Golf Origin Stories

My guest this week is Mr. Will Bardwell of https://www.lyingfour.com/! We talk about a few things he's written, quite a few episodes of his extraordinary podcast, The Lying Four Podcast, and, of course, his love of Popeye's chicken. You can (and definitely should) follow Will on Twitter at @willbardwell. If you're into Golf Origin Stories, be sure to rate and review the show and subscribe! You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at @KrisMcEwen. Thanks for listening!

Golf Origin Stories is back for 2022! As has (sort of) become tradition, we're kicking this year off with a musician. None other than everyone's favorite golf parody songwriter, Sam Harrop. We talk about his musical origin story, how he ended up taking #GolfTwitter by storm with his parody songs, and when and how he fell in love with golf. You should follow Sam on Twitter at @sam_golf) and on YouTube at Sam Harrop - YouTube. As I mention in the show, my YouTube show, That Range Life: A Show Sometimes About Golf, which I co-host with DrivingRangeHeroes.com's Bill Bush will now also be available as a podcast! Give it a listen if you're into random conversations about all sorts of things which sometimes includes golf. Thanks for listening and please subscribe and leave a review of the show. It really helps!

This week's guest is Imagine Golf app founder, Malcolm Scovil. As someone who has been using the app for about a month or so, I'm a huge fan of it and think it could help every level of golfer. Malcolm and I talk about the mental aspects of the game using a few examples of the app's "Daily Drive" segments and the origins of the app itself. As I mentioned in the intro, we only touch on Malcolm's own golf origin story. To learn more about the app, Malcolm's background, and going to college in a little town across the pond called St. Andrews, you should give his episode of Talking Golf Getaways a listen. It's a fantastic conversation. Download and check out the app yourself for FREE for seven days here: Imagine Golf - The #1 Golf App for the Mental Game. You can also follow Imagine Golf on Twitter @ImagineGolfers and Instagram @ImagineGolfers. They're always giving stuff away, so you should definitely follow them! And, as always, you can find me on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube @KrisMcEwen. I'm also giving some stuff away on the YouTube channel, so go subscribe and enter to win! Thanks for listening!

Andy Frye is currently covering sports for Forbes magazine, but he’s also written for ESPN, Rolling Stones, the Chicago Tribune...all without a journalism degree. Andy shares his experiences interviewing some of the biggest names in golf, including Justin Rose, Brooks Koepka, Annika Sorenstam, and David Feherty. He also has written something on LinkedIn, of all places, about his leap from cubicle dweller to sportswriter that I found to be incredibly inspiring. We talk about that, the first sport he ever covered, something called “Fistball”, a few of his golf stories, and a book he’s currently working on called “Smashing Adversity”. If you enjoy unique insights from all different kinds of athletes, in and outside of golf, you should definitely follow Andy on Twitter at @SportyFrye.

Closing out Twitter Pal/Listener Appreciation Month with a good one! From hitting golf balls in a parking lot in Alaska as a 20-something Pepsi delivery man to breaking 100 in Hawaii, Rick is a great story in of himself. It also just so happens he's a huge Pearl Jam fan. So, of course, we talk about that, too. Follow Rick on Twitter @RickGolfsTX and Instagram @RickGolfsTX and you can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube @KrisMcEwen. And don't forget to go subscribe to the YouTube channel to enter the giveaway!

Nate Cangemi is a lot like me. Golf obsessed and music obsessed.  Back in the mid-90s, he was inspired to pick up a guitar, just as I was, by what would become one of the great bands of the era in Radiohead. And, in a Golf Origin Stories first, Nate was kind of enough to actually open and close the show this week with a couple of live performances! Besides a fun music conversation, we obviously talk quite a bit of golf, and Nate finally clears up the "golf at Pebble Beach in jeans" controversy! You can follow Nate on Twitter at https://twitter.com/talkinstatic and read his essay "Why I Owe Golf" here: http://www.golfchat.org/why-i-owe-golf/ You can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube @KrisMcEwen And, if you want to get yourself a Golf Origin Stories t-shirt, you can do that here! https://secondcitygolf.com/product-category/golf-origin-stories/

Zane and I became friends during our round of golf together at Sand Valley during last year's Greaver Cup II trip. And, while I knew he was a golf architecture savant, little did I know less than a year later he would be working at one of the hottest golf design firms in the country! We talk about the Overland Park project he's currently working on, where he'll be headed to next (a very high-profile King-Collins project), his new partner in crime, Oviii, and, of course, when he fell in love with golf. You can follow Zane on Twitter (and you definitely should) at https://twitter.com/StretchZEllis You can also find me on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube at @KrisMcEwen.  Thanks, as always, for listening!

Welcome to Listener/Twitter Pal Appreciation Month on Golf Origin Stories! First up is Brock Rutherford, a.k.a. @GolfingBrock on Twitter. A fun conversation about Pink Floyd, playing guitar, his apparent scholarship-worthy singing voice, walking golf courses, and when Brock fell in love with golf. Follow Brock on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Golfingbrock. And, as always, you can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube @KrisMcEwen. Thanks for listening!

During the pandemic, Dave decided to start up a new business called PuttviewBooks.com. Leveraging the existing technology that Puttview.com has developed, he's created a way for golfers to access professional-level yardage and green books. We talk about his entrepreneurial spirit, the joy of using yardage and green books, how they're made, and his other endeavor, Golf-Hound.com. You can go search the PuttviewBooks.com database for your favorite courses here: https://puttviewbooks.com/ You can follow Dave and Puttview Books on Twitter at https://twitter.com/PuttViewBooks. You can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube @KrisMcEwen and can watch my newest golf course video here: https://youtu.be/kRnagqS5u-I As always, thanks for listening!

Pete Popovich has seen some stuff! He's tried his hand at the pro game, including experiencing the introduction of the ProV1 into the sport firsthand, he's been a teacher, coach, club pro, you name it. These days he runs a website called TheGolfParadigm.com and hosts his own golf podcast called Golf 360. We talk about all of those things, as well as the grind and enjoyment of hosting and producing your own podcast. You can follow Pete on Twitter @TheGolfParadigm Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Golf Origin Stories! And you can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube @KrisMcEwen.