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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

Golf Architecture Mailbag: Exciting New Courses, the Yale Restoration, and the State of the Industry

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

thefriedegg.com

Golf, Sports

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Garrett convene for their first golf architecture mailbag in a while, tackling questions about new courses they're excited to see in the next couple of years, which current tour pros might make good architects, how The Lido bucks convention, the holes at Yale that they're most eager to see restored, and the cultural forces that are shaping golf course design right now. As usual, they open the episode with In and Out, and they wrap it up with Recommendations. Note: The Scottie Scheffler interview that Garrett refers to in this episode was conducted by Friend of the Program Sean Martin for PGA Tour dot com. Read that piece here.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg

0:06.8

fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg lie

0:11.8

I'm about ready to run off the golf course So, Welcome to the Friday Golf Podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison and today my co-host

0:40.4

Andy Johnson will join me for a golf architecture mail bag. You sent us a bunch of

0:46.2

questions about golf course design and we will answer some of them.

0:51.0

Not all of them.

0:52.0

Not all of them. Not all of them.

0:53.0

Let's do our traditional opening segment first in and out, where we talk about what we're in on and

0:58.0

what we're out on this week.

1:00.7

Andy Johnson, what are you in on? You know, I think I probably went full 300 or 180 on this topic, but I actually watching Sunday at the Zurich with the alternate shot,

1:12.2

blustry conditions. I've somehow worked myself back in on this

1:15.8

event. I think that there's a place for a little bit of team golf. Now does the tour need

1:20.5

to rework how it works in the schedule, where it is in the schedule.

1:25.0

Frankly, I think the problem with the event is that it's this one outlier event in a 45 event

1:31.9

schedule. and then also that it gives awards the same amount of FedEx

1:37.2

cup points to the winners as an individual win which to me just doesn't seem

1:41.2

really right and But like the alternate shot was really fun to watch.

1:47.8

I think alternate shots the only real team format in golf.

1:51.7

It is when you're playing alternate shot and you're trying to

1:55.0

win something, you and your partner absolutely are a team and I don't think that

2:00.4

there's any other format in golf that really creates that that feeling. think that

2:04.0

feeling where you know I said this on the shotgun start but I think like

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