A Good Walk Ruined: The History of Golf

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio.

Josh Clark (0:11)

Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here too. And in this episode, we'll get to hear Chuck do a Scottish accent a lot. I wonder.

Charles Bryant (0:20)

Wow. I haven't really thought about that.

I do love that Libby helped us with this, how she titled it, which I think I'm titling it something like that. But she titled it Golf, Cohen, spoiling good walks since 1457 Have you ever heard that phrase?

Josh Clark (0:37)

Yeah, that was Samuel Clements.

Charles Bryant (0:39)

Yeah, how to spoil a good walk or whatever, something like that.

It's pretty funny. They get it. Golf is hard.

Josh Clark (0:46)

I have a question for you. Do you, are you into golf at all?

Charles Bryant (0:51)

You're being coy. I have been playing golf since I was 13, but I took like 25 years off from like kind of post-college to when I moved back to Atlanta.

Played maybe once or twice a year during that time, but then have gotten really, started playing again in 2020 during COVID, but still very casually. But then like six months ago, started really getting into it again and like trying to get better for the first time.

Josh Clark (1:21)

Yeah. How's it going?

Charles Bryant (1:24)

I mean, it's very hard. Emily asked me why I love golf so much, and that's why, because golf is really, really hard.

Josh Clark (1:32)

Oh, yeah.

Charles Bryant (1:33)

And so when you do it well, it feels like you've like achieved something. And so that's what I love about it. It's really, really, really, really hard. And I like trying things sometimes that are really, really hard.

Josh Clark (1:45)

You know what they call that? The love of the game.

Charles Bryant (1:49)

That's right. And you were kind enough to let me make this announcement now, is I'm dipping my toe back into the podcast world. You know, I haven't done anything like that since Movie Crush went away.

And friend of the show and friend of ours in real life, Adam Pranica of The Greatest Generation, Adam is a golfer, and we play golf together, and we text about it all the time. I was like, we should do a golf podcast, like a fun and funny one, and try and build like a community around it. Because most golf podcasts are like kind of serious or instructional. And I said, there's not a lot of shows out there for guys like us that are like not great at it, like average golfers who just sort of the absurdity of the sport. And Adam was in, and so we're doing a new show.

Josh Clark (2:35)

That's awesome. I predict you guys will make a great pair.

Charles Bryant (2:38)

I hope so.

Yeah, it's called Three Putt Bogey. And we think that's kind of a fun and funny name that, you know, that's kind of one of the worst things that can happen on a golf course. That means you have, like on a par three, for example, you've hit a great tee shot onto the green. You got a shot at birdie, but you putt it three times instead for a bogey. So that really kind of sums up where we are in our game. And I think it's very relatable and it's out now. It released on, I think episode one was Friday, September 25th. So you can go out and listen to it right now, wherever you get your podcasts. And also follow us on socials, Three Putt Bogey podcast on Instagram. We're going to have lots of fun content on there.

Josh Clark (3:16)

Wow, that's a great name. Thanks.

Charles Bryant (3:18)

Well, I mean, we hope it gets across like what it is, which is, again, average guys having a good time. What we're hoping to do is build a community of like support.

Because like I said, it's a hard game. And like, you know, the worst thing you can do is go and play golf with people that are like really want to beat you or like want to gamble at golf and stuff. Like that's not my deal. Adam and I are both kind of like cheerleaders when we play with each other and with friends.

Josh Clark (3:44)

Do you dress like cheerleaders when you play?

Charles Bryant (3:46)

Well, sometimes on Fridays.

Josh Clark (3:50)

That's cool. I think that's definitely the better way to go, is to do that rather than be like, you remember that one character on the pit who was hospitalized because he did too much cocaine and drank too much and blacked out and tried to kill somebody?