Gil Hanse: “Straight from The Architect”
Fore Play
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4.5 • 10.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2020
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Gil Hanse (24:45), one of golf’s most renowned course architects, joins the show for nearly an hour. We talk building The Cradle short course right in Pinehurst’s front yard, creating Pinehurst’s new no. 4 course, restoring Winged Foot ahead of this summer’s U.S. Open, and what he would do with Augusta’s 13th hole. The crew also talks Old Man Golf Media popping back up, a potential Justine Reed burner account, and the Honda Classic!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey four play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple podcast Spotify or YouTube |
| 0:06.6 | Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon music |
| 0:10.3 | Frankie that little psychopath is not on the show today. He's filming our boss eat pizza for the day |
| 0:16.4 | So he's out, which is a real shame |
| 0:18.8 | I'm sure he's gonna have to postpone his takes until Thursday show and we got a couple things to get to we're gonna |
| 0:25.5 | You know, we're gonna hold some of it because we have a great interview with Gil Hans who is um I |
| 0:31.1 | Would say in the top three at least |
| 0:33.7 | Everybody's got their preferences, but if you do a little bit of a course architecture course design type |
| 0:40.0 | stuff knowledge research reading |
| 0:42.6 | Watching whatever he could be your number one. He does a ton of restoration work on a lot of golf's |
| 0:49.4 | Biggest most iconic courses, especially United States of America wing foot which is having us open |
| 0:55.6 | He's just finishing up Marion. He's done a LA country club, which is having a |
| 1:00.8 | US open. He's done the country club up in Brookline, which is having us open very soon |
| 1:05.5 | Just in Southern Hills, which tiger won the 2007 PGA championship there. I was there with my brother |
| 1:11.0 | He's done an insane amount of restoration work in |
| 1:16.5 | In golf and a lot of golf's most iconic courses and then he's also done a lot of originals |
| 1:21.9 | A couple of which we've talked about a lot at length very recently which are Pyners number four and the cradle at Pyners |
| 1:28.9 | Which is the nine hole short course very fascinating after how much we've talked about it hearing Gil who literally created it |
| 1:35.1 | He stayed in Daenerosses house. We actually had discussed with him Trent |
| 1:38.8 | Ghosts potentially living in the Dornett cottage which is Daenerosses house. Yep |
| 1:42.9 | Did he say he's seen any? He said that he and well, I don't want to give it away too much |
| 1:48.2 | But he told a little bit of a story about two or three a.m. One night he and his wife |
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