EP. 147: Teeing Off With Texas Golf
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Here at Wise About Texas world headquarter we love our golf. Texas has made, and continues to make, an outsized impact in the world of golf. With over 100 yers of Texas golf history, I plan on doing some episodes on the subject and share the story of Texas golf. In this episode, you’ll hear about why this matters and what you can do to help the effort. Give it a listen and let me know your thoughts at golf@wiseabouttexas.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | This is your host, Ken Wise. |
| 0:12.8 | Thanks for tuning in today for this somewhat unusual episode of Wise About Texas. |
| 0:18.2 | I want to talk to you all about something I'm going to work on in this |
| 0:23.1 | podcast that may become a new podcast, and I want your feedback on it. The one thing that I've |
| 0:29.8 | done my whole life since I was a little kid is play golf. It's something that's always been with me. |
| 0:34.4 | I've always been around it. I sometimes play at a pretty high level. |
| 0:39.3 | Often like all golfers just suffer along. But one thing that I've realized in the last few months is |
| 0:46.2 | the Texas golf history, and there is a ton of it, is really not reported in a very coherent fashion and really not studied in a very organized way. |
| 0:58.7 | Now, sports history in general is hard to do because you don't know there's a lot to focus on. |
| 1:04.1 | You can focus on the facts and figures of the sport, which of course is important. |
| 1:08.9 | You can focus on the characters of the sport, which is course is important. You can focus on the characters of the sport, |
| 1:11.0 | which is also important. But sometimes you need to tie it all together, and I just feel |
| 1:16.6 | like that's been missing in Texas golf history. And the reason I think it's important |
| 1:21.6 | is Texas golf history is over 100 years old now, as is the history of golf in the United States. And as I've studied golf history is over a hundred years old now, as is the history of golf in the United States. |
| 1:29.8 | And as I've studied golf history from Europe, primarily the UK, of course they have a lot more |
| 1:37.0 | of it. But it's also written about it in a little more literary, a little more scholarly fashion, often. |
| 1:43.1 | And I think American golf history needs a little bit of that. |
| 1:45.9 | And of course, I want to focus on Texas. So I'm thinking about working some golf history into |
| 1:52.4 | lies about Texas. And perhaps, depending on what y'all think and how the listenership likes it, I might spin it off into its own |
| 2:04.4 | golf history podcast, but it certainly could go either direction, I think, well. |
| 2:10.9 | So one of the reasons I've been thinking about this is golf really is a unique game. |
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