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5 min readIf you have ever stood over a three-foot putt, missed it, then missed the next one too, and still walked off the green thinking, "I love this game," the new podcast 3 Putt Bogey is aimed directly at you. Hosts Chuck Bryant of Stuff You Should Know and Adam Pranica of The Greatest Generation describe their show as a golf comedy podcast for the rest of us—players who are "sometimes good enough to hit two great shots in a row, but almost never good enough to hit three."
A three-putt bogey, they argue, is the "purest expression" of the amateur golf experience: the absurd, vexing, and joyful reality that the game is far more about avoiding disaster than chasing birdies. "At this level, it is so much less about making birdies and so much more about avoiding doubles and triples," Pranica says. The show, which drops every Friday, promises to cover everything from personal meltdowns to the sheer ridiculousness of the sport, all from the perspective of players who love the game anyway.
The Two Journeys: Casual Rounds vs. Club Competition
The podcast is built around the hosts' contrasting golf lives. Bryant plays "basically weekly casual rounds" in Atlanta with his oldest friends, shooting in the "low to mid-90s." His game is defined by the curse of inconsistency: "Truly great shot. Truly terrible shot. It's weird how much it changes from shot to shot."
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:05) **Introducing 3 Putt Bogey** - Chuck and Adam announce their new golf comedy podcast, explaining its name and philosophy.
- 2 (02:02) **The Mid-Level Golfer's Mindset** - Adam recounts a recent embarrassing meltdown at the driving range, which leads to a discussion of the game's mental challenges.
- 3 (02:33) **Two Different Golf Journeys** - The hosts reveal their personal golf backgrounds, which will be a recurring weekly segment on the show.
- 4 (03:04) **Show Logistics and a Teaser** - The hosts wrap up the introduction with practical details and a humorous teaser about Adam's bizarre driving range equipment.
- 5 Standout Quotes
- 6 (01:50) "We love it anyway." - Chuck, on the vexing and frustrating nature of golf.
- 7 (02:10) "It's the curse of where I am right now, which is truly great shot. Truly terrible shot." - Adam, on the inconsistency of mid-level golf.
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Show Notes
3 Putt Bogey is a golf podcast hosted by Chuck Bryant and Adam Pranica, two mid handicappers who are just good enough to know exactly how bad they still are. The name says it all: one great shot, followed immediately by the kind of self-inflicted disaster only a mid-handicap golfer can produce. That's the whole sport, really, and this show lives in that gap.
Every week, Chuck and Adam break down their most recent rounds, dig through the bag, and try to actually get better — which is harder than it sounds when social media serves up an endless, contradictory firehose of tips, drills, and gear you're told you absolutely need. They'll talk about what's actually working, what's total crap, and what happened when they tried it on the course anyway.
Expect gear talk, course recaps, golf movies and video games, rules debates, questionable gambling picks, and a healthy amount of self-inflicted misery, all in service of two guys trying to shave a few strokes off their game and laugh about it along the way.
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