If you’ve ever wondered where to find out the details of the juiciest and most scandalous happenings at golf clubs around the country, there’s a newsletter for that.
In this week’s episode of Subpar, hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz welcomed the man behind Country Club Confidential – a weekly newsletter “where all the dirty laundry is aired” – as their guest. To protect the man’s identity, he was given the pseudonym “Scott” for the interview.
It’s been 18 months since Scott published the first edition of Country Club Confidential, and any concerns he once had about gathering enough content for each newsletter have now allayed.
“The club I belong to, I think we’ve already done six of them in the last year and a half,” Scott said. “If that club has six, there are thousands across the country and the world. There are a lot out there.”
So far, Scott hasn’t had to follow the content – most of it comes to him. What kind of stories are you telling? Scott provided a summary of some of the paper’s more outrageous stories, which include the following:
-A scammer who managed to pose as a prospective member and swindle $20,000 from a club
-The players who managed to get out in Cypress point as guests of a dead man – for two years
-A man who was creating ghost GHIN posts for another player
… And many more!
To hear a selection of these stories and many more from Scott, watch the full episode of Subpar below.
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