{"podcast":{"title":"The Drop Zone","slug":"the-drop-zone-7794124","podcast_index_feed_id":7794124,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/golf-stuff","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Dg8EGk8z_nJZ5GtmyW6mGHiNPQzCzAeSreNq_OuvAkM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mYzQ5/Zjc1MTVhZTVhMWVk/ZTNjMjNlMzA0YTA1/ZmQzMS5wbmc.jpg","author":"Dylan Dethier","episode_count":13,"summary":"The Drop Zone is a weekly show hosted by Dylan Dethier for GOLF Magazine. Each episode sets out to answer one thoughtful question about golf, answered with the help of a guest.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T02:17:26.912521+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-drop-zone-7794124"},"episode":{"title":"Tom Coyne: What’s The Greatest American Golf Course","slug":"tom-coyne-what-s-the-greatest-american-golf-course","published_at":"2026-04-28T06:33:40+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-drop-zone-7794124/tom-coyne-what-s-the-greatest-american-golf-course","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-drop-zone-7794124","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/638abc13","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/638abc13/6f95b79d.mp3","summary":"What’s the greatest American golf course? It’s complicated — but we’ve got the right guy to take us down a wandering path to an answer. Tom Coyne has walked all of Ireland. He’s criss-crossed the United States. Most recently, he bought a failing golf course in Upstate New York. And he’s written books about all of the above. So he can speak to the ingredients of a “great” golf course, he knows the difference between great golf in the U.K. and Ireland versus great golf in the U.S. — and now he knows the nuts and bolts of owning and operating a course himself. Plus Dylan digs up an old email he sent Tom before embarking on an American golfing road trip of his own, and a response that changed his writing career. Coyne takes us through the five courses he’d play if he only had five rounds left, the bucket-list course he hasn’t yet ticked off and, at last, his pick for Greatest American Golf Course. You can order Tom’s latest book, A Course Called Home, at Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Course-Called-Home-Adventures-Accidental/dp/1668030551 Or A Course Called America here: https://www.amazon.com/Course-Called-America-Thousand-Fairways/dp/1982128062/ For that matter, you can order Dylan’s book, 18 in America, here: https://www.amazon.com/18-America-Golfers-Journey-Essence/dp/1451693648 We’ll see you next week!","meta_description":"What’s the greatest American golf course? It’s complicated — but we’ve got the right guy to take us down a wandering path to an answer. Tom Coyne has walk…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4007,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-drop-zone-7794124/episodes/tom-coyne-what-s-the-greatest-american-golf-course/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-drop-zone-7794124/tom-coyne-what-s-the-greatest-american-golf-course.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}