Welcome to Roll it Back Productions, where golf history comes alive. We explore the golden age of golf, when hickory shafts, persimmon woods, and balata balls defined the sport. Before launch monitors and 350-yard drives, there was shotmaking, course design, and a deep connection between player and course. Each episode uncovers forgotten champions, the origins of iconic courses, and traditions that quietly disappeared as technology reshaped the game. If you love golf lore, vintage equipment, course architecture, and believe the soul of the game lives in its history, you're in the right place!
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Welcome to Roll it Back Productions, where golf history comes alive. We explore the golden age of golf, when hickory shafts, persimmon woods, and balata balls defined the sport. Before launch monitors and 350-yard drives, there was shotmaking, course design, and a deep connection between player and course. Each episode uncovers forgotten champions, the origins of iconic courses, and traditions that quietly disappeared as technology reshaped the game. If you love golf lore, vintage equipment, course architecture, and believe the soul of the game lives in its history, you're in the right place!
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3/5/2026
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May 6, 2026
The Great Triumvirate - the Harry Vardon, James Braid, and JH Taylor Story
<p>Twenty-one Open Championships between 1894 and 1914. Three guys won sixteen of them.</p><p>Harry Vardon, James Braid, and J.H. Taylor were three working-class kids born within twelve months of each other, from three different corners of the British Isles. For two decades they owned professional golf, traveled together as a roadshow, and quietly built the entire business of the modern sport from scratch.</p><p>This episode tells their story: a Jersey gardener's son who invented the grip you probably use today, a silent Scottish joiner who became one of the most prolific course architects in history, and a Devon laborer's kid who founded the PGA and forced golf to let professionals through the front door.</p><p>Along the way: the 1896 Muirfield playoff that tilted the sport on its axis, Vardon's coast-to-coast American tour that rewrote how an entire country swung a club, the 13-and-12 exhibition rout that turned golf into a spectacle, tuberculosis, and the 1913 U.S. Open at Brookline, where a 20-year-old amateur named Francis Ouimet beat Vardon and Ted Ray in a playoff. You've seen the movie — The Greatest Game Ever Played — but the real story is bigger and stranger than the film, and Vardon's the one it leaves behind.</p><p>--</p><p>In this episode: </p><p>The world of golf before them </p><p>Three boys: Jersey, Earlsferry, Devon </p><p>Vardon breaks through at Muirfield, 1896</p><p>Braid joins them</p><p>The rivalry that wasn't</p><p>America discovers Vardon</p><p>Francis Ouimet at Brookline,</p><p>The war and the fade</p><p>The legacy</p><p>--</p><p>golf history, harry vardon, james braid, jh taylor, j.h. taylor, the great triumvirate, great triumvirate golf, vardon grip, open championship history, british open history, 1896 muirfield, francis ouimet, ouimet brookline, 1913 us open, brookline 1913, the greatest game ever played, greatest game ever played movie, ted ray golfer, golf documentary, history of golf, professional golf history, vardon trophy, gleneagles, carnoustie, royal jersey, westward ho, royal north devon, bernard darwin, old tom morris, young tom morris, scottish golf, victorian golf, golf in the 1900s, hickory golf, gutta percha, pga history, roll it back, golf storytelling, golf legends, six open championships, edwardian golf<br>-- Thank you to our sponsor Birdie Social Club for making this video possible. Birdie Social Club is the ultimate FREE golf achievement tracker who want to celebrate and every great shot and understand their game at a deeper level. Track every birdie, eagle and ace! Track every course you have played! Analyze your game! Whether you just sank your first birdie, or you are chasing your next ace, Birdie Social Club is the App for you! Download in the app store <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbnVIRDEyaEVQZ0Q2N3AxclViampaVU5YZjVGQXxBQ3Jtc0ttWUItUUR4Y1lidjNFNnF6MkEtOTlWUEVJWDZDVVAyRnFobkhXM29jLTBDUjl0M2pQUGViOXhTUG1kdkY4NF9LQmFtYkxhQUtNZzVYdWxQOGhKUTVjOHhtbWRqQU52WXpwdGxWOGljZmtuU3FqUklyUQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fbirdie-..&v=wi4YG-eRvbw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/birdie-..</a>.-- </p><p><br></p><p>Roll It Back. Golf history. </p>
