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“Muni”: Documentary of a Public Golf Course in the Deep South with a Historic Story featuring Filmmaker Paul Bonesteel

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3577 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

770: “Muni” a new documentary available for free on YouTube is a love letter to golf and a personal telling of how African-American caddies, despite Jim Crow laws and the lasting effects of racism, built a rich and vibrant golf culture by becoming the first course in North Carolina to desegregate. Our guest is filmmaker Paul Bonesteel (The Day Carl Sandburg Died, The Mystery of George Masa) who lets many endearing characters ruminate on both golf and race relations. We’re sorry to report that all discounts offered by LAB Golf for their Lie Angle Balanced putters have been rescinded. This week on the Golf Smarter Mulligans episode 86, we are honored to have TV Journalist and Reporter Jimmy Roberts. Jimmy had just returned from the hospital hours before we spoke after having back surgery two days earlier. But in this conversation Jimmy shares stories and advice from his book "Breaking The Slump – How Great Players Survived Their Darkest Moments in Golf– and What You Can Learn From Them”.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

When you start talking about golf, just how much you think about golf, how frustrating golf is, how it does become a drug of sorts.

0:10.0

And Baxter just breaks it down.

0:11.7

That man, he is truly still learning the game every time he picks up the club, like he says in the film.

0:17.6

Like he learns something new.

0:18.8

And he'll tell you about it, too.

0:19.9

He's like, yeah, just today I was figuring this out, I was taking it away. That's a testimony to the game.

0:25.1

Really, I hope that comes through in the film. For those who might watch it for the kind of race story,

0:30.7

if you will, maybe you're not into golf. Golf facilitates relationships. Golf challenges you in ways that I've never found another sport that does.

0:40.7

And more than anything, like this year during COVID time, just being out there, just being in the fresh air away from all of the stuff we've been dealing with.

0:51.2

It's been therapy for me this year.

0:53.6

Golf Smarter number 770.

0:57.9

Director Paul Bonesteel on Munich, a documentary about the first golf course in North Carolina

1:03.8

to desegregate. This is Golf Smarter. Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ.

1:15.6

Here's your host, Fred Green.

1:18.4

Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Paul.

1:21.2

Hello, Fred.

1:22.3

Great to be here.

1:23.5

Thank you for coming on.

1:24.9

I'm glad I found you because I discovered this film on actually I discovered it on YouTube recently and absolutely loved it and had to track you down.

1:37.8

Yeah, glad you did. Cool. Yes. Yeah. And actually, I've now watched it twice. I literally, I woke up and I said, I got to see this again.

1:47.1

And we'll put links to the film, the YouTube, in our blog post and in the show notes today.

1:53.5

But let's talk about the film's called Muni.

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