Blind Shots Podcast

Blind Shots Podcast

From OneBeardedGolfer.com, a podcast that discusses what we love and hate about the game, sport, and business of golf. Frequent topics include golf travel, amateur, competitive, and public golf experiences, golf architecture, and the spirit of the game.

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Blind Shots Podcast S5 E16 – Americans in Oregon Bandon Dunes Retrospective

July 16, 2024 • 60 mins
Nearly one year after embarking on our Bandon Dunes adventure, Fred, Matt, and Dave reconvene one final time to tie the bow on our experiences on the Oregon coast. We discuss the highs and lows, what we loved and what we didn’t, and what we’d do differently on our next adventure out west. Matt also…
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Blind Shots Podcast S5 E15 – We’re going to The Open! A chat with Kieran Clark.

July 9, 2024 • 92 mins
I’m taking my family to the 2024 Open Championship at Royal Troon this month. To prepare for our adventure, I called on long-time friend of the podcast and unofficial Scotland correspondent Kieran Clark to talk about what we can expect to experience, as well as the current state of Scottish golf. Kieran is a St.…
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Blind Shots Podcast S5 E14 Americans in Oregon – Bandon Trails

June 29, 2024 • 59 mins
The boys finally get around to discussing Bandon Trails, which Matt and I were absolutely smitten with, from start to finish. A masterwork of routing and shaping from Coore Crenshaw set inland among the still-wooded dunes and logging trails, the course is almost the perfect mix of difficulty, beauty, and diversity for golf.
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Blind Shots Podcast S5 E13 – Brian Ross on Park Mammoth at two years old, industry trends, and what’s next.

April 30, 2024 • 72 mins
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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Blind Shots Podcast S5 E12 – Hagen O’Neil’s film “From Red Clay to Fairways” at The Fields Golf Club

April 11, 2024 • 59 mins
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 a...
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Blind Shots Podcast S5 E11 Americans in Oregon – Sheep Ranch

March 26, 2024 • 70 mins
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...
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Blind Shots Podcast S5 E10 – State Park Golf Series – KY Parks Commissioner Russ Meyer

March 19, 2024 • 58 mins
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 ...
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Blind Shots Podcast S5 E9 Americans in Oregon – Pacific Dunes

March 11, 2024 • 55 mins
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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Blind Shots Podcast S5 E8 – Chris Boysel PGA of Play Golf Lexington Returns!

March 4, 2024 • 64 mins
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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Blind Shots Podcast S5 E7 Americans in Oregon – Bandon Dunes and Beers

February 2, 2024 • 57 mins
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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Blind Shots Podcast S5 E6: The Legend of Old Silo with Ethan Fisher

January 26, 2024 • 85 mins
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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Blind Shots Podcast S5 E5: Americans in Oregon – The Old MacDonald Episode

January 19, 2024 • 59 mins
Our 2nd installment of the Americans in Oregon, discussing our experience on the Old MacDonald course, and the awe and wonderment of realizing the scale of the Bandon Dunes operation. Plus, a heretical idea so crazy I’d could only get away with it because it’s on the Internet.
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Blind Shots Podcast S5 E4: Americans in Oregon – Punch Bowl, Preserve, & Vibes of Bandon Dunes

January 15, 2024 • 85 mins
In this first installment of the “Americans in Oregon” series, we set the scene at Bandon Dunes through our impressions of the Punch Bowl putting course, the 13-hole Bandon Preserve short course, and an examination of the resort’s vibe through our lodging and accommodations experiences.
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Blind Shots Podcast Season 5 Episode 3 – Golf Trips and the Trophy Course.

January 5, 2024 • 44 mins
Matt, Fred, and I reconvene at the Americans in Scotland round table to discuss whether golf trips truly need a “trophy course” to anchor a buddies golf trip. It’s big-picture discussion based on the small details we’ve accumulated in a decade or so of golf trip experience.
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Blind Shots Podcast Season 5, Episode 2: Hal Phillips on Generation Zero and Golf

December 29, 2023 • 85 mins
Today, I welcome back to the show author, journalist, and all-around good guy Hal Phillips. He is the author of Generation Zero: Founding Father, Hidden Histories, and the Making of Soccer in America. He weaves together the threads of the various growth, regression, and re-birth cycles that culminated in USA soccer arriving upon the world stage in earnest at the 1990 World Cup. We happen to be living through a tumultuous time in...
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Blind Shots Podcast Season 5 Episode 1 – Nathan Crace ASCGA on the Roll Back

December 22, 2023 • 73 mins
Golf course architect Nathan Crace ASGCA of Watermark Golf stops by to talk me through the USGA and R&A decision to "roll back" the golf ball in the coming years. Nathan is smart enough to make it make sense, even to someone like me.
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Blind Shots Podcast Season 4 Episode 11 – Lie + Loft Founder Luke Davis

February 3, 2023 • 54 mins
I speak with Lie + Loft founder Luke Davis about his journey to and within golf. Golf art and golf imagery has come a long way in the past decade or two. Once the exclusive province of the coffee table books, luxury travel publications, and the architecture issues of the mainstream golf publications, artistic depictions of golf’s playing fields have been devolved to the people in the digital age.
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Blind Shots Podcast 9th Night of Christmas Quick Loop

January 20, 2023 • 14 mins
On the ninth night of Christmas, I struggle with the fact that I am what is holding back my putting.
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Blind Shots Podcast 8th Night of Christmas Quick Loop

January 6, 2023 • 13 mins
I contemplate how my local golf club professionals fulfill a role that I formerly found in my barber, my bartender, or my colleagues. Talker. Friend. Listener. Confidant. Fellow traveler. They are the fabric that binds me to my golf community, and the tie that binds that larger community together. And I'm better for knowing them.
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Blind Shots Podcast 7th Night of Christmas Quick Loop

January 5, 2023 • 20 mins
Thoughts on the social and social media silo that I've landed in focused on golf swing speed and hitting the ball farther.
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