Local Knowledge
The best golf stories have multiple layers to them. In each episode, Local Knowledge dives deep into a subject golfers want to know about, whether it’s about the game they play, the competition at the highest level, or the surprising ways golf factors into larger conversations throughout society. Hosts Daniel Rapaport, Alex Myers, and Keely Levins weave together original interviews, Golf Digest reporting, and additional elements to tell the type of compelling stories that have been a Golf Digest staple for decades.
The last triumph of Vintage Rory: Valhalla, 2014
We've spent a decade wondering when Rory McIlroy will win his next major, but as the PGA Championship...
EscucharSam Snead's 82 PGA Tour Wins: A Hostile Analysis
Before the professional of Tiger Woods ever began, a PGA Tour committee met and determined that Sam...
EscucharDe Vicenzo's Masters gaffe, and who was really to blame
When Roberto De Vicenzo signed an incorrect scorecard to lose the 1968 Masters, it represented not just...
EscucharCliff and Frank: A Bizarre Augusta Story
What happens when two men who are each forces of nature, in their own way, clash at the most prestigious...
EscucharThe OWGR: Past, Present, and Rocky Future
The Official World Golf Ranking has never enjoyed the prominence it has today, but it's not the good...
EscucharThe Iron Will of Pete Dye
If you only knew the late Pete Dye as a funny and somewhat crotchety old man, and if you only know a...
EscucharThe Lasting Anger of Charlie Sifford
If there's a Jackie Robinson of golf, the title goes to Charlie Sifford, the first black man to be a...
EscucharAnthony Kim's enduring mystery
It has been almost 12 full years since Anthony Kim last hit a shot on the PGA Tour, and in that time,...
EscucharHow Andy Gardiner got left behind while his big idea became LIV Golf
The idea that is currently splitting professional golf in half was born around 2010, scribbled in a...
EscucharGhosts of Southern Hills: The Murder of Roger Wheeler
In May of 1981, in the parking lot of Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a man named Johnny...
EscucharThe Mystery of Montague: The best golfer who refused to play
The saga of John Montague is one that simultaneously feels like pure fantasy but is also purely American....
EscucharThe Accusation: Tom Watson and Gary Player at the '83 Skins Game
The word "cheat" is golf's one-syllable powder keg, and whenever it appears, fireworks follow. That...
EscucharGolf Court: Should Luke Donald be Ryder Cup captain again?
It's time for the first-ever session of Golf Court! The honorable Shane P. Ryan is presiding as Barrister...
EscucharRyder Cup Radicals: Vik-tory in Rome!
After a long week in Rome, a happy Luke consoles a sleepy Joel and a sad Shane for an instant take episode...
EscucharRyder Cup Radicals: The Witching Hour in Rome
The time has come, ladies and gentlemen, to put our hearts on our sleeves and shout our final thoughts...
EscucharRyder Cup Radicals: Last Licks Before Italia
We've been talking about it so long that we almost can't believe it's happening: The Ryder Cup is imminent....
EscucharRyder Cup Radicals: Euro Trip
Jamie Kennedy joins the Sambuca Boys this week to talk all things European Ryder Cup. Jamie talks about...
EscucharRyder Cup Radicals: A Swedish surprise highlights Team Europe’s picks
The Sambuca Boys discuss the European Ryder Cup team’s six captain’s picks, highlighted by Ludvig...
EscucharRyder Cup Radicals: Johnson Makes His Picks! Johnson Makes His Picks!
In a sea of speculation and analysis, we are pleased to report today that something actually happened:...
EscucharRyder Cup Radicals: Our last guess at the US captain's picks
The Tour Championship is over, Zach Johnson makes his picks Tuesday, and Shane and Luke are on the scene...
EscucharRyder Cup Radicals: The lowdown from Chi-Town
The boys are back, and their important job of handicapping the Ryder Cup bubble is now more critical...
EscucharRise of the Euros, 1983: When Tony Jacklin and Seve Ballesteros transformed the Ryder Cup
The job facing Tony Jacklin, the unlikely captain who took the reins of the European team as Ryder Cup...
EscucharRyder Cup Radicals: Embracing the Mayhem-phis
If you wanted a worse title pun than last week, in the words of Memphis Music Hall of Famer Roy Orbison,...
EscucharRyder Cup Radicals: You Wyndham, You Lose Some
We're on the verge of the playoffs, but even with the DP World Tour in a two-week break, we had some...
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