Get Ready for Adventures in Golf Season 9 With Some of the Best of All Time

From Prison Golf to 10,000 Redwoods, we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes of AIG in celebration of its return.

Skratch Staff

Prison Golf, S1

Erik visits a surprising golf program inside a high-security prison, showing how the game brings dignity, routine and human connection to inmates. The episode balances toughness and tenderness—striking visuals of players learning basic shots wrapped in interviews that reveal how golf empowers people in a place you’d least expect.

Slum Golf in Mumbai, S1

Erik goes to Mumbai to show golf played outside formal courses—stick-and-ball creative versions of the game that reveal golf’s capacity for improvisation and joy in constrained spaces. It’s gritty, humane, and eye-opening.

Jaw-Dropping Course of 10,000 Redwoods, S6

A dreamy, cinematic visit to a tiny, Alister MacKenzie–designed 9-hole classic tucked into towering redwoods near the Russian River. Erik explores the course’s architecture, the feeling of golfing inside ancient trees, and the course’s history and accessibility—a mix of reverence for design and the joyous awe of the place.

Devastation at a Hawaiian Golf Gem, S8

A sobering, reporterly visit to a course affected by wildfire (Maui): the episode balances the beauty of the island’s golf settings with the real human and environmental cost of disasters—a strong mix of travel cinematography and on-the-ground reporting.

The Lost Course, S2

This episode goes to a lesser-known, somewhat hidden or “lost” golf course (in the sense of being off the usual maps). Erik explores the course’s backstory, terrain quirks, challenges of accessing or maintaining it, and how local conditions or history shaped its layout. The visuals show what “golf in remote/forgotten places” feels like: overgrown fairways, unique holes, character, and the appeal of discovery.

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