Ep. 152: Teeing off with Wise About Golf!
I have started a second podcast. It is called Wise About Golf, it is a Texas golf history podcast, and the first episodes are up now.
Here is why. Golf is not a break from Texas history. It is a way into it.
The game reached Texas in the 1880s — before Spindletop, before automobiles — and it did not arrive on its own. It came attached to the army posts, the ports, the railroads and the British land companies that were building this state. Pull almost any thread and it leads somewhere else. I would set out to trace a golf course and end up in a railroad story, or a port story, or the 1900…
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