70 episodes
Golf Origin Stories Kris McEwen
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4.9 • 26 Ratings
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Stories from fellow golfers or those from the world of golf of how they became involved, and ultimately fell in love, with the game of golf. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/krismcewen/support
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Will Bardwell
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!
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Sam Harrop
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!
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Malcolm Scovil: Founder of the Imagine Golf App
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!
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Andy Frye of Forbes Magazine
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.
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Rick Moe, a.k.a., @RickGolfsTX
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!
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Nate Cangemi
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/
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Customer Reviews
Great Convos
If you’re on Golf Twitter, you’ll recognize most of the guests. It’s fun to put voices and perspectives behind the folks you interact with. Kris is a great interviewer and creates an easy to listen to accessible open forum for mostly average golfers to chat about their enthusiasm for the game and their personal connection to it.
Cool backstories on people who golf
This podcast is about people you wouldn’t normally meet through playing golf, but each of them love golf, some work in golf and they all have themself to share. It’s cool to learn about people and how this game can enjoyed across country, world, classes and ages. I dig it and you learn a little more each time about who we are and where we come from.
Give it a listen
Please give this podcast a listen. Unique concept which gives every day golfers the opportunity to share their stories of how they came to golf. I was fortunate to be interviewed for this show, which was a blast. Kris has done an amazing job, I look forward to watching this show grow and evolve. You should do the same.
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