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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 96: Jerry Pate

2025-08-2701:35:33

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.

Episode 95: Trey Kemp

2025-07-2401:53:55

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.

Episode 94: Bill Kubly

2025-06-2902:08:43

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.

The Rap: Oakmont, One of One

2025-06-0602:09:57

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.

Salon Vol. 31, ft. Riley Johns

2025-05-0602:11:07

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.

The Rap: Augusta Agonistes

2025-04-0302:24:55

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.

Ask/Answer: What is a “Tie-in”?

2025-03-2745:53

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.

The Rap: Dye-secting TPC Sawgrass

2025-03-1002:13:33

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.

Episode 93: Michael Croley

2025-02-2501:43:18

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.

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

2025-02-1101:54:14

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.

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.

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