{"id":185464,"date":"2025-10-02T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/185464\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:42:07","slug":"whats-it-like-playing-golf-in-ukraine-let-erik-anders-lang-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/185464\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s it Like Playing Golf in Ukraine? Let Erik Anders Lang Tell You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"chakra-text css-7fa0i6\">Erik Anders Lang has traveled to every corner of the globe in search of the best stories in golf. From a prison in Louisiana and slum golf in Mumbai, to Maui and breathtaking Bermuda, EAL has seen a lot over the years as the host of Skratch\u2019s Adventures in Golf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-7fa0i6\">And on Wednesday, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skratch.golf\/shows\/adventures-in-golf\/adventures-in-golf-season-9-ukraine-powerful-role\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the first episode of the show\u2019s ninth season was released<\/a>\u2014it\u2019s one of the best yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-7fa0i6\">EAL traveled to war-torn Ukraine, a country that had just six golf courses before the start of the conflict. And despite losing a few of those in the three years since Russia invaded, golf continues to play an important role for the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-7fa0i6\">On this week\u2019s episode of the Vanity Index podcast, EAL stops by for a chat with Chad Mumm and Wells Adams to discuss what made his time in Ukraine so special, the new season of AIG, playing the brand new Mike Keiser-designed Rodeo Dunes in Colorado, the one place that&#8217;s still on his bucket list, being an early adapter of YouTube golf, and why people considered him the Anthony Bourdain of golf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-7fa0i6\">You\u2019re not going to want to miss this one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-7fa0i6\">You can listen to Vanity Index wherever you get your podcasts or on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SkratchTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Skratch YouTube channel.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erik Anders Lang has traveled to every corner of the globe in search of the best stories in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-185464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}