Ep. 152: Teeing off with Wise About Golf!

Episode 152 — Introducing Wise About Golf Golf reached Texas before the automobile did — back when men who remembered San Jacinto were still walking around. Ken introduces Wise About Golf, a new Texas golf history podcast, and makes the case that golf is not a break from Texas history but a way into it. Then episode two of the new show plays in full. In this episode ● Eleven years of Wise About Texas ● Why there is now a second podcast — and why you are the reason ● The argument: golf as a way into Texas history ● Golf in Texas before Spindletop and before automobiles ● The 1887 clergyman who invented the modern Saint Bernard ● An army post, a port, a railroad, the 1900 Storm ● How the two shows will work together ● Wise About Golf episode 2, attached in full ● Coming next: Galveston Country Club Find Wise About Golf ● Search "Wise About Golf" in your podcast app — own feed, own website ● Instagram and Facebook: Wise About Golf ● Twitter/X: @wiseaboutgolftx ● Ideas and interviews: golf@wiseabouttexas.com ● Wise About Texas, as always: host@wiseabouttexas.com One more thing Eleven years, and this show has never been built on advertising — only on listeners telling other listeners. If you enjoyed it, pass it along.