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Introducing: Full Swing Thoughts
Season 5
Shane Ryan, Sam Weinman and Alex Myers will be your guides through the upcoming Netflix show "Full Swing." The trio will discuss what the show gets r…
3 years, 4 months ago
An “ominous” year in golf: Making sense of a wild 2022
Season 4 Episode 24
For the first time in the sport’s history, the defining moments of the professional golf season took place somewhere other than on a golf course. The…
3 years, 6 months ago
This is what happens when a tour player hits all your drives for you
Season 4 Episode 23
An 18-hole experiment with our 11-handicap editor and PGA Tour veteran Joel Dahmen began with a simple question: How much easier would golf be if a t…
3 years, 7 months ago
A golf idiot's guide to how NFTs could change the game
Season 4 Episode 22
What are NFTs? And what could they possibly have to do with golf? Our Shane Ryan didn’t really understand them at first, and he certainly didn’t know…
3 years, 7 months ago
Golf courses that refused to die
Season 4 Episode 21
Even as golf has experienced a surge in popularity in recent years, a number of golf courses are undone by challenging economics and mismanagement. M…
3 years, 8 months ago
Does a golfer need to be selfish to be great?
Season 4 Episode 20
Every time elite professional golfers are asked to come together in a team format, it comes with the awkward adjustment of needing to think about mor…
3 years, 8 months ago
The sordid world of cheaters
Season 4 Episode 19
There is no worse tag in golf than that of a cheater. In a game that prides itself on honor and self-policing, the players who betray that trust even…
3 years, 9 months ago
The tortured road to breaking 80
Season 4 Episode 18
For most golfers out there, the scores we shoot have little tangible significance. We maintain a handicap, maybe play for a few bucks, but otherwise,…
3 years, 9 months ago
The murder of a forgotten star
Season 4 Episode 17
In the 1930’s and 1940’s, when women’s amateur golf was the premiere women’s golf circuit, some players became stars. One was Marion Miley, who won j…
3 years, 9 months ago
Where golf's civil war goes from here
Season 4 Episode 16
The golf world has been awash with news about the threat LIV Golf poses to the traditional framework of the professional game. In far shorter supply …
3 years, 10 months ago