I'm Mr. Green, for example. I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.

And when I find my ball in a fried egg.

Fried egg. The dreaded fried egg.

Fried egg. Fried egg.

Fried egg. Fried egg.

Fried egg. Fried egg.

I'm about ready to run off the golf course.

Welcome to the fried egg podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison, and it is the day before the open championship.

Very excited for things to get underway at Royal Liverpool.

In this episode, we're going to be talking about a few of Hoylake's most interesting holes and how they evolved into their current form.

My guest is going to be Joe McDonnell, who knows more about the history of this course's architecture than just about anyone.

So there's been a lot of discussion early in the week about internal out of bounds at Royal Liverpool.

Basically, there are out of bounds lines very close along the right side of both the third and 18th holes.

As you would expect, a few intrepid Twitter users posted photos of these lines without much context.

And a fair amount of people got pretty angry about them. This is unfair, internal OB is terrible, et cetera, et cetera.

Now, Joe briefly addresses this topic later in our conversation, but I just wanted to clarify a few things about it.

First of all, there's a separate discussion to be had about the OB rule, which hasn't always been the way it is now.

Stroke in distance is a brutal penalty, and it leads to very conservative play around OB hazards.

I'm happy to hear a debate about whether that's a good thing.

But when it comes to hoi lake, specifically, people should know that these OB lines that they're seeing on social media haven't just been painted there for the tournament.

The lines on three and 18 actually travel along the top of a built up berm that encloses a practice area.

Often you'll hear these berms refer to as cops. That's what they've been called locally for a long time.

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