April 20, 2026
Harry Vardon and the Jersey Boys
<p>Before Harry Vardon won six Open Championships, he was a barefoot kid on a tiny island in the English Channel, hitting marbles with a homemade club. He never had a formal golf lesson. Neither did Ted Ray, Tom Vardon, or any of the other boys from Grouville who would go on to reshape the sport.</p><p>In this episode, we tell the story of the Jersey School — not a school at all, but a group of working-class caddies at Royal Jersey Golf Club who taught themselves the game by watching, copying, and competing against each other on scraps of common land. Out of that caddie yard came six Open Championships, two U.S. Opens, the grip most golfers still use today, and a generation of professionals who carried the game from Britain to America and beyond.</p><p>This is the story of how modern professional golf was invented, not at St Andrews, but by boys standing outside the ropes, holding someone else's bag, and watching closely because watching was the only way in.</p><p>---</p><p>Harry Vardon, Ted Ray, Jersey golf, Open Championship history, golf history, Royal Jersey Golf Club, Vardon grip, 1913 US Open, Francis Ouimet, Brookline, Grouville, caddie history, Roll it Back, golden age of golf, early professional golf, links golf, golf documentary</p><p>---</p><p>Thank you to our sponsor Birdie Social Club for making this video possible. Birdie Social Club is the ultimate FREE golf achievement tracker who want to celebrate and every great shot and understand their game at a deeper level. Track every birdie, eagle and ace! Analyze your game! Whether you just sank your first birdie, or you are chasing your next ace, Birdie Social Club is the App for you! Download in the app store </p><p>https://apps.apple.com/us/app/birdie-social-club/id6753883307</p>
April 2, 2026
Marion Hollins - The Woman the Masters wants you to forget
<p>This is the story they don't tell you during the Masters broadcast.</p><p>Marion Hollins won the 1921 U.S. Women's Amateur, played polo on men's teams, raced cars, and marched with suffragettes. She hired Alister MacKenzie and built Cypress Point, where she created the famous 16th hole by hitting a ball across 200 yards of Pacific Ocean when every man in the room said it was impossible. She opened Pasatiempo and invited Bobby Jones to the grand opening. Jones met MacKenzie there, at her course, on her invite, and hired him to design Augusta National.</p><p>When MacKenzie couldn't visit the Augusta construction site, he wanted to send Marion to inspect it. Clifford Roberts, Augusta's co-founder, blocked her. Because she was a woman. MacKenzie wrote back: "I do not know of any man who has sounder ideas." </p><p>Marion died broke at 51. Roberts then spent 45 years writing her out of Augusta's history. Her grave went unmarked for decades. In 2021, she was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame alongside Tiger Woods. Seventy-seven years late.</p><p>This is the most important person in golf you've never heard of. The woman the Masters wants you to forget.</p><p>Roll It Back — Golf History. </p><p><br></p><p>--- </p><p>To learn more about Marion Hollins, please visit the Marion Hollins Memorial Project</p><p>https://www.marionhollins.org/</p><p>-- </p><p>Thank you to our sponsor Birdie Social Club for making this video possible. Birdie Social Club is the ultimate FREE golf achievement tracker who want to celebrate and every great shot and understand their game at a deeper level. Track every birdie, eagle and ace! Analyze your game! Whether you just sank your first birdie, or you are chasing your next ace, Birdie Social Club is the App for you! Download in the app store <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbHpwSWJtc0JKdTZNQTFuSXZ0Rk9WbEd0NWNSUXxBQ3Jtc0tuSkZ6U1hCaDJzeDZpb2JRdDdHZEpxejNjaURiclAxbTE4LV9yd25PeXp5c3NlbklaZFVmU3BUNTkzZi1yVGVLNUR0eDgtNEtiLW50cjloVEptMk50NmF1NXo5S2dSOEp1R0NQTUhTZUxvbjdnUnlrTQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fbirdie-..&v=wi4YG-eRvbw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/birdie-..</a>.-- <br>marion hollins, golf, augusta national, sexism, masters tournament controversy, who built augusta national, clifford roberts, marion hollins, augusta national, cypress point, 16th hole, women banned from augusta, golf history documentary, women in golf, augusta national history dark side, roll it back golf, bobby jones<br></p>
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