Ep. 152: Teeing off with Wise About Golf!

<p>Episode 152 — Introducing Wise About Golf<br />

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.<br />

In this episode<br />

● Eleven years of Wise About Texas<br />

● Why there is now a second podcast — and why you are the reason<br />

● The argument: golf as a way into Texas history<br />

● Golf in Texas before Spindletop and before automobiles<br />

● The 1887 clergyman who invented the modern Saint Bernard<br />

● An army post, a port, a railroad, the 1900 Storm<br />

● How the two shows will work together<br />

● Wise About Golf episode 2, attached in full<br />

● Coming next: Galveston Country Club<br />