TGJ Podcast 101

The Curling Connection

Tigers' right-hand design man also happens to govern the world's favorite quadrennial sport

Episode 101: The Curling Connection The Golfer's Journal Podcast

You know Beau Welling as the Senior Design Consultant to Tiger Woods’ TGR Design, with recent work including Payne’s Valley, Bluejack National and the forthcoming PGA Headquarters project in Frisco, TX. Here’s what you’re about to learn: He’s one of eight people in the world tasked with governing the sport of curling.

The architect and World Curling Federation board member joins Tom Coyne to discuss his affinity for everyone’s favorite quadrennial sport, how a spontaneous trip to Minnesota got him hooked, the sport’s surprising shared history with golf, including how curling rocks are harvested off the coast of Scotland.