Chatting Pine Needles and U.S. Women’s Open with Kyle Franz

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

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🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Golf architect Kyle Franz (@KyleFranzGolf) returns to the podcast to share his wealth of knowledge of Pine Needles, the site of the ongoing 2022 U.S. Women's Open. Kyle carried out a restoration of the Donald Ross course in 2017 and is on the grounds at Pine Needles this week. He chats with Andy Johnson about holes to watch for and what he learned from following Ingrid Lindblad and Annika Sörenstam during Thursday's first round. On the back half of the episode, Kyle provides an update on the busy summer he has ahead of him, which will include projects at Lookout Mountain and Cabot Citrus Farms.

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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 Friday egg.
0:07.0	Friday. The dreaded Friday.
0:09.0	Friday. Friday.
0:10.0	Friday. Friday.
0:11.0	Friday. Friday.
0:12.0	I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.
0:30.0	Welcome back to another edition of the Friday podcast.
0:37.0	Today we have a special guest. Every guest of ours is very special.
0:42.0	We have Kyle France, who is a quickly ascending up the architecture ranks. Kyle is very busy.
0:49.0	He's got a ton of projects, which we talk about a good handful of them.
0:53.0	He's a great guy, great architect. And his restoration is on display this week with the U.S. women's open.
0:58.0	Should be a highly entertaining watch this weekend. I would recommend tuning in.
1:03.0	Pine needles is a really neat, Donald Ross course that everybody can play.
1:08.0	It's part of the pine needles midpines and now southern pines.
1:13.0	There, Kyle has restored each of those golf courses.
1:18.0	So he's got extensive Donald Ross experience. He was also part of Bill and Ben's crew that restored Pinehurst No.2.
1:25.0	So thank you to Kyle for coming on and fitting us into a very busy week where he's on site.
1:30.0	And he's got a lot of work to do.
1:33.0	He's got a lot of work to do.
1:36.0	He's got a lot of work to do.
1:38.0	Kyle for coming on and fitting us into a very busy week where he's on site.
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