Episodes 144
Avg. Duration 1h 42m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.8 (187)
Since Sep 2017
Latest Episode May 2026

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About This Podcast

In the Feed the Ball podcast, Golf Digest architecture editor 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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24 Questions with Brett Hochstein

May 20, 2026 1h 52m

Brett Hochstein is one of the most prominent shapers and collaborators in contemporary golf course design having worked closely with Tom Doak, Gil Hanse, Todd Eckenrode and many other designers. Most…

The Rap: Aronimink, Heads or Tails w/Ron Prichard

May 10, 2026 1h 53m

The evolution of Aronimink Golf Club in Philadelphia is one of the most interesting and mildly contentious in American golf. This episode of The Rap with Ron Prichard, who consulted at the club from…

Salon Vol. 32, ft. Joe Hancock

Mar 30, 2026 1h 59m

Joe Hancock is one of the OG’s of golf course building and shaping, and has worked with the profession’s greatest architects. The list of courses’s he’s helped build is staggering. He joins Jim…

24 Questions with David Kahn

Mar 09, 2026 1h 44m

Architect David Kahn of Jackson Kahn Design comes back to the podcast to update us on his twin daughters afflicted with juvenile Batten disease and the 2026 Take a Swing Fore Batten auction. He also…

24 Questions with Dave Zinkand

Feb 25, 2026 1h 39m

Golf course designer Dave Zinkand joins Derek Duncan on the Feed the Ball podcast to talk about his work at Bandon Trails and Bandon Preserve with Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, what “sympathetic…

Episode 100: Jim Urbina 2

Feb 13, 2026 1h 19m

Jim Urbina returns to the podcast, this time back in the guest chair, for a free-flowing discussion about the proliferation of bunkers in contemporary design, the sameness of courses now, whether…

24 Questions with Jay Blasi

Jan 12, 2026 1h 48m

Golf designer Jay Blasi comes on the Feed the Ball podcast to talk about the challenges and importance of good public golf, comparing building new holes on top of existing holes versus working new…

Episode 99: Ran Morrissett

Dec 18, 2025 1h 47m

Ran Morrissett is the founder of GolfClubAtlas.com, the most influential golf architecture website of the past 25 years, which means, of all time. He’s a prolific writer and photographer, a…

24 Questions with Jeff Stein

Nov 25, 2025 1h 53m

Jeff Stein began his career shaping courses for Gil Hanse, Tom Doak, Jim Urbina and other designers. Now he has his own business consulting with clubs and a partnership with Brian Ross designing new…

Episode 98: Todd Eckenrode

Nov 12, 2025 1h 36m

Golf architect Todd Eckenrode has built and re-built golf courses up and down California and knows the work of historic architects like Alister MacKenzie, George Thomas, William Watson and Max Behr…

24 Questions with Jaeger Kovich

Oct 29, 2025 1h 47m

Golf course designer and builder Jaeger Kovich, who has shaped projects for Gil Hanse and Tom Doak and now is establishing himself as one of the busiest remodel specialists in the business, joins…

24 Questions with Tyler Rae

Oct 13, 2025 1h 50m

Architect Tyler Rae is part of the next wave of major golf course designers. He joins Derek Duncan in the hot seat to answer 24 questions about golf, his career and his outlook on design. Photos:…

Episode 97: Martin Ebert

Sep 21, 2025 1h 31m

Martin Ebert is one of the founding partners, along with Tom Mackenzie, of Mackenzie & Ebert, arguably the top golf design firm in Europe. Ebert has been the lead consulting architect, with…

Episode 96: Jerry Pate

Aug 27, 2025 1h 35m

Jerry Pate burst into the golf world when he won the 1976 U.S. Open at Atlanta Athletic Club in just his second year on tour. From 1976 through 1982 when he won the first Players Championship held at…

Episode 95: Trey Kemp

Jul 24, 2025 1h 53m

Trey Kemp has been one of the most active and influential figures in public and municipal golf design in Texas for over 15 years. He spent much of that time working with John Colligan and now has his…

Episode 94: Bill Kubly

Jun 29, 2025 2h 8m

Lost Rail Golf Club Bill Kubly is one of the OG’s in golf course architecture. He’s the founder Landscapes Unlimited, of one of golf’s most prominent course construction companies (opened in…

The Rap: Oakmont, One of One

Jun 06, 2025 2h 9m

Ron Whitten, historian and former Golf Digest architecture editor, and Mike Davis, former USGA CEO and executive director, delve deep into the origins, evolution and architecture of Oakmont Country…

Salon Vol. 31, ft. Riley Johns

May 06, 2025 2h 11m

Golf course designer Riley Johns joins Derek and Jim from his home in Canada to fill us in on his latest thoughts on course building and artistry. Johns has been splitting time between his own…

The Rap: Augusta Agonistes

Apr 03, 2025 2h 24m

Augusta National is complicated. It’s the most famous course in the world and has been an architectural and maintenance ideal for decades, even though the design is in a continuing state of flux and…

Ask/Answer: What is a “Tie-in”?

Mar 27, 2025 45m

You may have read or heard someone talk about good or bad “tie-ins” on a golf course. It loosely has to do with how the architecture is connected to the land during construction, but the topic is…

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