Welcome back to another edition of the Friday

podcast. Today I am joined by golf course architect Andy Stapels.

Andy is a young up-and-coming architect who has designed courses such as Meadob

Sand Hollow and Rockwin Community Links.

Our discussion jumps right into a talk on municipal golf

or as Andy likes to call it community golf and then we divulge into his

renovation of Meadobrook, Willie Park Jr. and much more.

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don't already. Here's Andy Staples.

I'm Missed 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 fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg

fried egg lie I'm about ready to run off the golf course So, Oh, How did I get roped into mini golf? Yeah. I love it. Well I would tell you that the mini sector in our business was where a lot of the blue collar

architects would play for a lot of years. I think maybe still today know we didn't get the calls from the top

clubs when I first got in the business so I ended up seeing a lot of that side so I I

responded to a lot of our MPs you know really as long as I've been in the business and so it was

somewhat natural to me but it was always known as this, you know, faction of the

business that you're like, well, one day we might graduate and not have to do this.

And then the recession hit and the Muni sector was hit as hard as anybody and it felt like it was something that was

that was real to me and understood and and then on top of that it just felt you know

innovation in golf is not a word you hear a lot of, maybe in the equipment

side but not in the development side.

And so I felt like there was some room for innovation and I kind of, I didn't like the word municipal and I thought community was a lot better word and I said you

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