Geoff Ogilvy on The Players, TPC Sawgrass, and Chasing Speed

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Geoff Ogilvy returns to the Fried Egg Golf Podcast as he joins Andy Johnson to preview this week's Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. Geoff shares some his experiences as a player at the event and details what makes Pete Dye's Stadium Course a tough test for the best golfers in the world. Andy and Geoff also discuss some PGA Tour pros that have caught Geoff's eye so far in 2025, leading to a larger conversation about the chase for speed in today's game.

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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 your host, Andy Johnson,
0:42.6	and today I am super excited. Today marks the return. It's been a few years. Jeff Ogilvie,
0:50.3	the 2006 U.S. Open champion, a really great professional golfer for a long time,
0:57.7	one of the great golf minds that we have around, joins me to talk about the players.
1:03.2	We have an in-depth chat about TPC Sawgrass and what the golf course presents for a
1:09.8	high-level tour player and why it's become a golf course
1:15.3	that's really hard to predict what's going to happen, which you know, you could go a lot of
1:19.0	different ways.
1:19.6	Like I think gamblers are frustrated with it, like people that are trying to pick winners.
1:23.1	But I think a golf course that has a wide range of winners is probably like a very well-designed
1:30.4	championship golf course when you think about that.
1:32.8	It allows a lot of different players to succeed.
1:36.2	So Jeff and I talk a ton about that.
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