59 min
Blind Shots Podcast S5 E12 – Hagen O’Neil’s film “From Red Clay to Fairways” at The Fields Golf Club Blind Shots Podcast
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- Golf
The Fields Golf Club in LaGrange, Georgia, is one of those special places with which I felt an instant connection, a feeling that grew stronger with each step on my first walk around the course. It’s a special place with a remarkable story derived from some of the ideas and principles that best capture what’s right in public golf.
In this conversation, I sat down with filmmaker Hagen O’Neil of Palmer Pictures (https://www.youtube.com/@PalmerPictures) to discuss the background and process of making his wonderful documentary film about the course, “From Red Clay to Fairways.” Using the color personalities that form The Fields leadership team, Hagen brings the course’s Phoenix-like rise to the screen, while exploring the principles of community and public golf writ large, as the divide between luxury and every day golf experiences continues to widen.
The film is embedded below for your convenience. Watch it. You’ll laugh, you’ll think, and you might even want to visit. Then give my conversation with Hagen a listen.
My two trips to LaGrange have been marvelous for largely personal reasons. There are likely small cities like it dotted all across the country, which makes me wonder if they all could their own version of The Fields. Golfers of all stripes would be better for it if they could, as “Red Clay to Fairways” makes abundantly clear.
Three words of thanks. First, thank you to Hagen for an incredible afternoon of laughs and conversation, with a little golf worked in. Second, thanks to Ashley Young and Ace at The Fields for their enthusiasm and hospitality. And finally to Thomas Dunne of McKellar Magazine for both supporting Hagen’s vision for the film, and for continuing to connect the McKellar launch party events to such wonderful golf experiences.
If you love great golf storytelling, head over to the McKellar website and check out their boxed set of past issues. Timeless golf stories don’t have an expiration date. You can thank me later.
The Fields Golf Club: http://www.thefieldsgolfclub.com/
From Red Clays to Fairways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOd-WPDD6PY
McKellar Magazine website: https://www.mckellarmagazine.com/
The Fields Golf Club in LaGrange, Georgia, is one of those special places with which I felt an instant connection, a feeling that grew stronger with each step on my first walk around the course. It’s a special place with a remarkable story derived from some of the ideas and principles that best capture what’s right in public golf.
In this conversation, I sat down with filmmaker Hagen O’Neil of Palmer Pictures (https://www.youtube.com/@PalmerPictures) to discuss the background and process of making his wonderful documentary film about the course, “From Red Clay to Fairways.” Using the color personalities that form The Fields leadership team, Hagen brings the course’s Phoenix-like rise to the screen, while exploring the principles of community and public golf writ large, as the divide between luxury and every day golf experiences continues to widen.
The film is embedded below for your convenience. Watch it. You’ll laugh, you’ll think, and you might even want to visit. Then give my conversation with Hagen a listen.
My two trips to LaGrange have been marvelous for largely personal reasons. There are likely small cities like it dotted all across the country, which makes me wonder if they all could their own version of The Fields. Golfers of all stripes would be better for it if they could, as “Red Clay to Fairways” makes abundantly clear.
Three words of thanks. First, thank you to Hagen for an incredible afternoon of laughs and conversation, with a little golf worked in. Second, thanks to Ashley Young and Ace at The Fields for their enthusiasm and hospitality. And finally to Thomas Dunne of McKellar Magazine for both supporting Hagen’s vision for the film, and for continuing to connect the McKellar launch party events to such wonderful golf experiences.
If you love great golf storytelling, head over to the McKellar website and check out their boxed set of past issues. Timeless golf stories don’t have an expiration date. You can thank me later.
The Fields Golf Club: http://www.thefieldsgolfclub.com/
From Red Clays to Fairways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOd-WPDD6PY
McKellar Magazine website: https://www.mckellarmagazine.com/
59 min