Bringing the Lido to Life with Superintendent Jimmy Humston

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy Humston is the golf course superintendent at the recently opened Lido in Nekoosa, Wisconsin. He joins Andy for a discussion of what it's like to live in Nekoosa, how he got introduced to Sand Valley, and the various jobs he's held around the resort. Jimmy and Andy dig deep into the story of building the Lido, a reproduction of C.B. Macdonald's famous course on Long Island. They talk about the construction process, the challenges of re-creating a lost design in a different locale, the secrets behind growing grass on the Lido's bold features, and Jimmy's plans for the course's future aesthetic.

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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 course.
0:30.0	Welcome back to another edition of the Fried egg golf podcast.
0:37.0	I am Andy Johnson, and today we are doing a little bit of a turf week.
0:44.0	You know, this is a salute to all the superintendents out there.
0:48.0	It's kind of the end of their really tough season. I heard I remember Aaron McMaster,
0:55.0	the superintendent at Orchard Lake talked about like a mid August date.
1:01.0	I can't remember exactly what the date is, but the date where he got to
1:06.0	sigh a deep breath of relief.
1:10.0	And I think we're at about that time.
1:13.0	I know it's really hot in parts of the country right now.
1:16.0	But we're at that time where the do gets a little bit heavier.
1:19.0	The nights get a little bit cooler.
1:21.0	And the turf, turf community size a little bit of a deep breath of relief.
1:27.0	So today, I was really excited.
1:30.0	I was joined by Jimmy Humson, who just completed, I guess it's still going on,
1:35.0	but is the man responsible for growing in the Lido, the new golf course at San Valley.
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