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The Drop Zone

The Drop Zone

By: Dylan Dethier
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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.GOLF Magazine Golf
Episodes
  • Will from DataGolf: Who Wins The 2026 PGA Championship?
    May 12 2026

    How do you model a major? Will Courchene, co-founder of Data Golf, joins Dylan Dethier to talk through the 2026 PGA Championship — and pick a winner. Who is Aronimink expected to favor? Who is actually in pro golf's "A" Tier? And how many players actually have a chance to win? Dylan and Will run through data, favorites, vibes and much more en route to picking a winner.

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    48 mins
  • Grant Boone: How Nelly Korda’s Changed—And What That Means
    May 5 2026

    Nelly Korda keeps winning. What has that looked like and felt like — and what does it mean? Grant Boone, who has been there every step of the way, tells us what it's like calling the action through the and bad for the LPGA’s biggest star. He also tells us what's next and what a big win for the league would really mean.

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    49 mins
  • Tom Coyne: What’s The Greatest American Golf Course
    Apr 28 2026

    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!

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    1 hr and 7 mins
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