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Episode 11: The Origins of Golf

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Episode 10: The Presidents Cup

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Episode 9: The 1983 Rebellion

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Episode 8: Karsten Solheim and The Anser putter

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Episode 7: Young Tom Morris: The First Tragic Superstar

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Episode 6: Tiger Woods’ 2000 U.S. Open Victory

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Episode 5: The 2004 U.S. Open

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Episode 4: John Daly

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Episode 3: OWGR

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Episode 2: 2019 Masters

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Episode 1: 1996 Masters

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The time the Ryder Cup almost died

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Three mid-century Ryder Cup maniacs

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The Tour Championship: 40 years of success and failure

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The Tiger Killer: The fascinating life and times of Y.E. Yang

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The English drought (curse??) at the Open Championship: What gives?

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America's Ryder Cup Restoration, Part 2: The Rise of Azinger

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America's Ryder Cup Restoration, Part 1: The Miserable Years

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Weird Oakmont: How the ghosts of Pittsburgh still reign at America's toughest course

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Rory, Tiger, and Tom: The great equipment controversies

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The PGA Championship's Match Play era, and a ridiculous record you never knew existed

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Rory and Northern Ireland: The Complicated Relationship

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When Jim Murray fought Augusta National on race

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Facing the Music: Players who speak to the media after tough losses

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How the four majors became the four majors

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Tiger vs. Sergio: The Great Feud (Part 2)

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Tiger vs. Sergio: The Great Feud (Part 1)

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Revolutions Part 3: Life After Tiger, the Great Schism

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Revolutions Part 2: The Tiger Slam, aka the best golf ever played

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Revolutions Part 1: Arnold Palmer, IMG, and the early disruptors

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The Terrible, Wonderful History of Q School

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What we knew about Chi Chi Rodriguez, and what we didn't

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The Bizarre Early Days of Olympic Golf, 1900-1904

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Early Golf History Part 2: The Rise of the Clubs

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Early Golf History Part 1: Is Golf Really Scottish?

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The Charming Choke: Jean Van de Velde's collapse, 25 years later

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The US Open champ who died in a jail cell

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The Real Payne Stewart, 25 Years Later

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The last triumph of Vintage Rory: Valhalla, 2014

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Sam Snead's 82 PGA Tour Wins: A Hostile Analysis

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De Vicenzo's Masters gaffe, and who was really to blame

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Cliff and Frank: A Bizarre Augusta Story

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The OWGR: Past, Present, and Rocky Future

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The Iron Will of Pete Dye

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The Lasting Anger of Charlie Sifford

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Anthony Kim's enduring mystery

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How Andy Gardiner got left behind while his big idea became LIV Golf

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Ghosts of Southern Hills: The Murder of Roger Wheeler

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The Mystery of Montague: The best golfer who refused to play

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The Accusation: Tom Watson and Gary Player at the '83 Skins Game

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Golf Court: Should Luke Donald be Ryder Cup captain again?

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Ryder Cup Radicals: Vik-tory in Rome!

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Ryder Cup Radicals: The Witching Hour in Rome

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Ryder Cup Radicals: Last Licks Before Italia

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Ryder Cup Radicals: Euro Trip

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Ryder Cup Radicals: A Swedish surprise highlights Team Europe’s picks

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Ryder Cup Radicals: Johnson Makes His Picks! Johnson Makes His Picks!

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Ryder Cup Radicals: Our last guess at the US captain's picks

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Ryder Cup Radicals: The lowdown from Chi-Town

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Rise of the Euros, 1983: When Tony Jacklin and Seve Ballesteros transformed the Ryder Cup

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Ryder Cup Radicals: Embracing the Mayhem-phis

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Ryder Cup Radicals: You Wyndham, You Lose Some

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The Gleneagles Massacre: Paul McGinley Schools Tom Watson at the 2014 Ryder Cup

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Ryder Cup Radicals: Which team looks better after the Open? Plus Head-to-Head Player Analysis

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The Weirdest Major Ever Played: St. Andrews, 1876

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The Tragic Brilliance of Young Tom Morris

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Ryder Cup Radicals: The LIV Conundrum, Sambuca, and Other Serious Matters

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The Sandbag that Changed Golf: Deepdale, 1955

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Fear and loathing at Winged Foot '74: The USGA's response to Johnny Miller

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The six women who played on the PGA Tour

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The Basque Heritage of Jon Rahm: A Story that Goes Back Millennia

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The Reckoning at Shoal Creek: When golf's race problem came out of the shadows

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Seve Ballesteros: The Legend and the Reality

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The Collapse: Greg Norman, 1996, and the final round that lives on

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Ronald Reagan, a loaded gun, and the forgotten hostage crisis at Augusta National

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The 1983 Rebellion: The PGA Tour's original crisis

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Full Swing Wrap: An interview with Executive Producer Chad Mumm

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Full Swing Thoughts Ep. 8: And then there was Rory

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Full Swing Thoughts Ep. 7: Mito Pereira and Sahith Theegala suffer the rookie blues

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Full Swing Thoughts Ep. 6: Tony Finau, Collin Morikawa, and the dreaded contrast

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Full Swing Thoughts Ep. 5: The ballad of Fitzy and DJ

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Full Swing Thoughts Ep. 4: Joel Dahmen shines in the best episode yet

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Full Swing Thoughts Ep. 3: The Ian Poulter conundrum

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Full Swing Thoughts Ep. 2: The spring of Scottie, the fall of Brooks

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Full Swing Thoughts Ep. 1: Jordan, Justin, and the curse of friendship

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Introducing: Full Swing Thoughts

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An “ominous” year in golf: Making sense of a wild 2022

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This is what happens when a tour player hits all your drives​ for you

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A golf idiot's guide to how NFTs could change the game

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Golf courses that refused to die

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Does a golfer need to be selfish to be great?

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The sordid world of cheaters

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The tortured road to breaking 80

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The murder of a forgotten star

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Where golf's civil war goes from here

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A crash course golf overhaul that actually worked

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Golf’s holy land: A way-too-brief history of the Old Course

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Golf's major dilemma

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The Ultimate Cinderella Story: U.S. Open qualifiers and the impossible dream

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Game Changer: How a 50-year-old law changed women's golf forever