Designing a Clubhouse

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

If you're a regular listener to The Fried Egg, chances are you've spent a fair amount of time thinking about golf course architecture. But have you ever looked at clubhouses—and other kinds of vertical structures often found on golf courses—and thought about how they're designed? Garrett has been curious about this subject for a while, and that's why he got in touch with Alex Warr (@alex_warr on Instagram), the lead designer of the clubhouse and other buildings at Zac Blair's Tree Farm project in Aiken, South Carolina. Alex tells Garrett about how he Instagram DMed his way into the job, the place-based philosophy behind the structures at the Tree Farm, why many building architects don't love golf, and the many parallels between appreciating golf courses and appreciating pretty much any other type of built environment.

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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 bright egg.
0:07.0	Bright egg.
0:08.0	The dreaded bright egg.
0:09.0	Bright egg.
0:10.0	Bright egg.
0:11.0	Bright egg.
0:12.0	Bright egg.
0:13.0	I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.
0:30.0	Welcome to the bright egg podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison.
0:38.0	And today we're talking about the architecture of golf clubhouses.
0:42.0	My guest is Alex Warr, who's a designer and digital artist with a degree in architecture from the University of Texas.
0:49.0	And he is the lead designer of the clubhouse at the tree farm, which is a new golf course project in Acan, South Carolina,
0:57.0	headed up by the PGA tour pro Zach Blair.
1:00.0	If you've been following the bright egg for a while, you've probably heard about the tree farm.
1:04.0	Tom Doek routed the course Kai Goldby, designed and built the holes.
1:08.0	And based on the photos that Andy Johnson just took there, it's all starting to look pretty cool.
1:14.0	So I'm excited to pick Alex's brain about the tree farm project.
1:17.0	But also more generally about the way that clubhouses are designed.
1:21.0	I think there's probably something that we as fans of golf architecture can learn
1:26.0	from building architecture. There's a lot of differences between the two, obviously,
1:30.0	but also some significant similarities.
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