At The Turn - Golf Podcast · Joe Simons & Nick Heidelberger

Golf Shots That Keep Us Coming Back

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Joe goes eight over in the first five holes at Glendivere and still calls it growth.

Nick and Joe open on the most satisfying golf shots. They define satisfaction as relief, not heroics, because the best swing is often the one that keeps the round from getting worse and lets you breathe again. A made putt matters. They spend time on short par and bogey saves that look small on paper but carry a round when the margin is gone. The opening tee shot comes up next. One host tells a disaster story from a 300-yard par four with water right, bunkers left, and a choice that should probably have been simpler. He chose wrong. The result becomes a full mini-mortem: pond, bunker, chip, two-putt, and the very adult urge to restart the day like a reset button. They also talk about the putts you have to make. A 15-foot or 10-foot save, especially after trouble, gets treated like a tiny win over momentum slipping away. The aggressive shot gets its own slot. They like the moments when a golfer knows the risky line is a bad idea and hits it anyway because the circumstances are pushing that choice and the tee box and green situation are in the way. That is golf. The fun is in the argument, because the hosts keep turning those choices into questions about whether courage, impatience, or plain stupidity is driving the swing. The episode stays loose. It moves through story, reaction, and self-critique the way a round moves from shot to shot, with no rush to tidy everything up. Near the end, the conversation turns practical. They drift into stroke-play rules and ready-golf etiquette, including the odd but useful idea that a shot hit out of turn can sometimes be canceled if everyone agrees. It is more of a clubhouse aside than a clinic. That fits At The Turn, which treats tiny golf rules, bad starts, and hard-earned saves as material worth arguing about.

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The best golf shots here are the ones that keep disaster off the card.

At The Turn spends the episode on golf shots that matter less for flair than for damage control. Nick Heidelberger and Joe Simons keep returning to the same simple point: relief can hit harder than brilliance, whether it is a six-footer to save bogey, the first tee shot of the…

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For when you want golf talk that treats barely surviving the round like the real thing worth celebrating.

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