The Good-Good Golf Podcast · TalkinGolf Productions

Ep 156: Kevin Moore, An Interesting Thinker

·1 hr 9 min·2 clips

Nobody would ever admit they're not good at reading, but tons of people proudly say I'm not good at maths.

Rod Murray opens episode 156 in good spirits after an unexpected week off. He sounds ready to get stuck in. Adrian Logue helps set up the guest and reminds the room he met Kevin Moore in Atlanta before COVID, at the Bobby Jones course. Moore arrives as the kind of guest this show likes, someone who works on golf from more than one angle. His links run through the Golf Blueprint and Squares to Circles programs. He also writes about the relationship golfers have with the game and the courses they play. The panel treats that as a good excuse to wander into bigger questions rather than stay in interview mode. The chat moves toward what golf is and what it is not. One thread compares golf with chess, snooker, pool, darts, surfing, and skiing. That leads to a back-and-forth about whether the analogy matters more for the game itself or for the industry around it. The room lands on a distinction between golf as something a person actually does and golf as a machine that sells gear, access, and improvement. They point out that a player can be deeply involved in the game without buying into the industry side at all. Handicap culture and scoring habits come up as part of that split, especially the way those habits can shape how people experience the sport. The discussion keeps circling the same basic tension from different directions. Golf can be a weekly ritual with old clubs and no scorecard, or it can be a sprawling commercial ecosystem with every possible accessory attached. The show is happiest when those two versions of golf are allowed to bump into each other. There is also plenty of studio teasing, including talk about Jimmy Emanuel's new freelance status. The tone stays loose enough to feel like a room of people who know each other well. Even the digressions serve the point. By the close, the episode has turned a guest interview into a broader argument about how golf should be understood, played, and sold. It ends with the usual Good Good sign-off and the sense that the conversation could easily have kept going.

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A thoughtful golf conversation about the gap between the game and the industry.

Kevin Moore comes across as a thoughtful guest, with work that spans helping golfers improve and writing about the connection between golfers, the game, and its courses.

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Why you'd press play

You want a golf chat that keeps looping from the game itself to the business around it without losing the thread.

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