Wise About Golf

Recent episodes

1. EP. 3: The First Country Club from Wise About Golf

   Jul 26, 202637 min

   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 in American history wiped the course out along with much of the island. What followed is one of the great survival stories in Texas golf: a club that rebuilt, moved inland, burned down, moved back, hired Donald Ross to design a course between the Gulf and a bayou, burned down again, and relocated a third time — all while hosting Bobby Jones, Byron Nelson, Walter Hagen, and Babe Zaharias along the way.

2. EP. 2 Golf Comes to Texas from Wise About Golf

   Jul 21, 202623 min

   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.

3. Ep. 1: Welcome to Wise About Golf from Wise About Golf

   Jul 16, 20266 min

   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 of Wise About Golf , Ken explains why he’s spending his next chapter on golf history: a 500-year-old game that scholars have largely left alone, a sport whose equipment and courses have changed constantly while its rules on honor and self-policing haven’t, and a country in the middle of a genuine golf boom that makes this the right moment to look back. Texas is the launching point — but if a story’s good enough, the runway goes worldwide.