Fried Egg Stories: How to Make a Monster (The Open Doctor and His Monster, Part 1)

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

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🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Today, we kick off a three-part documentary series called “The Open Doctor and His Monster,” in which we chronicle the Robert Trent Jones era in golf: its origins in Rochester, New York; its breakthrough moment at Oakland Hills Country Club; and its recent fall from favor. In this first installment, we tell the story of how Robert Trent Jones rose from a blue-collar background to the status of “Open Doctor”—and how, in the process, he came up with ideas that would dominate golf course design for decades. Our guests in this episode are Robert Trent Jones Jr., James Hansen, Richard Howting, and Bradley Klein (@BradleySKlein). Further reading: James Hansen, A Difficult Par: Robert Trent Jones Sr. and the Making of Modern Golf Bradley Klein, Discovering Donald Ross: The Architect and His Golf Courses

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0:30.0	It requires a different technique.
0:32.0	What you need to do is actually square the face so it'll dig down underneath that bad
0:37.0	line and propel that ball right out onto the green.
0:41.0	Here's a thing playing out of a buried line of bunker is completely different than playing
0:44.7	out of a nice clean line of greenside bunker.
0:48.5	You need to be aggressive on any shot, whether it's sitting cleanly or it's a fried egg.
0:53.0	Well, we've all faced it.
0:55.0	The dreaded fried egg.
0:56.0	It's not to be feared though, it's actually a pretty easy shot to hit.
0:59.4	So, Robert Trent Jones was the most famous and prolific golf architect in the world from
1:12.5	the 1950s until his death in the year 2000.
1:16.3	His courses Span the Globe and his ideas about design got so ingrained in golf culture
1:21.8	that for decades they seemed like a kind of common sense.
1:26.8	One of Jones's most powerful ideas was that tournament hosting golf courses, especially
1:31.2	US open golf courses, should fit a certain mold.
1:35.8	They should be long, they should be heavily defended by rough and bunkers, and they should
1:40.8	hardly ever give up scores under par.
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