The Golfer's Journal Podcast

You are about to become intimately familiar with a previously unknown golf course. For decades, Augusta Municipal Golf Course was the scruffy public track where the locals played. The poor kids from the housing projects next door called it the Patch. A few years ago, Augusta National adopted the course and poured a ton of resources back into it. Next week, the shiny new Patch course will be...

Gene Wojciechowski has been to the Masters more times than he can count. Now, after covering golf for ESPN for decades, he’s written his first golf novel. On the latest TGJ Podcast, Tom Coyne visits with Wojciechowski to talk All Carry—a story about a down-on-his-luck sportswriter who discovers a set of Jack Nicklaus's old clubs and suddenly finds himself playing in the Masters with the Golden...

See the BTS events calendar: https://www.golfersjournal.com/tgj-events/For seven years, members of The Golfer’s Journal have traveled the world to play golf together. More than just a series of subscriber events, the Broken Tee Society Tour has become a cornerstone of our community, fostering lasting friendships and unforgettable experiences on some of the most iconic courses in the world.Where...

The LPGA’s new commissioner has big plans. On the latest TGJ Podcast, Tom Coyne sits down with Craig Kessler—a 40-year-old Harvard Business School grad whose career took him from private equity to Topgolf to the PGA of America before he was tapped to lead the LPGA last year. In this wide-ranging conversation, Kessler breaks down the broadcast deal that will put every LPGA round on live television...

Darren Clarke has caught 19 permit on a fly—a feat arguably more impressive than winning The Open Championship. Sitting down with Tom Coyne in the Bahamas at his home in The Abaco Club, Clarke happily explains his dual obsessions. He’s not just a boisterous Irishman you’d like to meet at a pub, he remains driven by catching the world’s most difficult fish and beating the world’s best golfers....

Despite playing more great golf courses than most could dream of, Patrick Cantlay is a self-proclaimed 10-handicap in golf course architecture. But he’s working on it. In this episode, he sits down at The Medalist Club with TGJ's Tom Coyne and Casey Bannon to share a Tour player’s perspective on architecture: why green complexes matter more than any other defense, what Riviera's collection of...

With exemptions into the Masters, the U.S. Open and The Open Championship on the line, someone’s life is going to change at this week’s Latin America Amateur Championship. Live from the fairways of Lima Golf Club in Peru, host Tom Coyne sits down with a range of voices to capture the importance of the LAAC and the long road it took to bring the championship here after delays tied to political...

For seven years, members of The Golfer’s Journal have traveled the world to play golf together. More than just a series of subscriber events, the Broken Tee Society Tour has become a cornerstone of our community, fostering lasting friendships and unforgettable experiences on some of the most iconic courses in the world.Where are we headed next? Renowned golf course architect Gil Hanse joined TGJ...

When we started this podcast back in 2017, we didn’t have a grand plan. We just wanted to tell good golf stories and see where they took us. Two hundred episodes later, that’s still our north star.To mark the occasion, we asked a few familiar voices from the show to pick their favorite episode from the first 199. TGJ’s Tom Coyne, Casey Bannon, Travis Hill and Alek Timm, along with our original...

Jeff Warne has quietly led one of golf’s most interesting lives, from growing up in Augusta to building a stellar reputation as a top-100 instructor to becoming director of golf at The Bridge. He’s spent decades learning how clubs create the best experiences, and now he’s putting it into practice with one of his own with New Holland Golf Club, a new project rising amidst the Aiken golf boom....