Billy Horschel on Course Setups, Modern Equipment, and Global Golf
The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
2014 FedEx Cup champion and former PGA Tour Player Advisory Council member Billy Horschel joins the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation on hot-button topics in the world of professional golf. Andy and Joseph kick off the podcast with what they are IN and OUT on this week, including major championship venue selection and coordination across tours. Then Horschel joins to lend his perspective on his career, modern equipment, the prospect of a world tour, negotiations with the Saudi PIF, his West Ham fandom, and more. The episode closes with Recommendations from Andy and Joseph.
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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. Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast. I am your host |
| 0:39.2 | Andy Johnson and today I am joined again by Joseph Lamagna. |
| 0:44.0 | We have a big interview with Billy Horshall today. |
| 0:48.0 | He obviously won down in Punta Kana earlier this year |
| 0:52.0 | and has been kind of having a resurgent year after a down |
| 0:56.4 | 2023 so he's he's back in great form it was great to talk to Billy about that and a bunch of other stuff including the |
| 1:05.2 | upcoming US Open and also what's going on in Pro Golf. So before we get to that |
| 1:11.7 | we're going to do our in and out segment. |
| 1:14.3 | Joseph, what are you in on? |
| 1:16.4 | Andy, I am in on championship setup wrinkles. |
| 1:20.3 | So in case people missed it, the USGA on Sunday of the US Women's Open turned the |
| 1:26.8 | par four 16th that had been playing like 350 yards into a much more reachable par 4 that was under 240 yards and it seems like a true |
| 1:36.8 | surprise to the players and maybe I'm wrong about that maybe some players had inklings that they might |
| 1:42.1 | there might be some kind of |
| 1:43.2 | set-up wrinkle but I think it was a true surprise and we just don't see that that much |
| 1:47.8 | in championship-level golf where there's a wrinkle and setup like that I thought it was cool |
| 1:52.0 | I'm all for some experimentation and I'd love to see a little bit more of that. Don't know if you had a similar takeaway, but I thought it was cool to get a completely different look at a whole that the players hadn't prepared for. |
| 2:03.0 | It can frustrate some players, like it just plays differently and I'm into that. |
| 2:06.2 | I mean I think one of the trends in professional golf and this is bad a bad trend for fans which is a normal you know most trends in |
| 2:15.4 | professional golf at this point are not great for fans is that is that players |
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