he’s currently helping prep the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island… Read More Read More The post Episode 65: Scot Sherman appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Episode 50: Dave Axland and Rod Whitman

2019-05-2457:36

Dave Axland and Rod Whitman, two of modern golf’s most skilled and admired construction men, met in the 1980s through Bill Coore. Axland has been an associate and project manager for numerous Coore-Crenshaw courses since the mid-1990s including Sand Hills, Talking Stick, Friars Head, Old Sandwich, Chechessee Creek plus numerous others, and has designed Wild… Read More Read More The post Episode 50: Dave Axland and Rod Whitman appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Episode 49: Rees Jones

2019-05-0101:16:28

Rees Jones has spent nearly 35 years preparing, modifying and remodeling golf courses for major championship events. In addition to the 100 original courses and dozens of renovations he’s orchestrated, he’s infused his vision into such venerable American tournament courses as Pinehurst No. 2, Oakland Hills, Medinah No. 3 and The Country Club for the… Read More Read More The post Episode 49: Rees Jones appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Episode 48: Kye Goalby

2019-04-1802:02:18

Kye Goalby, one of the most accomplished design and shaping specialists in the construction business, is at the top of the call list of just about every A-list golf architect when exceptional feature work is needed. For the last 20 years he’s worked on some of the world’s most unique projects alongside Gil Hanse, Brian… Read More Read More The post Episode 48: Kye Goalby appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Episode 27: Ron Whitten

2018-07-0201:40:45

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.

Episode 92: Chet Williams

2025-01-2001:10:21

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.

Episode 91: Keith Cutten 3

2025-01-1301:15:05

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.

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

2025-01-0602:06:47

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.

Episode 90: Benjamin Warren

2024-12-2901:41:24

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.

Episode 89: Nick Schaan

2024-08-1901:42:41

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.

Episode 88: Mike Cocking

2024-07-2501:29:48

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.

Feed the Ball Salon 28, ft. Lee Schmidt

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.

Episode 87: Scott Hoffman

2024-01-1201:29:05

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.

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

2023-12-2501:43:21

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.

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

2023-11-0201:56:26

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.

Episode 86: Blake Conant

2023-10-1701:42:51

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.

Episode 85: Remembering Tom Weiskopf with Phil Smith

2023-09-0601:24:30

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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