{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Bag Drop: Untold Stories in Golf","title":"The Best Course in the World Is a Par 66","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4850,"description":"Jim Hartsell will tell you the best golf course in the world is 4,800 yards and a par 66. He is not being cute about it. He would like you to come after him.\nIn this episode of The Bag Drop: Untold Stories in Golf, host Matt Considine and co‑host Dr. Kevin Moore (a.k.a. “The Professor”) sit down with Jim Hartsell — architect, three-time Bag Drop guest, and author of A Round of Scottish Courses — for a conversation about what thirty years of returning to the same small Scottish clubs teaches you about why golf places matter, and what a golfer owes a place once he starts telling everyone about it.\nThe conversation dives into:\nWhy Dunaverty — 4,800 yards, par 66 — is his answer to \"best course in the world,\" and why he thinks the question is usually asked wrong\nWhat choosing eighteen favorites instead of eighteen best freed him to write — and how a chapter actually gets built, including the sheepdog trials that unlocked a lost course on Arran\nThe night the Old Course put a flag on the 18th green made from a drawing his nine-year-old son had left on his laptop\nThe green-fee trap: why North Berwick and Brora keep going up, and why tour operators refuse to take a £30 course seriously\nWhether writing about Dunaverty, Askernish and Isle of Harris is quietly changing them — and what the members themselves say about that\nThree rules for being a good guest at a Scottish club, including the one about tipping too much\nConnect with our guests\n📚 Jim Hartsell — https://jhartsellgolf.com — 🐦 X/Twitter: https://x.com/JimHHartsell](https://x.com/JimHHartsell) | 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jimhartsell/\n📕 A Round of Scottish Courses (Back Nine Press) — https://back9press.com/products/a-round-of-scottish-courses\n🎧 The Duffer's Literary Companion (Jim & Stephen Proctor) — https://tdlcpodcast.podbean.com\n\nJoin the NewClub community\n🌍 Website: https://www.newclub.golf\n📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/newclubgolf/\n🐦 X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/newclubgolf\n📺 YouTube:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UTWF4LINKJxQLEH-r1aPYxPmlXn5V5SbcsdRGBvWeuk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iNTEx/NjJmODg0OWI2ZGU5/NmZlMDBhMDljZDFh/YmNkYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}