The Firm & Fast Golf Podcast
We're on a golfing quest of sorts, looking to increase our golfing I.Q.'s in the process. Our aim is to speak to expert guests at the intersection of golf design and construction, green keeping and history…...to name but a few topics.
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Episode 81: James Henderson from Top100golfcourses.com (opens the original)
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James Henderson of Top100golfcourses.com joins us on this episode to discuss, rankings, ranking criteria, panel hierarchies and more. Hendo won the golfing lottery when he was born into an East Lothian golfing family. As a result of this happy accident of birth he has been steeped in a culture of brisk two-ball play, slow lunches and matchplay. He's a well travelled character, not without an opinion or two! Many thanks to James for his time - we hope you enjoy our chat. Roundbook [Top100golfcour
Episode 80: A Feathery Quest with Gavin Bottrell (opens the original)
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Gavin Bottrell joins me on this episode to reflect on a twenty year odyssey to perfect the lost craft of Feathery Ball making. Gavin is an engineer by profession and became fascinated with how one might reverse engineer the process of developing a modern day feathery ball. Over the course of a 90 minute chat Gavin shares his learnings from the bottom of a very deep rabbit hole, from where he has perfected a skill that was lost to time and progress as the development of the gutta percha golf ball
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