Designing Golf with No Limits & Northwood's Restoration Efforts

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Andy Johnson is joined by two golf architects on this week's Fried Egg Golf Podcast. Before the architecture conversations, Andy shares his thoughts on Eugenio Chacarra's comments regarding his experience playing on the LIV Golf Tour and his interest in obtaining a PGA Tour card. From there, Andy first chats with Agustin Piza of Piza Golf, one of the three designers of the holes for the first season of TGL. Augie and Andy discuss what it was like designing holes in a virtual landscape, how the TGL's one green hampered some designs, and what Augie's learned from his experience in the metaverse that he's now applying to his designs in reality. To close this episode, Andy sits down with William Carlson, a freshman at Cal Poly who helped lead a restoration effort tat Northwood Golf Club in Sonoma County, California. Will spent his summer restoring a bunker at the Alister MacKenzie course and plans on making a career in golf course architecture.

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0:00.0	I misogreen, for example, I'm already upset.
0:02.0	When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
0:05.0	And when I find my ball in a...
0:06.0	Fried egg.
0:07.0	Friday egg.
0:08.0	The dreaded fried egg.
0:09.0	Friday.
0:10.0	Friday.
0:11.0	Fried egg lie.
0:12.0	I'm about ready to run off the golf course. Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast.
0:41.4	I am your host, Andy Johnson, and today I have a really fun episode.
0:46.4	I think this is a range of spectrums of golf course architecture, about as furthest apart as you can get.
0:55.2	First, we have Augie Pisa, a architect based out of Mexico, who is one of the lead designers on TGL,
1:04.6	the new arena golf league that was created by Tiger Woods and Rory Macarroy and Mike McCarley that has
1:12.0	been on ESPN the last two weeks and will continue this spring. I've been pleasantly surprised
1:18.3	with TGL. I think like I'm kind of taking the long game approach here of, but I think I was
1:25.2	really impressed in week one that they didn't fall on their face and that I enjoyed some pieces of it.
1:31.4	I think a lot, it's been polarizing. People really dislike it that I know. Other people really, really like it. I think more people generally have liked it than disliked it, but I understand the edges of the spectrum,
1:44.8	and I'm taking kind of a wait and see approach. I enjoyed watching it. It's different. It's
1:51.6	not, you know, really serious major championship golf, and I don't think they intend to be.
1:58.1	One of the things I think is that I'm really interested in is the whole designs. And I
2:04.2	think Augie of the three architects has stood out the most. He has been the most daring with his
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