Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Ag podcast. Today I'm excited to welcome on Curtis James.

Curtis is the head superintendent at the Old Elm Club in Chicago, one of the premier golf courses in the country and the Chicago area.

Definitely one of the least known great courses in this country.

It's a Harry Colt Donald Ross design and Curtis is has been an influential force in the Chicago superintendent

industry He is credited by his peers largely for kind of changing the tides of how courses are maintained in the area.

So he's done a great job at Old Elm kind of changing the culture and the

conditioning of the club and making it one of the premier courses in the country.

So without further ado, here is Curtis James.

I'm Miss Agreen, 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 lie I'm about

ready to run off the golf course. So, Brian Moore was on this pod and he told me he told us like the pet peeve his pet peeve was people that drop the flag, you know, from like, they don't place it down.

He's like, you know, you could, you could just place it down.

You know, we spend a lot of time and it's funny because

like had like probably a dozen or two dozen people tell me that they listen to

that and they've like it's completely changed the way they put the

flag down oh I see yeah yeah on the greens yeah taking the flag out yeah and

people just you know where my pet peeve is people that pull the ball out with their putter or their wedge out of the cup.

Drives me crazy.

I'm like, what are you doing?

They just mangle the cup, but they'll pick it out with their putter or they'll pick it out with a wedge

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