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I'm about ready to run off the golf course Welcome to the Friday Golf Podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison and today we're talking

about municipal golf with the architect Gil Hans.

This conversation took place a couple of weeks ago

at the third annual National Links Trust

symposium on municipal golf.

The NLT symposium is basically a gathering of people who work in and advocate for municipal golf in America.

And for the 2023 edition, I was very honored to serve as the MC and host a couple of the conversations on stage.

As the closing event of this year's symposium, Gilhance and I got up in front of a crowd at the Pearl Street

warehouse in Washington, D.C. and we talked about Gill's various municipal golf projects, which

date back to the building of Rustic Canyon and the renovation of

Soul Park both in California. More recently Gill designed the new park in

West Palm Beach and he's currently working on projects at Maggie Hathaway in Los Angeles, Rock

Creek Park in D.C. and Cobb's Creek in Philadelphia, which, by the way, that last one, Cobs Creek, I mistakenly forgot to ask him about.

It was a really fun conversation.

I was a little nervous.

I'd never done anything like this before getting up and kind of performing a conversation, but

Gill is so good in these situations and we just ended up kind of nerding out about golf like we usually do except this time it happened to be in front of an audience.

So great experience and I really want to thank everyone at the National Links Trust for inviting me to be involved. They have a

fantastic team over there and I truly think they're going to help shape the

future of golf in a very positive way. So if you ever have a chance to attend the

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