All About Bandon Dunes' Soon-to-Open Short Course

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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On May 2, Bandon Dunes' latest par-3 course, Bandon Shorty's, will open during the resort's 25th-anniversary celebration. In this episode, Garrett sits down at Bandon Dunes with one of the designers of Shorty's, Keith Cutten, a partner in the firm Whitman, Axland & Cutten. Garrett and Keith discuss the origins of WAC, the renowned skills of his co-designers Rod Whitman and Dave Axland, the goals and process behind the Shorty's project, and the joys and difficulties of designing short courses in general. In the second half of the pod, Garrett and Keith dig into the fascinating ideas of Keith's book The Evolution of Golf Course Design. His basic argument is that the broader trends in society and culture have influenced the golf architecture of each era in ways that haven't been thoroughly investigated. Garrett loves discussing this kind of stuff, so he and Keith really get after it here.

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0:00.0	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
0:06.8	fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg lie
0:11.8	I'm about ready to run off the golf course Welcome to the Friday Golf Podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison and today we're talking about
0:39.7	the newest short course at Bandin Dunes. It's called appropriately enough,
0:45.2	banden shorties. This is not to be confused with the driving range course,
0:49.7	which has long been known as Shorties, now known as Charlottesville. This is a 19-hole par 3 course on some very dramatic dune land,
0:59.2	and it's designed by Whitman, Axeland, and Cotton. That's the firm consisting of Rod Whitman, Dave
1:06.2	Axeland, and Keith Cutton. Rod Whitman and Dave Axeland are both veterans of the
1:11.8	design-build golf architecture scene. are both have worked extensively with Corin Crenshaw and both have worked
1:15.2	extensively with Corin Crenshaw and both have done some great original designs.
1:20.9	Keith Cutton is the youngest partner in the firm and he's our guest today.
1:24.7	So he's worked with Rod Whitman for basically his whole career.
1:28.8	Like Whitman, Keith is originally from Canada and he's helped with projects like Cabot Links, Cabot Cliffs and
1:35.9	Sagebrush Golf Club.
1:37.9	He's also the author of The Evolution of Golf Course Design, which is a very impressive single volume account of golf architecture.
1:46.8	So I got a chance to meet with Keith a couple of weeks ago.
1:50.2	We walked Band and Shorties, talked a bunch about the design and the construction process.
1:55.7	Then we sat down, turned on the mics, and had a conversation. It was really fun, and that is coming up in this episode. So Friday Golf has a few other
2:05.8	podcasts going at the moment and one of them that I wanted to make sure you know
2:10.6	about is explorations. This is where we post travel content and we
2:16.1	opened it up with a season about Northern Ireland. The most recent episode on
2:21.5	that feed is an interview with one Rory McElroy.
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