ESPN’s ‘Where It Lies’ is about the soul of public golf

Nobody gets it like you do.

They don’t understand how big of a deal it was when the club championship had to be delayed for rain. All of that waiting in the clubhouse and how the leak in the roof required everyone to come together. The jokes and laughs that were shared in the process.

You have to call in the food you want at the turn after only three holes. Things get backed up and if you don’t give it enough time you’ll go hungry. You have to order after your first tee shot on Thursdays when the restaurant is running specials, at that.

Only you and your closest friends know about how you had the scramble match of your lives that went into dusk in the summer of 2010. It has been a decade and a half, but the group text never lets anyone forget.

The point here is that nobody gets it like you do, nobody gets your home course, your public course, like you do.

Until now.

ESPN’s ‘Where It Lies’ is about the soul of public golf

The golfing world, the sporting world, heck the entire world, is getting set to lock all the way in on golf with the Masters Tournament next week. It is an event that unites anyone who loves golf in a very special way.

Golf creates unspoken languages between people. There is a sacred code among those who understand the same things. This unity applies to people who belong to the same home course and who welcome others into their public playground. Starting on Monday that disposition will be on display on ESPN.

ESPN’s new Original Series ‘Where It Lies’ premieres Monday, April 6th, and it focuses on the special world of public golf, all of its rhymes and rhythms.

Bluefoot Entertainment and Omaha Productions produced this 4-part series, and it speaks to the soul of what people love about golf. It connects you to how you initially fell in love with the game through the cast of characters that are at the center of it.

Part of what is magical about public golf is the stories that encircle it as noted. We all knows the intimate details of what makes our own homes so special and ‘Where It Lies’ highlights them all.

Director Timothy Horgan and executive producer and ESPN senior writer Wright Thompson took some time to speak with SB Nation about the series and made it clear that this is about a love of golf. Wright noted that it is a love letter to the beautiful game.

Horgan spoke about the importance of capturing that love and how the people at each of the courses carried it for their own respective homes. From this viewer’s perspective the golf courses in question serve as dinner tables where each “family” joins in their respective episodes. ESPN invites the audience to sit down at this “table” inside of this particular home to learn about it all. The food, the neighborhood, the history. How and why it matters.

The first episode premieres within the ESPN app on April 6th and on ESPN2 on April 8th at 5pm ET. It serves as the perfect introduction to this incredible ride where viewers don’t have to bring anything to the meal except an open heart and a joyful spirit.

Isn’t that great?