All right, we're back for the first Friday Egg podcast of 2017, and we're excited to have our esteemed guest, David McClay Kid.

David is one of the most sought after modern day architects and the man behind

masterpieces such as Band and Dunes Nanya Golf Club and Gamble Sands.

David, thanks for coming on.

My pleasure.

So I think with New Year's in order, I'm kind of curious, do you have any resolutions for 2017?

I'm going, that's a good thing. 2017. I think my resolution for the last pushing 10 years now has been to get

my resolution for the last pushing 10 years now has been to get golf to be fun again and not to get sucked in by the desire to chase rankings or difficulty or any other particular fad or idiosyncrasy that can be to the

detriment of golf and golfers and fun, which is the reason we all do it.

So I'm going to keep going on that one

and try and build golf courses that are ridiculously good fun for everyone.

You know, it's funny funny I wrote a lengthy article about Golf

Digest ranking system and how like the criteria is so flawed and it I read it I had a read through that and I've just the second

golf digest down with their ranking stuff and I was just emailing Ron Witton so it's funny that you

should mention that. Yeah is the one defense to par is kind of that one just

gets me because like why should a golf course get discounted like you know

rank it get downgraded because it's really fun to play and not necessarily hard, you know? You know, I get where Golf Digest and Roan are going with the defensive power.

You know, I'd like to think of it more as the defense at the birdie. You know I probably argue that as a

golf course designer I should be putting up my best defenses against your best attack and your best attack ends up with birdie right?

For most golfers and even if you're a lousy golfer you're getting a net birdie because you got strokes. So I'm going to put up my best defense. If we take

Gamble Sands as my best example to date, I defy you to easily make birdie on every whole. to

easily make birdie on every hole. I will I will contain that Gamble Sands to up puts up a very

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