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🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
Going Long on the Great Clubs
Fittingly, we recorded our shortest episode ever to explain why the next...
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September 14, 2026 at 10:03 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
Why Three of Four Beginners Quit
Nineteen million Americans have tried golf since 2020. About one in four...
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September 7, 2026 at 10:02 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
The Best Course in the World Is a Par 66
Jim Hartsell will tell you the best golf course in the world is 4,800...
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August 31, 2026 at 10:01 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
Building the Gilroy: Old Barnwell's Second Course
What does a piece of land owe the people around it once the golf stops...
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August 10, 2026 at 10:40 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
Can Every City Build a Place Like The Park?
Can a golf facility be fun, affordable, and welcoming for the local...
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August 3, 2026 at 10:30 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
Why Australian Golf Hits Different
A country that loves a drink almost never drinks on the golf course....
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July 27, 2026 at 11:15 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
Sympathetic Renovation with Dave Zinkand
For fifteen years, Dave Zinkand's name never made it onto the scorecard....
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July 20, 2026 at 1:40 PM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
How to Actually Qualify for a USGA Four-Ball
Everyone tells you golf is an individual game. Zach Healy and Jack...
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July 13, 2026 at 10:30 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
Shop Different, Play Different
What does it actually take to write someone else's story in their own...
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June 29, 2026 at 10:30 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
Where Does the Water Go?
Every golfer has stood over a putt and guessed. Erik Belgum learned to...
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June 22, 2026 at 10:28 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
Golf Rules We'd Keep, Kill, and Rewrite
What should never change about golf? And what should have been changed...
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June 8, 2026 at 11:00 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
Golf, Identity, and Starting Over
What happens when the thing you’ve built your entire identity around...
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May 11, 2026 at 11:01 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
A Club Without a Course, A Community With Purpose
How do you become one of the oldest and now largest predominantly black...
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May 4, 2026 at 10:00 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
The Ghost Name in Golf Course Architecture
Joe Hancock may be the most-mentioned, least-seen name in modern golf...
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April 28, 2026 at 10:00 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
Where Golf Still Feels Like Golf: North Berwick to Royal Melbourne
What if the places we romanticize most in golf aren’t perfect at all,...
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April 20, 2026 at 10:00 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
The Re-Making of the Masters?
What has The Masters mastered—what might it be losing along the way?In...
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April 10, 2026 at 10:00 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
Hooper Golf Course: Community, Stewardship, and the Heart of 9-Hole Golf
What does it take to save a golf course and keep it true to itself?In...
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April 6, 2026 at 10:00 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
The Dopamine Dance: Navigating Golf's Addictive Allure
What keeps us coming back to golf—and when does obsession cross into...
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March 23, 2026 at 10:30 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
Ballot of the Heart: Hickories, The Old Course, and The Meaning We Found in St. Andrews
What happens when you chase the Old Course, and Scotland gives you...
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March 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
Rollback Is the Wrong Word: What F1 Teaches Golf About Regulation
What if golf stopped calling it a rollback and started calling it what...
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March 9, 2026 at 11:00 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
No Winter Lasts Forever: Anthony Kim, Redemption, and Spring’s Return
Is your game (and your mental state) ready for the season ahead? No...
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March 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Public golf isn’t for plaques.

Professor: Be wary of anyone who needs their name on it—ask why you support the change.
Matt: Muni golf is for nurses, construction workers, and school teachers. 

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February 24, 2026 at 1:02 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
What'd We Miss: Masters Tickets, LIV Points, NLT/Trump, TGL, Rollback Delays, and AI Invades
Did you look up in February and think… wait, what happened in the golf...
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February 23, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Biggest flaw being taught? Arms hanging straight down at setup. Moe Norman’s single-plane setup solves it: arms in line w/ the club + a return to setup at impact. @gravesgolf 

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February 18, 2026 at 12:03 AM
🎙️ This week on The Bag Drop:
The Moe Norman Legend: Todd Graves & the Single-Plane Swing
Can one swing make golf simpler — and keep you playing longer?In this...
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February 17, 2026 at 12:00 PM