Episodes

  • Blind Shots Podcast S5 E13 – Brian Ross on Park Mammoth at two years old, industry trends, and what’s next.

    Blind Shots Podcast S5 E13 – Brian Ross on Park Mammoth at two years old, industry trends, and what’s next.
    May 1 2024
    Golf course architect Brian Ross rejoins the show to discuss how Park Mammoth GC continues to evolve two years after its grand re-opening. With a new, permanent clubhouse under construction, a new short named “The Boneyard” that Brian is designer just announced, and the announcement of a new putting course to come, it’s an exciting…
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Blind Shots Podcast S5 E12 – Hagen O’Neil’s film “From Red Clay to Fairways” at The Fields Golf Club

    Blind Shots Podcast S5 E12 – Hagen O’Neil’s film “From Red Clay to Fairways” at The Fields Golf Club
    Apr 12 2024
    In this conversation, I sat down with filmmaker Hagen O'Neil of Palmer Pictures to discuss the background and process of making his wonderful documentary film about the course, "From Red Clay to Fairways." Using the color personalities that form The Fields leadership team, Hagen brings the course's Phoenix-like rise to the screen, while exploring the principles of community and public golf writ large, as the divide between luxury and every day golf experiences continues to widen.
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    59 mins
  • Blind Shots Podcast S5 E11 Americans in Oregon – Sheep Ranch

    Blind Shots Podcast S5 E11 Americans in Oregon – Sheep Ranch
    Mar 26 2024
    This is the Sheep Ranch episode. Perched against the coast on the bluff just north of the Pacific Dunes and Old Mac golf courses, the Sheep Ranch struck me as a bit different than the rest. A much ballyhood Coore Crenshaw masterpiece, it’s more familiar to other experiences than I felt on the rest of the Bandon Courses. Sure, it’s in a unique, almost magical setting, but it was flatter, with fewer visual disruptions. It felt like a core golf course, with long sightlines largely unbroken in most directions. Gentler, calmer ground led to a gentler calmer golf experience, at least on the morning we were there. Later that afternoon, the caddies told us the winds were upwards of 40 mph at Sheep Ranch, where we played in, at worst, a nice breeze that morning.
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Blind Shots Podcast S5 E10 – State Park Golf Series – KY Parks Commissioner Russ Meyer

    Blind Shots Podcast S5 E10 – State Park Golf Series – KY Parks Commissioner Russ Meyer
    Mar 19 2024
    The Kentucky State Park System is celebrating its 100th birthday in 2024. This episode is the first of a new series wherein I'll profile Kentucky's state park golf courses from time to time. To kick off this new endeavor, I was honored to sit down recently with the Commissioner of the Kentucky State Park System, Mr. Russ Meyer. We talk the breadth, mission, and funding of Kentucky's state park courses, as well as highlighting some of the much-needed improvements that are on the way.
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    59 mins
  • Blind Shots Podcast S5 E9 Americans in Oregon – Pacific Dunes

    Blind Shots Podcast S5 E9 Americans in Oregon – Pacific Dunes
    Mar 11 2024
    This is the Pacific Dunes episode, our fourth of this season’s “Americans in Oregon Series.” A golf course of almost unanimous acclaim, it’s the golf course that brought architect Tom Doak into the larger golfing public’s consciousness, that showed people how spectacular coastal golf in America can be, and what natural, minimalist golf architecture can…
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    55 mins
  • Blind Shots Podcast S5 E8 – Chris Boysel PGA of Play Golf Lexington Returns!

    Blind Shots Podcast S5 E8 – Chris Boysel PGA of Play Golf Lexington Returns!
    Mar 4 2024
    Friend of the Show, Chris Boysel, PGA, returns to talk about where we’ve been, where we are, and where we think we’re going in golf in central Kentucky, and to an extent, in golf writ large. Chris oversees Tournament Operations and Player Development for Play Golf Lexington, the omnibus organization responsible for municipal golf in…
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Blind Shots Podcast S5 E7 Americans in Oregon – Bandon Dunes and Beers

    Blind Shots Podcast S5 E7 Americans in Oregon – Bandon Dunes and Beers
    Feb 3 2024
    This is the Bandon Dunes episode, the one about the original course at the Bandon Dunes Resort, the one that started it all. This is where it began for Oregon as a golf destination, for the Keiser family golf empire, for golf architect David McKlay Kidd, for fun overtaking difficulty as the chief goal of…
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    58 mins
  • Blind Shots Podcast S5 E6: The Legend of Old Silo with Ethan Fisher

    Blind Shots Podcast S5 E6: The Legend of Old Silo with Ethan Fisher
    Jan 27 2024
    Ethan Fisher, PGA, returns to the podcast to discuss his article over on OneBeardedGolfer.com revisiting the life and demise of the shooting star of Kentucky golf at the start of the 21st century, Old Silo Golf Course in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. It’s a fascinating, cautionary tale from the collapse of the most recent golf boom…
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    1 hr and 25 mins