Welcome to another edition of the Friday Egg Podcast and to another episode of Friday

Egg Stories, our audio documentary series. This is the second of these you've gotten

in a row so it's worth noting that this is not the permanent format going forward.

You'll get just as many interviews and conversations as usual.

Today's installment of Friday's stories focuses on Royal Melbourne, the venue of this week's President's Cup.

Specifically, the episode tells the story of Dr. Alistair Mackenzie's 10-week visit to Australia

in 1926.

During that time, the great architect not only planned the west course at Royal Melbourne, but also managed to have an influence on golf architecture throughout Australia.

So right off the bat, I want to thank the experts who talk to me, Mike Clayton,

Mike Cocking, Neil Crafter, and Sean Tully. I had long conversations with each of them

but used only brief excerpts for this episode.

That's just the nature of this format,

but many thanks to those four gentlemen

for their generosity.

All right, let's get to it.

Here is The Doctor Goes Down Under.

The Friday requires a different technique. What you need to do is actually square the face

so it'll dig down underneath that bad lie

and propel that ball right out under the green.

Here's the thing.

Playing out of a buried lie in a bunker is completely different than playing out of a nice clean

line of a green side bunker. You need to be aggressive on any shot, whether it's

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