Fried Egg Stories: How to Slay a Monster (The Open Doctor and His Monster, Part 3)

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

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🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This episode concludes our series “The Open Doctor and His Monster,” which chronicles the origins, rise, and end of the Robert Trent Jones era in golf. Today, we tell the story of the movement that challenged Jones’s ideas and revived the reputations of Donald Ross and other golf architects of the “Golden Age.” Ultimately, this movement led to a battle of ideas at Oakland Hills Country Club, where Jones had initially established his reputation as the “Open Doctor” in 1950. Our guests in this episode are Richard Howting, Bradley Klein (@BradleySKlein), Gil Hanse, and Robert Trent Jones Jr. Further reading: Bradley Klein, Discovering Donald Ross Geoffrey Cornish and Ron Whitten, The Golf Course

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0:00.0	What's up, quick note here that this is part three of a three-part documentary series.
0:06.0	You can definitely listen to this episode on its own, but you'll get a bit more out of
0:10.2	it if you start at the beginning.
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0:58.1	So, for the purposes of this podcast, would you rather be known as Richard Houting or Dick
1:23.2	Houting?
1:24.2	It doesn't matter.
1:25.7	And are you the club historian at Oakland Hills or are you a club historian at Oakland Hills?
1:33.1	Yeah, well, I'll tell you, I am the, not because it's a declared fact, but if you go over
1:38.8	there and ask anybody, they'll say, well, Dick's really the only one who knows any of this
1:42.6	shit.
1:43.6	Dick Houting's parents joined Oakland Hills Country Club in 1949.
1:48.1	The year after that, Robert Trent Jones transformed Donald Ross's South course into the famous
1:53.3	monster of the 1951 US Open.
1:56.5	It was, as the historian Bradley Klein puts it, a repudiation of the past.
2:02.0	The architecture at Oakland Hills had become modern and modern was better.
2:06.1	So, when Dick was a kid, he found himself in a somewhat odd position.
2:10.7	Even though he was young, it seemed to him that he was one of the few people at Oakland
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