Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Charming Choke: Jean Van de Velde's collapse, 25 years later
Season 6 Episode 13
July marks the 25th anniversary of one of the two most notorious collapses in major championship history when Jean Van de Velde lost a three-shot lea…
1 year, 11 months ago
The US Open champ who died in a jail cell
Season 6 Episode 12
Cyril Walker put together the four rounds of his life in 1924 at the U.S. Open in Oakland Hills, defeating Bobby Jones in the final round and etching…
2 years ago
The Real Payne Stewart, 25 Years Later
Season 6 Episode 11
This summer marks the 25th anniversary of Payne Stewart's triumph at Pinehurst in the 1999 U.S. Open, and as fate would have it, the National Open is…
2 years ago
The last triumph of Vintage Rory: Valhalla, 2014
Season 6 Episode 10
We've spent a decade wondering when Rory McIlroy will win his next major, but as the PGA Championship heads to Valhalla, we turned our eyes backward,…
2 years, 1 month ago
Sam Snead's 82 PGA Tour Wins: A Hostile Analysis
Season 6 Episode 9
Before the professional of Tiger Woods ever began, a PGA Tour committee met and determined that Sam Snead had accumulated 82 official wins in his PGA…
2 years, 1 month ago
De Vicenzo's Masters gaffe, and who was really to blame
Season 6 Episode 8
When Roberto De Vicenzo signed an incorrect scorecard to lose the 1968 Masters, it represented not just his failure, but the failure of several indiv…
2 years, 2 months ago
Cliff and Frank: A Bizarre Augusta Story
Season 6 Episode 7
What happens when two men who are each forces of nature, in their own way, clash at the most prestigious championship in American golf? When one is r…
2 years, 2 months ago
The OWGR: Past, Present, and Rocky Future
Season 6 Episode 6
The Official World Golf Ranking has never enjoyed the prominence it has today, but it's not the good kind of prominence. With some of the world's bes…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Iron Will of Pete Dye
Season 6 Episode 5
If you only knew the late Pete Dye as a funny and somewhat crotchety old man, and if you only know a little about his life's work, from Sawgrass to W…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Lasting Anger of Charlie Sifford
Season 6 Episode 4
If there's a Jackie Robinson of golf, the title goes to Charlie Sifford, the first black man to be a full member of the PGA Tour. Every part of his j…
2 years, 4 months ago