Butterfly Golf May Be The Future of Sustainable Golf Course Design | #887

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Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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887: Agustin “Augie” Pisa is an award winning golf course architect who received a Masters in Golf Course Architecture from Edinburgh University in Scotland and was featured on Forbes List of 100 Most Creative Mexicans. In this episode we discuss the differences in designing for municipal courses, resorts, and country clubs. We also get details on Augie’s game changing concept called Butterfly Golf that incorporates four groups of 6 holes to create incredible flexibility for players to have up to 24 courses on a single facility. Learn more at pizagolf.comThis week on Golf Smarter Mulligans #202, is #3 of 9 episodes featuring our conversations with Tony Manzoni. This episode is part2 of 2 on "Taking Your Game to the Next Level, One Club at a Time". Tony was an amazing golf instructor who passed away in 2018. We first met him in 2009, and in the dozen or so times he was on the podcast with us, emails flooded in with more positive feedback than any other teacher featured. Tony’s book, The Lost Fundamental, One Simple Move, Better Golf Forever, which was out of print when he passed away, is once again available on Amazon including Kindle format. Tony’s video of the same name was also out of circulation, but can now be seen online. If you’d like to gain access please write to me directly via email GolfSmarterPodcast@Gmail.com or clicking on the Hey Fred button at golfsmarter.com.This episode is brought to you by Shopify. Sign up for a $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com/golfsmarter to take your business to the next level today.This episode is also brought to you by Healthycell. Go to heathycell.com/GOLFSMARTER and use promo code GOLFSMARTER to get 20% off your first order.Golf Smarter has been named by golfspan.com as one of the 10 Best Golf Podcasts for 2023, including being named the BEST GOLF PODCAST FOR YOUR MENTAL GAME. Check it out at https://www.golfspan.com/best-golf-podcasts.Become a Golf Smarter Ambassador by introducing our next episode! For your effort you’ll receive a choice of prizes including: A box of ODIN balls of your choice with the Golf Smarter logo. ODIN Golf is the only golf brand that sponsors and pays everyday golfers! See our custom page at odin-golf.com/pages/golfsmarter. A Glove + Glove Compartment from RedRoosterGolf.com where you can choose from a large variety of styles of gloves in 26 sizes! A private link to Tony Manzoni’s video “The Lost Fundamental”. Write to GolfSmarterPodcast@gmail.com and we’ll send you simple instructions and a brief script to record for the intro of the show. In addition to sharing your home course, you now have the opportunity to offer your favorite Golf Smarter lesson, episode, insight or teacher.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	How I like to put it is that the low handicap, the higher skilled golfer, I want him to think
0:08.3	and then execute.
0:10.2	And the higher handicap, I want it to execute and then think.
0:14.2	So that's more or less the language that I emphasize on when I'm designing a more challenging
0:18.4	golf course.
0:19.6	And if you go all the way to Munis, usually you have a very strict piece of land.
0:25.6	That's where you have your freeway golf usually, you know, the whole number one,
0:28.6	whole number two, whole number three, whole number four, five, six, seven, eight,
0:32.6	because of the area that you're usually confronted with.
0:35.6	So you're working on a hundred acres maybe, so you've got to fit everything perfectly.
0:42.3	A lot of golf courses from the 50s and the 60s are that way as well.
0:46.3	So that's something I mean in Munich, you have to be very creative, which is pretty cool as well,
0:52.3	because you have this piece of land, you have all these
0:54.6	restrictions, and what are you going to do with him?
0:57.7	Hi, this is Tom Tump from Delphi, Indiana.
1:00.7	Enjoy playing golf multiple courses around the Delphi era.
1:04.8	This is Golf harder number 887.
1:08.3	Butterfly Golf may be the future of sustainable golf course design with creator Augie Pisa.
1:14.9	This is Golf Smarter, sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ.
1:25.5	Here's your host, Fred Green.
1:27.9	Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Augie.
1:30.6	Thank you very much, Fred.
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