In this Feed the Ball podcast, we get deep into some Wisconsin golf talk with golf course architect Craig Haltom. Haltom joins Golf Digest architecture editor Derek Duncan to discuss recreating C.B. Macdonald’s The Lido at Sand Valley, how GPS technology has the potential to change the way courses are preserved and finished, how he… Read More Read More The post Episode 77: Craig Haltom appeared first on Feed The Ball.

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Episode 77: Craig Haltom

Is it possible we take Whistling Straits for granted? Of all the spectacular builds in the history of golf, from The Lido to Calusa Pines, very little is spoken about how Pete Dye and Herb Kohler transformed flat farmland and an abandoned Army airfield into the wild, multilayered Irish-looking golf course gouged into the bluffs… Read More Read More The post Episode 76: Making Whistling Straits appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Episode 76: Making Whistling Straits

Davis Love III needs no introduction. But just in case, he’s a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, has logged over 20 PGA Tour victories, won the 1997 PGA Championship, was twice victorious at The Players Championship and is a two-time Ryder Cup captain. He’s also a tournament founder (the PGA Tour’s RSM… Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 18, ft. Davis Love III appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 18, ft. Davis Love III

James Duncan came to the U.S. from his native Denmark in the early 1990s to learn the craft of building golf courses. He learned from the best, working first with Tom Doak and Renaissance Golf Design, then joining with Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw to help construct courses like East Hampton, Old Sandwich, Bandon Trails,… Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 17, ft. James Duncan appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 17, ft. James Duncan

Designer Troy Miller worked for Landmark Land Co. for a decade, building golf courses around North America, before leaving the company to settle down in his hometown of Charleston, SC. The move put him in a unique position to do something he’d first envisioned years before: help the city rebuild the popular but dated municipal… Read More Read More The post Episode 75: Troy Miller appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Episode 75: Troy Miller

PGA Tour and current PGA Champions tour player Tom Lehman, winner of the 1996 Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St. Anne’s, has seamlessly managed to maintain an elite game while developing a golf course design outlook that almost entirely eschews consideration of elite players. Lehman stops by the Salon to speak with Golf Digest… Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 16, ft. Tom Lehman appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 16, ft. Tom Lehman

In a limited amount of original work, David Kahn has proven to be one of the most creative, courageous and expressionistic golf course architects working today. Along with partner Tim Jackson, the other half of Jackson Kahn Design, he’s reimagined the shaping and visage of the historic Dunes Course at Monterey Peninsula Country Club, built… Read More Read More The post Episode 74: David Kahn appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Episode 74: David Kahn

Canadian designer Ian Andrew, Feed the Ball guest from Episode 14, is back to visit with Derek Duncan and Jim Urbina. The conversation turns to topics of: –Choose Your Own Adventure golf architecture; –The satisfactions of playing “unknown” courses; –Golf as an emotional experience; –The importance of “compression and release” in design; –Creativity beginning with… Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 15, ft. Ian Andrew appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 15, ft. Ian Andrew

Larry Lambrecht has been one of golf’s most prolific and talented photographers for over 30 years. He’s shot golf courses and tournaments, as well as Super Bowls, World Series and other major sporting events, for virtually ever major publication. He’s also published a number of books and club histories along with his course photography, including,… Read More Read More The post Episode 73: Larry Lambrecht appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Episode 73: Larry Lambrecht

Golf course architect Forrest Richardson was elected in 2020 to be the 75th president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, a chair that’s been held by such notable designers as Stanley Thompson, Robert Trent Jones, William Langford (twice), Rees Jones, Robert Trent Jones, Jr., Alice Dye, Jeff Brauer and Steve Smyers. He joins… Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 14, ft. Forrest Richardson appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 14, ft. Forrest Richardson

Architect Kyle Phillips began his illustrious career as an associate working for Robert Trent Jones II in California. He gained unique design and planning expertise working on a slate of international courses for Jones, which later helped him garner major overseas jobs once he opened his own firm in the late 90s. Those include Kingsbarns… Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 13, ft. Kyle Phillips appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 13, ft. Kyle Phillips

Few people in golf have had as rich or wide-ranging life in golf as Donald Steel. He began his career as the golf reporter for London’s Sunday Telegraph in 1961, memorably covering, as a rookie writer, Arnold Palmer’s back-to-back Open Championship wins at Birkdale and Troon. A few years later, while continuing his reporting duties,… Read More Read More The post Episode 72: Donald Steel appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Episode 72: Donald Steel

Golf architect Chris Wilczynski has bridged two distinct eras–that of the course-a-day, turn and burn construction frenzy of the 1990s and 2000s, and now the current period of “slow” golf with its focus on boutique operations and club restoration. He began his career as an associate with Arthur Hills, one of the busiest designers of… Read More Read More The post Episode 71: Chris Wilczynski appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Episode 71: Chris Wilczynski

After working for over a decade for Tom Fazio, Tim Jackson opened his own West Coast design firm with David Kahn, another Fazio alum. Jackson Kahn Design is known for their creative, ambitious ideas about design–as exhibited at, Monterey Peninsula Country Club’s Shore Course and The Other Course and The Bad Little Nine at Scottsdale… Read More Read More The post Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 12, ft. Tim Jackson appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 12, ft. Tim Jackson

Lester George was an artillery officer in the U.S. Army who rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In the late 1980s, already into his 30s, he made a career switch to golf design, setting up a business in his native state of Virginia. In the mid-1990s he was introduced to a magnificent property outside… Read More Read More The post Episode 70: Lester George appeared first on Feed The Ball.

Episode 70: Lester George

In the Feed the Ball podcast, writer 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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