A Rollback Extravaganza

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

On Tuesday, the USGA and R&A announced a Model Local Rule (MLR) that, if adopted, would reduce the flight of the golf ball in high-level tournaments. This is a historic move that deserves the mega-pod treatment. To kick things off, Andy and Garrett discuss the basics of the MLR and why the governing bodies have gone this route in tackling the distance issue (4:03). Then Andy brings on a series of guests: golf architect Tom Doak to explore the impact that the MLR might have on golf course design (30:04), former PGA Tour pro Roberto Castro to talk about the change from a player's perspective (48:34), and analytics whiz Joseph LaMagna to explore the effects that rollback could have on course management and strategy at the elite competitive level (1:09:23).

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Mr. Green, for example. I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
0:05.0	And when I find my ball in a fried egg.
0:07.0	Fried egg. The dreaded fried egg.
0:09.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:10.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:11.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:12.0	I'm about ready to run off the golf course.
0:30.0	Welcome back to another edition of the Fried egg podcast.
0:38.0	Today's episode is a big one.
0:41.0	Obviously, if you have not heard, the USGA and the RNA has released news about a potential new golf ball
0:50.0	that would be used by high-level tournament players, men's high-level tournament players.
0:55.0	So we break this down. This has obviously been a long process.
0:59.0	We've had a number of podcasts about the prospect of this.
1:02.0	And they've moved to the next kind of chapter of it.
1:06.0	So for this pod, we did something a little special.
1:10.0	I wanted to get a variety of insights from a different angles of who this would impact.
1:19.0	So for this podcast, I talked with Tom Doak about the architecture angle.
1:25.0	I talked with Roberto Castro, a retired PGA tour player about how this would impact the PGA tour and PGA tour players.
1:34.0	And then I also spoke with Joseph Lamagna about the impact on golf course strategy.
1:43.0	He obviously contributes for the Fried egg rights in club TFE.
1:47.0	And in the newsletter, as well as appears on the podcast pray regularly, he does on the side.
1:53.0	He also does consulting for PGA tour players where he helps them break down strategy.
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