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What do Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Harvey Penick, Lee Trevino, Babe Zaharias, and Ben Crenshaw have in common? They’re all Texans — and their stories are only the beginning. Wise About Golf is the definitive podcast on the history of golf in Texas: the legends, the courses, the tournaments, the memorabilia, and the forgotten characters who shaped the modern game. Hogan and Nelson grew up as caddies on the same Fort Worth course. Penick quietly built the greatest teaching legacy in the sport’s history. Jimmy Demaret became the first man to win three Masters titles. The stories behind these names? Most have never been told the way they deserve. Your host is Justice Ken Wise — the scholar and storyteller behind the acclaimed Wise About Texas podcast. Deeply researched, compellingly written, and delivered with a humorous campfire storytelling style that makes you feel like you’re sitting around the 19th hole. Essential listening for golfers, golf history fans, collectors, and anyone who l
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Average audio length:
29 minutes
English
United States
7 episodes
since July 16, 2026
episodic
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Episode 7, “Golf’s Giants Tour Texas” (35:07)
• [02:01] Two boys from Jersey. Vardon and Ray both grew up in Grouville on the Channel Island of Jersey and learned the game at what became Royal Jersey Golf Club.
• [04:21] Vardon’s career. His record six Open Championships, the “Vardon grip” (which h…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
A San Antonio sportswriter did some math in 1921 and built the oldest golf tournament in Texas. From hickory clubs and rubber tees at Brackenridge Park to J.J. Spaun at TPC San Antonio, this is 104 years of Texas Open history — Hogan, Nelson, Palmer, Crenshaw, and the records that still stand.
In …
Show Notes
In this episode:
● The layers of history buried under one San Antonio park — irrigation, war, industry, and sport.
● How a parks commissioner, a herd of buffalo, and a golf course accidentally created a zoo.
● Why a city hired one of America's greatest architects to build a course anyone…
In this episode
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• Why a Scotsman who barely set foot in Texas counts as Texas golf history, and a recap of Episodes 1 through 3
• Musselburgh: golf documented to 1672, certified as the oldest course in th…
In 1898, a group of Galveston businessmen chartered Texas's first official country club and brought in a Scottish pro with genuine golf royalty bloodlines to lay out nine holes on the beach — protected from wandering cattle by brand-new barbed wire. Two years later, the deadliest natural disaster i…
In Episode 2 of Wise About Golf, host Ken Wise traces golf's wild journey from Scotland to Texas—where a preacher and a Saint Bernard helped spark a sport that defined Lone Star golf.
For over a decade, Ken Wise has told the stories that built Texas on Wise About Texas — nearly two million downloads in 178 countries and a top 1% ranking worldwide. Now he’s turning that same back-porch storytelling toward a game he’s loved his whole life. In this introductory episode …
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